Chapter 1154 (1/2)
Denise entertainment West Coast headquarters on the upper west side, New York.
It's August 21.
Thursday.
In late August, the summer film season is coming to an end, and the autumn TV Season of 1997 is coming. Simon flew to New York from Los Angeles again on Tuesday. In recent days, he has been participating in the programming of Denise Entertainment's major TV networks.
ABC TV network, this year's heavyweight is still ”American Idol.”.
This is the third season of this reality show. According to the feedback of the performance of the second season of the summer tour and the recent promotion of the third season, unless there are other super dark horses in this autumn, it is estimated that the average audience number will still be around 35 million, and ”American Idol” can basically continue to lock in the new year's viewing champion.
In addition to ”American Idol”, ABC's other ace ”Seinfeld” is about to enter the eighth season.
Perhaps later, some people have the impression that the most popular sitcom in the United States in the 1990s is friends, especially the audience of American TV series abroad.
It's not true.
The most popular sitcom in America in the 1990s is ”Seinfeld”.
In the seventh season of last year, the average audience of ”Seinfeld” reached 33 million, second only to the 37 million of ”American Idol” in the second season, and the average audience of ”friends” in 1994, the third season last year, was only 24 million.
Of course, friends has a long way to go, and the ninth season of Song Fei is expected to end next year.
Danielis entertainment has made efforts to this end before, hoping that Jerry soonfeld, the main creator of ”the story of Seinfeld”, can achieve the tenth season, which is a complete one. Therefore, on the basis of a single episode of one million dollars, danielis entertainment also gave a stock option as a condition. Unfortunately, the comedian did not agree, but only signed the eighth season and the fourth season when he renewed his contract this year Two contracts in the ninth quarter.
It's not about money.
It's hard to avoid tiredness if you repeat anything for many years. In addition, because of the popularity of ”Seinfeld”, the TV man is not short of money at all. Finally, he voluntarily gave up the high reward given by danielis entertainment, hoping to have a rest.
In addition to the two main hits, who will be a millionaire, which started broadcasting in 1988, continues this year.
Compared with the booming ”American Idol”, the ratings of ”who will be a millionaire” dropped to an average of 11 million last year. However, because the production cost of this program is very low and the audience rating of tens of millions is still very high, the profit margin is still very large, so it can last for many years.
On the other hand, after all, it is no longer popular. The schedule of ”who will be a millionaire” has been moved to the relatively unpopular Saturday night for TV series, and reduced to a weekly issue.
In addition to her own ABC platform, several other popular programs, NBC's friends and CBS's the story of the emergency room, are still in the golden age.
Survivor, which was born at the same time as who will be a millionaire, will also continue. The average audience of survivor in the latest season is 13 million, higher than who will be a millionaire. However, after all, it's someone else's show, and NBC has reduced its subscription from two quarters a year in the early days to one quarter a year at present.
In addition to the public TV network, there are other cable TV networks such as USA, ESPN and Fashion TV under danielis entertainment.
Relying on the accurate positioning of women's TV network and a series of popular main programs, USA, as the basic cable network, has developed very rapidly in recent years. At present, the number of subscribers has increased from 21 million to 93 million. The main reality TV show ”Wife Series” and two TV series ”Desperate Housewives” and ”sex and the city” have been the North beauty sex group in recent years The focus of hot discussion on body.
USA's list has not changed much this year.
As for reality shows, in addition to the two long-term hits of Beverly's wife and New York's wife, the earlier ones of Atlanta's wife and Miami's wife were successively cut down due to their general ratings. Last year's overseas branch line Melbourne's wife was very popular, and this year's London's wife was added.
Plus a few other reality shows involving cooking or fashion, USA is a big reality show.
Simon has actually been preparing two other reality shows for USA, the runway show and the national supermodel competition. However, since the wife series can still hold up the audience, it doesn't need to be taken out too early.
In terms of TV series, ”Desperate Housewives” has come to the sixth season this year. According to Simon's story line based on memory planning, the eighth season is expected to end. In the previous fifth season, the average audience of this TV series is as high as 15 million, which may not be popular on public TV networks. For basic cable networks, it is already a phenomenal level.
In addition, ”sex and the city” ratings slightly lower, but also in the second quarter of last year reached an average of 9.7 million viewers, is expected to break 10 million this year. Moreover, because of the theme and audience, ”sex and the city” is only more topical than ”Desperate Housewives”. The audience of urban elite female group makes this TV series more popular with advertisers.In terms of ESPN, the agreement was formally implemented this year after reaching an eight-year $9 billion buyout agreement with the NFL last year. Not surprisingly, ESPN will also start its own road to take off and finally achieve the ultimate goal of ”ESPN tax” in Simon's memory.
The development of Fashion TV has been quite smooth in recent years. This year, there is no big change. Its main goal is to continue overseas expansion and increase global coverage.
Finally, there are some basic cable stations, such as AE TV network. This is the joint venture media between ABC and Hurst group. After the accident three years ago, Denise entertainment got all the shares.
However, compared with USA, ESPN or fashion, these TV stations can only be regarded as icing on the cake. Some of them are still at a loss, and Simon does not mean to close them. After all, this is the public opinion gain. Both Denise entertainment itself and other industries in the westero system will use these media platforms more or less.
At the end of today's work, Simon just walked out of the conference room side by side with Robert egger. Girl a came up and whispered to Simon: ”the divayers happened to be here today to discuss some cooperation details. They learned that the boss is here, and they hope to say hello.”
The divayers, the divayers of Kara divayers.
A few years ago, Simon ran into Mr. and Mrs. Deway at a Christie's auction in London. After chatting about their name in memory, he learned that Charles Deway, the man of the family, was a real estate developer and real estate agent, so he hired each other to help him purchase property in London. He didn't have many opportunities to meet each other these years.
This time, the divayers are here precisely because of the London wife, which has just been finalized this year.
Charles Devi's wife, Pandora Devi, was selected.
The divayers are also members of the celebrity circle in London, and they have noble blood. Although there is a lot of water in the study, the indirect relationship between the divayers and all kinds of celebrities is also a gimmick for the show London's wife, which is enough to attract a large number of ordinary audiences.
By the way, Simon nodded and agreed to go to a rest room on the other floor of the building.
When the divayers saw Simon appear, they quickly got up.
Everyone said hello. When they learned that the divayers had come to talk business and would stay in New York for a few days, Simon invited each other to a family party at Jerry Hall's side in the evening. By the way, they were able to get in touch with each other. The couple agreed with each other happily.
For the time being.
Simon went to Greenwich first. It was more than six o'clock in the evening. He came to Jerry Hall's flat floor apartment. As soon as he entered, Hall's eldest daughter, Elizabeth Jagger, welcomed him. In addition, there were Niki Hilton of the Hilton family and their little companion, bankin Kardashian.
Simon watched the girl rush to her enthusiasm. Without waiting for the girl to entangle her, he held her head down and said with a smile, ”don't buy it!”
”Ha, Dad, I didn't expect that the richer you are, the more stingy you are.” The girl cried sweetly. She took Simon's big hand off his head and took him by the arm: ”besides, I didn't say I wanted to buy anything. The summer vacation is coming to an end. I just want to go out and play. Dad, can you lend me your Boeing 767?”