Chapter 546: May (Part I)
Although there were many doubts in his heart, Lin Xiaozhi accepted the invitation conveyed by Wu Siyuan without much thought, wanting to see what the Electricity Authority or the Hong Kong government behind it wanted to do, and after asking the other party for the specific time, the two who did not have a deep friendship just drank a pot of tea together, chatted about the filming process of "Huang Feihong" and stopped talking.
Stepping into Hong Kong in May, the more people feel that summer is coming.
Zhu Zhishan finally came back after a delay of more than a month in the United States, and this year's Oscars, which ended a month ago, did not appear as Lin Xiaozhi expected, whether it was him or Zhang Yimou, who was praised by the Chinese media as the most likely to win the Best Foreign Language Film Award, they all went through a motion, Lao Mei really still has zài ethnic, cultural and even political discrimination, and Italian director Gabriel Sahuatris's work "The Mediterranean" won this award. Not to mention Lao Mouzi and his works, at least among the films nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this year, Lin Xiaozhi believes that the most artistic beauty is actually the Czechoslovak film "Qingqing School Tree", which failed to win awards proves a lot of things.
The expected Los Angeles storm still caused a global sensation as it did in history, but it was not a bad thing for Lin Xiaozhi. He had more contact with Song Nianhui, and he asked him to open a position to short U.S. stocks early in the morning, and relying on the collapse of U.S. stocks in Los Angeles, he easily earned $50 million in just one week.
No one will feel that the money is too hot, with this windfall, Lin Xiaozhi left Zhu Zhishan in the United States for a full month, and the superintendent never listened to his words, not only did he not contact Spielberg to invest in the co-production of "Jurassic Park", but even the Miramax company that he had kindly handed over several scripts was also shelved.
Under his supervision, Miramax's executives reluctantly communicated with him about the filming of several of his scripts, and also led him to contact Spielberg. The well-known American director is still frowning at this time about the investment in the new film, where would he refuse to intervene in the investment through Guò Miramax. After paying $30 million and promising to cover some of the publicity costs in the future, the two sides readily reached an agreement that Miramax would own the proceeds of the release of "Jurassic Park." and has the right of first refusal for subsequent series of films.
It is worth mentioning that because the senior management of Miramax is not optimistic about this movie, Zhu Zhishan played a clever trick under Lin Xiaozhi's hint, nominally this movie is invested by Miramax Company, but in fact, all the shares belong to Lin Xiaozhi alone. I just don't know what the Harvey brothers will regret when this movie comes out.
"League of Assassins" is still in full swing of filming, as the crew's run-in is getting better and better, the filming of the movie is also accelerating, but because the whole movie has high requirements for action scenes and special effects, Liu Qingyun, as the leading actor, even has to undergo at least two hours of professional and fitness training while filming every day, and at the same time, the special effects staff of Media Asia also have to face the boss's dissatisfied veto again and again, and the production process is still slow, and even Lin Xiaozhi himself began to realize, It's hard to get it to meet the audience at the end of the summer season
Since H also followed ATV's example and began to broadcast two episodes of TV dramas in prime time in the evening, the ratings war between the two Hong Kong TV stations has quickly become fierce.
As the strongest boss in the Hong Kong entertainment industry in the past, Shao Yifu's courage inevitably decreases with age, if it is placed in the late 70s or even early 80s, once the existing people want to shake the hegemony of hR, this Shao tycoon will definitely give a thunderous blow at the first time, instead of being cautious and changing the show after being cautious and repeated.
However, his cautious mentality is nothing better for ATV. It was the initial hR's hesitation that gave ATV enough time for the audience to see the changes in ATV. Although TVh began to follow up after suffering a loss and began to broadcast "Fire Rose" in prime time in the evening, ATV has also cultivated a group of viewers who like to watch "Journey to the West" and "Dream of Lou", and the ratings have only fluctuated slightly and tended to flatten.
The serial broadcast of "Fire Rose" failed to help H defeat ATV's competition in one fell swoop, but because of the publicity of many media, in the hearts of more Hong Kong people, it has been determined that it was ATV who proposed the reform of TV series serial broadcasting in the evening, and H was just shameless plagiarism later.
This' first come, first come, the audience still recognizes it, not to mention that the quality of the TV series launched by ATV is not bad, although the ratings are still pressed by TVh for a while, but compared with the previous Lin Jianming in the later period of his administration, it has skyrocketed, and ATV's reform has opened a hit.
Following the good results in the battle, ATV finally began to have a comprehensive difficulty, and competed with H for small screen ratings. The ratings of the two TV dramas have soared, so that Lin Xiaozhi's TV series series plan has finally completely cleared up the internal noise, following the precedent of reform in the evening prime time, ATV's Hong Kong and other channels have also carried out comprehensive reforms and adjustments.
The biggest change is that RTHK has compressed the hour-long news program that started at 8:30 in the morning to 30 minutes, and at the same time, the broadcast time has also been advanced to 8 o'clock, which is more catered to office workers. At the same time, ATV's already strong ratings have also been strengthened, and more audience interactive entertainment sessions have been added after the revision, in order to compete with the Jockey Club report with the highest ratings in the morning.
Originally, a show was scheduled to be broadcast in the afternoon, and the ratings have not been too high, but there are many housewives and grandmothers to watch the fashion program that teaches people to dress up, makeup and dressing has been adjusted to 10:40 in the morning, and only a fifteen-minute small program will not affect the daily life of housewives after adjusting the broadcast time, at most the time for buying vegetables will be tighter, although the program has caused some viewers to complain after the adjustment, but the ratings are only a small fluctuation, and they are still within an acceptable range.
Needless to say, the afternoon time has always been a time slot that several major TV stations must compete for. From the time of lunch to the hours before dinner, the ratings may not be as good as in the evening prime time, but because most of the Hong Kong people are descendants of Chinese descent, some Chinese traditions have also been well preserved, for example, in Hong Kong, there are a number of Hong Kong women who do not do any work, and stay at home to cook, laundry and educate children, which is the so-called 'housewife, or pei milk,'. It is precisely because of their savings that they enjoy a leisurely afternoon tea time, which has become a time slot for several major TV stations in Hong Kong.
ATV launched the TV series series broadcast reform in the evening, forcing the opponent H to learn to resist, and the TV station realized the attraction of TV series series to the audience. So in the housewives' leisurely tea time to make time for the two episodes of the TV series to be broadcast in a row, there is no resistance, the Ministry was decided by ATV to turn out the two episodes of the TV series in the afternoon tea time is the 19Ru years for ATV's classic TV series - "The Grace of the Earth", which is still ranked among the top 100 TV drama videotapes with the highest rental rate in Hong Kong, once again proved with facts that a good classic will not deteriorate even in the past ten or twenty years. On the second day of broadcasting, ATV's ratings in the same period easily exceeded 20 points, and the upward momentum was very strong.
To say that the biggest change in RTHK is the cancellation of the late-night variety show "Nothing to Talk about" and the addition of two new variety shows.
Speaking of this half-worded program in Hong Kong, we have to mention the high-rated weekly Cantonese talk show "No Defense Tonight" produced by Hong Kong ATV in 1989-199O. This is co-hosted by three of Hong Kong's four talents: Huang Zhan, Ni Mad and Cai Lan, and produced by Zhao Ruqiang, the atmosphere of the show is relaxed and humorous, like a gathering of old friends, the program is open and free to speak, and everything is talked about up and down, especially love to invite popular stars, celebrities analyze the inner world, and set high ratings.
The content of this show is relatively bold in Hong Kong society at this time, and the three 'old hooligans' have talked about sex and love related topics in the show, and they have smoked, drunk and spoken foul language in the show from time to time, even if there is no remark against Hong Kong law, ATV still received many warnings from the Broadcasting Authority. Fortunately, the giant ATV is not afraid of the Broadcasting Authority at all, but when the show is broadcast, it is still considered by the outside world to be only suitable for adults to watch.
"No Defense Tonight" was only on the air for a while before it was discontinued for a number of reasons. On the one hand, the three talents were invited by the former boss of ATV Qiu Degen to open such a program for ATV, relying on the connections, influence and literary talents of three public celebrities, which did greatly improve ATV's ratings, but then ATV changed to a new boss, whether it was the unruly Lin Jianle or the conservative Lin Jianming, the renewal fee issued made the three talents unsatisfied.
At that time, Shao Yifu was also constantly using his friendship with Ni Mad to sabotage the renewal of the contract of the three, and in the end it can only be said that Jiang is still old and spicy, H successfully defeated the opponent and invited the three talents to H to bring a other program respectively, and the ratings in the past once crushed H's other programs at the same time, and the ATV hit program "No Defense Tonight" was terminated after only four seasons.
The strong program with evening ratings came to an end, and ATV was naturally unwilling. With Zhao Ruqiang's efforts, another program similar to him was released, which was "Nothing to Talk About".
Unfortunately, the show apparently didn't succeed as much as ATV's top brass would have liked. Although the selected hosts are all the pillars of ATV, the ratings are not to mention the successor of "No Defense Tonight", because most of the invited guests are only ATV's own artists, far from all of them are superstars in the Hong Kong film and television industry when the three talented people host the show, so the ratings are far inferior to "No Defense Tonight". What's worse is that later, in order to increase the ratings, Asia began to go sideways and did not learn the good things about "No Defense Tonight", but instead played adult topics and meat jokes, and as a result, the reputation became more and more unbearable over the years.
ATV originally had the intention of ending this show, and Lin Xiaozhi also asked for a big change by name, so ATV's Yu Crisp took this opportunity to temporarily cancel this show and prepared to return to the furnace to make a plan. If the new planning plan does not satisfy him, it is estimated that there may be no tomorrow for this show.
As for the addition of the two new variety shows, needless to ask, it is naturally "We Are All Monopoly" and "National Fitness Week" personally planned by Lin Xiaozhi before.
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