Hearing the words of his assistant director, Song Ideal at this time was indeed full of question marks.

What's the situation, just a simple release of the news, in just a few days, the three major local TV stations, as well as Penguin, Kiwifruit, Tudou and G station four websites have come to talk about copyright.

Even if Song Ideal is a super-first-line director, this is the first time he has encountered such treatment.

In general, isn't it the buyer who is the uncle?

Soon Song Ideal understood that the reason why the copyright was so popular this time was probably because of Xu Ji.

In order to sell the copyright better, he naturally brought Xu Ji as the screenwriter, and at the same time, this drama is the news that the original cast of "Soldier Assault" starred.

I didn't expect the final effect to be so good.

"By the way, Director Song, almost everyone asked us when we could come and try out the finished film."

Song Ideal could only show a helpless expression when he heard it.

He originally thought that it would be better to talk about copyright in advance than to talk about it later.

It can also save the time for the final launch of this drama or something.

It's just that I didn't expect the copyright matter to go so smoothly, and almost all platforms are interested in his new drama.

As a result, the post-production has not yet begun, and it is estimated that the TV station and video platform will probably think they are playing tricks when they hear the news.

However, Song Ideal was relieved at this time.

At least this "My Leader, My Group" doesn't have to worry about the fact that the copyright can't be sold.

And looking at the situation at this time, the royalty can even rise a lot as he expected.

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Even Chi Jiang actually didn't expect that Xu Ji would cooperate with Song Ideal in a new drama.

even used the original cast of "Soldier Assault".

This is indeed not a violation of the original contract with Station G.

But the copyright G station of this drama is obviously not so simple if you want to get it.

After all, the news released by Song Ideal is not only known to Station G, but also to other families to know the existence of this new drama written by Xu Ji.

In fact, although Song Ideal is a super-first-line director, he has hit the street quite a lot in recent years.

Many people, including Chi Jiang, don't trust him very much.

But if the script is written by Xu Ji, and it is still the original version of the hit drama "Soldier Assault", the subject matter is almost the same.

It's not just station G that's obviously interested.

Even the penguins, who have never officially cooperated with Xu Ji once, are a little nervous.

It's just that soon news came from Song Ideal's side that the show is still in post-production, and it is estimated that it will take some time to see the finished film.

At present, no one can fully trust how this show is and whether it can become a hit.

Therefore, the matter of copyright has to be put after the preview of the finished film.

At present, the most important thing is the upcoming August.

It's going to be a tough battle for everyone.

Chi Jiang's goal this time is very simple, that is, relying on "Chess Soul" to stop the current signs of declining members.

If this continues, the number of paid members of station G will return to below 100 million again.

This is obviously not what the top management of Station G wants to see.

During this time, he also continued to put pressure on Chi Jiang.

The news of Chi Jiang's private decision to stand in line with Tongji Entertainment last time has not been spread yet, otherwise he will definitely be held accountable.

The higher-ups will certainly not be willing to exchange Xu Ji for all other copyright resources.

In addition to the dramas of Tongji Entertainment, there seems to be no other decent producer that can cooperate with the current G station.

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In this way, it soon ushered in the time for the launch of "Chess Soul" in August.

This time, penguins, kiwi fruits and potatoes have no head iron, and their main drama this season did not choose to start broadcasting on the same day as "Chess Soul" on Station G.

Instead, it was almost all postponed by a day or two.

The main dramas of the four are about the same time, and almost all of them are launched in the same week.

Station G is officially launched on Wednesday.

Two episodes are updated daily.

Kiwi chose Friday, and Penguin chose Saturday.

Tudou Video chose to start broadcasting on Monday.

It seems that naturally the G station and the potato video are at a loss.

After all, weekend updates are certainly the best option.

But because "Chess Soul" needs to unify the time with the official TV station this time.

So there is nothing that can be done at the G station.

The drama "Chess Soul" has a total of 36 episodes, which should be regarded as a relatively conventional large-scale TV series in length, which just meets the standards for broadcasting on TV stations.

Originally, it was also planned to be sold to TV stations for star broadcasting.

Now that the official side has taken over, it is generally in line with the initial expectations.

In addition, "Chess Soul" has the advantage of being the first to be launched among several August main dramas.

The process was very smooth, and no one deliberately made small moves to create black material or anything.

The official background is still somewhat useful.

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In fact, Song Junhua was not very interested in this "Chess Soul" this time, and even instinctively disgusted it.

He didn't expect that someone would take the initiative to shoot a drama with the theme of Go.

Because he was forced by his family to learn chess, he eventually gave up, and now he is a college student studying civil engineering.

But Song Junhua actually doesn't have much good memories of that period of history.

If it weren't for Xu Ji being a screenwriter, Song Junhua might not even consider watching this drama.

Even if Xu Ji is not a screenwriter, he, like those Go lovers, thinks that the drama with the theme of Go will be filmed by these people in the film and television industry, and it will be very amateur.

After all, these people have no idea how difficult and difficult this road is for many people who have been playing chess since elementary school.

But the screenwriter is Xu Ji, and it seems that this drama has invited some authoritative chess players from the Go Association to be consultants, and Song Junhua feels that it is quite like that.

Mainly because of Xu Ji, from Xu Ji's debut to the present, he has watched every drama directed by the other party, even the screenwriter's drama.

That's why it's very tangled.

Today is the time for the premiere of "Chess Soul".

The roommate, who also stayed on campus during the holidays, also returned to the dormitory and said loudly:

"Huazi, today "Chess Soul" is on the air, don't you really watch it?"

The roommate is also a fan of Xu Ji.

In some previous dramas, such as fairy swords, and soldier assaults or something, the two of them would chase dramas together.

But this time Song Junhua's attitude is obviously different from before.

"Don't look."

"It's not interesting."

Song Junhua shook his head, opened an old foreign movie and watched it.

The roommate felt bored, so he turned on the computer by himself, ordered a takeout at the same time, and waited for the premiere of "Chess Soul" in the evening while swiping through the G station.

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By the evening, the other two people in the dormitory had also returned.

They didn't go home for the whole dormitory during the holidays, and chose to look for internships at companies near the school.

Of course, under the leadership of Song Junhua and his roommates before, although they were not fans of Xu Ji, every time a new drama came out, they would still watch it as soon as possible.

And although the theme of this "Chess Soul" is Go, which doesn't sound very interesting, the other two still sit together when they have nothing to do.

The roommate quickly clicked on the first episode of "Chess Soul" that had just been updated on station G.

Originally, a few people would think that the theme of Go should be a little boring to shoot.

But I didn't expect that after watching the first episode, I didn't find it boring.

On the contrary, because it seems to be a bit fantastical, I think it's quite interesting.

The soul of the ancient chess player Chu Ying, who lives on the chessboard, can only see each other when the protagonist is in time.

For more than a thousand years, it was to find the so-called "one of the gods", and with the help of Chu Ying, time, a child who was not interested in Go at all, seemed to suddenly open up and became a so-called genius.

Time participated in the competition just to win the runner-up, because the runner-up has a prize and can help him buy a four-wheel drive.

And the trophy of the champion seemed to him to be of little use.

And Chu Ying felt that the game was to win.

But he didn't expect that the so-called waiting until fifty hands to admit defeat was simply a lie to him, and the other party didn't last until fifty hands to admit defeat.

The runner-up kept crying when he received the award, saying that he couldn't even play a child after learning Go for 8 years, and he felt very uncomfortable watching him over time.

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The plot of the two episodes ended quickly.

And I don't know when, Song Junhua also sat next to his roommates.

"Huazi, aren't you not watching?"

The roommate quipped.

Song Junhua's expression was natural.

"It's nothing."

"And the first two episodes look too flat, I don't feel like this drama is at the level of screenwriter Xu Ji should have."

Hearing Song Junhua's evaluation, the other roommate nodded and agreed:

"I also think that although the setting feels a little novel, the theme of Go is still too niche."

"Who knows how to watch Go if they're fine?"

"In the play, time took Chu Ying to find a chess room, but he couldn't find it at all, this is the current situation of Go."

"This thing should have been phased out a long time ago."

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Before the roommate's words were finished, Song Junhua stood up very angrily.

"You know!"

Song Junhua's sudden anger made the other three feel a little inexplicable.

They don't know what kind of life Song Junhua spent when he was a child in order to become a professional chess player.

In the end, he was not able to succeed in the fixed section, so he could only start again and take the road of the college entrance examination.

And Zhou Yang, who won the Fengyun Cup championship not long ago, even studied with him in a Go dojo.

At that time, Song Junhua also won against the other party a few times.

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The data for the premiere of "Chess Soul" still looks pretty good.

The more than 10 million views in the first four hours on the first day can be regarded as a very gorgeous achievement.

But because the plot of the first two episodes still seems to be a little too flat, the discussion is not as high as expected.

This was within Chi Jiang's expectations.

As a person who has watched the whole drama of "Chess Soul", he actually knows that the later this drama goes, the more addictive the plot will be.

Being able to have such a start is already quite good in Chi Jiang's opinion.

Of course, on the official TV station, the premiere of "Chess Soul" also got a rating of 1.3.

Although it failed to compare with a costume drama on Red Square Channel, which is about to finale, it also won the runner-up in prime time.

However, the role of Chu Ying in "Chess Soul" made some Go lovers who were already chasing and scolding even more angry.

I feel that such a fantasy element is disrespectful to the sport of Go.

Of course, these sounds are only a small part.

For more ordinary audiences, it is Chu Ying's role that is the key to attracting them to continue watching.

It's not a documentary, if you really shoot a game in the whole process, and don't say whether ordinary viewers can understand it, but there are definitely not many people who can watch the whole process.

Overall, the performance of "Chess Soul" is quite good.

Even Kiwi and Penguin were a little glad that they avoided the launch of "Chess Soul" on the same day this time.

But Chi Jiang didn't have time to be happy for long, and the data of "Chess Soul" made him feel a little uncomfortable the next day.

There was a slight decline in the broadcast data in a single day.

In other words, many viewers chose to abandon the drama directly after watching the first two episodes.

Chi Jiang, who was accustomed to Xu Ji's drama going uphill before, never expected that "Chess Soul" would be such a performance.

The only thing that gave him some comfort was that the rating on Petal's online website got a high score of 8.1.

At least the word-of-mouth is quite good.

The follow-up can only look forward to relying on the quality and reputation of the plot to achieve a counterattack.

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But Chi Jiang's idea didn't last long, and he ushered in the start of the summer main dramas on the two platforms of Kiwi and Penguin.

Penguin's "Urban Weirdos" and Kiwifruit's "Military Domination" both performed very well.

Even relying on the advantages of the platform, the number of broadcasts has exceeded the data of the premiere of "Chess Soul".

The most important thing is that the themes of these two dramas are there, the audience is much larger than "Chess Soul", and the plot is highly discussed.

Although the playback data of the third day of the "Chess Soul" update increased because of Ji Yiyang's appearance, the impact of not updating on the weekend is still very great.

At present, Station G is no longer like when Fairy Sword was broadcast, which was able to completely crush the two platforms of Penguin and Kiwifruit.

It is precisely because of the appearance of Xu Ji that major film and television companies have begun to pay attention to the importance of scripts.

The treatment of screenwriters in the circle has also risen.

Although there are still criticisms in the plots of the two main dramas this time, they both belong to the kind of innocuous faults.

Although the score of "Chess Soul" is slightly higher, it is indeed the lowest in terms of popularity.

Until Monday, a campus drama of "Youth Like Water" on Tudou Video was broadcast, which surprised everyone very much, this time the cost of Tudou Video was even lower than that of "Chess Soul", and it became a dark horse in August.

The popularity is surprisingly high, and there is even a sense of déjà vu of "The Best of Us" when Xu Ji debuted.

The data of the premiere directly exceeded 50 million, and even the sum of the other three platforms.

In addition, because it is summer vacation now, the large number of student viewers has also become the advantage of this drama.

Chi Jiang didn't expect that when the start seemed so smooth, "Chess Soul" turned out to be the most nonexistent drama among the four new dramas in August.

originally thought that the idea of relying on word-of-mouth and the quality of the drama to counterattack in the future suddenly began to be less confident.

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