Hong Kong Comic Master

“41%? Impossible, absolutely impossible!”

In the office of TVB’s production manager, Fang Yihua slammed the newspaper on the table.

At the beginning, Fang Yihua went to watch the TV series “Hong Kong Island Love Story” after hearing that Jiayi had completed the revision, especially the TV series “Hong Kong Island Love Story” broadcast in the prime time.

After watching it, Fang Yihua felt that the love portrayal was very delicate, but that was all.

The whole TV series was like boiled water, without any explosive points. Except that the male and female protagonists were good-looking, there was nothing good about it.

How much waves can such a TV series cause?

Don’t joke, the ratings have already said it all!

However, as the second and third episodes were broadcast one after another, and the plot continued to deepen, she was surprised to find that the ratings of the TV series “Hong Kong Island Love Story” had skyrocketed.

When the fourth episode aired last night, when Wei Wanzhi finally responded to Chi Lixiang’s love, the ratings of the TV series directly exceeded 40%, beating the two TV series of TVB and ATV in the same period.

When Fang Yihua saw that the No. 1 TV series was this one, she couldn't believe her eyes.

How could such a "three-no" TV series with no investment, no cast, and no popularity beat their big-bud TV series?

However, reality is so unreasonable! They were defeated!

"Producer Wang, what do you think?"

Fang Yihua looked at a fat man on the side. This man looked naive, and his fat eyes seemed unable to open, but his small green eyes flashed with wisdom. ♦♦  ♦♦

This man, Wang Tianlin, has been making films since the 1950s and is known as the godfather of Hong Kong films.

After the 1970s, he came to TVB and transformed into a TV producer, producing a series of well-known classic TV series.

"I'll sit at home and watch!" Wang Tianlin sat on the sofa like a ball of meat, not looking anxious at all.

Seeing Wang Tianlin's attitude, Fang Yihua became even more angry. Where do you sit on your butt?

However, she didn't say it, because Wang Tianlin might say, sitting on the sofa.

She had no way to deal with Wang Tianlin. This was the confidence from being the top seller. Even Shao Liushu respected Wang Tianlin very much, not to mention that she was the concubine of a boss.

"Producer Wang, the progress of "Xiao Shiyilang" must be accelerated. The schedule needs to be moved to September. We must not let the other party go on like this!"

"I know. Alas, my old bones have to work overtime again."

Wang Tianlin, who looked like an anti-roll fighter, wailed.

"Xiao Shiyilang" was produced by Wang Tianlin and was the first TV series that Xie Laosi joined TVB. It was highly expected.

It was originally planned to be broadcast in October or even November. However, in the face of the rising ratings of "Hong Kong Island Love Story", Fang Yihua had to advance this TV series to block it.

In addition to the movement of TVB, ATV also made the same decision and decided to launch the TV series "Huanhua Xijianlu" adapted from the same Gu Long novel.

The Hong Kong Island cake is already crowded for two people to eat, let alone three people to eat?

"Click!"

At this moment, Shao Liushu pushed the door open and walked in. Fang Yihua and Wang Tianlin stood up at the same time.

Wang Tianlin could not give face to Fang Yihua, but he could not not give face to Shao Liushu.

"It's okay, sit down!"

Shao Liushu looked kind, with a smile on his face, and then sat on the sofa on the other side. Fang Yihua also hurriedly walked from behind the desk to the front and stood on the side of Shao Liushu.

"I heard your voice outside. What made you so angry?"

"I'm worried about that Fenghuang. I'm discussing countermeasures with producer Wang!"

"With Tianlin here, I'm relieved about TV series. I'm more worried about animation!"

If there is still a battle between TVB and ATV in TV series, then in animation, Fenghuang can say loudly: Sorry, everyone here is garbage!

Before this, TVB dominated the children's market in Hong Kong Island and never cared about it until Fenghuang came out and hit the target.

Among them, the animation-focused "Animation City" took less than two weeks to make its ratings break through 50%, completely crushing the other two TV stations.

It can be said that nowadays, any child with a TV at home in Hong Kong Island will turn on the TV to Phoenix TV at 5:30 pm.

For this reason, there are many family tragedies caused by children and parents fighting for the TV in Hong Kong Island.

Faced with this situation, TVB and ATV have thought of countermeasures, but in the field of animation, these two companies are no match for Phoenix TV.

Hong Kong Island's own animation production is very weak.

Originated in 1959, the owner of a paint factory "China Paint Factory" invested money out of interest and invited people from the UPA (United Production Company of the United States) company in the United States to travel across the ocean to Hong Kong Island and purchase equipment to train 15 animation talents for the paint factory.

However, since the formal training began in 1960, it only lasted for one year and was disbanded on the spot because of price differences. The paint factory also laid off the animation department.

However, these 15 animation talents became the spark of Hong Kong animation, and successively established three animation companies, namely Oriental Cartoon Animation Company, Hezong Cartoon Animation Company and Hong Kong Animation Company.

However, they were like newly born eagles, relying entirely on their passion and unable to carry forward the company.

After the 1970s, TVB did set up an animation department, but with TVB's cost-conscious style, they would save as much as possible on TV dramas, let alone a niche animation department?

Therefore, TVB's animations have always been shoddy, but even so, they can still attract the attention of children in Hong Kong Island.

Until the appearance of Phoenix TV's Animation City, with its excellent production and Li Wannian's cheating, the broadcast of the two animations can be said to be a dimensionality reduction attack for Hong Kong Island.

"I have analyzed that they adapted the comics into animations, and before the animations were broadcast, there were already a large number of viewers, just like Jin Daxia's books were adapted into TV dramas. So I have already contacted a comic company and are ready to cooperate with them to launch the animation as soon as possible. I believe that we can definitely regain the market share!"

The comic company mentioned by Fang Yihua is naturally Huang Yulang's Yulang Company.

Originally, Fang Yihua didn't care about a small role like Huang Yulang, but when Phoenix TV suddenly emerged and firmly held the ratings, Fang Yihua learned about it and found that Huang Yulang was the second only to Li Wannian in the Hong Kong comics industry.

So, he decisively extended an olive branch to Huang Yulang, and the two hit it off and soon "hooked up" together.

"Well, you can try it, but don't put all your eggs in one basket. The key is to rely on our own department. Isn't the animation production company of Phoenix TV very powerful? Then go and poach people! Now they don't have much money, how many people can resist the temptation?"

"I understand!"