novellhall Chapter 65 Selling TV Series: A Preview of "Someday or One Day"
Chapter 65 Selling TV Series: A Preview of "Someday or One Day"
Chapter 64 Selling TV Series: A Preview of "Someday or One Day"
After making the phone call, Zhang Guoli called everyone to his office and began assigning tasks.
"I just contacted Beijing TV, Hunan TV, Shanghai TV, and Anhui TV, and they are all interested in our drama 'Someday or One Day'."
Tomorrow afternoon, they will send the leaders of the TV drama marketing department to watch the show live.
Now I will begin assigning tasks:
Li Bing, you are in charge of receiving Mr. Zhou and his entourage from Hunan TV.
Liu Fei, you are in charge of receiving Mr. Fang and his delegation from Beijing TV.
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Zhang Guoli truly lives up to his reputation as a bigwig in the TV drama industry, with extensive connections.
He could easily invite the purchasing departments of several top-tier TV stations—departments that are difficult for others to access—to his company with a single phone call, watch shows together, and even compete to acquire them.
Of course, this is also the status and respect he has earned over the years through his performance and reputation.
From the mid-90s onwards, he produced a series of TV dramas with hugely high viewership ratings every year.
He directs or stars in at least one of the top 10 most-watched TV dramas in the country each year.
In some years, two or three TV series he directed or starred in even made it into the top ten in viewership ratings.
Most importantly, the TV dramas he stars in, even if they occasionally have a low rating, still have a fairly high minimum rating, ensuring a decent rating that won't be too bad.
He is arguably one of the few male actors in China who can consistently generate high viewership ratings, and he is also a director, producer, and film company owner.
His consistently high viewership ratings naturally made him a frequent guest on major television stations.
In recent years, TV stations have been scrambling to buy any TV series he has directed or starred in; basically, the shows are ordered by TV stations even before filming begins.
For example, the new TV series "The Legend of Ji Gong" that he is currently preparing was bought by Jiangsu TV for a high price of 60 yuan per episode.
This series has a total of 30 episodes and an investment of 2000 million yuan. It can be said that the production cost was almost recovered before filming even started, and there will be second and third rounds of production.
Although "Someday or One Day" was not directed or starred by him, and it is not even in the historical drama genre that he is good at, it is just a TV series produced by his company.
However, the TV stations were willing to give him face and sent their best staff to his company to watch the show live.
Of course, watching the show doesn't necessarily mean they'll buy it, and even if they do buy it, they might not pay a high price.
Everything depends on the quality of the TV series and the market acceptance assessment given by the review team.
At 2 p.m. the next day, the small screening room of the National Chang Sheng Film Company was almost full.
The marketing directors of four top-tier TV stations—Beijing TV, Hunan TV, Shanghai TV, and Anhui TV—each brought a team to the studio to watch and evaluate the shows.
Of course, apart from the leaders, the film viewing team was basically composed of young people.
Lin Zixuan also met them as a TV drama screenwriter, male lead, and top male singer.
Upon seeing him, the young people who came to watch the show from the TV station all turned into fans, asking him for autographs and photos.
This also gave Zhang Guoli and several TV station leaders a new understanding of his current popularity.
With everyone present, the TV series began to play.
Lin Zixuan, Zhou Haopeng, Liu Junjie and the others sat in the last row, observing their reactions.
The original plot of "Someday or One Day" was rather bland in the first three episodes, making it difficult to attract viewers. It wasn't until the fourth episode that the high-energy plot truly began.
In the original timeline, the viewership ratings for "Someday or One Day" started low but then rose.
Lin Zixuan naturally could not tolerate this situation; he hoped for a strong start followed by continued success.
While keeping the overall plot unchanged, he made some optimizations, speeding up the earlier parts of the story.
The first episode of "Someday or One Day" is basically all Huang Yu-xuan's reminiscences.
Recalling her time dating Wang Quansheng...
Her boyfriend, Wang Quansheng, died in a plane crash. Once you have a beautiful love, you will never forget it. Because she loved him so deeply, Huang Yuxuan could never get over this relationship.
One day, she received an old Walkman and a cassette tape of Wu Bai. She fell asleep listening to the song "Last Dance," and in the song, she traveled through time and space back to the summer of 1998.
Her name is Chen Yunru.
His name is Li Ziwei.
There was another friend named Mo Junjie.
The story of these three sets the stage for the second half of the first episode, which ends with a distraught Chen Yunru running into the street, where a car suddenly crashes into her...
Yes, in his version of "Someday or One Day", the first episode featured a high-energy plot that immediately grabbed the audience's attention.
The second episode begins with Chen Yunru waking up from a coma in the hospital.
With bandages wrapped around his head, he appeared to be seriously injured. Li Ziwei sat by the bedside.
The moment she opened her mouth, the audience knew that she was no longer herself.
Because she was hugging Li Ziwei and wailing loudly, but she was calling out "Wang Quansheng".
That's right, it's a soul transmigration. Huang Yuxuan from 2019 transmigrated into Chen Yunru from 1998.
Just when Huang Yuxuan thought the memories on the other end were just a dream, she suddenly woke up again in 2019...
She was shocked to discover that Chen Yunru was no longer alive; to be precise, she had died on the eve of the Lunar New Year in 1999.
It was not an accidental death, but a murder.
This introduces elements of suspense.
In the third episode, Huang Yuxuan, who travels back to 1998, feels that Wang Quansheng and Li Ziwei are becoming increasingly connected.
Not only do they always play the same pranks, but they also use the same excuses when rejecting girls they don't like.
She was thrilled. Could it be that Wang Quansheng had also traveled through time?
Only then did the unique charm of "Someday or One Day" truly begin to emerge.
The Möbius strip is a closed loop, a spacetime loop that never stops.
Huang Yuxuan wants to change the past, save Wang Quansheng whom she loves, prevent Chen Yunru from being killed, and also prevent Li Ziwei from being killed by Xie Zhiqi.
Each time a time loop is interconnected, a change in a single detail can affect the entire world. Therefore, every time Huang Yuxuan travels through time, it is of paramount importance.
As she travels through time, many traces of her life with Wang Quansheng are interpreted in new ways, and even more mysteries emerge.
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The TV station's review team, who are used to watching mundane family dramas, rich boys falling in love with Cinderella, or idiotic and melodramatic love stories, couldn't stand this. The plot was simply too exciting.
They never imagined that what they thought would be an ordinary movie-watching trip would turn into such a fascinating storyline.
They watched intently, completely immersed in the story. Even when they whispered to each other about the plot, their eyes never left the TV screen.
By 6 p.m., four hours had passed, and six episodes of "Someday or One Day" had finished airing.
As is customary, a preview screening of a TV series usually only shows about six episodes; it's impossible to show the entire series. Otherwise, the plot would be leaked, and the production company and the TV station that bought the series would suffer a huge loss.
Zhang Guoli got up and turned off the TV. "Leaders, how about we eat first?"
Unexpectedly, after exchanging a few words with his subordinates, Mr. Zhou from Hunan TV made an unconventional request: "Mr. Zhang, we're all old friends, so there's no need to go out for dinner. Have someone pack some food and bring it back. We can have a quick bite in the conference room and watch a couple more episodes. Mr. Fang, Mr. Deng, Mr. Guo, what do you think?"
His suggestion received unanimous support from the leaders of several other television stations.
Zhang Guoli was overjoyed. It seemed that these families were very interested in "Someday or One Day". He didn't mind letting them watch a couple more episodes. "Okay, I'll have someone prepare dinner. Let's continue watching the show."
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