A TV series imported by ATV from Big 6 was unexpectedly broadcast in Hong Kong, which really attracted a lot of attention in the circle.

Hong Kong people's tastes are very tricky, although some Taiwanese TV dramas and Japanese TV dramas are imported every year, but most of them have mediocre ratings, far less popular than the two major TV stations that produce their own Zuò to meet the tastes of Hong Kong people. Although there are occasionally some introduced TV dramas with low ratings in Hong Kong, when it comes to social influence, it is obviously not as surprising as "Journey to the West", which is being filmed by ATV's popular Big 6 recently.

With all the media under ATV and Lin Xiaozhi repeatedly going into battle to build momentum, "Journey to the West" can be reported almost every day during the broadcast, and it is the focus every day. Although this kind of overwhelming bombing propaganda really aroused the disgust of some Hong Kong people who are tired of watching this kind of news, it is with the help of this overwhelming propaganda that the ratings of ATV and "Journey to the West" have risen steadily, and the average ratings have risen by the time they are screened before and after the episode. is only one step away from breaking the high ratings of 30 on average.

"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 worko"Hong Kong has been the song of the Cantonese version of "Journey to the West" theme song - "Monkey King".

ATV's opponent H, who has been paying attention to it, seems to have no action, which makes ATV jealous and at the same time does not forget to take advantage of this great opportunity.

"Journey to the West" is a hit in Hong Kong, and it is not only this TV series that is popular, but also several protagonists in the TV series. In particular, the mainland actor Liu Xiaolingtong, who plays the Monkey King, is widely loved by Hong Kong people who advocate heroism.

ATV naturally will not miss this opportunity, as early as the beginning of the TV series hit the TV series, it immediately contacted the big 6 side, and wanted to invite the main creative staff of the crew to go to Hong Kong to meet with fans, after getting Lin Xiaozhi's explanation, ATV not only promised to pay all the expenses such as food and accommodation for the main creative team of "Journey to the West" to come to Hong Kong, but also cooperated with ATV's program interview, and also paid a lot of salary here.

The big 6 side obviously has a supportive attitude towards this kind of contact that brings the two places closer to each other, and almost on the day that ATV's contact number was called, it got a positive reply from the big 6 side. Only two days later, except for Mr. Yan Huaili, who played Sha Seng, who couldn't leave, a group of 37 people from the original crew, including the director, producer, and main role actors, arrived in Beijing for the first round, and arrived in Hong Kong by plane a day later.

"Teachers, Hong Kong"

ATV arranged a special person to pick up the plane, on the one hand, there was Lin Xiaozhi's instructions in front, on the other hand, the recent hit of "Journey to the West" has indeed earned too much attention and ratings for ATV, so the few people in charge of approaching were very polite, although they were not fluent in Mandarin, but it also made the group on the side of the big 6 a little flattered. Because the big 6 TV and movie people had a lot of cooperation with Hong Kong earlier, the arrogance and contempt of Hong Kong people have spread in the big 6 TV and movie circle. Even if Lin Xiaozhi, his Media Asia and ATV have tried their best to reverse it in recent years, it is not possible to change the estrangement between the two places overnight.

However, ATV's attitude is kind, and naturally the two sides get along more harmoniously.

The main creative team of "Journey to the West" not only cooperated with ATV to shoot a number of exquisite posters, but also participated in fan meetings and cocktail parties and TV show interviews. Even the six-year-old boy who played the Monkey King also performed a wonderful monkey show in public, playing Zhu Bajie and Marshal Ma Dehua of Tianpeng also sang a Peking Opera, and even played a nine-tooth nail rake to the tiger, and Zuo Dajun, who played the role of Guanyin Bodhisattva, also sang a dramatic "Guanyin Bodhisattva Fish Basket Miscellaneous Play", which opened the eyes of Hong Kong people.

The versatility of the crew caused a sensation in Hong Kong for a while, so much so that even ATV originally only printed 3,000 copies of the celebrity poster of "Journey to the West" to be given away to fans for free, but in the end, more than 24,000 copies were sent out after three additional prints in just two and a half days. Not only has it received wide attention from all walks of life in Hong Kong, but even CCTV TV on the big 6 side gave a news report of more than 4o seconds in the news broadcast one night, which can be described as a great success.

Inviting the main creative team of "Journey to the West" to Hong Kong is naturally not just to promote the TV series. Among the people invited to Hong Kong was Yang Jie, the planner and director of "Journey to the West", who proposed to shoot "Journey to the West" in Hong Kong a few years ago, and in the case that all sectors of society were not optimistic, he used his influence in the big 6 TV industry and CCTV to finally promote the filming of the TV series.

Lin Xiaozhi invited her too, needless to say, she was naturally planning to participate in the filming of the sequel to "Journey to the West".

Ru's "Journey to the West" became popular all over the big 6 as soon as it was filmed, and CCTV and most of the big 6 local TV stations have relied on it to continue to rebroadcast for more than ten years, and they can also repeatedly get amazing ratings, which shows its charm.

However, only a few episodes are still too few for this TV series. Not only did the audience feel unsatisfied, but even the original drama production team had the same idea. Because it was filmed and broadcast at the same time, limited by the financial support that the crew could get, "Journey to the West" had to stop at the episode and give up many stories in the original book.

Yang Jie, the director of "Journey to the West" in the original history, also regretted this, because according to her original design, "Journey to the West" will be a medium-length series with no less than 50 episodes when filmed in its entirety. Although she has always wanted to get more investment, CCTV has taken advantage of the benefits but is reluctant to pay for it, even if she has the idea of making up for the sequel after the broadcast of "Journey to the West", it took more than ten years of running and lobbying to finally win a fund to shoot a short 16-episode sequel around the turn of the millennium.

Like the ministry, the sequel still adopts the mode of filming and broadcasting, but unfortunately after its release, because the audience's reputation is far less one-sided than the ministry, the ratings have not appeared as before, and the results have caused a lot of controversy The director was stopped after about half of the filming, and finally had to be pieced together by editing some of the clips filmed before, and barely came up with a sixteen-episode version.

For this 16-episode sequel, Lin Xiaozhi has always regretted it in the previous life. From the perspective of a TV worker, the actors of the next sixteen episodes of "Journey to the West Sequel" are not worse than the previous ones in terms of acting skills, lineup, and soundtrack quality, and because the funding is more abundant than before, there is a significant improvement in the fight scenes, special effects, film color, clarity and other aspects compared with the first 25 episodes.

The reason why the audience's word-of-mouth and ratings are far inferior to the former is simply because the audience's expectations from CCTV are too high. It was released in the Ru era, when American blockbusters and all kinds of massively introduced dramas, Hong Kong and Taiwan pirated movies had not yet flooded in the big 6 with the cheap D disc that only sold for a few dollars, and the audience naturally remembered it with few choices.

And when the sequel was released, it had been more than ten years since the front and back span, and the audience's vision was high, and it was inevitable to pick and choose, but it was a pity that it ruined a work that an older generation of TV workers wanted to shoot, which made people sigh.

In the previous life, Lin Xiaozhi had no ability to influence anything, but in this life, he had the ability to intervene.

Compared with the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in a TV series in later generations, the shooting cost in the 9o era was still relatively low. Filming a TV series with thirty or forty episodes in Hong Kong, if the investment of big-name stars gathers will exceed 10 million Hong Kong dollars, and the cost of martial arts dramas and police dramas is slightly higher. The big 6 is several times lower than Hong Kong in terms of artist salary and shooting cost, such as the 5O episode TV series "Desire", which was very popular in the big 6 two years ago, with a shooting investment of about 1.74 million yuan.

Investing in the filming of the sequel to "Journey to the West" will not cost him much money if the investment cost is based on the big 6. Even if only one novella of thirty or forty episodes is filmed, three or four million yuan should be enough, even if it is twice as much, Lin Xiaozhi is willing to do it.

However, he did not go out to discuss the co-production of the sequel, but asked Lejin, the president of ATV, to mention it to director Yang Jie at the reception of the banquet crew, which really attracted a positive response from the big 6 well-known female director and the crew. Almost on the spot, she happily told ATV that she would do her best to ask for instructions from the big 6 authorities, but with her influence in the big 6 TV industry, it shouldn't be difficult to continue the proposal for the filming, it's just a matter of time.

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