Investigating the BT TV station that came out of nowhere is not difficult for Jamie Crosby, a veteran industry insider.

And the industry is basically transparent, as long as you have the heart, the general situation of any TV station can be known.

It took him more than half an hour to flip through the final page of the survey on BT, which revealed that BT's latest activity was to work with Marvel Animation Productions, a subsidiary of New World Pictures, to launch a cartoon designed to appeal to a black teenage male audience.

According to the information, this cartoon is adapted from Marvel Comics, a comic "Black Panther: Jungle Action", which sold very poorly in the seventies.

In addition to the cartoon, the agency also has a large number of television shows that have been completed or in production, including a black version of The Godfather's "NiggerBoss," a crime comedy about a black single mother who takes a risk to raise her own children, a race to the Los Angeles Rams, and a series of reality variety shows that are similar to FOX but have lower moral standards.

Looking at the row of BT TV's list of self-made variety shows, Jamie Crosby, who has been in the TV industry for many years, couldn't help but exclaim "Wow".

"Looking for Daddy America", a family search show, helps black single mothers who want to find stable meal tickets, and find husbands who don't see anyone after they go to school.

"The Almighty Gun King", a popular science program, teaches you how to live frugally, such as buying the cheapest gun from the perspective of saving money, and then through various transformation methods, so that it can be super played, making it more practical and effective.

"Mothers of My Children", an emotional reality show, mainly tells the luxurious life of a rich man and his wives or mistresses.

"The Strongest Pregnancy Makeup King", a reality show that claims to focus on the group of pregnant women, the women participating in the show are all single pregnant women, they will cover up their pregnant and erect bellies with the help of the program team, talk to Kaizi, deceive each other into going to bed and register marriage, and successfully help the cubs in the belly find long-term meal tickets with themselves, and they can receive a bonus of up to 100,000 yuan from the show.

"Big Brother Is Watching You" is a show that satisfies voyeurism and allows viewers to play the role of God for those participants.

"Who Wants to Marry a Rich Man", fifteen gold worshippers compete for a diamond king, in addition to not being injured by force, they can use any means, in short, the purpose is to destroy the image of other women in the minds of men, let themselves laugh to the end, put on a wedding dress and hand it to each other.

In "Wife Swap Game", two families exchange hostesses with each other, and two women want to be called mother by children who have never met before in a completely strange family, and dear by men who have never met before, and start a new family life with these strange faces.

In Jamie Crosby's view, these programs are obviously aimed at gathering low-level black audiences, and the purpose is roughly similar to FOX, and now the three major TV networks in the United States are all deploying cable TV, taking paid subscriptions as the new trend, putting more and more wonderful programs on paid channels for viewers to pay to watch.

But in fact, a large number of low-income groups such as blacks and Latinos are still watching free TV networks because they feel that it is unacceptable to pay for a subscription to watch TV.

FOX conducted a big price survey before it started, and the data obtained was that 44% more blacks watch free-air TV than non-blacks, and most of them are blacks at the bottom.

This is also the reason why FOX continues to launch programs that are more vigorous than the free programs of the three major television stations, such as "America's Most Wanted Criminal" and "Temptation", if it were not for the Republican Party, plus the Republican Party has just relied on the Republican Party to solve some obstacles to entering the television industry, and it is inconvenient to go against the ruling party, FOX has long been by attacking the Republican administration's various racial abuses to attract and show favor to more black people.

"Tommy Hawk, Tommy Hawk ......" Jamie looked at the name of Tommy, the boss behind BT TV, and fell into deep thought.

A young man who graduated from Stanford with a major in computer science and became famous in the software industry did not devote himself to the sunrise industry, but came to this TV circle that had already become a sea of blood to start a business.

And before it started broadcasting, there were so many self-made programs in reserve?

You know, even if it's a large TV network, they won't take such a high risk, they will choose to set up a project, contact six to eight advertisers, make sure those advertisers are willing to pay to help them bear the cost, and they don't need to spend their own money before they officially enter the production process.

"Who the hell is this guy?"

And apart from self-produced programs, this information shows that nothing is known about BT's television network, except that BT TV has no record of any independent TV station building the backbone of the TV network.

When Jamie saw this, he also specifically asked the secretary if he made a mistake, how could such an important issue be omitted with such a big pen, if a TV network wants to gain a firm foothold, it must have its own TV station.

For example, FOX directly bought six TV stations as flagship TV stations, supplemented by other partner TV stations, so that viewers in most parts of the United States can watch FOX programs.

If you just fill your own TV network with cooperative TV stations......

"I don't think it's possible that this Tommy Hawk is an idiot as a young talent, because that's like a bunch of leeches sucking blood on top of him."

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While there is speculation behind his back whether he is an idiot or not, Tommy is being asked to see him.

is a young black director who once had a relationship, Spike Lee.

Being young is only for other directors, in fact, Spike Lee is five years older than Tommy.

However, in front of the banknote, Spike-Lee could only bow his head and silently accept the words of Tommy, a potential investor younger than him, who praised him for his youth and promisingness, although he understood that the other party had no malicious intentions, but Spike-Lee always felt that this kind of praise for being young and promising came out of Tommy's mouth, full of irony.

Tommy Hawke, who is younger than himself, lives in a mansion in the North End of Beverly Hills, has a net worth of hundreds of millions, and his self, who is five years older than him and praised by him as young and promising, came to the door for help for the budget of the new movie with a budget of three million costs.

In fact, Tommy's praise of Spike Lee does not have any irony, in his opinion, this young black director is actually really young, as early as the age of twenty-two just graduated from college, he started his own film company, but the name is a little strange, called forty acres of land and a mule.

The so-called forty acres of land and a mule is a military order during the American Civil War, which refers to William Sherman, commander-in-chief of the United States of the Northern States, for those black slaves who fled to the north to gain freedom, if they are willing to join the army to participate in the war, then his family can get forty acres of land, and those who are disabled and lose labor force on the battlefield can also get an additional retired mule for land reclamation.

Spike Lee used the company name to remind himself that he should never forget what happened to black people on the road to the movies.

Hell with a company name like this, he's able to get investment in white-populated Hollywood, and most of the time, he even has to shoot commercials for various brands to keep his company afloat and make sure it doesn't close down.

In fact, his first film, "Sure to Win", which was released in June 1986, had a very bright box office, as high as 7 million.

For Hollywood's big productions, this box office figure is equivalent to a bad movie, but you should know that the total cost of the film is only 175,000 yuan, and Spike Lee spent several years shooting commercials to save enough budget and then shoot the film in 12 days.

This slogan "The tool grows on me, I want to sleep with whom" through the black heroine, this film promotes feminism and feminism throughout the film, with its political correctness, bold story and beautiful composition, has received a lot of praise, and all the film critics who have seen the movie feel that Spike Lee will definitely become a well-known film director in the future and gain a place in Hollywood.

And the real Hollywood major film companies, after seeing the exaggerated revenue and expenditure ratio of the box office of "Sure Victory", are also busy holding real money and taking the initiative to seek cooperation from Spike Lee.

The black boy with glasses was flattered, and then seriously introduced the idea of his carefully prepared second film to the producers of Hollywood studios.

After listening to it, the film companies never contacted him again.

It's not that the movie budget numbers scare them away, in fact, the budget for the new film is not high, only six million, which is considered a small production in Hollywood, not to mention that Spike Lee Zhuyu is in front, the film companies are very willing to make a big bet with a small bet, and the other party can win the box office of 7 million at a cost of 170,000, if the cost is increased to 6 million, wouldn't it have a chance to break through at least 50 million at the box office?

What really scared off the film company was the script in Tommy's hand at this time.

It's called "Do What You Want," and there's a small line of print at the end: Inspired by the racist killings in Howard Beach, in memory of my dead black brother, Michael Griffini.

The Howard Beach incident, Tommy is no stranger, a vicious incident that occurred in '86.

Late at night, four black youths living in Brooklyn said they were going to drive to Queens to settle their paychecks, but their cars broke down on the way.

The young man who drove the car stayed, and the three companions, led by the deceased, went to the Howard Beach community to look for a payphone and wanted to call the towing company to help with the towing truck.

It's just that Howard Beach is a white community, and since entering the white people's territory, the three black people have been humiliated by the white drunks, prostitutes and other people roaming the streets, telling them to get out of their own territory, they looked for the phone to no avail, but in front of a pizza shop, they met a group of white young people with baseball bats and car wrenches in their hands, smiling at them.

The two companions were knocked to the ground and did not know whether they were alive or dead, and the deceased Michael, who was scarred but struggled to escape, only to be chased by the white youths in a panic, rushed onto a large road, and was hit and killed on the spot by a speeding car.

After the incident, the blacks said they just broke down to call the white community, and the whites said that no one went to collect their paychecks late at night, and that knives were found on the blacks, and that the four blacks were simply going to come to Howard Beach to rob the whites.

That's all there is to it, it sounds like a trivial matter of a black man who died, and if you replace those whites with blacks, there will definitely not be a ripple at all.

The main thing that caused a stir was that a group of white people killed a black man.

Subsequently, a black march broke out in New York, and countless black civil rights activists appeared like mushrooms after the rain, running thousands of miles to demonstrate at the scene of the incident, hoping to increase their influence and get those white murderers sentenced to death.

Not to be outdone, many whites also rushed to New York from all over the country to show solidarity with the murderers, holding slogans such as "come home", "white supremacy", and "return slavery to America", confronting the demonstrative blacks.

There have been several clashes between the two sides.

Even the white gangs and black gangs in New York exchanged fire after the incident, and both sides lost a few lives, but the police investigation said that it had nothing to do with the case, and tried to downplay this racial conflict, and did not let the incident continue to ferment around racial discrimination.

The reason why Tommy knew about the news in New York was not because he cared about black people, but because Daddy Colin talked about it on the phone.

Daddy had told him on the phone that his favorite good employee, Wilson, had gone to New York to participate in a demonstration, and Tommy found out about it.

Mr. Wilson had a relative who owned a local convenience store, and that relative frantically called his relatives and friends all over the country, inviting them to go to New York to show solidarity, calling for the innocence of whites and the killing of blacks as legitimate defense.

Mr. Wilson, as a model of low-level white people in Rhode Island, naturally will not shirk this kind of thing, what world? It's illegal to kill a? When Lao Tzu's ancestor killed the in Rhode Island to the point of almost extinction, comparable to an endangered animal, he never spent a day in prison.

Although Dad and the other co-workers had no intention of going to New York, they all agreed with Wilson's opinion, so they decided to take the initiative to pay Wilson's travel expenses to show their support for white New Yorkers.

The matter has not yet come to an end, but at present, among the white murderers, some have changed their age, been acquitted as minors, some have been diagnosed with mental illness, and even the prosecution has been dismissed by the court because the witness refused to cooperate.

Families of black deceased people are still struggling to appeal.

Now that both the federal government and the New York government are frantically trying to downplay the impact of this incident, and the black director wants to make it into a movie, it is no wonder that those studios have retreated.

The government won't trouble a black director, won't it trouble the studios?

"Mr. Hawke, I know about your past, you've been promoting women's employment, tech equality, including now, you're still following the black community, you want to provide them with favorite programs, and you've even helped Miss Vanessa Williams, you're a real friend, I mean really." Spike-Lee was speechless for a long time when he saw Tommy finish reading the script, thinking that the other party had the same concerns as those studios, so he said in a consoling tone:

"It doesn't matter if you reject me, I can understand your plight, because we all know that many people want this tragedy and the dead to be completely forgotten."

He and Tommy had a relationship before, when BT TV wanted to ask him to help direct the pilot episode of "NiggerBoss", and the two even sat down together to discuss the script and characters, but because he wanted to make a movie more, he turned down the opportunity to work together.

However, although the cooperation was not successful, Tommy impressed him as an amiable white young man, and from Vanessa's mouth, Spike-Lee knew that it was Tommy who gave her another chance.

"Why would I reject you? Spike? I'm just still reminiscing about the story. Tommy came back to his senses and looked at the director in front of him:

"You know what? I've talked to people before about my original intention in the television industry, which was to let the American people see the truth and not let it be buried by countless lies. ”

With that, he handed the script back to Spike Lee with both hands.

Spike-Lee said with some excitement: "Sir, the income from my previous film plus the investment of some small investors is only 3.1 million at present, which is still ...... from the total budget of the film of 6 million."

"What do you mean by a budget?" Tommy took out a cigar from the mahogany humidor on the table and handed it to Spike: "I don't know about movies, and I don't ask for anything in return, I only have two small requests." ”

"Of course, sir." Spike takes the cigar with some excitement and stares at Tommy in disbelief.

"One, my TV station wants its television rights, and second, it is real enough to make it happen to the black people in the United States on that day." Tommy said with a somewhat serious face:

"We can't let the American people live in lies all the time, they have the right to know the truth."

Sorry, I broke my promise, but I didn't think it would have been interrupted this month......

There is something going on at home, last month it was a son, this month is a daughter, because I was busy taking care of my son last month, I neglected to discipline her, my grades plummeted, and I was directly suspended from school, and her mother was so angry that she took a quick-acting heart pill, and my blood pressure was 179, or when I was taking blood pressure medicine...... Really, why is there such a stage in life as middle age......

Updates will continue tomorrow......

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