In front of the fax machine, Xu Xiaoming anxiously paced back and forth.

As soon as the sound of fax printing sounded, he rushed forward with an arrow step, and couldn't wait to reach for it.

Because the drawing was too urgent, half of the paper was still stuck in the machine.

Xu Xiaoming didn't care about this, picked up half a piece of paper and hurriedly glanced at it, and after dropping it, he rushed straight to Qiu Degen's office.

"Uncle Gen, good news, the average rating of the first two episodes of "The Peerless Twins" is ......"

Xu Xiaoming pushed the door and walked into Qiu Degen's office, but before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Qiu Degen's raised hand.

"Looking at you like this, the ratings should have exceeded 40%, right?"

Xu Xiaoming reacted when he heard this, it turned out that Qiu Degen was more anxious than him.

"It's 48%, and if the ratings of the first episode were higher, it might have exceeded 50%."

"What did you say!" Qiu Degen almost thought that he had heard it wrong at first, he originally thought that after the wireless adjusted the broadcast time of "Dragon Babu", it was already an unexpected joy that the premiere of "The Peerless Double Pride" could win more than 40% of the ratings, but he didn't expect the result to be even better than he thought.

After experiencing a short surprise, he followed him to think of what Xu Xiaoming said later.

"Is there a lot of difference in ratings between the first and second episodes?"

"It's really a bit big, the first episode was only 38%, and the second episode grew to 58% all of a sudden."

Xu Xiaoming carefully reported the statistics received on the fax to Qiu Degen.

After listening, Qiu Degen couldn't help frowning.

"Why is this happening?"

"There may be two reasons, one is because the broadcast time of "Dragon Babu" was ahead of us, which pulled some viewers who were ready to watch "The Peerless Twins"; The second is that the story of "The Peerless Twins" has officially started from the second episode, and the two protagonists have officially appeared, and the appearance is very eye-catching, especially the actor who played Xiao Yuer, who performed the martial arts drama with a bit of comedy, and there was a whole scene that directly made me laugh. ”

Qiu Degen nodded after hearing this, and then suddenly said: "You said that the actor's name is Zhou Xingchi, right?" ”

Xu Xiaoming also wondered how Qiu Degen knew about this, and the words that Qiu Degen said immediately made his spine chill and cold sweat.

"I heard that this Zhou Xingchi, as well as Liang Chaowei, who plays the perfect role in this drama, both of them have been in the ATV training class?"

"Uncle Gen, here's the thing, both of them were signed in by Lin Xi to the Oriental Film and Television Company first, and then entered the training class as auditors, this matter was indeed done by me, but at that time, it was because we were cooperating with Lin Xi to shoot "Chu Liuxiang", considering that we wanted to maintain a good relationship between the two sides, so I ......"

Xu Xiaoming explained this, but Qiu Degen didn't want to listen to it anymore.

"Okay, okay, I know your difficulties, I didn't want to hold anyone accountable when I mentioned this matter just now, but I was thinking, since Zhou Xingchi and Liang Chaowei are both from our ATV training class, we can't make people popular, but in the end, we don't get any benefits, right? I mean to see if we can convince Lin Xi to give the two of them to us, maybe it won't work to lend us for a while! ”

Xu Xiaoming thought for a while and replied: "Directly let them switch to ATV, Lin Xi will definitely not agree, but it should be no problem to borrow the two of them for filming." ”

Qiu Degen didn't want this kind of ambiguous answer, and asked directly: "What do you think is the best result we can get from Lin Xi?" ”

"The best situation is to persuade Lin Xi to agree to these two actors to sign a contract with us, agreeing to help us shoot as many scenes as many times as possible within three to five years, which is beneficial to both parties, and I don't think Lin Xi will refuse."

Xu Xiaoming's estimate is very conservative, but Qiu Degen also knows that this should be the limit that Lin Xi can accept, after all, the current situation is that ATV has a request from Lin Xi, and the relationship between the two sides has to be maintained well.

Qiu Degen meant to ask Xu Xiaoming to take the time to discuss with Lin Xi and try his best to settle the matter, but Xu Xiaoming said that if he really wanted to talk, he had to hurry up, because he was worried that more people would hit these two actors with ideas later.

The matter was really told by Xu Xiaoming.

In the next two days, as the word-of-mouth and ratings of "The Peerless Twins" continued to rise, not to mention professionals, even ordinary audiences began to pay attention to the two leading actors Zhou Xingchi and Liang Chaowei.

Although some people criticize Zhou Xingchi's little fish for being funny and witty, and has deviated from the characters in the original book, because Lin Xi is the director of this drama, this point of view is somewhat nosy.

The author of the original novel didn't say anything, and it was indeed inappropriate for others to comment on it.

No matter how ordinary the audience is, they don't know whether the characters are close to the prototype in the novel, they only think that Zhou Xingchi's acting is very funny, he is like a pistachio in the play, whether it is a funny scene or a non-funny play, as long as he appears, everyone will feel very happy.

Fortunately, it was Liang Chaowei who played with Zhou Xingchi this time, so the limelight in the play was not completely stolen.

Although Liang Chaowei at this time has not yet reached the point where he can act with his eyes later, he is handsome, and he is even more jade tree in the wind when he wears ancient costumes, and the image of a flawless son can easily capture the hearts of a large number of female audiences.

Of course, there is no shortage of handsome young people on the TV screen in these years, there were Zhou Runfa and Zheng Shaoqiu in the past, and Tang Zhenye and Huang Rihua in "Dragon Babu" at the same time, so although Liang Chaowei also aroused the ideas of many audiences, it was naturally a little worse than Zhou Xingchi who was unanimously favored by people inside and outside the industry at the same time.

But with the popularity of "The Peerless Double Pride", the saying "Everyone loves Zhou Xingchi, and everyone knows Liang Chaowei" gradually began to circulate, and even some newspapers began to say so.

Behind this qiē is naturally Lin Xi's encouragement.

The Hong Kong entertainment industry in the 80s was the beginning of the era of collective star-making, whether it was the five tiger generals of wireless, the Nine Dragons girl, or the later fame of the Four Heavenly Kings.

Lin Xi's promotion of Zhou Xingchi and Liang Chaowei together is just to advance this process a little, but the effect is really obvious, with the gradual fame of Zhou Xingchi and Liang Chaowei, many film and television companies have become interested in the two, some are directly seeking cooperation, and some are preparing to dig into the corners behind their backs.

It's a pity that Zhou Xingchi, Liang Chaowei and Oriental Film and Television signed the same 20-year "deed of sale" as Cheng Long, and in the face of high liquidated damages, even Wireless, which is always rich and powerful, can only be discouraged.

ATV's reaction was fast enough, and in the end, it only persuaded Lin Xi to agree to Zhou Xingchi, Liang Chaowei and ATV to sign a contract to shoot eight TV series within three years, and the salaries of the two actors will increase with the growth of their fame.

On the one hand, he put forward very high requirements for the party who came to seek cooperation, and on the other hand, he pressed down very low on the proportion of Zhou Xingchi and Liang Chaowei's brokerage, Lin Xi just gave up a little profit, but it made Zhou Xingchi and Liang Chaowei more and more desperate for him.

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