Julia didn't know how to take Elizabeth's words, although the girl's tone was light, as if she was just evaluating the characters in the play, but she could hear the faint jealousy in the girl's tone.

In fact, Julia herself is not so jealous. Although she only watched two episodes, she could see that at the level of the show, this TV series must be a hit, and Rachel, played by Aniston, will definitely be the most popular among the six people, and the influence of this TV series will definitely be greater than a popular movie.

Eric was so nice to her, Julia thought to herself.

Commercials had already begun to be shown on the TV, and the two of them realized that it was already getting dark.

Julia stood up and stretched, hurriedly washed up and walked out of the bathroom and said, "Liz, are you going to the restaurant downstairs for breakfast?"

Elizabeth shook her head, "I'm a little tired and don't want to go out, Julia, can you bring me a fruit salad?"

Julia nodded, got dressed, opened the door, and walked out of the hotel. Elizabeth, who was in the room, stared at the TV screen for a moment, then finally stood up and picked up the phone as if she remembered something, remembered it, and skillfully dialed a series of numbers from memory.

A few minutes later, Julia returned to her room with two packed breakfasts, saw Elizabeth put the microphone down, and casually asked, "Who are you calling?"

"New York," replied Elizabeth, and seeing that Julia didn't seem interested, the girl walked over to the couch and sat down, "I just spoke to the Fox headquarters in New York, and the ratings are out." ”

Julia spread out the two boxes of salad, pushed one to Elizabeth, and stood up to get two cartons of milk from the fridge. Hearing Elizabeth say this, Julia said indifferently: "What are you asking about these for, the TV series written by Eric himself." The ratings will definitely not be low, maybe it will have more than 20 million people since it started. ”

"31.7 million!"

Elizabeth whispered. It felt like something was stuck in my throat, and it was a little hoarse. She studied media, and she is more able to appreciate the meaning of this number than a layman.

"Oh......" Julia dropped the milk into the glass and replied casually, then reacted and suddenly raised her head, her eyes widened and asked, "How much did you just say?"

Elizabeth pulled the fruit salad in front of her, lowered her head and said, "The average rating of the two episodes is 31.7 million. The highest number of jù rushed to 35 million, which is really ...... It's incredible. ”

"Oh my God," Julia took a few sips of milk before suppressing the shock in her heart, "It can't be a mistake, right?"

"How can you be mistaken, the TV headquarters is crazy. ”

Crazy indeed.

After Fox counted the ratings of the first two episodes, even though it was late at night, the news still spread throughout the film and television industry in just one hour, countless newspapers began to write and typeset again, and countless phones rang. Many of the people who had fallen asleep were shouted.

In this era, the main means of audio-visual entertainment for the people are movies and television, therefore. Ratings of more than 30 million people are not unusual.

But what can get this result is either an important ceremony or competition, or a heavy plot twist or finale of a hit series that has accumulated fame for several years.

And a TV series has never happened before when it has just started broadcasting with such amazing results. And more importantly, Fox is a TV station that has only been developed for less than ten years, although it has ranked fourth in North America, but there is still a big gap compared with the top three TV stations, and it is even more difficult to achieve such results. Previously, Fox's record for the highest viewership was an interview with Michael Jackson. And that's only a mere 19 million viewers. As soon as it came out, it directly increased Fox's highest rating record by more than 10 million.

As the most critical person who caused this qiē. Eric was woken up early in the morning by the tireless ringing of the phone in his room, and it was not yet seven o'clock.

The first call was from Barry Diller himself. Barry Diller said the ratings explosion, expressed his congratulations, and then hoped that Eric could return to the United States as much as possible, Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, would arrive in Los Angeles in the next two days, and wanted to meet Eric in person, and then chatted in detail for more than ten minutes, Barry Diller repeatedly told Eric to return to Los Angeles as much as possible, and then reluctantly hung up the phone.

Eric put down the microphone, and before he could ponder the news that Barry Diller had brought, the phone rang.

The second is Jeffrey, and then the third, and the fourth, and the fifth......

For the next two hours, Eric spent more than two hours answering the phone repeatedly, both ears were slightly itchy due to long-term stimulation, until more than nine o'clock in the morning, Eric finally couldn't stand it and unplugged the phone line, and the whole world calmed down. Anyway, most of the more important people have already called, and it doesn't matter if the rest of the people answer or not.

Moreover, the purpose of many people calling is not very simple, except for Aniston's little girl who hurriedly called and sincerely congratulated her, many other people came for the right to play.

It's no secret that Fox only booked the first season just to be on the safe side. Now, it has just started broadcasting and has achieved such amazing results, even if there will be big ups and downs in the ratings in the future, but there are more than 30 million ratings to lay the foundation, and the ratings in the future will not be worse than that, in this case, if the other three major TV stations in North America are indifferent, then there is no need for the helmsman of the TV station to sit in that position anymore.

These people are also very powerful, and in just a few hours, they found a representative and expressed their intentions to Eric, and NBC TV even found John Aniston, James Brooks and Robert Shea were three lobbyists to lobby, except for John Aniston, who originally worked at NBC, Eric couldn't figure out how the other two people got in touch with NBC.

For the results, Eric is not without his own estimates, because it is still in theaters, and the three clips of it have been fermented during this period of time, which has aroused strong curiosity among the public, coupled with the gimmick of Eric personally writing the script and directing the first two episodes himself, as well as Fox's unsparing publicity, Eric's previously expected premiere ratings will definitely be in the 20 million range, otherwise I am a little sorry for his series of hype for this TV series.

But as soon as the real ratings of more than 3,000 came out, Eric was greatly surprised.

For the ratings of an American drama, 10 million to 20 million ratings is just a very easy quantitative change, as long as it is a popular TV series, it can reach 20 million ratings from time to time with the ups and downs of the plot. But the jump in ratings from 20 million to 30 million is a very difficult qualitative change, and only a very small number of popular American dramas can get such amazing results once or twice at a certain stage after accumulating popularity for several years.

Now is just the beginning, and it has already created a miracle, which is enough to go into the history of TV drama development.

Therefore, it is conceivable that this incident caused a sensation in the entire North American film and television industry. (To be continued)