"Next year, our projects will mainly be reality shows and American dramas, but in addition, there are some special programs such as the broadcast of the AMA National Music Festival, the recording of the Victoria's Secret fashion show, etc. With the words of Old Man Charles, Fire Lion TV slowly unfolded its plans for next year.

"In terms of reality shows, we are preparing to put 'Survivor' and 'American Idol' in the spring, the latest fifth season of 'Survivor' has already been produced, and 'American Idol Season 2' will start preparing for auditions in January next year. The vice president of Fire Lion TV in charge of reality shows reported.

"And what about the summer?" asked Old Man Charles.

"We're going to put 'The Bachelor Season 2' on this schedule alone. The vice president said, "Because of the impact effect of summer movies, we feel that we should put more and better programs in the autumn of the traditional opening period." ”

"yes, I see. Old man Charles nodded.

"So, we put "Dancing with the Stars Season 2" and "Survivor Season 5" in the fall in mid-September, and "Big Brother Season 3" in the late October, close to the winter. The vice president finally added.

"Oh, by the way, and according to the boss's plan, our female version of "The Bachelor", which we spin off from "The Bachelor", will also start airing in early November. And the preparation progress of these programs is marked in the daily report once a month. ”

"Uh-huh. After listening to this, Old Man Charles turned his head to look at the drama department on the right.

Without waiting for him to ask, less than a year after its establishment, the head of the drama department immediately spoke: "The filming of "Hannah Montana Season 2" has ended, and it can start broadcasting next spring. And the second season of "24 Hours", "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost", we are also working intensively on filming. ”

"In addition, these three strong ace dramas, we are ready to collectively move to the September drama opening schedule to broadcast. ”

The words of the vice president of the drama department made Mr. Charles nod, "I and Boss agree on this, but in addition, Boss also clearly requires that next year's drama department must be doubled on the basis of four episodes this year." ”

"Double!?" the vice president of the show department widened his eyes.

"Not bad. Old man Charles nodded indifferently, "The original words of the boss are like this - 'Since Barry Diller can make 50 TV movies a year on ABC, then we can at least double our episodes a year.'" ’”

As previously introduced, Barry Diller is the first teacher of two Hollywood bigwigs, Michael Eisner (Disney) and Katzenberg (DreamWorks).

But even if you look at Barry Diller's series of miracles in Hollywood, from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" on the big screen to "Saturday Night Live" and "The Simpsons" on the small screen, his record is known to everyone in the older generation of Hollywood industry.

Although, because he was unwilling to succumb to Rupert Murdoch, he ran away from Fox TV, and gradually faded out of Hollywood because of the failure to compete with Somer Ray Shidong for Paramount Pictures.

But the precise focus on the business model of TV shopping and Internet portals has made Barry Diller still a member of the mall.

Sidna's example of Barry Diller is not only to inspire people, but also to show his ambition and vision.

"So, are we going to do an original project or an adaptation?" asked the VP of Series.

Old man Charles waved his hand, and the assistants who had already prepared on the side put the prepared script briefing documents in front of all the participants.

The VP of the Drama Department flipped through the pages, and on the first page was the catalog of four new episodes – "Fairy Tale Town," "Bone Search," Spring, and "Dr. House," "Mom and Dad's Romance," Autumn.

All four of them have been published by Sid in the past few years, some are relatively popular, some are relatively ordinary, but they all have one thing in common - they are full of graphic expression.

So when he saw the plans for these four dramas with very different styles, the vice president of the drama department immediately showed a surprised expression, and Mr. Charles continued: "As you can see, our new series is the four books of Boss, and the complete script is about - Boss said that the two parts in the spring were completed personally because of the tight time." But the two dramas in the fall need to be adapted by ourselves. ”

Old man Charles's words immediately made everyone on Fire Lion TV exclaim.

Although it is only two adapted drama scripts, Sid can still find time to complete the scripts of two dramas in his busy schedule, which is absolutely beyond the reach of ordinary people, and it is no wonder that they are so surprised.

Now that the plan is set, all that's left is to execute, and of course, there are a lot of innovations that need to be made, and that's what Sid left to the Lion TV test.

How to balance the project itself, how to judge the audience's preferences, and use this as a basis to adjust the style of programs and dramas in a timely manner are all things that require the concerted efforts of the staff up and down the Lion TV station.

On the other hand, while Fire Lion TV was preparing for the development of the coming year, Sid's cutting-edge film "Juno" in the second half of the year finally managed to break 100 million after eight weeks of release! The overseas box office in the same period also successfully exceeded 50 million US dollars.

Although "Juno" is now due to the squeeze of films such as "Breaking Bad" and the normal narrowing of the film itself, the weekly box office curve of "Juno" actually began to decline really after the fourth week.

After entering November, the single-theater box office performance of "Juno" still maintained an astonishing level of 4000~5000 US dollars.

Moreover, judging from the current box office curve and release area at home and abroad, the final global box office of "Juno" will exceed 200 million US dollars, which will not be a problem.

At the same time, Sid's cost to shoot the film was only $8 million.

So Sid once again used a million-level "small film" to leverage hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. succeeded again, and finally swept away the "bad reviews" brought by "Earth Thunder" at the beginning of the year.

At the same time, "Juno" also received frequent successes in the awards season that began in the second half of the year, even if Sid could not be present, Lindsay and other leading actors frequently attended nominations and awards for films such as the Golden Satellite Award and the American Film Critics' Choice Award because of this film.

Among them, "Juno" not only rarely won sub-heavyweight awards such as the Golden Satellite Awards, but also won the trophy for Best Comedy Film at relatively heavyweight film awards such as the American Film Critics' Choice Awards, and Henry also appeared to accept the award and speak on behalf of Sid.