The announcement of an alliance between Touli and TVB is undoubtedly the most shocking news for Hong Kong people, and it is even more surprising than Jiayi's announcement of an alliance with three other TV stations more than a month ago. After all, the few TV stations that have formed an alliance with Jiayi TV are all from other places, and they have little to do with the lives of Hong Kong people themselves.

But the two TV stations are different, they are local TV stations in Hong Kong, and the audience of the two TV stations together is almost the entire TV audience in Hong Kong, which is a major event related to the citizens of Hong Kong, and it has caused a crazy onlooker of Hong Kong citizens for a while.

And "Phantom of the East" magazine, which has exclusive inside information, soon published a special issue, which reported in great detail on the events before and after the alliance. As a result, with this exclusive inside information, "Phantom of the East" magazine sold 80,000 copies, setting the highest sales record, and also made the "Daily Daily" make a small profit.

And Xu Guanwu's method of making money also makes Li's TV station envious, they also have this exclusive news, but unfortunately they don't have their own magazine. And after the alliance, they can't transfer this exclusive information to other newspapers and magazines, so it can be said that they have treasures in their hands but can't sell them at a price, which really makes Li's group envious, jealous and hateful.

It's just that the heart is weak, and the magazine is not so easy to run, like the magazine "Phantom of the East", which has been lost for more than a year, and now it is finally breaking even, how can ordinary people have the patience to persevere. Not to mention patience alone, you also need to have enough money to burn.

Lidi and TVB formed an alliance and agreed to co-produce a TV series with the two TV stations in the future. The script of the TV series is jointly selected by the two companies, and the actors, directors, crew members, etc. are jointly agreed. After the filming of the TV series is completed, the two companies bid for the premiere rights, and the unsuccessful TV station will use half of the funds from the previous bid price to obtain the replay rights of the TV series in the following three months. All the copyright income obtained, excluding the cost, is distributed according to the proportion of investment.

This alliance is actually equivalent to the establishment of a TV drama production company in disguise, but this TV drama production company is jointly owned by the two TV stations of Wireless and Li. And the production of the TV series is also a joint effort between the two companies. Although there may be a lot of competition, it has finally opened up a new path of cooperation for the Hong Kong television industry.

After Li's alliance with wireless, the shooting cost of the TV series will be greatly reduced, even less than that of Jiayi TV. And such an alliance is tantamount to forming an alliance of interests. Exclude Jiayi TV. And during the alliance. Both Wireless and Lidi agreed not to dig each other's corners, let alone rob each other's advertisers. In addition, regarding the promotion of TV dramas, the two TV stations will also work together. They won't stumble on each other and cause damage.

Although wireless and Li's are not yet able to achieve benefit sharing, the alliance of interests formed by the two TV stations has also put a lot of pressure on Jiayi TV. Whether it is in terms of ratings, influence, or even advertisers, it is difficult for Jiayi TV to compete with Wireless and Li at the same time.

Another of the four major alliances formed by Jiayi TV stations, the other three are not local TV stations in Hong Kong, so when they shoot TV dramas together, in addition to filming martial arts TV dramas that are popular across the Taiwan Strait, urban dramas that are closer to life are not suitable for filming.

Just like Xu Guanwen's ghost horse comedy, it also has geographical limitations, and it can only achieve a high box office in Hong Kong, but it is not as good as Cheng Long's kung fu films in Nanyang, Wanwan and other places. Because Xu Guanwen's ghost horse comedy is rooted in Hong Kong, his movies reflect the lives of Hong Kong's low-level citizens, and the characters in the play also speak Hong Kong's secular slang, which makes Hong Kong audiences very intimate after listening to it, and they will laugh happily when they see it.

But like Nanyang, the audience on the other side of Wanwan doesn't understand the setting of these comedy burdens very well because of the differences in cultural life. It's as if it's not that the older generation has a hard time understanding "Wulin Gaiden", thinking that it's messing around and not knowing what to do. In fact, the audience in Wanwan and Nanyang watching Xu Guanwen's ghost horse comedy sometimes has that kind of embarrassment.

In the same way, if you shoot short stories about the parents of Hong Kong citizens, the audience in Wanwan and Nanyang may not have a sense of substitution, and if you shoot Wanwan, the parents of the people in Nanyang may not have a sense of substitution. If you don't have a sense of substitution, it's hard to arouse the audience's interest. It's like if some rural TV dramas in the mainland are broadcast on Hong Kong TV, I'm afraid that the ratings may not be very ideal.

Therefore, the restrictions on the subject matter of TV dramas are a cover door for the four major alliances. But for the alliance formed by Leigh and Wireless, this cover door does not exist. Because both TV stations are in Hong Kong, it is possible to shoot urban TV dramas, and it is also possible to shoot short films of Hong Kong citizens' parents, and soap operas like this are the favorite of housewives.

In addition to the local actors in Hong Kong, Hong Kong people are still more familiar with them, such as Malaysian actors, Singapore actors, and Wanwan actors, Hong Kong citizens are not recognized, so relying on the appeal of stars to attract audiences, this trick is not so easy to use.

And the alliance of wireless and Li, the actors are all from these two TV stations, and they are all local actors in Hong Kong, so they naturally look much more pleasing to the eye. Moreover, the locals will also have a local complex when they see the locals, and it is easier to love them. And actors like Malaysia, Singapore, and Wanwan, it would be good if they could recognize them all, who can remember their names?!

It's like the mainland introduced a lot of Wanwan and Singapore TV series in the 80s and 90s, but except for some more well-known actors, it would be good for others to have familiar faces at most, and they can't compare to the mainland's own actors.

You have a good plan, I have a wall ladder. Boss Shao can think of sharing the cost by forming an alliance, so that Jiayi TV can continue to maintain. Li's TV station also adopted the method of alliance, and unexpectedly was willing to make peace with his old rival, which was really Han Zhang Lianggan's humiliation under his crotch.

Leigh's alliance with Wireless broke Sir Shao's layout and made him very angry. Jiayi's countermeasure was to file a lawsuit, accusing Li's alliance with Wireless of being suspected of monopoly, and asking the Broadcasting Commission to arbitrate that their alliance was illegal. Wireless and Li's brazen response also appealed to the Broadcasting Commission, accusing Jiayi's alliance of monopolizing the TV drama takeaway market, and their alliance should be ruled illegal, and Jiayi must not interfere with Li's and Wireless's takeaway copyright matters for any reason.

The two sides exchanged verbal arguments at the Broadcasting Committee, with one side asking members of the Legislative Council to speak and the other asking the Governor of Hong Kong to step in. Soldiers are coming. The water came to cover up, and the mouth cannon was fought for more than half a month without results, and the last one could only withdraw in a daze.

After forming the alliance, Lidi and TVB began to produce the first co-production TV series. Executive produced by Mak Dang Hung of Leigh. "Crocodile Tears" written by Xiao Ruoyuan. "Crocodile Tears" is about a man who is originally well-behaved. A good person with a good temperament, after experiencing all kinds of setbacks and tribulations, finally began to transform and degenerate into a bad person. And all kinds of intrigues and tricks, struggling to climb the story.

This kind of TV series is more popular in Hong Kong, and both TVB and ATV have been rich in this kind of TV series, such as "Silver Fox" starring Huang Rihua, "I am Kind" starring Wen Zhaolun and so on.

And these TV series have all achieved high ratings without exception, the reason is that this kind of bridge is more dramatic, a good guy degenerates into a bad guy, and the huge contrast caused by his personality can create many dramatic conflicts, so that the plot can discount people's heartstrings in waves.

Moreover, it took less than 20 years for Hong Kong to transform from an agrarian society to a commercial society, and the huge changes brought about by society have left ordinary people a little overwhelmed. The competitive pressure in society has increased suddenly, which has caught many people off guard for a while. In this great wave of social change, some people are good at taking shortcuts to make a fortune quickly, but more people are losing the competition in this change.

Therefore, there is a kind of society that resents these people who take shortcuts to make a fortune, thinking that they will be punished sooner or later; On the other hand, I have some envy for their cleverness, and fantasize that it would be nice if I had this kind of luck and cleverness. These two seemingly contradictory ideas are actually the result of the collision between agricultural civilization and industrial civilization.

In the era of agricultural civilization, farmers only need to compete with themselves, as long as they produce more grain in their fields, it is enough for the family to eat and drink. And if there is not much competition with the people around you, there will be few natural conflicts of interest, so a relatively good relationship will be formed, and there is a saying that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors.

In the era of industrial civilization, workers did not know how to compete with themselves, but also with their own workers. Several people grab a job, and if you don't do better than others, you will always face the fate of being eliminated. As a result, the pressure of competition increases rapidly, and with competition and conflict of interest, even if it is likely that they were good friends before, they will betray in front of interests. What's more, it's a stranger you don't know in the first place, and the competition is even more life-and-death.

Hong Kong has just transformed from an agricultural society to an industrial society, so people originally believed in agricultural civilization, and what they liked was also the heroes of agricultural civilization. But now it has suddenly transformed into an industrial society, and the industrial civilization is much more cruel, and people no longer naively believe that there will be heroes to eliminate violence and peace, and the heroes they like have changed from Guo Jing, Yang Guo, the kind of chivalrous man, for the country and the people, to like the kind of "Five Lucky Stars" with a little clever, good steel, egoistic civilian characters, or like King Kong in "Best Partner", although there is kung fu, but will not rob the rich and help the poor, but grab the money to spend for themselves, romantic and good antiheroes.

And TV series like "Crocodile Tears", "Silver Fox", "I am Kind" and other TV series are actually a kind of unconventional TV series. According to traditional Chinese values, good people must be rewarded, and evil people will be rewarded. The general storyline is that good people work hard, are optimistic and studious, and finally succeed through various setbacks, and are unanimously praised by people, and live happily ever after. And the wicked are all deceived by the good and afraid of the evil, the evil is many, and the people and gods are angry, although they will achieve something at the beginning, but in the end they will be ruined and spurned by everyone.

There are many stories like this in classical Chinese literature, opera, storytelling, and lyrics, which reflect the traditional values of the Chinese.

And things like "Crocodile Tears" and "Silver Fox" are not quite in line with this traditional value, or it is not quite the same as the traditional narrative technique, it is to expose the ugly side to make people understand from it. It's like "Golden Vase Berry" written by Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng. Those who read "The Golden Vase Berry" and have compassion are also bodhisattvas; Those who are afraid are also gentlemen; Those who give birth to joyful hearts are also villains; Those who take effect on the Dharma heart are the ears of beasts!

There are so many interpretations of a book, and "Crocodile Tears", "Silver Fox", etc., are naturally different from each other, some people may be alert, and some people may follow suit, no matter what they will be, anyway, the TV station has gained an audience because of this, and it is true that it has earned money. (To be continued......)