Early the next morning, a large number of newspapers in North America appeared in black and bold headlines such as "Friends", "30 million", and "ratings miracle", and all kinds of comments appeared in front of people.

"Rachel Green, who is spoiled and has no opinions, Monica Geller, who is strong and clean, Phoebe Buffy, who behaves eccentrically and off-line, Ross Geller, who likes to be calculating, Chandler Bing, who is funny, and Joey Trebiani, who is simple-minded...... After only two episodes, Eric Williams used those simple and trivial shots to create six screen images with distinct personalities for us, and also made the audience like these six virtual characters in just one hour. ”

"A plot that is close to reality and full of fun can resonate more with the audience, and the premiere of 31.7 million proves this again. When the audience sees the point of the six protagonists living in a New York apartment... ￡wan… ￡shu… £ba, a$ns£∽om bit by bit, as if seeing the shadow of his own life, this may be the main factor in the success of this sitcom, just like ABC's is still on the air, Eric Williams is worthy of a genius, the details of life at his fingertips, spliced into a series of interesting dialogues, firmly caught the audience's attention. ”

"The interesting dialogue between the protagonists will undoubtedly become a buzzword among young people for a long time to come, and after only two episodes, the personalities of the six protagonists have been fully shaped, and I am looking forward to the next plot more and more, and I believe that Eric Williams, who wrote the screenplay himself, will definitely bring more surprises to the audience in terms of plot, there is no doubt about that. Who's Eric Williams? ”

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Countless compliments. Of course, there are also differences of opinion. After doing a simple survey and random interviews with the audience, it was found that less than 60% of the audience were very satisfied with the plot, while more than 20% of the interviewed audience said that they did not meet their expectations, and the remaining 20% of the audience thought the quality was average.

So the opinion piece concluded that the ratings miracle of more than 30 million people was entirely the result of a series of previous hype, and the quality of the survey results obviously did not meet the psychological expectations of many viewers who were full of expectations for Eric Williams, and the ratings would definitely plummet in the future.

There is more than one newspaper outlet that resembles the ratings that followed. However, this kind of remarks can generally only be grandiose to fool ordinary people, as long as you have a little professional knowledge, you can understand that although the ratings miracle has the help of hype, but if the quality itself is not good, it is impossible to reach an average of 31.7 million viewers, and only two episodes have been broadcast to prove its popularity. There is a viewing base of more than 30 million viewers, and even if there is a big decline in ratings in the future, the number of viewers will definitely be more than 2,000.

For a TV series, with more than 20 million viewers, it is definitely a super hit.

The three old TV stations in North America, ABC and CBS, originally did not take Fox TV very seriously. The youngest ABC of the three major broadcasters has been in development for half a century, and NBC and CBS have an even longer history.

For so many years. More than one media group has tried to challenge the status of the three major television stations, but without exception they have failed.

Therefore, even if News Corp. hires Barry Diller, known as the pride of the media industry, to take charge of the business of building a television network, and even if Fox has established the fourth largest television network in the United States in just a few years, in the eyes of the three major television stations, Fox is still just a newcomer to the North American television circle. After all, no matter how the scale expands, the TV station will ultimately rely on the ratings of the program to speak, but Fox has not had any TV shows that can be used in recent years. Previously, Fox TV's highest ratings did not even exceed 20 million people, and the three major TV stations that jointly owned the Super Bowl rotation broadcast rights had the highest ratings of more than 100 million, even in normal times, the three major TV stations could easily come up with several trump card programs with ratings of more than 20 million.

So, despite the big news corps in North America, Rupert Murdoch deliberately became an American citizen in order to gain the power to form a television network, but the three major television stations have taken a cold eye on the Australian 'nouveau riche', waiting for the other party to return like other challengers.

More than 30 million viewers were born, which made the top management of the three major TV stations completely wake up. They discovered that before they knew it, Fox's television network, which had only been established for a few years, already had more than 100 networked television stations, covering more than 90 percent of the continental United States. The first reaction of the three major TV stations is that they must not let Fox continue to develop, after all, the size of the domestic TV market in the United States is fixed, and if Fox rises, it will definitely mean that the market share of the three major TV stations will be reduced on a large scale.

The top management of the three major television stations held a rare emergency meeting, and after several hours of negotiation, the first countermeasure was to take the broadcast rights from Fox after the second season at any price, and even if possible, directly take over the rest of the first season, even if it was to pay a high penalty for Eric Williams. Without it, the pace of Fox's expansion will definitely slow down again, and the three major TV stations will have plenty of time to slowly clean up Fox, an 'outsider' who is preying on its mouth.

The three major TV executives can think of things, whether it is Barry Diller, the CEO of Fox, or Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation. Although several of Eric's films brought great benefits to Fox, Rupert Murdoch did not pay much attention to Eric, but only regarded him as a new director working with Fox, so Murdoch never met Eric before. But this time is different, Murdoch's newspaper group has developed to the extreme, and the main ambition is now on the television network, Eric's has brought an important opportunity for the rapid expansion of his television network, coupled with the three major television stations, no matter what considerations, Murdoch has the need to personally come forward to win over Eric.

So, while attending the opening ceremony of the 46th Venice Film Festival on the evening of September 4, a huge Boeing private jet landed at Venice Marco Polo International Airport. (To be continued......)