Superstar Aspirations

On November 2042, 11, "Ambush" was officially broadcast on Tomato Channel.

For some weekly dramas, the premiere ratings are their highest ratings.After all, if you want the audience to watch only one episode a week without fading enthusiasm, it must be attractive enough, and the requirements for the TV series itself are very high.

At ten o'clock in the evening of this day, many viewers turned on Tomato TV as usual. Some of them had already prepared a bunch of snacks, and shouted excitedly: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yours, when will "Ambush" be broadcast?" !!!" There are also people who don't know what the station is about to broadcast, and just turn on it habitually.

The entire crew of "Ambush" finished filming at eight o'clock, and at ten o'clock, everyone returned to the hotel room.

Rong Xu's room is a single room. After he packed his things and washed up, he hesitated for a while before turning on the TV.Rong Xu was used to the feeling of seeing his own face on TV, but it wasn't too awkward. He watched it for a while, then turned off the TV and went to rest early.

And of course he didn't know that at this moment, in China, in front of many TVs, many viewers covered their faces excitedly.

The plot of "Ambush" is very fast, how fast is it?

Almost to the first episode, Bai Mingde and Liang Linghui have developed a good impression of each other, and soon to the next episode Huo Xi and Liang Linghui are going to get married.

This show is full of handsome men and beauties, and even a young lady who sells newspapers is so pink and cute that people can't help but want to reach out and pinch his cheeks.

And the plot is so sour!

The stable and wise male protagonist is a very gentle and serious officer on the surface, but secretly he is an underground party!On the surface, the gentle and virtuous lady looks innocent and ordinary, but her fiancé is Young Marshal Huo from the Huo family in Pingcheng!

The huge contrast made the audience watch with gusto, and they couldn't guess the next plot.What they especially liked was Huo Xi's appearance, riding a black wild horse, wearing a dark military uniform, a black cloak fluttering in the wind, wrapped in a shiny black sable fur, matching the white snow and silver outfit , bright and dazzling.

Draw, shoot, kill!

All movements are done in one go, like flowing clouds and flowing water, graceful and smooth.

Obviously the first episode lasted more than 40 minutes, but when this episode ended, countless viewers felt that it was only 10 minutes!

[This plot is so exciting!I have already imagined a bloody annual love drama!Gangzhen, does Young Marshal Huo like Liang Linghui?I think he is very fierce towards Liang Linghui, and I don't like it at all, but in the trailer, he hugged Liang Linghui so tenderly... Could it be that this is actually a vulgar drama of Our Lady of the White Lotus? ! 】

[Hahahaha, I know that the scriptwriter's wife is going to sprinkle me with dog blood, but I'm still looking forward to it~]

[Let the dog blood come more violently!For the young handsome's face, I am willing to drink ten pots of dog's blood! ! ! 】

[Ten pots are not enough, I want to make a hundred pots! ! ! 】

[What young commander? Wuli Rongrong said, how handsome!Prosperous and in a trance, Huo Duoshuai~ What should I do, this name suddenly makes me happy, how handsome and handsome, I suddenly feel that Huo Xi is not cold at all, he is cute! 】

In addition to these comments from ordinary audiences, some professional critics also made simple comments on the show.

[Dajiang Shanxing: "Ambush" should be a romance film with the skin of a spy movie after all. The characters are set well, and the conflicts are also quite intense. It can be expected that the next ten episodes will definitely be full of dog blood. 】

[Storm Chenxi: From the beginning to the present, the most bloody TV dramas tend to have high ratings.For example, the "Dumb Husband" nine years ago, a low-cost TV series, actually broke 3 ratings.Although "Ambush" has only gone through one episode of the plot so far, it has a lot of room for development in terms of the relationship between the characters that can be observed now.And it is a weekly drama, the plot can be changed at any time, maybe it will become a dark horse in this round of weekly drama schedule. 】

The first episode aired on Saturday gave "Ambush" a lot of discussion online.But in fact, in this round of weekly drama schedule, "Ambush" is not the most discussed.

Baidu Index: "Ambush" 3035234, "The Truth of Summer" 9545242.

Weibo index: "Ambush" 1353452, "Summer's Truth" 5139524.

The gap between "Ambush" and "The Truth of Summer" is completely a gap.

After midnight, the production director of Tomato Channel called Director Zheng.

Director Zheng has been up all night. He has worked as an assistant director and assistant director for more than ten years. This is his first leading film. He cannot fail, nor can he afford to fail.Although he said "I have confidence in our work", in fact, Director Zheng was anxious all night, and when he heard the phone ring, he jumped out of bed in shock.

"How much... how many...?" Hearing the number that the other party said, Director Zheng asked again with trembling fingers.

The other party replied with a smile: "0.7 for the first broadcast, which greatly exceeded our expectations. The average is 0.7, and the highest is 0.9. This is already very good for a newcomer drama like yours. After all, you only have one fan, Han Yanghao." After a pause , the production director said again: "Oh, yes, there is also the male number two... His name is Rong Xu, right? He is also very hotly discussed on the Internet, and now our station is going to use these two people to hold a round on the Internet." Propaganda, can you get them to cooperate a little bit?"

Director Zheng nodded quickly: "Yes, yes! Absolutely!"

The production director said helplessly: "Actually, our ratings can be higher. It's a pity. I didn't expect "Summer's Truth" to be changed suddenly. I hope we can break 1 at the end. But I still want to congratulate you, old man." Zheng!"

Yes, the national ratings were announced the next day, and in the weekly drama on the prime time at [-] o'clock on weekends——

No.1, "The Truth of Summer", 1.5!

No.2, "Ambush", 0.7!

No.1 has more than double the ratings than No.2, which is an insurmountable moat!

0.7 is not a hit for any weekly drama.If you want the ratings of the first broadcast to break 1, then you must have a big-name actor or a big-name director, or a big IP.And these, "The Truth of Summer" are all collected, but "Ambush" has none of them.

Someone in the industry said with emotion: "It's only natural for "Summer" to get this score, but at the end of the first episode, it was a little lower, and it was only 1.3. But "Ambush" is really unexpected. Although it shouldn't be able to break 1, but said It may not always be able to stay above 0.5."

On the Internet, discussions on the two dramas are also extremely intense.

The audience of "Ambush" was excitedly discussing the next development, they had countless brain holes, and even in just one night, someone drew a fan picture of the TV series.

The handsome and elegant young commander is riding on a tall horse, looking down at you indifferently.The background is a snowy winter night, and the wind and snow cannot infect his beautiful eyebrows and eyes. He is surrounded by thousands of troops and horses, with a dream that is out of reach.

This picture was the most widely circulated on the Internet, and was even reposted by several marketing accounts, directly receiving tens of thousands of reposts.

In fact, this is a marketing method of the TV station and the crew. After observing the comments of the audience, they found that these audiences especially liked the scene where Huo Xi appeared, so they released such a fanart to attract the attention of passers-by .

On the other hand, it was Han Yanghao and Zhang Tongtong's CP marketing.The official gave them a CP name called "Spy Couple". Binding these two people together heated up the popularity of CP and brought a lot of publicity.

Regardless of the effect of the broadcast, on this side, a new day has arrived, and the crew has started busy shooting again.

There are currently five episodes in total that the production team has handed over to the TV station, and five more episodes need to be filmed, and the filming must be completed within a month.So the next month completely became a Shura purgatory, shooting from seven or eight in the morning to eleven or twelve in the evening, or even early in the morning!

During this period, no one dared to say a word of nonsense.Once Han Yanghao complained, Director Zheng scolded him angrily and told him to pay attention to the spirit of his contract. When he signed the contract, it was stated that each actor could only be guaranteed more than six hours of sleep.

Half a month passed quickly, and there were only two episodes left to film, and on this day, the third episode of "Ambush" finally ushered in.

The ratings of the premiere of "Ambush" was 0.7, as expected by the TV station. With the good reputation of the first episode and their various marketing promotions on the Internet and in reality, the ratings of the second episode did not drop but rose. Reached 0.8!The production director also joked with his subordinates with a smile: "Maybe this show will really hope to be a 1 when it ends."

...you have to wait until the end to break 1?

Not at all!

As soon as the second episode ended, the trailer for the third episode came out, which edited a scene: the emotional scene between Huo Xi and Liang Linghui.

That's right, it's the emotional scene of "almost revealing the truth when drunk" that appeared in the trailer!

As soon as the trailer came out, the internet went viral. In the post bars, super topics, and forums of "Ambush", people can be seen everywhere discussing the emotional drama between Huo Xi and Liang Linghui, and at the same time discussing what kind of ending the love triangle of these three people will have.

The TV station didn't notice this momentum, and the crew was rushing to catch up with the schedule, so naturally they didn't notice it.And this topic, which has been hotly discussed for a week, suddenly got a big explosion when the third episode of "Ambush" was broadcast!

At midnight on the second day, the national ratings will be announced!

No.1, "Ambush", 1.12!

No.2, "The Truth of Summer", 0.97!

The third episode, just the third episode, compared with "Summer" whose ratings were gradually declining, the ratings of "Ambush" surprised everyone.Who would dare to believe that in the most nightmare "third episode law" of weekly dramas, there is actually a drama that advances by leaps and bounds in the third episode and won the number one weekly drama of the same period in the country!

The third set of rules is a default rule both inside and outside the circle.

Weekly dramas only show one episode a week, no matter how attractive the plot is, there are bound to be viewers who will give up following the drama.Under such circumstances, many people have found that most of the weekly dramas have an iron rule: from the first episode, the ratings decrease, reach the bottom in the third episode, and then rise again!

All in all, the third episode is generally the lowest-rated episode of each weekly show.

But now, "Ambush" suddenly broke 1 in the third episode, and even became the only one of the weekly dramas in the same period to break 1!

All of a sudden, all eyes were on the show.Tomato Channel was ecstatic, and the production director excitedly took pictures of his thighs: "The bonus is doubled! This time everyone's bonus is doubled!"

But in Mango Terrace, it was a thick cloud and mist.

The ratings of "Summer's Truth" kept hitting new lows, and now it even dropped below 1 directly.Moreover, its reputation is getting worse and worse. Countless people scolded the show for its ignorance, and also scolded the heroine for her poor acting skills. Out of the dark belly of the male protagonist in the original novel, he has been pretending to be aggressive!

It can be said that the soaring ratings of "Ambush" will inevitably grab the market share of weekly dramas of the same schedule.And "Summer's Truth" lost a large part of its ratings to "Ambush"!

Mango Taichung, the production director gritted his teeth and said: "Let the crew change the plot according to the audience's feedback! Change it immediately!" After a while, he said again: "Go and keep an eye on Tomato TV. We must not let the ratings of "Ambush" be lowered." If it rises again, we will pull them down!"

The crew of "Ambush" didn't know about these things.

There were only a dozen scenes this morning, and Director Zheng held a scriptwriting meeting.They got together to analyze all the comments from the audience since the three episodes. At the end of the meeting, Director Zheng said seriously: "Maybe we can not only pay for ratings, we can also gain word of mouth!"

So that night, Rong Xu received a new script.The changes in the script are not too many, but a very core part has been changed, which is enough to make the whole drama more popular by [-]%!