I’m in Hollywood Chapter 206: Quality change

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Julia does n’t know how to take Elizabeth. Although the girl ’s tone is faint, it seems that she is only evaluating the characters in the play, but she hears a little jealousy in the girl ’s tone.

Actually, why doesn't Julia feel so jealous? Although she has only watched two episodes, she can see that the level expressed by 《Friends》, this TV series is definitely hot, and the flattering Rachel played by Aniston will certainly be the most popular among the six people. The influence of this TV series is definitely bigger than a hot movie.

Eric is so kind to her, Julia thought so.

Advertising has started on the TV, and the two have reacted, and the sky is already bright.

Julia stood up and stretched his waist. After a quick scrubbing, he walked out of the bathroom and said: "Liz, go to the restaurant downstairs for breakfast together?"

Elizabeth shook his head: "I'm a little tired and don't want to go out, Julia, can you bring me a fruit salad?"

Julia nodded, dressed and opened the door and walked out of the hotel. Elizabeth in the room fixed his eyes on the TV screen for a while, and finally remembered what stood up and picked up the phone, recalled it, and dialed a series of numbers skillfully with his memory.

After a few minutes, Julia brought two packed breakfasts back to the room, saw Elizabeth put the microphone down, and asked casually, "Who should I call?"

"New York," Elizabeth replied. Seeing that Julia did not seem to be interested, the girl walked to the sofa and sat down, saying: "I just talked to New York Fox TV Station Headquarters over the phone, and the ratings of 《Friends》 are calculated."

Julia spread out two boxes of salads, pushed them to Elizabeth, and stood up to get two boxes of milk in the refrigerator. After hearing Elizabeth say this, Julia doesn't matter: "You ask what this is doing, Eric personally screenwriter's TV series. The ratings will definitely not be low, maybe it will be more than 20 million people before it starts broadcasting."

"31.7 million!"

Elizabeth said softly. Something was stuck in the throat, something hoarse. She studied the media, and compared to the layman, she is more able to understand the meaning of this figure.

"Oh ..." Julia dropped the milk into the glass and responded casually, then immediately responded and suddenly raised his head and asked with wide eyes: "How much did you just say?"

Elizabeth Mumudi pulled the fruit salad in front of him and bowed his head, said: "The average ratings of the two episodes are 31.7 million. The highest data rushed to 35 million, which is ... incredible."

"oh God," Julia took a few sips of milk and tried to suppress the shock in his heart: "Isn't it wrong?"

"How could it be wrong, TV Station Headquarters is crazy over there."

It ’s crazy.

After Fox counted the ratings data of the first two episodes of 《Friends》, even though it was already late at night, the news was still as if it was plugged in, and it spread throughout the entire film and television circle in just one hour. newspaper restarted writing and typesetting, and countless phone rings. Many people who had fallen asleep were called out.

In this era, the main audio-visual entertainment means of the people are movies and television, therefore. Ratings that exceed 30 million are not uncommon.

But what can get this result is either an important ceremony or competition, or a major plot twist or a finale in a popular drama series that has accumulated fame for several years.

And a TV series just got such amazing results just after it was aired. It has never happened before. More importantly, Fox is a TV Station that has only just developed for less than ten years. Although it has ranked fourth in North America, there is still a big gap compared with the top three TV Station. It's not easy anymore. Prior to 《Friends》, Fox's highest ratings record was an interview with Michael Jackson. And that's only 19million ratings. As soon as 《Friends》 came out, it directly raised the highest viewing record of Fox by more than 10 million.

As the most critical person who caused all this. Eric was woken up by the tireless phone ring in the room early in the morning, less than seven o'clock.

The first call was made by Barry Diller himself. Barry Diller talked about the 《Friends》 ratings explosion and expressed congratulations. Then I hope that Eric can return to United States as soon as possible. News Corp ’s Chairman Rupert Murdoch will arrive at Los Angeles in two days. I want to meet with Eric in person. After chatting for more than ten minutes, Barry Diller repeatedly told Eric to return to Los Angeles as soon as possible, and then hung up the phone according to does not abandon.

Eric put down the microphone, before it was too late to carefully consider the news brought by Barry Diller, the phone rang immediately after that.

The second one is Jeffrey, then, the third, fourth, fifth ...

Following for more than two hours, Eric spent many times answering the phone repeatedly, and the ears on both sides were slightly itchy due to long-term stimulation, until more than nine o'clock in the morning, Eric could not stand it finally The telephone line was unplugged, and the whole world became quiet. Anyway, most of the more important people have already made a phone call, and it doesn't matter if the rest of them can answer it.

Moreover, the purpose of many people calling is not very simple. Except for Aniston and little girl, they hurriedly made a mess, and sincerely expressed some congratulations, many others were playing on 《Friends》. Come from power.

For the sake of insurance, Fox only booked the first season of 《Friends》. This is not a secret. Now, 《Friends》 has achieved such amazing results just after the broadcast. Even if there will be a big ups and downs in the ratings, but there are scores that exceed the ratings of 30 million, the future ratings will be no worse. In this case, if the other three North America TV Station are indifferent to 《Friends》, then the helm of TV Station is not necessary to sit down in that position.

These people are really magical. They found representatives in a few hours and expressed their intentions to Eric. NBC TV Station even found three lobbyists of John.Aniston, James.Brooks and Robert Shay to lobby, except In addition to John.Aniston, which originally worked in NBC, Eric can't figure out how the other two people got in touch with NBC. It looks like James.Brooks is a famous Producer that keeps close cooperation with Fox. Isn't it afraid that people will know that? ? The move of Robert Shay makes Eric even more confused.

For the results of 《Friends》, Eric is not without its own estimate, because 《Running Out of Time》 is still in theaters, and the three 《Friends》 clips in it have been fermented during this period of time, which aroused the public ’s strong curiosity, plus Eric personally wrote the gimmicks of the first two episodes of script and personally Director, as well as Fox spared no effort in publicity. Eric expected that the 《Friends》 premiere ratings will definitely be in the 20 million range, otherwise, I am a little sorry for his series of hype for this TV series.

But when the ratings of more than 3,000 were really released, Eric was greatly surprised.

For the ratings data of an American drama, the ratings from 10 million to 20 million are just a very easy quantitative change. As long as it is a popular TV series, it can reach the 20 million ratings data from time to time as the plot fluctuates. However, the ratings jump from 20 million to 30 million is a very difficult qualitative change. Only after a few years of popular American dramas have accumulated popularity for several years, it is possible to get this once or twice at a certain stage. Amazing results.

Now that 《Friends》 is just the beginning, it has created a miracle, which is enough to load into the development history of TV series.

Therefore, this incident caused a sensation in the entire North America film and television circle. (To be continued)