readease Chapter 320 Brilliant Renewal Season 2
Chapter 320 Brilliant Renewal Season 2
With the development of related technologies of cable TV, satellite TV and digital TV in the United States, cable channels are no longer limited to a certain city or a certain viewing market.Like the five major TV networks and other terrestrial TV networks in the United States, they have become the main force competing for the viewing market in the United States.According to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. news media has almost unlimited freedom of expression, and TV artists have almost unlimited creative freedom; It is subject to the management of the Federal Communications Commission, so the content of the programs broadcast by the major terrestrial television networks in the United States is actually reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission in disguise.
On the contrary, cable channels in the United States have no review pressure, as long as they follow the regulations that restricted content can only be broadcast after ten o’clock in the evening, they can broadcast publicly; even if you don’t want to abide by this regulation, you can also broadcast your own Become a paid encryption channel.At the same time, cable channels have an easier advertising review system, so the real money-making channels in the United States are cable stations.Because of a large amount of funds and a non-existent review system, the TV drama production level of the cable station has surpassed the major TV networks in one fell swoop. Today, channels such as HBO and FX have become the guarantee of "excellent TV dramas".Fortunately, BC each has a long-lived drama "CSI" and "Law and Order", so they won't be pulled down too much.
However, the two TV networks have been competing for "Number One" for half a century. CBS's news programs and NBC's sports programs are the best programs in the United States.But the current situation is that CBS's news programs have begun to face direct competition from the three major cable news stations (, MSNBC and FOXNEWS) and the two major financial stations (Bloomberg TV, BC), resulting in a decline in ratings. On the contrary, NBC has passed Buy a lot of copyrighted sports programs to start their dominance of the number one viewing in the United States.What upsets CBS most is that the MSNBBBC cable channel ended up embarrassing itself in the news field.
So the year before last, CBS Group approached Jade, hoping to re-launch in-depth cooperation in the field of TV dramas or reality shows.Jed doesn't think there is any market for CBS in terms of reality shows, after all, FOX is already far ahead in this area.On the contrary, Jed proposed a cooperation plan for a TV series, but this plan caused a headache for CBS.First of all, this is a legal drama. Legal dramas are actually relatively unpopular TV dramas in the United States, but crime dramas and medical dramas are popular.Secondly, the content of this series is too bloody, and many of the content is a bit too much in the eyes of the steady CBS, such as the mutual cheating between husband and wife.Finally, the protagonist of this drama is a woman, and at the same time it is also the female characters who stand out. Men in this TV series are either villains or supporting roles, which are used to set off the female characters.You must know that CBS's audience is dominated by men. It is not a pleasant thing to come out with such a TV series that "stimulates" men.
But after CBS Group thought for a long time, it still agreed to release this American drama, so in the fall of 2009, CBS premiered the legal drama "The Good Wife" to the United States.Not out of CBS's internal considerations, the ratings of this TV series are not high, which once made the CBS Group decide to cut this American TV series before the spring schedule.But soon some data made CBS dispel this consideration. Firstly, it was because the critics had a high evaluation of this American TV series; secondly, although the ratings of this TV series were not high, the ratings share was very fixed; lastly, the most important One point, this drama ranks very high in the "19 to 45-year-old audience group", and a survey shows that many female viewers started to watch the CBS TV network because of this drama.This is a great surprise to CBS, which has always been known as an "elderly station". They wish that their viewing group can have more female viewers and more young viewers. These are the high-quality potential customers most valued by advertisers.What surprised CBS the most was that the series won the Emmy Awards the following year, which made many TV network executives envious.
With the happy cooperation of the first season, CBS naturally booked the full season content of the second season early.Although Jed has now completely handed over the TV business to Shirley Lansing, he still occasionally checks out the production of the show.Jed is very clear that the content of TV dramas in the future will become more and more difficult. First, the rise of cable channels and Internet channels has provided a way out for some heavy-duty themes or niche themes. Gradually improve.The production cost of one episode of the TV series "Roma" known to Jade in later generations has already caught up with the production cost of a mid-sized Hollywood movie.Therefore, Jade also gradually merged TV drama and film production companies to make his production company more comprehensive.
However, Jade is not surprised by the popularity of "The Good Wife". This show has at least six seasons, and it can already be regarded as a high-quality American drama.And most importantly, this show not only has good ratings, but also has a good reputation.We must know that the current TV network has lived up to the seven seasons of "The White House" and dominated the Emmy Awards for seven consecutive seasons, and it does not have the inseparable momentum of ABC's "Boston Legal" and NBC's "Doctor House". So when Jade and CBS Group launched "The Good Wife" and it was a great success, the major TV networks also increased their budgets for the production of their drama series, and the biggest profit was naturally Sherman Film and Television. Dongfeng TV Production Company under the Entertainment Group.
After Dongfeng TV triggered the "witch style" and "vampire style", Jed began to focus on zombies and werewolves.Although Jade's selection of themes in the new century has made Dongfeng TV known as horror TV, but no one dares to deny the ratings of TV series produced by Dongfeng TV.After arranging the production of "The Good Wife", Jed came up with the outlines of two episodes, "Blood Shadow of the Wolf Gate" which is a werewolf theme and "The Walking Dead" which is a zombie theme.
After reading the outline, Lansing couldn't help complaining: "My boss, are you trying to make every American sleep badly at night? Monday is a witch, Tuesday is a vampire, Wednesday is a werewolf, Thursday Zombies... well, luckily we can watch something else on Friday."
"We will also scare the Americans on Friday." Jed said with great interest, "Think about it, if one day, the entire United States is without electricity and returns to the middle ages, would it be interesting? I plan to Next year, we will push the doomsday theme.”
After arranging related work with Lansing, Jed drove from Burbank to Sherman's mansion in Beverly Hills.As the two babies grow older, the Rose Manor in Palm Beach is naturally not suitable.And a more important question also arises, the two little ones have reached school age, where should they go to school?What kind of school do you go to?Public schools are naturally not suitable for these two children, and even private schools give Jed a headache.Although Americans are quite good at winning the Nobel Prize, but because Americans promote elite transactions, the education level of the public is actually not high.In particular, many people don't know where their capital, Washington, D.C., is, which makes Jed deeply doubt the primary and secondary education in the United States.
"According to the tradition of the Sherman family, children should still spend their elementary and middle school in England." Jed suggested to John.
The Sherman family is a typical New England old-fashioned family. They are proud of the greatness of the United States, but also humbled by the shallowness of the United States. Therefore, they have a different affection for their former homeland, England.Jed's own childhood and adolescence were spent in Berkshire, England, first at Ludgrove Preparatory School, then at Eton College, both primary and secondary schools unfortunately being boys' schools.So Jed sometimes complains that the original reason why Jed is bent is because he stayed in the boys' school for too long?However, the better private schools in the UK are all separate schools for boys and girls, so Jade has nothing to choose.My son Matthew naturally followed the path that every Sherman family boy had to walk. He entered Ludgrove School at the age of 7, entered Eton College at the age of 13, and went to the Eton College when he graduated at the age of 17. Choose a university in the UK or continental Europe, and of course you can go back to the United States to study at a university.On the contrary, the girls are in trouble. There are only a few famous girls' schools in the UK.
"According to our family's habit, boys naturally go to Ludgraf first, and then to Eton; for girls, most of them go to Bluebrook first, and then go to Queen Anne's school."
"Except for Bluebrook, which is a co-educational school, the rest of the schools are all boys' or girls' schools, okay?" John frowned. "However, it's not good for children to be placed in the United States. On the contrary, places like the UK will not be covered by your influence, which is more conducive to the growth of children. Sigh, let's put them first, and the children are not in a hurry anyway."
"Why are you not in a hurry?" Jed shook his head. "Although the children of our Sherman family all go to these four schools, it doesn't mean that we are the only ones who can go to these four schools. Even with the prestige of the Sherman family, It's just that they can be admitted first. If the child's own knowledge is not enough, it will be a problem. No, we have to start arranging training courses for the children. Matthew should learn simple English literature first, and Shakespeare's sonnets are also a problem. You need to learn to read a few poems; for Frona, you need to learn some musical instruments and some ballet."
"Okay, okay, don't embarrass your child!" John interrupted Jed.
Jed had no choice but to shrug his shoulders and change the subject.The success of this year's summer file not only allowed the old giants to see the potential of Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group, but also allowed the two rising stars, Reliance Entertainment Group and CBS Group, to see the advantages of Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group.Most importantly, this fall's Motion Picture Association of America convention will announce a series of reforms.First and foremost, which new companies will have the opportunity to secure membership and, in turn, North American film distribution rights?The second is whether large groups like Warner and Sherman have two memberships in compliance with the regulations, and whether they need to be reformed.
Compared with Warner rushing to contact Jed and asking him to resist this clause, Jed himself didn't care much about this request.In Jed's view, it is enough to mainly own the film distribution rights, and multiple vests are meaningless.However, Jed's hope is to block RKO, which is actually controlled by Reliance Entertainment Group, from the Film Association, even if DreamWorks and CBS Group are included.