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At three o'clock in the evening, Foday, who woke up in his sleep, received an angry call from Kangfu Dazheng, and his eardrums were almost burst by the roar of the angry Japanese...... Don't worry, I have a very good personal relationship with him......"

Although Foudy swore that he could convince Li Xiaole, he made more than 20 phone calls to Li Xiaole the next morning, but Li Xiaole did not answer...... Foday became anxious and began to try various methods, texting Li Xiaole, sending emails, and even pulling down his face to call Tom Cruise, Wagner begged, all the ways were tried, and Li Xiaole was still not contacted......

On the other hand, Kanon, who was under great pressure from Kangfu Dazheng, also suffered the same thing, and after he made the twenty-seventh call, after confirming that he had been blacklisted, he sat on the sofa without saying a word for 5 minutes, before standing up and slamming the phone against the wall, roaring:

"This damn Chinese kid!! FUCK!! FUCK!! FUCK~!!!”

What is the situation stronger than people, now it is~~ No matter how powerful Foday and Canon are at MGM, but they are now completely incomparable to Li Xiaole in the eyes of Sony Group, three months ago, Li Xiaole was just a small person in one of their subsidiaries, but now it has become an unattainable target for them.

Who would have thought that MGM's decaying building would give birth to such a vibrant brilliance, and the crumbling two institutions, Luen Mei and UNP, have erupted with strong energy after Li Xiaole took over, and have even shown potential to exceed MGM's own value, Foday and Canon invariably feel a huge sense of crisis, they are no longer the core figures of MGM...... And Li Xiaole is the most valuable leader of this company.

And they didn't know that Li Xiaole didn't deliberately not answer their calls, but that he was too busy all day, and after receiving the advertising fee for the first episode of "The Walking Dead", Li Xiaole did not immediately use the funds to shoot the third episode of "The Walking Dead", but contacted Wagner of Luen Mei Company as soon as possible to confirm that she had recruited him from CAA and those actors had done it.

"What do you need so many young actors for?" After Wagner looked at the long list, he couldn't figure out the situation, Li Xiaole booked so many young actors before the filming of "The Walking Dead", and she spent a lot of effort to reach a cooperation intention with these actors, originally thought it was going to be used in "The Walking Dead", but I didn't expect that Li Xiaole didn't respond until the filming of "The Walking Dead" started, and now this series is popular, aren't the actors all fixed? It's impossible to cram so many young actors...... Li Xiaole: What is this going to do? Does this require these handsome guys and beauties to play zombies?

"Wagner, you have to get these actors to report on the pirate station within three days, I'm about to launch the second TV series of the pirate station, which will air on Tuesday in two weeks, and form a strong echo of 'The Walking Dead,' remember to be fast." Li Xiaole instructed Wagner in a serious tone.

"Why, you're going to shoot a second episode so soon?" People who are so calm as Wagner can't help but be a little surprised, one "The Walking Dead" is not enough, this Li Xiaole still wants to strike while the iron is hot and continue to develop new dramas? Wagner couldn't help but be a little worried, is there some suspicion that such a temporary increase in dramas wants to make quick money? It seems that there is some lack of preparation in all aspects......

But Wagner can also understand Li Xiaole's mentality, now that his pirate station is showing its edge, the viewership brought by "The Walking Dead" is explosive, if you take advantage of this east wind and release a new episode the day after "The Walking Dead" is broadcast, even if it is worse, there should be more than one million viewers, so that the pirate station can recover more advertising costs, and can invest more funds in the follow-up filming and promotion of "The Walking Dead", and concentrate on Liliang to boost the momentum of "The Walking Dead".

To put it bluntly, it is a utilitarian business practice.

"Wagner, I'll send the outline of the script for the new play to your phone now, and you give it to the actors, so that they can familiarize themselves with the background of the characters in the next few days." After Li Xiaole finished ordering everything, he sent the email of the outline script.

Wagner opened the email and saw the headline...... couldn't help but shake her head, and suddenly became more sure of her guess, vampire theme? Sure enough, it's close to the zombie theme...... What a smart boy......

Li Xiaole continued to work after making sure that there was no problem with the actors, in fact, when he was preparing to shoot "The Walking Dead", he already had this series of jihua in his mind, and he wanted to make the pirate station a blockbuster, of course, not just relying on a TV series, he needed a series of high-quality dramas that could make a name for himself.

At this moment, after the integration of Pirate Channel's talent resources, it is fully capable of filming two high-quality dramas at the same time, and the next episodes must of course be filmed while the iron is hot.

Since the filming period is only two weeks, the subject matter cannot be too difficult, and the first choice is of course youth campus dramas, and he chose the drama he thought was the most suitable among the many candidates...... He believed that when the series was filmed, two weeks later on Tuesday, the pirate station would send a chill down the spine of all his peers......

On the other hand, after an all-night carnival, the employees of the pirate station calmed down, looking at the ratings list released today, in fact, frankly speaking, the results of "The Walking Dead" are not too amazing.

CBS's sitcom "Two and a Half Heroes" topped the list with 18.10 30,000 viewers, the second season of FOX's "Prison Break" had 14.37 million viewers, NBC's "Heroes" ranked third with 9.8 million...... "The Walking Dead" ranked fourth with 6.015 million.

In comparison, there is still a significant gap between "The Walking Dead" and the three ace dramas of FOX, CBS, NBC, but you must know that the appearance of "The Walking Dead" has reduced the viewership of the top three dramas by about 2 million, which means that "The Walking Dead" has snatched the core audience from the mouths of the three major TV stations.

What's more, this is the first episode of his first season, and this series has a lot of potential...... If it continues to grow, the top three episodes will not know how many viewers will be stolen, which is the biggest headache for competitors.

What's more, the broadcast time of "The Walking Dead" is half past eight, which is really very delicate, because most of the TV series on the three major TV stations are broadcast on time at 8 o'clock and 9 o'clock, and 8:30 is an advertising point, and the audience will switch to see if there is anything else, it is conceivable that when they inadvertently switch to "The Walking Dead", then these viewers are likely to stop and continue watching.

As a result, the appearance of "The Walking Dead" at the same time shifted the audience of the two dramas at 8 and 9 o'clock, and now what all big TV stations want to do is to make "The Walking Dead" advance or move it back half an hour to avoid this big dark horse from devouring the audience of their own strong dramas, and at the same time, it can also be used to borrow a knife to kill people and hit other competitors.

The addition of this inside and outside, the strategic significance of the dark horse of "The Walking Dead" is very obvious.

So not only Sony, but even Fox and NBC have also issued official documents expressing their willingness to acquire the rights to the next day's rebroadcast of "The Walking Dead" and overseas rights, they are not just optimistic about the follow-up ability of "The Walking Dead" to make money, but hope to reach a partnership with the pirate company, and then let the pirate station postpone or broadcast "The Walking Dead" half an hour earlier, in order to stagger their episodes and hit opponents, to achieve this can achieve a win-win effect.

No one wants "The Walking Dead" to be broadcast at 8:30 now, so that their two dramas at 8 and 9 o'clock will be impacted at the same time.

At the meeting of the internal management department of the pirate company, it was also discussed whether to accept the purchase of the rights of the three major TV companies, and almost all of them hoped to accept the acquisition of one of them, and Walson's view of the marketing department was more representative:

"Now "The Walking Dead" has such haode ratings, because the early promotion of "Plants vs. Zombies" is very good, and a considerable number of game fans are very curious about the first episode, but in the long run, these people are not the main viewers, and when their freshness passes, the ratings will decline to a certain extent, we should take advantage of the current time to sell the replay rights and lose this opportunity, I'm afraid there won't be such a haode price in the future."

The prices offered by the three parties are about the same, 3 million for one episode, 18 million for 6 episodes in the first season, plus the current advertising fee of 170,000 30 seconds per episode, this season of 6 episodes can create nearly 50 million US dollars, which is enough to pay off the debts of Pirate TV and let the company return to stability.

Although the employees of the Pirate Station hated their old club, Sony Columbia, they still wanted to accept the olive branch thrown by Fox and NBC.

"I don't think so."

What everyone didn't expect was that Li Xiaole directly rejected their idea, and Li Xiaole's point of view was very simple:

"3 million episodes are sold to international channels, and according to the terms, they will take away the overseas copyright, judging from the current results of "The Walking Dead", maybe this price is still a bit attractive, but if the ratings increase in the later stage, then our overseas copyright is far more than 3 million episodes, and we still have to hold the overseas copyright in our hands."

Li Xiaole firmly believes that "The Walking Dead" is far from being released.