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Michael also found that Wang Lei was not a pervert who only had women on his mind.

The other party seemed to know a little bit about everything, and the two of them unknowingly talked about the show.

"The cost of TV series production remains high, and the cost per hour of prime-time dramas generally exceeds $1 million!"

"It takes a huge investment of $20 million to shoot a TV series, so my idea is to invest more energy in variety shows and create original variety shows."

The profit of TV series depends more on the advertisements inserted in the middle and at the end. If you want to make a profit, the series must be attractive enough.

The rising production costs can easily lead to a loss of money, and it is common for TV stations to cut dramas.

Wang Lei nodded in understanding. Because of the rising costs, the union strike, and the cancellation of tax incentives, a series of unfavorable factors, major TV stations are finding other ways to broadcast variety shows in prime time.

On the one hand, the price of producing variety shows is cheap, often half the time of producing TV series, or even lower, and most of the employees hired are non-union employees, or even amateurs, bypassing the annoying unions.

In this great era, it is normal for Michael to have such an idea.

"Sir, I just learned that Tokyo TV is your industry. I like all the variety shows it produces. I wonder if Paramount can... introduce these three programs?"

Wang Lei just mentioned it casually. He didn't expect that this guy would really climb up with two poles.

"Of course it's possible, but the basic copyright fee still needs to be paid, and the MC must use artists under United Elite."

Adhering to the principle of maximizing benefits, he would do it even if Michael didn't mention it.

"But I still hope that the TV station's variety shows have some local characteristics, and can't always rely on introducing other people's things."

"I have an idea to make a quiz show. As long as the registered contestants answer 15 questions correctly in a row, they can win a grand prize of 1 million US dollars!"

"The contestants have three opportunities to ask for help, namely their relatives and friends, the audience, and reduce the difficulty once."

"The winner can also compete for the annual championship..."

Michael nodded repeatedly. He didn't expect that the big boss also had such a deep insight into making programs. This program idea alone can make Paramount TV stand out among the five major TV stations.

"Boss, isn't the bonus a bit high?"

"Haha, it takes real skill to get it. Do a thorough investigation of talented contestants in advance. Everyone has their own strengths. I don't need to say more."

Michael also nodded in agreement, and was unconsciously assimilated by Wang Lei.

Following the boss's train of thought, he said:

"Every few episodes, we will find a pre-selected contestant and let him get the bonus to stimulate the ratings..."

Okay, I can draw inferences from one example.

Seeing that the time is ripe, Wang Lei put forward his own views on the production of TV series:

"In the field of TV series, we can't relax.

We have the copyright library of Marvel Comics, which can be fully utilized to let some insignificant actors also appear.

And in the script, I bought out a few ideas, all here, you can take a look."

Michael took Wang Lei's notebook.

"The Walking Dead, Prison Break, Breaking Bad..."

With Michael's many years of experience in making TV series, the creativity of these TV series is the best choice, full of highlights, and he immediately felt like he had found a treasure.

"Boss, these script ideas are really good, they can all be made into series, if the ratings are good, it won't be a problem to shoot for ten years."

They are all ace series in parallel worlds, how can they not be good?

Take The Walking Dead for example, at its peak in history, 21 million people watched it on TV.

What kind of rating is 21 million?

Known as the king of traffic.

According to statistics, the TV ratings of the finale of Game of Thrones were 19 million.

The two films were screened at the same time many times, and the performance of Game of Thrones at the time also broke many records... It can be seen how popular The Walking Dead is.

Prison Break was also the king of TV series in 2005, with an official rating of 18 million.

It set a record for the highest Monday ratings in the TV off-season in 7 years.

"Breaking Bad" swept the 66th Emmy Awards.

If we talk about the highest ratings for a single episode, it is undoubtedly "The Walking Dead".

If we talk about the ratings of the finale, Breaking Bad set a record of 10.3 million viewers, beating all TV shows in the same period.

Michael is naturally knowledgeable, and he can naturally see the potential of the three TV series.

Any one of them can be taken out alone.Becoming the ratings king of the same time period, a drama that made the TV station's advertising revenue sky-high.

The big boss generously gave him three dramas at once.

Even a pig can fly with the blessing of three dramas.

"Boss, can I meet these creative screenwriters? It would be a pity if such talents are not in our Paramount."

"Uh... well, he is a friend of mine. He is not interested in becoming a screenwriter. Besides, he is just an outsider and needs professional screenwriters to enrich the plot."

Upon hearing that he was the boss's friend, Michael immediately stopped asking questions.

Those who can become the boss's friends must be rich people, and writing drama ideas is also a temporary interest.

While feeling sorry for the other party, Michael also assured Wang Lei:

"Boss, don't worry, I will definitely bring these ideas to the small screen and make the TV station the number one TV station in the United States!"

Wang Lei is very satisfied with Michael. He is young and energetic, knows how to adapt, and has his own ideas.

Xueli really dug up a good seedling.

At this moment, Michael was completely convinced. Before he was summoned by his boss, he was troubled by countless problems.

Now he has not only determined the biggest breakthrough point of Paramount's ratings, but also has three trump card scripts in hand, and even has new ideas for amateur variety shows.

It can be said that all the problems that troubled him have been solved by his boss.

Thinking of this, he was even a little ashamed of himself, a president who was hired with a high salary.

He didn't help solve any problems, but had to rely on the boss for everything.

He was ashamed of what he did as a president.

Seeing Michael lower his proud head, Qi Xiaona couldn't help but chuckle. The other party was very good, but her boyfriend was even better.

"Brother Lei, I have arranged Kevin Reynolds in the reception room."

Michael was shocked when he heard the name. Recently, this name is too familiar and has appeared in major entertainment headlines.

It's just that it's not a good reputation. The other party has been crowned the king of bad movies by reporters.

Kevin Reynolds was called over. Did the boss want to use this king of bad movies?

Film production was not within his scope of internal affairs, and Michael hesitated to speak.

Just when he wanted to leave to avoid suspicion, Wang Lei stopped him:

"Michael, you are here too, let's go meet Kevin Reynolds together."