Chapter Thirty-Eight: It's on Fire
In June 2000, what was the hottest TV series in the Chinese Empire, ten people were asked, and six people would answer that "there are children at home".
Since it was broadcast on Imperial Satellite TV, the rising curve of the ratings of "Family with Children" has not stopped, and it is rising at a relatively fast speed.
Episode 5: 1.6%
Episode 6: 1.7%
Episode 8: 1.9%
Episode 9: 2.2%
Episode 12: 2.6%
Episode 16: 3.3%
Episode 20: 4.0%
Episode 28: 5.5%
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The length of the two episodes of "Family with Children" is about equal to one episode of a general TV series, and the prime time of Imperial Capital Satellite TV broadcasts four episodes a day, and the ratings of each episode are higher than the previous episode, and the speed of improvement is getting faster and faster.
After a week of broadcasting, the ratings have reached 5.5%, such a rating can only be achieved by a popular TV series, and this is not the end, its ratings can still be improved.
Recently, there is a TV series called "Family with Children", which is a high-quality children's sitcom, based on the daily life of a reorganized family as the material, interpreting the happy life of the Chinese people in the new era, which is a rare good drama.
- Imperial Capital Television
Recently, there is a children's sitcom "Family with Children" in the hot serialization, the show has no big investment, the props and scenes are simple, the actors are not famous, and the director is also unknown, but after the broadcast, it has created high ratings and income, which is amazing.
- Magic City Entertainment News
The children's sitcom "Family with Children" filmed by director Wu Qi of Henan Province is currently being broadcast in prime time on Imperial Satellite TV.
——Henan Metropolis Daily
This month, Imperial Capital Satellite TV broadcast a popular TV series "Family with Children", which went from being unpopular to quickly becoming popular, with amazing ratings, in less than a week.
Now, let's reveal the director of this drama, Wu Qi, he is a junior in the directing department of the Imperial Capital Film Academy, he has good grades in school, and he ranks first in his major every year, so he is a good student.
However, according to the investigation by the reporter of this newspaper, he has not been in school for two months, but now, he has made a blockbuster and filmed a popular TV series.
——Xiangjiang Gossip Weekly
"Family with Children" invested less than 1 million, broadcast for a week, and created the highest ratings of 5.5%, which can be called an instant hit, and Imperial Satellite TV bought this drama at a price of 55,000 yuan per episode, which can be regarded as a big bargain.
Wu Qi, the director and screenwriter of this drama, filmed a good drama for the first time, and what we are witnessing is the rise of a talented director, looking forward to his next work.
——Pengcheng Entertainment Weekly
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As soon as "family with children" became popular, various newspapers, magazines or newspapers began to report on it, among them, most of them were exclamations, surprises and praises, of course, there were also bad ones, so I will not list them one by one here.
This drama became popular, and the actors in the play naturally became popular, Gao Guolin, Zhou Ju and Lu Ping called him successively to report the good news.
The three of them used to belong to the kind of people who were in the entertainment industry, they didn't worry about filming, they could play a small supporting role, they couldn't starve to death, but they couldn't become popular and couldn't make a fortune.
But after the broadcast of "Family with Children", the three of them quickly became popular, and various announcements came, invitations to commercial performances, advertising endorsements and variety shows, as well as invitations to TV drama roles, etc.
This time, the director and producer gave them no longer small roles, Gao Guolin and Zhou Ju both received invitations to the protagonists, and Lu Ping was slightly worse and was also the second male lead.
So, Wu Qi hurriedly told them that commercial performances, advertisements and variety shows can be accepted, but the roles of TV series cannot be accepted, and a month later, the second part of "Family with Children" will be filmed.
The estimated ten films, one film a year, can be filmed for 10 years, but now that there is a lack of money, the first step is popular, simply strike while the iron is hot, launch the second step by the trend, and make a little more money.
In Wu Qi's heart, there is a big plan, and the money needed to implement this plan is not a small amount, so he is very short of money.
As soon as "Family with Children" was broadcast, in addition to the popularity of the actors, Wu Qi also had some fame, and the general public may not know much about him, but there should be a lot of people in the circle who know him.
After all, the director is the person behind the scenes, and the ordinary people who watch TV series will pay attention to who the actors are, but they will not pay attention to the director or screenwriter, unless they are big directors, they will have some popularity.
Wu Qi is still quite concerned about being famous, not only because he wanted to be a star in his previous life, but also because he can get prestige points for lottery draws when he is famous.
When filming "Family with Children", if it weren't for his first time directing, he didn't have much experience, he didn't dare to direct and act himself, and he didn't have any suitable roles, he would have participated in it a long time ago.
In the past few days, Wu Qi's phone has been ringing non-stop, it was a major TV station calling, wanting to buy the authorization for the second round of broadcast of "Family with Children", but he did not immediately agree, only said that he would consider it.
The authorization for the second round of broadcasting must be sold, not only to sell, but also to sell at a high price, and because of this, he has to drag it out.
He feels that the 5.5% rating is not the peak, and it should be able to rush up, and the value of this show will be even higher.
There is an old saying that blessing is incomparable, and disaster is not a single line, but it was broken here in Wu Qi, when the ratings of the TV series were rising, there was also good news from Jianghu Magazine.
"Hey, Editor-in-Chief Wang, what's the matter, oh, oh, the magazine's sales have exceeded 850,000, which is a good thing. Well, okay, okay, publishing this is a good thing, I'm sure I'm okay, it's just right, I'm going to the imperial capital recently, and I have time to hold a book signing meeting, and we'll get in touch when the time comes. ”
Hanging up the phone, Wu Qi almost smiled from ear to ear, and his mood was extremely relaxed.
The video of Pingxia has a total of a little more than 400,000 words, about 50,000 words a month, and now in two months, it has been serialized for 100,000 words, and the manuscript fee is only a little more than 20,000.
The first 50,000 words were calculated at 150 yuan per 1,000 words, and the sales volume of the later Jianghu periodicals exceeded 800,000, and the magazine raised the price to 300 yuan per 1,000 words, which doubled.
No matter how much the price is raised, it will not make much money by serializing it in magazines, and most of it will still be published, and if it can sell dozens or millions of copies, it will make a lot of money.
100,000 words can be published in one volume, Jianghu Magazine contacted the publishing house and wanted to publish it, and Wu Qi agreed.
It happened to be the end of the semester, and the third year of the Imperial Capital Film Academy was going to take the final exam, and he usually didn't go to school, and he still had to take the final exam, otherwise he wouldn't be able to get the graduation certificate, and he would live up to Xiao Yayin's hard work.
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Chapter 2 is delivered.