Chapter 207： Wind blows

Early the next morning, a large number of newspapers in North America appeared on the 'Friends', '30 million', 'Viewing Miracles' and other black and bold headlines. Various comments also appeared in front of people. .

"Rachel Green, who is spoiled and unrecognized, Monica Geller, who is so strong and clean, Phoebe Buffy, who is acting off-line, likes to care for Ross Geller, humorous Chandler Bin, the simple-minded Joey Choibiani...just played only two episodes, and Eric Williams used these simple and trivial shots to create a six-character screen image for us, and let the audience In just one hour, I liked these six avatars."

"The story that is close to reality and interesting, is more likely to resonate with the audience. The premiere of 31.7 million of Friends has once again proved this. When the audience saw the six protagonists living in the apartment in New York, it was like Seeing the shadow of my life, this may be the most important factor in the success of this sitcom, just like the abc still in the hot "Growth of Worries", Eric Williams is a genius, The details of the life that comes from the hand, stitched into a piece of interesting dialogue, firmly grasp the eyes of the audience."

"The interesting dialogue between the protagonists of "Friends" will undoubtedly become a buzzword among young people for a long time, and only two episodes will be played. The personality of the six protagonists has been fully filled, and the more I The more I look forward to the next story, I believe that Eric Williams, who is of course the scriptwriter, will definitely bring more surprises to the audience in the plot. There is no doubt that whoever makes him Eric Williams."

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Of course, there are countless compliments, and the Los Angeles Metropolis Daily is doing a simple investigation. It is said that through random interviews with the audience of Friends, less than 60% of the audiences who are very satisfied with the plot are found, and more than 20% of the interviewees said that Friends has not met their expectations. The remaining 20% ​​of the audience think that the quality of Friends is average.

Therefore, the review article of the Los Angeles Metropolis Daily concluded that the audience’s more than 30 million viewership miracles were entirely due to the previous series of hype. The results of the survey indicate that the quality of Friends has obviously not reached a lot of expectations for the audience that Eric Williams is looking forward to, and that it will surely usher in a sharp drop in ratings.

Similar to the "Los Angeles Metropolis Daily", there are more than one newspaper media in the following ratings of "Friends", but this kind of remarks can only be arrogantly swayed by ordinary people. As long as there is a little bit of professional knowledge, they understand that "Friends" Although the viewer's miracle has the help of hype, if the quality is not good, it is impossible to reach an average of 31.7 million people. The "Friends" has only proved two major episodes. There are more than 30 million viewers' viewing bases. Even if there is a big decline in the ratings, the number of viewers will definitely be more than 2,000.

For TV dramas, the number of viewers of more than 20 million people is absolutely super hot.

The three old TV stations of abc, nbc and cbs in North America originally did not put Fox TV in the eye. The youngest abc of the three TV stations has been developed for half a century, and the history of nbc and cbs is even longer.

Over the years, more than one media group has attempted to challenge the status of the three major television stations, but without exception, it ended in failure.

Therefore, even if News Corp. invited Barry Diller, who is known as the leader of the media industry, to be responsible for setting up the TV network business, even if Fox had set up a TV network ranked fourth in the United States in just a few years. But in the eyes of the three major TV stations, Fox is still only a newcomer in the North American TV circle. After all, no matter how large the scale is. After all, the TV station has to speak with the ratings of the show, but Fox has not had any good TV shows in recent years. Before "Friends", Fox TV's highest viewing record did not even exceed 20 million times, and the three TV stations that jointly own the Super Bowl's rotating rights have the highest viewing record of more than 100 million. Even in normal times, the three major TV stations can Easily come up with a few ace cards with more than 20 million viewers.

Therefore, although News Corp.’s movements in North America were very large, Rupert Murdoch specifically joined the US nationality in order to gain the power to form a television network. However, the three major TV stations have a cold-eyed attitude towards the Australian 'upstarts'. Waiting for the other person to return like another challenger.

The number of viewers of "Friends" exceeding 30 million was born, and the top three TV stations were completely alarmed. They discovered it. Unknowingly, Fox's TV network, which has only been established for several years, has more than 100 connected TV stations covering more than 90% of the US. The first reaction of the three major TV stations is that Fox can't be allowed to continue to develop. After all, the size of the US domestic TV market is fixed. If Fox rises, it will definitely mean that the market share of the three major TV stations will be greatly reduced.

The top three TV stations had a rare emergency meeting. After several hours of consultations, the first countermeasure was to take the right to play the second quarter of Friends from Fox at all costs. If possible, I will directly capture the next episode of Friends in the first season, even if I pay a high amount of liquidated damages for Eric Williams. Without "Friends", the pace of Fox's expansion will certainly slow down again, then the three major TV stations will have plenty of time to slowly clean up Fox's ‘outsiders’.

What the top three TV stations can think of, whether it is Fox's ceo Barry Diller or News Corp.'s helm, Rupert Murdoch can certainly think of it. Although Eric's several films brought great benefits to Fox, Rupert Murdoch did not pay too much attention to Eric, but regarded him as a new director in cooperation with Fox. Dok never met with Eric. But this time is different, Murdoch’s newspaper group has developed to the extreme, and the current main ambition is on the TV network. Eric’s “Friends” brings an important opportunity for the rapid expansion of his TV network, plus The three major TV stations are eager to move, no matter from that aspect, Murdoch has the need to personally come and win Eric.

So, when Eric participated in the opening ceremony of the 46th Venice Film Festival on the evening of September 4th, a huge Boeing private jet landed at Venice Marco Polo International Airport. (To be continued)