Chapter 178

Simon didn't have much leisure to take notice of the controversy over instinct. He flew to New York on Saturday morning to take part in the official recording of who will be a millionaire.

In the past few months of preparation, Simon has regularly participated in the production meeting of who will be a millionaire, and continued to provide a lot of opinions for the creation of the question bank, the setting of links, the selection of contestants, and even the creation of the most detailed on-site atmosphere of this reality show.

The project team, which had made several trial shots and rehearsals in advance, was able to do it, so Simon decided to watch it in person. After all, the success or failure of this reality show is related to whether Denise pictures can enter the field of TV program production smoothly.

Because "who will be a millionaire" itself tends to be a variety show, and its production is relatively simple. The project team started to record seven pilot programs for a week from Saturday, which can just complete the whole pilot program while shooting and broadcasting.

However, the process is not easy.

On weekends, everyone on the project team works more than 10 hours, and Simon is no exception. On Sunday, he was busy until ten o'clock in the night. After watching the final sample film of the first issue with you, Simon relaxed a little.

June 20, Monday.

With the advent of a new week, "instinct" is still hot in the media. Simon rarely sleeps in and gets up at nine o'clock in the morning.

In the morning, I went to the apartment on Fifth Avenue to check the decoration effect. After the absurd night of three people together, it happened that Catherine was going to make "Thunderbolt Blue Angel" in New York, and Janet forced her to stare at it. Catherine did some interior design work in the 1970s, which is more experienced than Janet.

At noon, I had dinner with Catherine and talked about "Thunderbolt Blue Angel". During this period, the woman refused Simon's suggestion that he would go there tonight, claiming that she would attend a party in a circle in the evening. Simon said that he was very happy to meet some people in the New York film circle with her, but she was just thrown a blank eye. Women do not want their relationship to be known by too many people after all.

In the afternoon, as usual, I met with James Leibold to discuss some business of Westeros.

Determined the debt to equity swap plan, during this time, James Leibold has cleared the New World Entertainment stock in the hands of Westeros company again. Although Simon is sure to win the power of manwei, he will not choose to be a big loser in any case if he can save half of the money. It is no longer necessary to buy new world entertainment stock secretly.

With the completion of various acquisitions and investments during this period, the $100 million loan that westero just got is running out again in a flash, and Simon has no plan to increase his debt in the short term. For a long time, James Leibold will focus on the existing business of Westeros.

Over the past six months, the North American stock market has continued to recover.

However, because last year's "westero portfolio" stimulated a strong rebound in the technology stock sector, the rise of the technology stock market has slowed down significantly compared with other sectors in recent months.

As of last week, the total value of westero's technology stock portfolio of listed companies was about $1.76 billion, while other unlisted companies' shares and real estate investment scale was about $150 million. Due to the continuous success of "when Harry meets Sally" and "vulgar novel", the industry's valuation of Denise pictures is about $300 million, minus the total debt of $200 million of Denise pictures and westero, Simon's personal assets have reached $2 billion.

This year's Forbes Global rich list is expected to be released in August.

If "who's going to be a millionaire" and "instinct" succeed, Simon's fortune will certainly continue to improve. More than $2 billion in personal assets is enough for him to be in the top 50 on the global rich list.

In the underground parking lot of the building where the headquarters of westero company is located, James leibulde watched Simon's car leave. This series of data flashed through his mind, and he couldn't help feeling again. Feeling his daughter's puzzled look at him, he reflected from his trance and said to Jennifer with a smile, "let's go back. Your mother will prepare dinner in person tonight."

Father and daughter got into their car. James Leibold started the car and left the parking lot. Then he asked his daughter, "do you think who will be a millionaire will succeed?"

Simon has already told James Leibold in advance about the idea of using his reality show project as a bargaining chip to trade Ge for new world entertainment.

Hearing her father's question, Jennifer said, "I think it's very interesting. As for the ratings, I'll know tomorrow."

"Didn't Simon tell you what he expected from the show?" James redton asked

She felt something else in her father's words, a little embarrassed, but said, "he, he's very confident in the show."

James Leibold turned the steering wheel around a street, glanced at his daughter and said, "Jennie, you know, there are some things you need to strive for."It's very straightforward. Jennifer's face is a little red. She can't help thinking of everything she's done for Simon.

To be fair, it's not that she didn't want to snatch that man from Janet.

Just, stay in his side, perhaps because too busy, perhaps because of some other what, in short, she is basically difficult to produce some robbing men and so on. Most of the time, she just unconsciously thinks that it's enough to be around him and work for him all the time.

She always felt that she was a very easy person to satisfy.

When the father and daughter return to their upper east side home, Carol Leibold, Jennifer's mother, has returned early and is preparing dinner. James and Jennifer go to the kitchen to help. The three of them have a warm dinner, and then they are together in front of the TV in the living room, chatting about some things, waiting for the arrival of nine o'clock.

"Who's going to be a millionaire" is on the air at 9 p.m.

ABC didn't give the most golden eight o'clock schedule. Of course, it didn't drop the show to the least important ten o'clock schedule, and Denise pictures can't expect too much of it. Moreover, because ABC refused to invest in the promotion of this reality show, danielis pictures could only invest $2 million for TV, newspaper and magazine advertising. Only this part of the expenditure was equivalent to a week's budget for the trial broadcast. In the early stage, the audition work for the program was also very expensive.

In addition, in order to retain the initiative as much as possible, Denise pictures did not seek sponsors to share the investment for the trial series. So, just in the trial stage, Denise pictures has invested nearly $5 million in all aspects of the project. That's a quarter of who's going to be a millionaire's budget.

It can be imagined that if the program fails, Denise film's lavish investment will surely become a laughing stock of the industry.

Nine o'clock.

TV screen, screen switching, along with the host Regis Phil deliberately speed up the introduction, the program officially began.

Regis Phil was the host of the original who's going to be a millionaire. Before danielis pictures found him, Regis Phil was also a sports host on a local New York TV station. After receiving the invitation from danielis pictures and realizing that he can get into the programs of the four major TV networks, Regis Phil quit his original job without hesitation and devoted himself to the production of who will be a millionaire.

In the living room of leibulde's family, as the elite of this society, leibulde and his wife are not very interested in TV programs because of their rich private social life. However, from the beginning of the program, the host's introduction, the fiery atmosphere and even the lighting and music details of the scene unconsciously lead them into a certain atmosphere, especially the $1 million ultimate prize specially introduced by Regis Phil. Even the rebolds whose annual income far exceeds this figure are hard to calm down.

Who doesn't want to become a millionaire by simply answering a series of questions?

Coincidentally, the first player was a lawyer, about 40 years old, in his prime of life, with a very brilliant resume. Regis Phil did not rush to answer the questions, but skillfully talked with the lawyer about his motivation and determination to participate in the program. This seemingly casual detail further set off the atmosphere of the scene.

When the answer officially began, both the guests and the audience in front of the TV set had reached the highest expectation.

In the final analysis, the success of who will be a millionaire does not lie in the answer, but in the mobilization of the audience's emotions in the process of answer. Seeing a topic may determine the ownership of a large amount of money that they may earn in a month, a year or even a lifetime, and the audience's attention is doomed to be difficult to divert.

In fact, this is the reason why "who will be a millionaire" is generally regarded as a reality show instead of a traditional variety show.

Because the core of the program is "show.".

In front of the TV, seeing that the lawyer on the screen was out of the game because of a mistake about the Great Lakes, and finally took only $8000, the rabolds all despised him.

Americans are very familiar with the Great Lakes. At least many people think they are very familiar with the Great Lakes.

This is actually a strategy.

In the process of creating the question bank, Simon specially stressed that we should try our best to find the questions that are closely related to the North American audience, at least make people feel familiar. If the problem is too biased, the audience will inevitably have the idea that the program is just trying to help others, so it is difficult for the program to gather too much popularity.

Although these questions are very "down-to-earth", it's definitely not easy to answer them correctly. It's still under the condition that the players are selected in advance. If the contestants on the stage can only answer one or two questions correctly, or even can't answer a single question, it's still this program.

After the lawyer went down a bit, Regis Phil quickly introduced another player.

This time-consuming competition makes an hour of program time seem to pass quickly, and the program does not deliberately pursue the integrity of the answer link. Because of the time, the last contestant answered five questions in a row and accumulated a considerable bonus, and then the first phase of the program ended.Although the actual recording has been completed, the follow-up plot will continue tomorrow. The next week's trial episodes will basically adopt this strategy.

Because of their acquaintance with Robert egger, the rabolds have some knowledge of the television network. When an hour's TV program ended, the rabolds had a hunch that it would be a great success.

How can such a program be unsuccessful if it can make people spend an hour without feeling the passage of time, and the whole process can not be distracted?

However.

The rebolds did not expect the show to be a success.

Because of the busyness in recent days, Simon took a rest early last night and didn't watch the show in front of the TV. In the production stage, he has seen it too many times, and it is impossible for him to improve the ratings of the program by sitting in front of the TV.

Simon wakes up early the next morning and will return to the west coast today. He plans to complete the casting of Batman in the last week of this month.

Simon was satisfied with the last surprise drug test, which resulted in the elimination of three of the last ten candidates, at least not by more than half. Moreover, based on all the information, he has basically confirmed the final goals. Next, he only needs to have some auditions and confirm the details of the contract.

ABC told Simon that he would be informed of the first day's ratings after working hours. But around 8:30, Simon had just had breakfast when the telephone rang in the living room.

Simon thought it was someone else. He came to the living room and picked up the phone. Robert egger's excited voice immediately came out: "good morning, Simon."

"Good morning, Bob," Simon said with a smile as he stood by the phone without too much detour. "What's the result?"

Before it's time to go to work, Robert egger is already at ABC's Rockefeller Center headquarters in midtown. Moreover, he was surrounded by many other ABC executives, even ABC chairman Tom Murphy.

Although there is time difference between the east coast and the west coast, according to the empirical results of Nielsen and other survey institutions after sampling and statistics for a long time, there will not be much error between the relevant data and the actual ratings.

So.

The number of viewers on the first day of who will be a millionaire reached 13.65 million.

13.65 million, which is more than twice the "pass line" of 6.5 million viewers set by ABC for this program. Moreover, this is only the first day result, which is the first day result of the TV popular summer program.

Just on the first day of broadcasting, it has created a rating data that is beyond everyone's expectation. No one will doubt that the popularity of this program will continue to increase in the future.