ATV and h are the only two free-to-air television stations in Hong Kong, and according to the agreement between the two stations and the Hong Kong government in the early 80s, any household in Hong Kong can watch the two free channels, and VH and ATV also have paid channels).

According to the figures released by the Hong Kong government in April 91, there were about 4.88 million installed television stations in Hong Kong. After removing hotels, guesthouses and some other facilities, the installed capacity of real home TVs in Hong Kong should be between 41o45000000 units. 15。 The ratings of 3 also means that about 670,000 Hong Kong people watched this TV series during the previous highest rating period of "Journey to the West".

This set of numbers jù may be worse than the same TV series of hR, but it is not too bad on ATV's side. At least for a TV series introduced from the Big 6, which the audience is not familiar with and has no expectations, "Journey to the West" has handed over a report card that satisfies ATV, especially Lin Xiaozhi.

“15。 A little higher than I expected"

Lin Xiaozhi nodded with satisfaction, and the original nervousness in his heart was finally let go.

Since he purged the top management of ATV, he has been burdened with a lot of infamy and accusations. Even if ATV made continuous moves some time ago, it eased the public's bad impression to a certain extent. I can't bear to h, and now I am also blatantly intervening in it, since it changed hands to recruit that group of former ATV executives, it has stabbed him and ATV openly and secretly. Since he acquired ATV, he has still not been able to reverse the decline in ATV's performance that began in the late period of Lin Jianming's administration, which has put a lot of pressure on him.

It's just that although he started the reform of ATV, it takes time to shoot more TV series, it takes time to rehearse programs and contact businesses, and it takes time to introduce new drama reflections and soundtracks, so in the past two months, except for the time when he fired at the Academy Awards, he kept a low profile for a long time, until he finally held back "Journey to the West".

"The response from the audience was good......

Xiao Sheng didn't even stay in the company before he got off work, and Lin Xiaozhi didn't have much contact with him, but in the few contacts he had, Xiao Sheng also left a good impression on him. Although he is a bit arrogant, he sometimes likes to put on the shelf of the old-timers in the circle, and he is very sensitive to power. But he can accept these personalities, because Xiao Sheng is a very serious person about his work, and he can even be said to be serious to the point of being harsh.

For example, at the beginning of the year, after he acquired ATV, he promised to allocate money to him to shoot a new drama, and at that time he decided to make a fifty or sixty-episode TV series "Xiao Li Flying Knife" based on Gu Long's novel "The Amorous Son's Ruthless Sword". It stands to reason that it would take half a year to shoot such a long TV series just to prepare and recruit actors, but Xiao Sheng only took more than two months to adapt the script after getting the money, bringing together most of the artists of ATV, and even one of the tricks in it may be the male number three and female number three of some other TV series.

Now "Xiao Li Flying Knife" has been filming for nearly a month, and a few episodes have been made. If you follow Hong Kong TV's consistent system of filming and playing, you would have been able to meet the audience a long time ago. However, he pressed it down and didn't release it in a hurry, and was ready to wait until the whole shooting was over. Anyway, with more and more TV series being introduced by ATV to complete the adaptation, there is no worry about not having a program for a while.

"Director Xiao is also here, the time to get off work has passed, why haven't you gone back yet......?"

Lin Xiaozhi greeted him with a smile, and heard Xiao Sheng exclaim a little: "I passed by the customer service just now, and I heard that the customer service of an episode of Kung Fu received more than 400 inquiries, and the audience generally gave praise. I think this "Journey to the West" is going to be popular, but it's not in vain Lin Sheng, you attach so much importance to it......"

Regarding his answer to the question, Lin Xiaozhi just smiled slightly. He really cares about this TV series very much, not only in the process of translation and dubbing, he personally asked ATV and a group of big-name superstars to go into battle, but also often supervised and tracked the process by phone, so as not to let ATV ruin a divine drama in his hands because of his contempt for the big 6.

In addition, he also personally asked Chen Baiqiang to find his friend Zhou Qisheng, who is known as the little king of the soundtrack, to re-arrange a Cantonese version of the theme song "Monkey King" for "Journey to the West", and invited Leslie Cheung, the king of the music world, to sing for him. can make him, the big boss of ATV and Media Asia, use all the resources at his disposal to build momentum for him, no wonder former high-level executives like Xiao Sheng feel incredible.

"The long roar is full of clouds and winds, and the hero is in the Crystal Palace. With madness and courage, Rio Tinto Heavenly Palace was alarmed. The white bone spirit and the bull demon proudly and deliberately played tricks. How can the spider spirit work?"

was about to reply to him, when suddenly there was a burst of melodious music next to him, which was the Cantonese version of the theme song "Monkey King" sung by Leslie Cheung for the "Journey to the West" introduced by ATV.

"The commercial time is over, the second episode is about to begin"

There is no need for Zheng Danrui to remind him, Lin Xiaozhi also knows that the second episode has begun. The main station room is the main office hall of ATV's technical statistics and backstage program planning, and also has a TV set for synchronous program playback for observation. His eyes remained motionless as he stared at "Journey to the West", which had already begun to broadcast the second episode, and suddenly said, "Let the technical side keep an eye on it, and give me a copy of the latest ratings statistics within five minutes."

"I'll arrange it," Zheng Danrui called a technician and whispered.

Lin Xiaozhi turned his head at this time, looked at Xiao Sheng and asked, "I remember that after the translation was completed before, there was a trial held internally, what does Director Xiao think of this TV series."

"I'm ashamed to say that I used to look down on the big 6 TV people very much, and I always felt that they didn't make any TV series at all except for military war movies and great man dramas that sang praises of virtue. This "Journey to the West" has taught me a lesson, and there are still good actors and TV producers in Big 6."

can make him, an arrogant local TV person in Hong Kong, say such things, which shows that "Journey to the West" has shocked him, and directly changed his views on the entire big 6 TV industry.

In Hong Kong, "Journey to the West" has always been a problem for TV and filmmakers. I want to shoot but don't dare to shoot it, because past history and attempts have proved that this is a subject that is very well-known to the public, but it is difficult to shoot well.

Hong Kong has been around for decades since the emergence of TV stations, and because the filming is not low, the three TV stations of H ATV and Jiayi TV, which has become history, have never filmed a TV series version of "Journey to the West".

But this does not mean that there has never been a work about it in Hong Kong, on the contrary, Hong Kong filmmakers have repeatedly tried to put this most famous mythological novel theme in ancient China on the screen, the most famous of which is the five-part series of "Journey to the West", "Iron Fan Princess", "Pansi Cave", "Daughter Country" and "Red Child" invested and filmed by Shaw Brothers in the sixties and seventies. Coincidentally, the person who played Tang Seng in these movies was the most famous Hong Kong Fengyue film director who had worked with Lin Xiaozhi - He Fan.

Although many "Journey to the West" series of movies were born in Hong Kong, the box office is honestly speaking, except for "Iron Fan Princess" starring Zheng Peipei and another "Daughter Country", which are barely brilliant, dozens of other films have average box office and word-of-mouth.

Hong Kong people like to play love triangles on TV and movies, and they can often see the male number one, the male number two, and even the male number three like the female number one at the same time. They didn't even let go of "Journey to the West", in the old movies that were filmed in the past, Sun Wukong was set to have an affair with his sister-in-law Princess Tiefan, Sun Wukong didn't play with a stick and played with swords, Zhu Bajie was as thin as a monkey and even just wore a pig's face mask, Tang Sanzang and Guanyin Bodhisattva couldn't explain everything, etc.

These strange and utilitarian settings, coupled with the technology, can't shoot the special effects of the gods and demons fighting in "Journey to the West", and the director has never been able to shoot a classic work that can perfectly interpret "Journey to the West".

Last year, the big director Zhang Che was inevitably vulgar, and seemed to want to try how deep his directing skills were, so he pulled some investment and co-produced a "Westbound Flat Demon" with Big 6, and made a Monkey King who didn't grow hair. When the film was finally ready to run, it was rejected by many large theaters due to its poor reputation, and in the end it could only be shown in Yindu and some private theaters for a few days, and the box office made Zhang Che ashamed and planned to completely quit the film industry and stop making movies.

Come to think of it, the local box office of a movie is only more than 80,000 Hong Kong dollars, even in the 60s, it can no longer hit the streets, not to mention that in recent years, Hong Kong's standard for measuring blockbusters has been mentioned to more than 20 or 30 million.

has looked at the Hong Kong version of "Journey to the West" movies, and there is really no movie that can say that it has captured a bit of the charm of "Journey to the West". It seems that mythological and fantasy works such as "Journey to the West" have a very good market in Hong Kong, not only for the elderly, but also for children.

So it's not difficult to imagine what kind of effect a work as carefully filmed by Big 6 as the Ru version of "Journey to the West" will have after landing in 6 Hong Kong, which is why he handed over the responsibility of introducing the TV series broadcast after ATV's reorganization to it.

can make Xiao Sheng change his mind like this, he is naturally happy in his heart. After all, in the future, ATV is ready to cooperate closely with the big 6 before, and it is indispensable to deal with the peers over there.

Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly heard Xiao Sheng's tone change and said: "But Lin Sheng, I heard that you are going to make ATV's prime TV series broadcast two episodes in a row every day from now on, and it will be the same on Saturdays and weekends." Will this arrangement affect the normal operation of the TV station? ”

As soon as he opened his mouth, Lin Xiaozhi relieved the doubts in his heart.

You must know that although Xiao Sheng is the production director of ATV, he is responsible for the release arrangement of the imported TV series and is in charge of him. It was a strange thing for him to appear on the TV station at such a late hour, when he should have come home from a day's work. As soon as he saw him coming just now, Lin Xiaozhi felt in his heart that he must have something. As soon as I heard him open his mouth, I didn't understand that he was the reason why he came to ATV today, and it was clearly for himself.

Unlike some countries and regions that broadcast several episodes of TV dramas a day, although the TV stations in Hong Kong have long followed the example of overseas and divided the broadcast time slots of many TV dramas such as teacher milk files, afternoon tea files, prime time files, and midnight files, most of the time periods are variety shows and news programs, and the occasional TV series are mostly rebroadcasts of old dramas. The latest filming and purchased TV series are mostly arranged in the prime time of the evening, and one episode is released a day.

The general TV series are based on episodes, and they were broadcast in just 4 weeks. Only some TV dramas with very high ratings will be extended to be broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays. (On Saturdays and weekends, variety shows and financial programs will be broadcast, and TV dramas will not be broadcast)

ATV has always been like this, and even the leader of Hong Kong's television industry, H, only appeared in two episodes in the early years, and the system was soon terminated.

There are many reasons for this, and one of the main reasons is that the film library is not full and cannot keep up with such frequent playbacks.

In the past, there were only two TV stations in Hong Kong, and now even if you add the Asia Satellite TV Station, which has begun to put into trial operation, and the Wharf TV, which has not yet been commissioned, there are only four.

The market is too narrow, and the market share of the two ATVs is no different from the monopoly, and only more than 100 TV dramas in Hong Kong can finally meet the audience every year, except for a few imported films, and some of them are rebroadcast TV dramas that have been screened in previous years. The remaining dozens of films are newly filmed by the two TV stations of TV Yin and ATV, which are far lower than other countries and regions in Europe and even Asia.

It is not surprising that this situation will occur, on the one hand, the two major TV stations have monopolized the release channels, and they each have their own TV drama production teams, so they naturally try their best to squeeze the living space of professional TV drama production companies, and over time they are also used to this feeling of monopolizing the market, and they only stubbornly adhere to their own one-third of an acre, and they don't think about how to make it bigger.

At the same time, the film industry in Hong Kong is more developed than the TV drama industry, and the rate of return is much higher than that of TV dramas. Under the influence of the other, TV people in Hong Kong are naturally more willing to make movies instead of making TV dramas.

As a result, the two TV stations only relied on their own shooting, and the cap of a year only produced twenty or thirty TV series and hundreds of episodes, which naturally could not support the continuous broadcast system. If you really want to broadcast TV dramas in several time periods a day, the two major TV stations need to shoot and introduce at least two or three hundred TV dramas every year, and the cost alone will not be less than one billion Hong Kong dollars. By analogy, RR's annual investment in TV drama filming was only HK$93 million, and ATV's expenditure in this area last year was just over HK$70 million. Therefore, the continuous broadcast system can be described as a double-edged sword for ATV, and if it is not done well, it will hurt others and hurt itself.

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