Chapter 206 Qualitative Change

Julia didn't know how to answer Elizabeth's words, although the girl's tone was light, as if she was just evaluating the characters in the play, but she could hear the faint jealousy in the girl's tone. ●⌒ Vertex says, ..

In fact, Julia herself is not so jealous. Although she only watched two episodes, she could see that with the level shown in "Friends", this TV series would definitely be a hit, and Aniston's lovable Rachel would definitely be the most popular among the six. The one that is popular with the audience, the influence of this TV series must be greater than that of a hot-selling movie.

Eric was so nice to her, Julia thought to herself.

The commercials had already started playing on the TV, and the two of them realized that the sky was already bright.

Julia stood up and stretched. After hurriedly washing, she walked out of the bathroom and said, "Liz, will you go to the restaurant downstairs for breakfast together?"

Elizabeth shook her head: "I'm tired and don't want to go out, Julia, can you bring me a fruit salad?"

Julia nodded, got dressed and walked out of the hotel. Elizabeth in the room stared at the TV screen for a while, and finally stood up and picked up the phone as if remembering something, recalled it, and dialed a series of numbers skillfully from memory.

A few minutes later, Julia returned to the room with two packed breakfasts, saw Elizabeth put the microphone down, and asked casually, "Who are you calling?"

"New York," Elizabeth replied. Seeing that Julia didn't seem to be interested, the girl walked to the sofa and sat down, "I just got on the phone with Fox TV headquarters in New York. The ratings of "Friends" have been counted. already."

Julia spreads out two boxes of salads. Pushed to Elizabeth. He stood up again and went to the refrigerator to get two boxes of milk. Hearing Elizabeth, Julia said indifferently: "What are you asking about, the TV series written by Eric himself will definitely not have low ratings, maybe it will be broadcast just now. More than 0 million people."

"1.7 million!"

Elizabeth said softly, as if something was stuck in her throat, a little hoarse. She is studying media. Compared with the layman, she is more able to appreciate the meaning contained in this number.

"Oh..." Julia dropped the milk into the glass and responded casually, then suddenly raised her head and asked with wide eyes, "How much have you just been?"

Elizabeth woodenly pulled the fruit salad in front of her, lowered her head and said, "The average viewership of the two episodes is 1.7 million.

The highest data rushed to 5 million, which is really... unbelievable. "

"My God," Julia took the milk and took a few gulps before she suppressed the shock in her heart: "Isn't it a mistake?"

"How could it be wrong. It's crazy over there at the TV headquarters."

Crazy indeed.

Even late at night, after Fox compiled the ratings data for the first two episodes of "Friends." But the news was still like wings, and it spread throughout the film and television circle in just one hour. Countless newspapers resumed writing and layout. Countless phones rang, and many people who had fallen asleep were shouted. stand up .

In this era, the main means of audio-visual entertainment for the people are movies and TV, so it is not uncommon for the audience to reach more than 0 million viewers.

But what can get this grade is either an important ceremony or competition, or a major plot twist or finale of a hit drama that has accumulated years of fame.

And it has never happened before that a TV drama has achieved such amazing results just after it started broadcasting. And more importantly, Fox is a TV station that has just been developed for less than ten years. Although its scale is already ranked fourth in North America, there is still a big gap compared with the top three TV stations. Such achievements are even more important. It's not easy anymore. Before "Friends", Fox's highest-rated show was an interview with Michael Jackson, and that was a mere 19 million. When "Friends" came out, it directly raised Fox's highest viewing record by more than ten million.

As the person who caused all this, Eric was woken up by the tireless phone ringing in the room early in the morning, and it was less than seven.

The first call was from Barry Diller himself. Barry Diller reiterated the "Friends" ratings, expressed his congratulations, and then hoped that Eric could return to the United States as soon as possible. News The chairman of the group, Rupert Murdoch, will arrive in Los Angeles in the next two days. He wants to meet Eric in person, and then chatted for more than ten minutes. Barry Diller repeatedly asked Eric. After returning to Los Angeles as soon as possible, I reluctantly hung up the phone.

Eric put down the microphone, and before he had time to ponder the news brought by Barry Diller, the phone rang immediately.

The second is Jeffrey, and then, the third, the fourth, the fifth...

For the next two full hours, Eric spent repeatedly answering the phone, and his ears were slightly itchy due to the prolonged stimulation. Until nine in the morning, Eric finally couldn't take it anymore. After unplugging the phone line, the whole world was quiet. Anyway, most of the more important people have already called, and it doesn't matter if the rest of the people answer.

Moreover, the purpose of many people calling is not very simple, except for Aniston's 丨 Niu Xing who hastily called and expressed his sincere congratulations, many other people are rushing to "Friends" "The right to play comes from.

It's no secret that Fox only booked the first season of "Friends" to be on the safe side. Now, "Friends" has just started broadcasting and has achieved such amazing results. Even if there will be big fluctuations in the ratings in the future, but with more than 0 million ratings, the ratings in the future will not be so bad. Go there. In this case, if the other three major TV stations in North America are indifferent to "Friends", then there is no need for the helm of the TV station to sit down in that position.

These people are indeed very powerful. In just a few hours, they found representatives and expressed their intentions to Eric. The TV station even found three guests: John Aniston, James Brooks and Robert Shea. You, except for John Aniston, who was originally working, Eric couldn't figure out how the other two got connected. It seems that James Brooks is a famous producer who keeps close cooperation with Fox. Aren't you afraid of being known? And Robert Shay's actions made Eric even more confused.

As for the results of "Friends", Eric is not without his own estimates, because "Dark War" is still being released, and the three "Friends" clips in it have been fermented during this period of time, which has aroused strong curiosity from the public. Heart, coupled with Eric's stunt of writing the script and directing the first two episodes himself, and Fox's tireless publicity, Eric predicted that the premiere ratings of "Friends" would definitely be in the 0 million range, otherwise I'm a little sorry He made a series of hype for this TV series.

But when the real ratings of more than 000 were released, Eric was greatly surprised.

For the ratings data of an American drama, 10 million to 0 million ratings is only a very easy quantitative change. As long as it is a popular TV series, it can reach the ratings of 0 million from time to time with the ups and downs of the plot. But the jump in ratings from 0 million to 0 million is completely a very difficult qualitative change. Only a very small number of popular American dramas can get one or two at a certain stage after they have accumulated popularity for several years. Such an amazing result.

Now "Friends" is just the beginning, and it has already created a miracle, which is enough to be included in the history of TV dramas.

Therefore, the sensation caused by this incident in the entire North American film and television circle can be imagined. (To be continued..)