Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Foolish City Lord
Although in this extraordinary period, Fan Cheng, who has increased the number of people in the team, did not even have the opportunity to investigate his temperament, but according to the cooperation during this time, he found that the temperament of these people is actually not bad, Sun Maofeng is very obedient because of family reasons, and basically does what he wants, while the Wang brothers are the kind of stunned but sincere character with a little sullen in their heads.
The most satisfying thing for Fan Cheng is that the three of them have quite ideas about the show, although Fan Cheng's variety show concept can basically be said to be completely different from others, but the three of them are working hard to keep up with Fan Cheng's rhythm, even if many of the ideas they put forward are quite naïve in Fan Cheng's eyes and have no room for realization.
On this day, Fan Cheng was discussing next week's program script with the three of them, and the eldest brother Fan Ge suddenly came over.
"What's wrong?" Fan Cheng asked after taking the eldest brother to a quiet room.
The rift between Fan Cheng and the eldest brother still exists, but as relatives, at least the two sides are not as tense on the surface as before.
"Third child, didn't you do those previous shows?" The eldest brother asked.
"Before? You mean the whole person and kiss patience? Fan Cheng asked.
"Yes!"
"I'm so busy doing this right now, I don't have much time to do that, what's wrong? What's the problem? Fan Cheng asked.
"It's the hotel at home, and since you don't have those shows, the hotel is doing ...... business."
"It's strange, even before I made the show, the situation at the hotel at home was actually pretty good, isn't the occupancy rate of the few hotels you control very high?" Fan Cheng asked.
"That's actually the credit of a lot of discounts and promotions, if there is no discount, the family's business difficulties have actually been for a while, plus I have some difficulties in capital turnover during this time......"
"Even if it is because of the popularity of those four episodes, the TV station is still showing new programs behind the scenes?" Fan Cheng asked.
"Yes...... The ......" eldest brother looked very embarrassed, he lowered his head, a little overwhelmed.
"Okay, so you mean let me go back and shoot that kind of stuff again?" Fan Cheng asked.
"Is that okay?" The eldest brother looked up and asked.
"It's not that I don't want to shoot, but it's not bad to shoot a show like kiss patience occasionally, and it's very difficult to shoot for a long time, and the TV station is preparing to upgrade recently, and when it becomes a municipal TV station, that kind of program can no longer be done." Fan Cheng said.
"I know, I know you have lofty ideals, but please, just these few months, the popularity of these months is the key, once I open up the capital turnover here, I won't do it, and if the TV station is upgraded, I won't do it!" Big brother said.
Fan Cheng said: "Brother, have you forgotten? Before, you said that the things I shoot are too obscene and won't let me shoot anymore. ”
"I ......" Fan Ge was also very embarrassed by Fan Cheng's words.
"Okay, I know, you go back, I'll think about it." Fan Cheng finally said.
The eldest brother went back, and Fan Cheng reluctantly began to think about the TV station at home.
The family's TV station and hotel are not his, but more importantly, the TV station is still his father's.
He couldn't ignore the existence of this father, who had completely inherited the original Fan Cheng's memory, and the hotel was his father's hard work, although it was handed over to his two elder brothers, he didn't want the hotel to really go bankrupt.
At least until my father leaves, keep it up.
Fan Cheng, who had made this decision, began to make other preparations.
It's not okay to let him go back to filming those shows, he doesn't have time to do it now, fortunately now that he has the Wang brothers, it is impossible to ask the two of them to have original scripts, but it is no problem to give them the scripts and let them practice with these shows.
As for the quality of the show, it's not that Fan Cheng underestimates the audience at this time, the show he shoots is definitely better than the Wang brothers, but the good part, the current audience may not understand it, especially when watching the show of kiss patience, most of the audience don't watch wonderful shows.
Fan Cheng, who made such a decision, began to prepare for tandem again.
To start a second show, people only have these endures now, and Fan Cheng must be careful to come.
Wan Hong and Wang Xingxing have now become the pillars of the small half of the station, obviously they can't be allowed to go back to shoot those, so they need to find some more non-mainstream artists who are willing to shoot this kind of variety show, fortunately, Yangji City, as the capital of Beilin Province, still has a small circle, and there are many people who desperately want to become popular like Wan Hong, as long as the money keeps up with the opportunity to smash out the TV, you can always get some results.
As for the crew, the studios are rented by the day anyway, and it would be good to let them shoot after their own team finished filming, and it was a big deal to keep the staff busy.
On the TV station's side, "All Hands Gather at Eight O'Clock" has now occupied all the prime time of the TV station, and it is repeatedly broadcast every day, even if there is no such program, it is impossible for Fan Cheng to put the program that drops the festival in the prime time, and the late-night file is the only choice for the new program.
Anyway, those who will come to the hotel to see must stay overnight, and the difference between the late-night file and the prime file is not big, and maybe even the late-night file will feel more free in the time.
Another question that Fan Cheng is concerned about is why the Fan Hotel is so bad.
In his opinion, there is actually no big problem with the hotel at home, and it is not much dirtier or more unsightly than the hotel of the same era, such hotels are everywhere in China, and other hotels make money, why is his hotel not profitable?
He thought of his sister-in-law Nie Jin's question, but according to his investigation during this time, Nie Jin's sister-in-law didn't seem to have any problems, so what was the problem?
More than two months passed in a flash, and the time came to April 2000.
During this time, Fan Cheng's "Eight o'clock, all hands gathered" produced by his own home and the Northern Channel gradually became popular.
As a variety show broadcast on the night of three days from Friday to Sunday, "All Assembled" got 5% of the ratings in the three provinces in the fifth episode of the broadcast, and after seeing its huge potential, the sixth episode of "All Assembled" was officially transferred to prime time and began to broadcast, but limited to the program schedule and time It is impossible to make it up so simply, the TV station simply edited the three-hour program every week into two episodes of one and a half hours at a time, which were broadcast on Saturday and weekend.
What is particularly exciting is the advertising revenue of the prime time, although according to the contract that has been signed, Fan Cheng will not get any of this advertising revenue, but the name has been typed, the standard is already there, and the starting point will undoubtedly be much higher if the program is done in the future, and the advertising will be easy to sell.
If you want to say that the happiest person about this should be Yang Xuemin, as the main contact between the Northern Group and Fan Cheng, because of the excellent performance of the comprehensive entertainment channel, his treatment and status are also rising, Yang Xuemin also knows very well that his current achievements are all supported by Fan Cheng's program, so when the two sides face each other, he always works hard to flatter Fan Cheng, after all, he is also in control of his food and clothing.
In terms of program content, the content of "All Hands Gathered" and the late-night program that the Wang brothers are newly responsible for has been basically fixed, and the first half hour of the former's short drama in addition to the Jinuchi Tomono and UNJASH series, there is also the stupid city master series of Wanhong Wang Happy and others, this series is also born from a very famous series of short dramas in Japan, and the "Stupid Highness" series created by Shimura Ken, whose status in the Japanese entertainment industry is even much greater than that of Ken Shimura and UNJASH.
In terms of style, both the skits in the formation and UNJASH have a strong personal style, and the various jokes are also very close to the times, but unlike His Royal Highness the Fool, this series of skits is actually a bit like the British Mr. Bean's skits.
In addition, the characters in each skit of the first two are usually not particularly related, and the performers will play different people every time, and most of their performances are normal people, mainly relying on the plot content to promote the funny.
The "Stupid City Lord" series mainly relies on people, usually all short dramas describe the same protagonist, and the content is also funny with the protagonist's strange personality.
Strictly speaking, there is no superiority or inferiority between these two styles of skits, there is only a difference in the ability of the creator.
Fan Cheng, who had long expected this, wrote very strict income-related requirements when he first created and rehearsed the short play, the creator and the company will get the absolute majority, but the performer can only get a small part of the money, and even perform in other places in the future. If the real performers end up falling out with Fan Cheng and the company, they will not even be qualified to perform these shows when they leave the company.
Of course, Fan Cheng, who set up such a contract, did not block all the roads, his purpose is very simple, not to ask you to work hard to learn acting, try to be on stage for a minute, and make these existing programs more refined in ten years off the stage, but to work hard to become a creator, only as a creator, to really write enough things to perform on TV, you are qualified to have these things.
He actually knows that this kind of contract is actually very strange in Huaxia, if Yang Bujian, Kong Jima and others become popular in the future, they will definitely have a lot of critical thoughts about these contracts, but he is not ready to change all this, he wants to let these people understand that it is not that you have a good performance so that you become popular, but that I gave you something good enough, so you are popular, do you want to continue to be popular? Either continue to be my little brother and make money for me, or try to write something better than what I wrote.
This is my expectation for you, and in fact, it is also my olive branch to those creators who have more potential.