Chapter 1724: Bandits
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Compared with music and movies, A.P's influence in the field of TV dramas this year is unparalleled.
Since the beginning of the year, "The King of the House Tower" and "You Who Follow the Vine" have impacted the works of other companies.
If these two dramas weren't broadcast on different TV stations, it is estimated that they would be attacked by a group.
Not to mention the subsequent "Moon Embracing the Sun", which has a rating of up to 40%, which is the absolute king in today's era.
This drama not only made Han Jiaren's comeback perfect, but also made Kim so-hyun officially become a well-deserved emperor.
In other words, with the TV series he starred in, you don't have to worry about ratings and topics.
Half a year has passed, and the TV series produced by A.P Company has not stopped there. "A Gentleman's Character" dominates the terrestrial broadcaster, and "Please Answer 1997" creates the myth of the omnibus channel.
After a blank in South Korea last year, Ha Ji Won proved his strength with "A Gentleman's Character" after his return.
As the heroine, with her outstanding acting skills in the play, she jumped up and suppressed new and old actors such as Jang Dong-kun, Kim so-ro, Kim Min-jong, Lee Jong-hyuk, and Kim Woo-bin, becoming the most shining flower in the play.
Kim Woo-bin's supporting role in "A Gentleman's Character" has made the audience aware of his acting skills, but "Please Answer 1997" has made people realize that he has completely misestimated his potential before.
This is a piece of jade with unlimited potential, but it has been buried under Lee Min Ho, Kim so Hyun, Song Jong Ki, and Yu Seung Ho before, and it is not known.
In the plan for the second half of the year, Cui Zhengyuan still holds two divine dramas "Missing You" and "My Daughter Suying" in his hands.
It can be said that throughout this year, because Choi Jung-won does not have to go out to work, he can be regarded as calling for wind and rain in South Korea, sweeping all corners like a demon king.
It is worth mentioning. Originally, in the second half of this year, there would be a "Fashion King" starring Yu Li.
The company that produced the play has already sent the invitation to A.P., and Yu Li is looking forward to starting preparations.
As a result, before she had time to be happy enough, this trip was pushed off by Cui Zhengyuan.
What are you kidding, how could Choi Jung-won let his woman star in such a garbage TV series?
If you want ratings, there are no ratings, if you want topicality, there is no topicality, and if you want praise, there is no praise. It can be said that such a TV series that wants nothing and nothing, no one will have good results in it.
Yu Li didn't understand, so she had an awkward relationship with Cui Zhengyuan for this. It wasn't until Cui Zhengyuan promised to arrange better resources and roles for her that this girl turned into joy. Allow Choi Jung-won to go to bed.
It is said that this year is the year of A.P company's full flowering, and even variety shows are killing all sides, and they are invincible.
Needless to say, "Infinite Challenge" is HBC's leading program, a ratings elixir.
If you hear that this show is not the first in the ratings of the same time slot, then it is news.
Even the show's most die-hard fans often complain that the news of the next day's ratings comparison is meaningless.
Li Haoyu, the president of HBC, is much better than those politicians in MBC, at least he has extremely preferential treatment for the "Infinite Challenge" program team.
For the sake of "Infinite Challenge" winning the first place in advertising revenue of Korean variety shows for consecutive years, he fully supports the program team. Ask for money for money. Ask for someone to give. If there is a conflict in resources, other programs will also make way unconditionally.
So much so that other departments of the HBC Variety Show Bureau often have sour voices coming out, saying that if you work at this TV station, you will have no future if you are not in the "Infinite Challenge" program team.
For this reason, Li Haoyu is also very upset. I have already turned to Choi Jung-won for help.
He hopes that Cui Zhengyuan can show a little more between his fingers and help HBC's variety show to make another popular show, so as to alleviate the resentment of the staff.
Calculating the time, Cui Zhengyuan began to hit the head of "Where Are You Going, Dad".
Lately, though, he's got some things to deal with. It is expected that after October, this parent-child program can be promoted.
Although KBS's "Two Days and One Night" lost the first place in the ratings, it has always been stable at more than 18%. It can be regarded as a drought and flood to ensure harvest, and there is no need to worry about food and clothing.
KBS, such a bureaucratic television station, is already very satisfied with this. At the very least, all the generous advertising dollars went into their pockets, and they didn't think about innovation and reform.
In comparison, SBS's "Runnningman" is very popular, and it is so popular that everyone is blushing.
Now this show has broken out of South Korea, and its influence has spread all over Asia, and even has a good influence in the world.
And, as in previous lives, several powerful TV stations in China have come to the door to seek to buy the rights to "Runningman".
However, unlike in previous lives, SBS did not have overseas rights to the program, so these TV stations turned to A.P. for the head.
Originally, Choi Jung-won wanted to imitate the Korean model and also participate in the variety show production of Chinese TV.
But unfortunately, China's TV stations are much more wealthy than South Korean TV stations, and the system is also very strict.
As soon as he made this request, all those TV stations showed their intention to back down.
Cui Zhengyuan even sought help from China's cultural authorities, but to no avail.
Although China's upper echelons have a lot of power, they are also scratching their heads about this kind of moving subordinate cheese, and they don't want to offend the public.
Seeing that he was unable to do anything, Cui Zhengyuan had no choice but to give up. Instead, the copyright of "Runniang" was sold to Zhejiang TV station at a sky-high price.
However, he is such a cautious person, and he will not be so easy to comply. When Zhejiang Provincial TV asked A.P Company to send technicians to assist in filming, he simply refused.
He is not as short-sighted as those Korean TV stations in his previous life, and he will not do this obvious practice of teaching apprentices and starving masters to death.
Even when Zhejiang Province raised the price of Korean workers by five times, he refused to agree.
Unless Zhejiang Provincial TV is open to cooperation, there is no need to talk about it.
The problem is that Zhejiang Provincial TV will never give up its own interests, so the two sides are not reconciled at all, so they have to go on like this.
For this reason, Zhejiang Provincial TV even resorted to a trick, wanting to pry people from the "Runningman" program team at a high price. Whether it's a PD, a writer, or a VJ, in short, anyone who comes doesn't refuse.
For this behavior, Cui Zhengyuan is also very simple. directly issued a kill order, and he told those staff very clearly that if anyone dares to change jobs to help China TV work, then the whole family will not have to think about living in South Korea in the future.
Although those people also want to make more money, it is obviously more important than the safety of their lives.
Cui Zhengyuan used this fascist method to forcefully stop the poaching behavior of Chinese TV stations.
Of course, he is not blindly tough, and he will still use the soft policy that should be used. After all, now in South Korea, because of the rise of comprehensive editing channels, major ground broadcasts have long been dug up with holes, and everyone is in danger.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Cui Zhengyuan put forward conditions to the four major broadcasts, and appropriately increased the salary of all the staff in front of and behind the scenes.
For example, Kim Tae-ho's PD of "Infinite Challenge" was originally about 800 million won a year. This time, Cui Zhengyuan personally made the decision and raised it to 1.5 billion.
Cho Hyo-jin's salary also reached 900 million won, second only to Na Young-seok's 1.2 billion won.
In terms of artists, Yoo Jae-seok's salary in "Infinite Challenge" is 12 million won per episode. Although he was already higher than him in his previous life, Cui Zhengyuan naturally would not treat his descendants badly, and he was stunned to raise it to fifteen million.
Although this salary cannot be compared with those who engage in variety shows in China, in short, it is already unique in South Korea.
And Yoo Jae-seok is not just promoting a program "Infinite Challenge", the four programs he currently has are comprehensively improved, and he is also the first person worthy of the name in the Korean entertainment industry in terms of salary.
The variety shows broadcast on the ground are very good, let alone the variety channels. With the new force, the reason why there are fewer shackles and constraints on creativity has shown good strength from the beginning.
Due to Choi Jung-won's interference, it was not TVN that took the lead in making achievements in variety shows, but JTBC.
Since its launch, "Non-summit Talks" has been strongly liked by the audience. After deliberately reducing the content of controversial topics, the show rushed out of South Korea faster than in previous lives, and it had an effect in Asia.
Compared with "Non-Summit Talks", which made Cui Zhengyuan worry a lot, another JTBC program showed a new trend of future variety shows without him paying attention.
Strictly speaking, it is actually Luo Yingshi who really started the trend of Korean variety shows. Since his "Two Days and One Night", a variety of edging dishes have been popular.
Later, "Starking", "Runningman", and "Infinite Challenge" all dabbled in the culinary genre to a greater or lesser extent, and the explosion of various popular culinary chefs finally ushered in the trend of cooking.
And "Please Refrigerator" is actually the beneficiary and integrator of this trend, and has taken the creativity of this type of program to the extreme.
But now the situation is completely reversed, with the intervention of Cui Zhengyuan, "Please Refrigerator" became a pioneer and became a hit as soon as it appeared.
Looking at the ratings of at least three percent of each episode of this show, Cui Zhengyuan couldn't stop laughing.
But his good mood didn't last long, and was soon broken by a phone call from Julie. And the content of Ju Li's report has something to do with this show.
What is the specific reason, that is, the program team of "Please Refrigerator" headed by Zheng Hengdun actually started to act as a robber and attacked the refrigerator in his house. (To be continued......)