Chapter 485: A Miracle

In China, for any film and television work to be successful, its factors are of course composed of many aspects. But the most fundamental and fundamental point is that the core of the story of this work must cut into the hearts of the Chinese people.

In the time and space that Li Qian once lived in, when the country was not well developed, the most popular works were "The Windlass Woman and the Well", "Desire", and "Police Story". Well, when the common people are very novel about everything abroad, people love to watch "BJ Man in New York", but when the society develops to a certain level, what do people love to watch most? It is "Struggle", it is "Snail House", and it is "Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou Don't Believe in Tears".

To put it bluntly, this is the core of the times.

But some things are timeless.

For example, Chinese people worship wisdom and courage, so "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", plus "Water Margin", and even later "Langya Bang" became popular, etc. In fact, it is not as good as it is.

Another example is the Chinese people's consistent pursuit of chivalrous spirit. Therefore, Jin Yong's dramas became popular in Hong Kong in the 1970s and 1980s, and became popular in China in the 21st century, making generations of stars popular.

The play "Legend of the New White Snake" has put on a lot of clothes.

It is a classic fantasy romance film, and there are many fighting scenes and martial arts scenes in the play. It is also one of the most famous folk stories of the Chinese nation, and has a good fermentation degree among the people. In addition, as a TV series, its The story is told crisply and neatly, with a well-organized beginning and end. Its exquisite costumes and sets are definitely the most exquisite in current domestic TV dramas, and its screen performance is particularly clear, elegant, and full of aesthetic feeling. They are all very brilliant, and the heroine is also very beautiful...

But in fact, in the final analysis, it is just a story about a beautiful Chinese woman.

In short, in this play, the role of Bai Suzhen and White Lady embodies all the fantasies about female beauty in the Chinese people's outlook on life and values ​​throughout the ages.

This core is straight to the heart.

Then, when it puts on the beautiful coats such as those mentioned above, it is simply beautiful and impeccable in the eyes of Chinese people-for the current domestic TV viewers, it must be the best!

On Tuesday, August 31st, which is the last day before the start of school in the country, this TV series has been praised by more and more people through the word-of-mouth fermentation of the previous week. , is the ninth and tenth episodes.

This night, countless people are waiting for its final ratings data.

The major TV stations are paying attention, because this is likely to affect their next purchase cost of the drama, and at the moment, they are looking forward to a higher data in their hearts, so as to strengthen their determination to compete for the right to broadcast the drama in the second round I am determined, but out of some displeasure with Minghu culture in my heart, I also have resistance to the ratings data of this TV series that is likely to climb a little again.

The major paper media are also paying attention, because "Legend of the New White Snake" is developing too fast, and the ratings climbed too amazingly, but before that, everyone was not ready to report, although since last week After the five ratings came out, this TV series has already attracted widespread attention from everyone, and everyone has already started to report it, but this TV series suddenly jumped to 16.8 ratings after it continued to be broadcast on Monday, which still makes their previous reports look like Some are not enough.

At this time, the specially invited contributors are working hard to write the manuscript, and those who can't come up with mature manuscripts and comments for a while can only rush to the Internet to catch posts—but what is the ratings tonight? It will definitely determine the popularity and frequency of the major paper media's subsequent reports.

Just kidding, if you don’t report on a TV series that people all over the country are watching, what are you reporting on?

And on the other hand, since everyone likes to watch this TV series, they must like to read reports related to it. At this time, whoever can come up with enough weight will mean higher attention and higher sales. .

Of course, the vast majority of ordinary audiences don't know about these things, nor are they interested in them at all.

On this night, when countless families across the country sat on the sofa and turned on the TV after dinner, they just tuned the channel to HUNAN Satellite TV, and waited anxiously for the start of the ninth episode.

Of course, due to the repeated spread of word of mouth, the audience who tuned the TV to HUNAN Satellite TV tonight to watch the TV series that everyone said must not be missed is much more than yesterday, that is for sure.

And in the end, when the tenth episode was over, and countless viewers sighed, sighed, and talked, and washed up and went to sleep, for many people, the most anxious moment came.

It didn't make them wait too long, and soon a set of data followed emails, phone calls and QQ messages one after another, in the TV circle and paper media circle at an astonishingly fast speed, spread.

At 10:27 p.m. on August 31, a die-hard fan of Li Qian who works inside the TV station, with an extremely excited tone, was the first to appear on the film and television section of the Sohu.com forum and the special page of Li Qian. released this set of data.

And less than ten minutes later, Sohu.com directly hung this post on the headline of the front page of the entire website, and gave it a bold and bright highlight.

After another ten minutes, the news spread throughout the entire network.

Sohu.com, Feixun.com, etc., several major portal websites in China, have highlighted the most prominent positions on the homepage.

The ninth episode of "Legend of the New White Snake" has a national rating of 31.2 ratings points.

The tenth episode, 35.4 ratings points!

After watching the TV series, Li Qian's fans and the audience of this TV series, who couldn't help but want to discuss it on the Internet and forums, couldn't calm down all of a sudden.

Within 30 minutes, all kinds of posts almost maxed out the entertainment sections of all domestic forums!

At 11:34, it was the first ID who released the ratings data of "Legend of the New White Snake", and posted another post. In the post, he explained in detail in an extremely excited tone The significance and historical status represented by this ratings data.

Within five minutes, there were more than 300 replies to this post!

Up and down the Internet, there is an excitement full of emotion and admiration everywhere!

In May 1959, Huaxia TV, the first TV station in China, was established. In 1964, JIANGSU Satellite TV, the second and first provincial TV station in China, was established in Yingtianfu, and then started broadcasting. By 1971, there were more than 40 TV stations nationwide. TV station, since 1974, the state has spent huge sums of money to build a large-scale cable TV network, and later many companies have also joined the construction of cable TV network. By the 1980s, cable TV network had basically spread all over the first-level cities . At the same time, as of 1980, there were more than one hundred domestic TV stations.

In 1975, led by Huaxia TV, a total of seven TV stations across the country took the lead in connecting to the cable TV network. In 1982, Huaxia TV was the first to go on the satellite. The vast majority of provincial-level TV stations across the country, and more than 40 provincial-level TV stations, have all upgraded to cable and satellite dual-track live broadcast.

Basically, before cable TV was connected, audience ratings could only be calculated by means of telephone interviews, but telephones were not popular at that time, and the interview data were highly biased, so it is difficult to say that the data at that time are convincing.

It was not until the cable TV network was connected that the ratings statistics became simple and accurate. But in the early days, the penetration rate of the cable TV network was not that high, so the ratings still only represent a small range of data . Until 1983, there were 18 satellite TV stations in China, and the ratings data really became the focus of attention and attention of all TV workers.

Before 1983, due to the advantages of channels, Huaxia TV Station had always occupied more than 50% of the domestic TV screens within the statistical range. The country began to compete with China TV for ratings. Although some stations are getting better and better, while others have never been able to rise, but it has to be said that there are more TV stations to choose from. It is inevitable that the audience will Be shunted.

Before 1983, as long as it was a TV series broadcast by China TV, it was normal to get ratings of 50, 60 or even 70 points, but after 1983, even China TV wanted to get another It is already difficult to reach a ratings of more than 50 points. Especially when the time entered the 1990s, the TV market was further prosperous, stronger than China TV, and the ratings of 20 points had become a bottleneck. And from that time on, the major provincial-level satellite TVs began to challenge the status of Huaxia TV, and from time to time, either this station or that TV station would always come up with some programs or TV series with quite good ratings. , and began to compete with China TV. It is generally believed in the industry that the so-called ratings have only become more meaningful and convincing since 1990.

Of course, Huaxia TV is Huaxia TV after all. Although it is difficult for them to exceed 20 points in ratings, it is still not something that anyone can challenge. For satellite TV stations at the provincial and provincial levels across the country, their bottleneck is 10 points.

Bottleneck means evaluation criteria.

If the audience rating exceeds 20 points, it undoubtedly means that this TV series or this program has become a hit all over the country. And ratings below 20 points, such as more than ten points, are already popular, but in the long river of history, in front of those great classic TV series, after all, they still lack some convincing.

From the beginning of 1990 to the present, ten years to come in a few months, Huaxia Television can produce one or two TV dramas with ratings exceeding 20 points almost every year, and even occasional masterpieces can exceed 30 points.

As for other major TV stations, the highest ratings data so far is the 24.7% ratings obtained by SHANDONG Satellite TV in 1994 with its self-made TV series of the same name adapted from a novel.

And if we make a ranking list of the ratings of TV dramas in the past ten years, the 50-episode TV series "Journey to the West" filmed by Huaxia TV and directed by Feng Yumin, ranked first when it premiered in 1992. The highest ratings, as high as 82.2%!

Ranked second is also self-broadcasted by Huaxia Television Station, and also directed by Feng Yumin. The 1998 "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" also had the highest ratings of 78.1%!

These two peaks have not been surpassed by any TV series so far. Don't say beyond, it's even impossible to get close! In fact, since the 1990s, these two TV series, even for Huaxia Television itself, have been admirable.

Because under these two TV dramas, although they all belonged to China TV from the third place to the eighth place in one breath, even the historical drama "The Prosperous Age of Kaiyuan", which ranked third, only had an audience rating of 36.5%. Compared with "Journey to the West" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is more than one level worse.

Moreover, since the time crossed the line in 1995, except for "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it has been five years since Huaxia TV has produced a TV series with a rating of more than 30 points.

The Japanese TV series "Tokyo Love Story" introduced by China TV at the beginning of this year, because of its bright modern urban colors, lingering love stories, and a plot atmosphere very close to the current domestic urban life, it won the highest ratings of 27.7% , and finally ranked sixth on the historical ranking list! And if counting from 1995, its ranking is even the third!

Mie Fujiwara, an idol actor from Japan, also took this opportunity to become a hit in China. So far, many TV stations have repeatedly broadcast this TV series, and the ratings are quite good.

Moreover, judging from the ratings of this popular imported drama, practitioners in the TV industry have generally believed through analysis that at this moment, it is already difficult for China TV itself to get more than 30 ratings. The point works too.

There is no other reason. "Water Margin" was filmed as early as the 1980s, and it was recognized as a classic at that time. "Journey to the West" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" were both completed by Feng Yumin. And without such top-notch masterpieces that attract the attention of billions of people in the country, even if Huaxia TV still has huge advantages in production and channels, it is impossible to pass 30 points!

As for the major provincial TV stations... the same sentence, if it can pass 10 points, it will be considered a hit, and if it exceeds 20 points, it will be at an unbelievable level, a phenomenal level!

Thinking about the 24.7% of "The Hero Zhang Sanfeng" back then, it ranked ninth on the historical rankings. For the major domestic provincial satellite TVs, that is already an unsurpassable monument!

It is precisely because of this that when "Legend of the New White Snake" resumed broadcasting on Monday and scored 16.8 ratings points in one fell swoop, all the major domestic TV stations went crazy, and even dispatched the deputy director level to personally rush to Shun Tianfu, hoping to win the second round of this TV series, even made major TV stations seek favors and go through the back door one after another, and even several deputy directors ran to Yangjuan Hutong at the same time - 16.8, which was in line with everyone's expectations It is estimated that it can climb a few points, and it is hoped that it will approach or even break through the ratings of 20 points, which means that this TV series has infinitely approached or even reached the phenomenal level!

However, before the statistics of the broadcast data on Tuesday night are available, no matter how optimistic this TV series is, no matter how optimistic its ratings data is, it is absolutely impossible to imagine that the appeal of this TV series to Chinese people has already It is not what the ratings of 20% can represent.

Again, this TV series not only has the top packaging among the current domestic TV series, the most important thing is that the core of its story directly cuts into the hearts of all Chinese people.

Therefore, it has only broadcast to the tenth episode, and it has already scored 35.4 points of ratings.

In the historical ranking of ratings in the past ten years, it has jumped from the top 30 yesterday to the top ten in one fell swoop, and it is second only to "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Prosperity of Kaiyuan". Four!

And if only the ratings of the provincial satellite TV are counted, it has even directly surpassed "The Heroine Zhang Sanfeng", which was originally ranked first in history, by an unknown number of positions, and directly reached the top!

Therefore, at the end of the 2-3,000-word post, the poster from the TV system concluded with great emotion: a 40-episode TV series is broadcast on a provincial channel like HUNAN Satellite TV. It turns out that it actually got the highest audience rating of 35.4 points in the tenth episode, which is definitely a miracle!

He confessed that before the TV series was broadcast, as a die-hard fan of Li Qian himself and the Four Great Beauties, he was extremely dissatisfied with Li Qian's "doing nothing" to film a TV series, even if Li Qian had finished filming. After the TV series, he released an absolutely classic new album "Once Upon a Time" for everyone. The dissatisfaction in his heart has not completely subsided.

Because from the fact that Li Qian went to film a TV series, he felt a very bad sign: it’s okay that Li Qian didn’t succeed. Will continue to shoot the next one, in that case, his time will be spent on TV dramas, and he will inevitably slack off in music creation, and for his die-hard fans, this is almost intolerable and absolutely unwilling to accept one thing!

But later, when he actually watched this TV series with a very anxious mood, and only saw the third and fourth episodes, this kind of dissatisfaction and worry had almost disappeared, and when he waited for this TV series He got the ratings of 16.8 points. As an internal staff of the TV station, he got the ratings data in advance before the outside world got the news.

As a fan, he certainly hopes that Li Qian will write more songs and release more albums in the future, but now, he finds out that Li Qian's TV series are so good, and he likes them that much, what should he do?

And now, as soon as the ratings data of 36.5 came out, he said in the post: I feel at peace all of a sudden!

In his words: I love to listen to the leader's songs, and I also love to watch the leader's TV series, so if he likes to write songs, he can write songs, and if he likes to make TV series, then go and make TV series! I am no longer entangled!

The first half of this post is a popular science for the vast majority of Li Qian’s fans and viewers of TV dramas who don’t know anything about ratings at all. Heartfelt.

So, it is conceivable that on this night, after discovering this post, even if they replied to the post, they still couldn't help but go back to the first floor, read this post again, and then , everyone can't wait to join the discussion on this post.

That night, even though everyone was scattered all over the world, on the Internet, they fell into a strange carnival and climax at the same time.

And for many newspaper editors, just this one post has given out the headlines of the entertainment section of tomorrow's newspaper, and even many editors who are grabbing content from the Internet, after reading this post, the first thing in their minds is My first idea is that if there is a title for tomorrow, it will be called—a miracle!

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After the meal in Yangjuan Hutong was finished, everyone left and went back to their homes.

But Qi Jie felt very uneasy. Even though she was tired all day, after returning to her home to take a shower, she habitually turned on the TV, tuned to HUNAN Satellite TV, and continued to watch "New White" that she had watched before. "Legend of the Wife" chasing again, but at the same time, my mind is full of various thoughts——

What if those four TV stations ran away? Although the four of them are missing, based on the ratings of this TV series, other TV stations will still give a good price, so that they can compete with each other. It is almost possible to get back the cost of the second round of sales. .

But firstly, for a company in the cultural and entertainment industry, it would be very unwise to offend four provincial satellite TVs all at once. The attitude of "watching" made those TV station leaders who are used to being uncles in other film and television companies, although they didn't show it obviously, but they were already a little bit unhappy.

Therefore, as the general manager, one of the questions I must consider is: how to ease the relationship with them?

Originally, it was easy to handle. They were used to being uncles, so I just confessed to them myself. However, ever since the company first opened, he went out to treat guests and drink with others and brought in the soundtracks of two TV dramas, which aroused great dissatisfaction from Li Qian. He directly gave himself and the entire Minghu culture Set a rule: No matter who the other party is, never humble yourself!

But the problem is, in China, let alone the entertainment and cultural industry, no matter what they do, how can there be anyone who is not humble? Taking money out of other people's pockets is one of the hardest things in the world!

Then, Qi Jie was worried while thinking.

Of course, deep in her heart, she was still thinking a little bit: To some extent, what Li Qian said was not unreasonable, as long as the ratings of this TV series continued to rise, then all problems would not be a problem.

Well, it was 16.8 points yesterday, if it can break through 20 points tonight... that would be great.

So, she watched the TV series while waiting for the news.

According to the usual practice, the staff of HUNAN Satellite TV will count the ratings of the two episodes tonight and send an email to themselves about ten minutes after the TV series is finished.

Then, after the TV series finally ended, Qi Jie went to open her laptop and was about to receive emails, but before the computer finished turning on, the phone suddenly rang.

Qi Jie picked up the phone, seeing that it was Tan Dezhang's number, she was taken aback for a moment.

When it was connected, Tan Dezhang's voice was so loud that it was scary: "Tell Li Qian, I will go to Shuntian Mansion tomorrow!"

Qi Jie was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Why don't you call him yourself?" Then he asked: "Didn't you go to Sydney? Are you back? Have the ratings come out? I'm still waiting for news!"

Tan Dezhang laughed loudly, "I called three times, and that kid hung up on me three times! In the end, he simply turned off the phone!"

Qi Jie blinked and understood.

It is estimated that once Li Qian turned off the phone over there, Tan Dezhang already understood.

At this time, Tan Dezhang continued to shout loudly: "The ratings are out, the highest is 35.4! 35.4! Hahaha, let alone Sydney, even if I am on Mars, I will definitely take the earliest flight to Shuntianfu tomorrow! "

"Huh! Huh? How much?... How many ratings do you say?"

Tan Dezhang continued to laugh. For him, this kind of gaffe-like laughter is almost impossible.

"35.4%! I said, its audience rating is 35.4 points! Mr. Qi, this is a great statistic, this is a great TV series!"

Qi Jie was completely stunned.

Next, Tan Dezhang seemed so excited that he couldn't control himself, and chattered a lot, but Qi Jie didn't hear a single word clearly. In her mind, only such a number repeatedly flashed back - thirty-five point four!

Oh my god!

Anyone who has done some research on the ratings of domestic TV stations will understand what this data means! What's more, since inviting several major TV stations to watch the show, Qi Jie has worked hard to collect as much information as possible, and studied it carefully?

At this moment, Tan Dezhang had already hung up the phone, she still didn't realize it, but couldn't help but recall Li Qian's words at dinner: "Even if they leave in a fit of anger, they will definitely come back again!"

Yes, now Qi Jie finally understands this sentence, and she is absolutely sure: even if they leave, they will come back again!

Because, that's 35.4!

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A chapter of seven thousand characters!

It's not a make-up, but it's just to repair my character that was damaged due to the interruption of the update during the climax! That... This is considered to be a supplement!