Rebirth Begins with a Manga Adaptation

Cheng Lie looked at the audience rating at the last moment of the first episode of Chess Soul. 3.13%, with an average rating of 2.78%.

Then I looked at the evaluations of this drama on major film and television forums, and the audience all praised it, and there were even many Go lovers discussing and explaining the chess games that appeared in the game.

The results of the first season of Chess Soul were far beyond his expectations.

He could have accepted that the ratings of the first episode of Chess Soul was around 2.1%, and he could slowly improve it later. But it seems unnecessary now.

This drama was not a slow one from the very beginning.

"No wonder Mr. Jing Yu said that it only takes one month for this drama to let me know. I won't regret choosing to make this drama. How can it take a month?" Cheng Lie let out a long breath.

But the excitement inside was hard to suppress.

As expected, he is indeed the number one genius screenwriter in Lan Province, and he will know if there is one as soon as he makes a move.

This evening, in the Dazhou film and television drama market, the audience was full of discussions about the episodes to be aired tonight.

And the discussion of Soul of Chess may not be as hot as the dramas of Emperor Capital TV and Xingtong. After all, even a mediocre drama on these two channels can easily reach more than 3.5% of the ratings during the Sunday night schedule. The base difference is too obvious~.

However, compared with the TV drama Life and Death Speed ​​broadcasted at the same time by Orange Sea TV, which is also one of the six major TV stations, the discussion on the soul of chess is not low at all.

And on Yindou.com, among the first batch of audience ratings, the first episode of the first episode of the game soul was rated 8.9, ranking first among the more than 30 film and television dramas broadcast by various TV stations on January 1. Of course, He Xingtong The main drama Fireworks of the spring file, tied for the first place. Imperial TV's Gambler scored 8.7, Orange Sea's Speed ​​of Life and Death was 8.5, and other small and medium-sized TV stations' new dramas mostly scored between 6 and 7.

On the first day of the new year, the broadcasting of new TV dramas on various TV stations was generally the same as the media had previously predicted. The only error was the soul of chess.

No one expected that a group of passer-by fans who didn't know anything about Go would actually have such a high degree of support for Go Soul.

The next day, early in the morning, Jing Yu received a call from Meng Yu, head of the production department of Yunteng TV Station.

After he got up and went to work in the morning, he naturally learned about the ratings of the first episode of the Soul of Chess, and this result undoubtedly greatly exceeded his expectations.

For more than a year, Yunteng TV has not had such a drama with a ratings of 2.78% in the first episode. In the previous few quarters, most of the main dramas in Taiwan had an audience rating of 2.2% to 2.5% at the beginning, and one or two dramas were broadcast to the end, with an average audience rating of more than 3%.

There is no way around this. The headline effect in the film and television drama industry is very obvious. There are only so many viewers, and it is impossible for people to follow all the dramas. Most of the audience will finally choose the six major high-quality dramas such as Xingtong and Imperial Capital TV.

Therefore, most of the six season's main dramas will have an average audience rating of more than 4% at the end of the broadcast, but the dramas of the non-big six TV stations are basically below 3%. A few o'clock.

For Yun Teng, for dramas broadcast during the prime time on weekends, when the broadcast ends, the average ratings of more than 2.4% are qualified, and the members of the creative team with more than 3% of the drama will have their bonuses doubled, and those with more than 4% are qualified. Big fire, if there is 5% ratings, the creators of the crew, Meng Yu, the head of the production department, will be polite when they see you, for fear of making you angry.

As for the drama with an average audience rating higher than 5%, only the extreme sports drama five years ago has achieved it in the past ten years. The audience rating of 9.9% was a miracle in the station back then.

But now, judging from the ratings of the first episode of the Soul of Chess, a drama that can have an audience rating of more than 2.7% at the beginning will generally not be lower than 3% when it ends.

Meng Yu was naturally happy, this result was enough.

"Xiaojing, work harder, don't be dazzled by the results of the first episode, you still have to be vigilant, after all, Go drama is a new theme, and I don't know if the audience's interest in this drama will weaken in the future." Meng Meng Yu finally told Jing Yu.

After hanging up the phone, Jing Yu looked at the crew.

As a new screenwriter of Yunteng TV, the entire crew actually had some opinions on Jing Yu, a paratrooper.

Although they were all organized by Cheng Lie, many of them were old employees of Yunteng who knew the situation in Taili.

There are only four seasons in a year, and a TV station produces a few dramas in a season. It can be said that the production quota of each drama is very sought-after within Yunteng.

On the surface, it seems that Jing Yu is Cheng Lie who went to recruit him, and then agreed to Yun Teng's solicitation, and obtained the qualification to broadcast in prime time in Taiwan, but in fact, before Jing Yu joined Yun Teng, the production of At the department meeting, Cheng Lie was arguing with many colleagues in the meeting.

Many people in the station would not accept such a strong support for a rookie screenwriter who has just been recruited to the stage and has only debuted for a year, but Cheng Lie suppressed it.

If the chess soul goes to the street, Cheng Lie will also be very uncomfortable after being in the stage.

but now.

Everyone in the whole production team breathed a sigh of relief, and when they greeted Jing Yu in the morning, they were a little more sincere than before.

As expected of a person who can rise in an area like Lanzhou Province, a Go drama can have a first broadcast rating of more than 2.7%, no wonder the producer Cheng even dared to say those cruel words in the production department meeting

In the afternoon, after filming of today's scene, Cheng Lie pulled Jing Yu, director Qin Shi, and other team leaders to a high-end barbecue restaurant in the metropolis for dinner in a car.

Jing Yu actually doesn't like this kind of occasion very much. If he has time, he prefers to go home and play games alone after work.

But the Soul of Chess crew has been established for almost a month. Everyone is busy filming, and there are not many opportunities to enhance their relationship every day. To enhance the relationship between the employees far away.

"Teacher Jing Yu toasts you."

"Group Leader Liu is polite."

"As expected of a genius screenwriter who was famous last year in Dazhou, he was extraordinary as soon as he shot it. Before the broadcast, I was really worried that the audience in Dazhou would directly ignore the Go drama and choose not to watch it. Facts have proved that I was short-sighted."

"Come on, Teacher Jing Yu, this is a treasured old wine that I brought from my hometown. It's been more than 20 years, that kid Cheng Lie has been thinking about it, so I won't give it to him. Come and taste it."

"Well, this is a farmed sturgeon. Although it is not as delicious as wild ones, it is also extremely rare. Teacher Jing Yu, try it and swallow it with this iced wine."

Compared with those in Lan Province, the personnel of Yunteng TV Station are obviously more enthusiastic.

When filming, everyone performed their duties, and when it was time for dinner, they seemed to be familiar with each other. After a few rounds, Jing Yu was made dizzy by these old drunks.

It was said to be a celebratory dinner, but in fact, it became a work discussion meeting later on.

"Anyway, the opening results of the soul of chess are very good. Since this is the case, we must keep pace with the times. At the beginning, I set the final ratings target for the soul of chess at about 2.6%, considering the performance of this drama. The goal set by various issues such as subject matter and investment, but after watching it now, the first episode of Qihun has broken this goal, so we must raise the performance expectations for this drama in the future." Cheng Lie looked at Jing Yu.

"Mr. Jing Yu, you are the creator of this drama, and you have always had a unique vision. How much do you think the ratings of this drama will reach in the later stage?"

At the entire dining table, everyone looked at Jing Yu together.

Jing Yu lowered his head and thought for a while.

In fact, it's hard for him to say this question, he can only roughly judge that the work of Qihun will definitely cause a lot of waves in the film and television drama circle of Dazhou.

But in the end, how popular this drama can be depends on the broadcast conditions and environment of this drama.

Anyway, judging from the adaptations of the previous dramas, Da Zhou's audience tastes very much about these manga adaptations.

If the analogy of Qihun’s development in Jing Yu’s previous life was in Dazhou, and Qihun can roughly replicate that situation, Jing Yu feels that the ratings of Qihun’s work will never be worse than those broadcasted by the six major TV stations. It should even be said that the popularity of those dramas will be crushed.

But Jing Yu can also clearly understand one thing, that is, the accumulation of popularity and word-of-mouth for a classic work takes time.

For example, One Piece has been serialized for more than 20 years before it became as popular as before Jing Yu crossed over. It doesn’t mean that when Eiichiro Oda first serialized this manga, he took out the One Piece with a thousand chapters in one breath. For comics, if Jump is serialized in one go, the popularity can be raised to the same height as when it was serialized for 20 years in just a few months.

Jing Yu is confident that the drama Soul of Chess will be remembered by fans of Da Zhou's film and television dramas in two or three years, or even five or six years later, and become another classic in the history of Da Zhou's film and television dramas. In the short few months since it aired, Jing Yu couldn't say how many fans and popularity this work could attract.

So Jing Yu hesitated for a moment, but stretched out his palms to the main members of the crew who were paying attention to his next answer, and spread out his five fingers.

Cheng Lie and the others were a little puzzled

But after Jing Yu thought about it, he changed the gesture of five into a gesture of six with the thumb and little finger raised and the other fingers retracted.

What does it mean?

Cheng Lie was also a little puzzled.

"Oh, Mr. Jing Yu said that he hoped that the show would eventually be aired, and the overall average ratings would be 3.6%! Just now I changed the gesture, because I thought 3.5% was a bit low, right?" Li Ping, who was in charge of the post-production, suddenly realized. Said.

"3.6%, indeed, there is a possibility."

"The first episode aired with an audience rating of 2.78%, and the Yindou.com rating of our show ranks first with Xingtong's Fireworks. As long as the quality of the script can be stabilized, word-of-mouth will ferment among the audience. Indeed, There is a chance that this goal will be achieved.”

"3.6%, just thinking about it makes my blood boil. If Qihun can really achieve this result, my quarterly bonus this year will at least triple."

"Seeing that Mr. Jing Yu is so confident, I am also relieved. Dare to raise this goal, which proves that he has confidence in the quality of the follow-up script of Qihun. I like this kind of screenwriter. Unlike the crew I stayed with last year, the screenwriter himself Confidence in my own drama, but in the end it didn’t happen, and the ratings have been declining since the seventh episode.”

Cheng Lie saw the goal that Jing Yu, the soul of the crew, had set for the show of Qi Hun, and he also agreed with this number.

The target set by Jing Yu is a bit higher than the 3.4% he expected in his heart, but it doesn't matter, let everyone work hard later, try to shoot the series as exquisitely and perfectly as possible, and there is a great chance to achieve this result.

Just as Cheng Lie was about to say something, he saw Jing Yu's strange expression and spoke first.

"Well, I mean, my final average rating expectation for this show is not 3.6, but more than 6%! At first I wanted to say 5%, but later I felt that 5% was too low, no matter how conservative it is, Chess Soul should also have a 6% ratings.”

Jing Yu was given some wine before, his head was also confused, and he spoke loudly, and then... the dozen or so people sitting around the dining table were stunned.

6% We heard it wrong or Jing Yu said it wrong.

What are you kidding?

Cheng Lie was stunned for a moment, and then became weird.

What they are talking about here is the average ratings situation, not the highest ratings situation.

The audience rating of the first episode of Qihun is 2.78%. If the average audience rating of the final episode of this drama is to reach more than 3.6%, the average audience rating of the last episode of this drama must be more than 4.5%.

Just like White Album 2, the ratings of the last episode were more than three points, and the average ratings of the whole show still did not break three points. The previous episodes were too slow.

But Yunteng is not Jinhui. As long as the show's popularity rises, the viewership of Soul of Chess will also grow rapidly. Therefore, the average viewership rate is 3.6%. Cheng Lie feels that it will be difficult to achieve, but it is not the kind of whimsical goal.

But Jing Yu's 6% is pure nonsense!

The ratings of the first episode of the Soul of Chess are only at this point. Even if calculated according to the linear growth function model of mathematics, if you want to compare the 2.78% of the first episode with the average ratings of the whole show of 6%, then the average ratings of the last episode of the Soul of Chess Rate. At least break 9%.

Like Xingpu TV's Fireworks, the ratings at the beginning of the episode are around 5.00, and the ratings may rise to around 8.00 at the end of the episode. In the end, if the whole drama is counted, the average ratings may be around 6.00% , maybe at seven o'clock.

But that's Xingtong!

6%, the target set by Jing Yu is tantamount to telling everyone that he thinks the drama "Soul of Chess" can enter the top three in the ratings of this spring drama series!

This goal is really outrageous.

Jing Yu looked at the bewildered people and understood their thoughts. For them now, it is an exaggeration that the popularity of the work Soul of Qi can grow to break 9% ratings in a single episode.

But Jing Yu himself thinks so.

He has studied the so-called rating dramas of Da Zhou, those dramas with an average rating of over 10.

Of course, it is certain that those dramas are interesting, but in terms of Jing Yu's taste, the few dramas that Jing Yu watched that broke the ratings of 10, he thinks they are not as interesting as the soul of chess, and even worse.

The reason why those dramas have high ratings is that compared with other dramas broadcast in the same period, the quality is good. Before the broadcast, various marketing, hiring big-name directors, actors, investment basically broke 100 million or more, and the promotion is even more Overwhelming, covering major first- and second-tier cities, in this way, the ratings of the first episode can exceed or approach the 10% mark, and then stabilize this score later, and the average ratings of the whole show can break 10.

Chess Soul didn't have that kind of investment, publicity, nor did it invite well-known actors to participate in the performance, nor did it broadcast on a super-popular platform like Xingtong. And the subject matter is relatively unpopular, so the opening ratings are barely 2.78%. Of course, there will definitely be a wave of ratings growth in the later stages of the drama Soul of Chess.

But if you want to say that the highest ratings of the soul of chess, even the average ratings of the last episode can break 10%. %

Just like you got a zero score in the college entrance examination English test because you were late and didn't enter the examination room, and you still want to get into a good university with a total score of 590, it is really difficult and ridiculous.

Even if the plot of Soul of Chess has such a quality level, its final score will still be affected by many factors.

Jing Yu didn't think about that kind of thing anymore.

But no matter what, the average audience rating is 6%, Jing Yu thinks this should be a natural achievement for Qihun

but

Jing Yu smiled wryly, forget it, I didn't explain too much to the crew, I was tired. They don't believe you when you say it, and they still feel that they are bragging because they are too self-satisfied. Jing Yu leaned back on the chair, closed his eyes slightly, and pretended to be drunk.

Anyway, in the end, the facts speak for themselves.

Oh, drunk!

Seeing Jing Yu's gesture, everyone knew it.

No wonder, so the unrealistic goal of 6% ratings can be raised.

It turned out that he was talking nonsense while drunk.

Our screenwriter is really cute!

At the dinner table, the crew returned to normal again, and Jing Yu was drunk, so everyone continued to talk anyway.

But with the previous episode, the 3.6% audience rating has become everyone's default requirement for the follow-up goal of Qihun.