Chapter 206: Qualitative change
Julia didn't know how to pick up Elizabeth's words. Although the girl's tone was faint, it seemed to be only evaluating the characters in the play, but she heard the faint sigh of the girl's tone.
In fact, Julia herself is not so awkward. Although she only watched two episodes, she could see that the TV series was definitely hot with the performance of "Friends". The beauty of Aniston's character is also the most popular among the six. The one that is popular with the audience, the influence of this TV series is definitely greater than that of a hot movie.
Eric was so good to her, Julia thought so.
The TV has already started to play ads, and the two people have reacted, and the sky is already bright.
Julia stood up and stretched out, hurriedly washed out and walked out of the bathroom: "Liz, go to the restaurant downstairs for breakfast?"
Elizabeth shook her head: "I am a little tired, don't want to go out, Julia, can you bring me a fruit salad?"
Julia nodded, dressed and opened the door and walked out of the hotel. Elizabeth in the room looked at the TV screen for a while, and finally remembered what it was like to stand up and pick up the phone. I recalled it and used the memory to dial a series of numbers.
A few minutes later, Julia returned to the room with two packed breakfasts and saw Elizabeth put the microphone down and asked casually: "Who call?"
"New York," Elizabeth replied, seeing that Julia seemed to be uninterested. The girl walked down to the sofa and sat down. "I just got a call with the Fox TV headquarters in New York. The ratings of Friends are counted. It is."
Julia spread the two boxes of salad and gave it to Elizabeth. She stood up and went to the refrigerator to take two boxes of milk. When I heard Elizabeth say this, Julia didn't care: "You ask what these things are, Eric personally wrote the TV series. The ratings will definitely not be low. Maybe it will be more than 20 million people."
"31.7 million!"
Elizabeth whispered. The throat seemed to be stuck with something, some hoarse. She is a student of the media, and she is more able to appreciate the meaning of this number than the layman.
"Oh..." Julia dropped the milk into the glass and gave it a sigh of relief. Then she reacted and suddenly raised her head and asked her eyes: "How much have you just said?"
Elizabeth Woodland pulled the fruit salad in front of her and bowed her head: "The average rating of the two episodes is 31.7 million. The highest data has reached 35 million. It is... incredible."
"God," Julia said, taking a few mouthfuls of milk, and then suppressed the shock in her heart: "Isn't it wrong?"
"How could it be wrong? The TV station headquarters is crazy."
It is indeed crazy.
After Fox counted the ratings of the first two episodes of "Friends", even if it was late at night, the news was still like a wing, spread throughout the film and television circle in just one hour, countless newspapers Restart the draft layout, and countless phone rings. Many people who have fallen asleep have been shouted.
In this era, the main audiovisual entertainment of the people is film and television. The ratings of more than 30 million people are not uncommon.
But the ones that can get this result are either important ceremonies or competitions, or major drama turns or finals that have accumulated a few years of popular hits.
And a TV series just got on the air and got such amazing results, it has never happened before. More importantly, Fox is a TV station that has only just developed in less than a decade. Although it has already ranked fourth in North America, it still has a big gap compared with the top three TV stations. Not easy. Before "Friends," Fox's highest ratings record was a show interview with Michael Jackson. And that is only the viewing of 19 million people. When "Friends" came out, it directly increased Fox's highest ratings by more than 10 million.
As the person who is the most critical of all this. Eric was awakened by the tireless phone ringing in the room early in the morning, less than seven o'clock.
The first call was made by Barry Diller personally. Barry Diller said that the "Friends" ratings were published, and expressed congratulations, and then I hope Eric can return to the United States as soon as possible, News Group Chairman Rupert Murdoch these two days I will arrive in Los Angeles, I want to see Eric in person, and then I talked for more than ten minutes. Barry Diller repeatedly slammed Eric back to Los Angeles as soon as possible, and then reluctantly hung up. .
Eric put down the mic and hadn't had time to carefully ponder the news brought by Barry Diller. The ringing of the phone rang.
The second is Jeffrey, then, the third, fourth, fifth...
For the next two hours, Eric spent the repeated calls, and the ears on both sides were slightly itchy because of the long-term stimulation. Until 9 am, Eric finally received Without a moment to unplug the telephone line, the whole world was quiet. Anyway, most of the more important people have already called and the rest of them don’t care.
Moreover, the purpose of many people calling is not very simple, except for Aniston’s little girl who hastily rushed to make a lot of enthusiasm, and sincerely expressed a lot of congratulations, many other people are running. Friends from the right to play.
It was not a secret that Fox only booked the first season of Friends in the first place. Now, "Friends" has just achieved such amazing results just after the broadcast, even if there will be big ups and downs in the ratings, but the results of more than 30 million ratings will be the bottom, and the future ratings will not be worse. Go there, in this case, if the other three major TV stations in North America are indifferent to Friends, then the head of the TV station will not have to sit in that position again.
These people are indeed superb, and they found representatives in just a few hours and expressed their intentions to Eric. Nbc TV even found John Aniston, James Brooks and Robert Shea. The guest came to lobby, in addition to John Aniston, who was originally working at nbc, Eric couldn't figure out how the other two people had a relationship with nbc. It looks like James Brooks is a famous producer who works closely with Fox. Isn't it afraid to be known if you do this? And Robert Shea’s move made Eric even more confused.
For Eric's achievements, Eric did not have his own predictions, because "The Dark War" is still being released, and the three "Friends" clips that have been broadcasted during this period of fermentation have aroused the public's strong curiosity. Heart, plus Eric personally wrote the script and personally directed the first two episodes of the gimmick, as well as Fox's spare propaganda, Eric had expected that the premiere rating of "Friends" will definitely be within the 20 million range, otherwise some are sorry He made a series of speculations for this TV series.
However, the true ratings of more than 3,000 were released, and Eric was greatly surprised.
For the ratings data of a US drama, 10 million to 20 million ratings is just a very easy quantitative change. As long as it is a hit TV series, it can reach the 20 million viewing data from time to time with the ups and downs of the plot. However, the 20 million to 30 million ratings jump is a very difficult qualitative change. Only a few of the popular American TV dramas can only get one or two at a certain stage after a few years of popularity. Such amazing results.
Now that "Friends" is just the beginning, it has already created a miracle, which is enough to fill the history of TV drama development.
Therefore, the sensation caused by this incident in the entire North American film and television circle can be imagined. (To be continued)