As the person in charge of the "Chinese Paladin" project at Penguin Pictures, Fang Lintao should be very happy that the "Chinese Paladin" series can break the record of online TV dramas in terms of click-through rate, but Fang Lintao now looks a little worried.
It is true that the Chinese Paladin series has achieved huge success. In fact, this could be seen when the second part of the series was aired. The data of the first broadcast was on track to break the historical record.
So not long after the second season of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" was broadcast, Fang Lintao had been looking for Yu Qiuqin, the head of the film and television department of the Chinese website, hoping to have deeper cooperation. After all, the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" series was so successful, Fang Lintao naturally wanted more.
The Chinese website now holds the copyrights to several of Li Changle's popular novels, and whether it is the Shediao trilogy or Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, the story seems to be better than the Chinese Paladin series.
Fang Lintao believes that if these martial arts novels were to be adapted into film and television, the ratings would definitely not be worse than those of the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" series, and might even be better.
Unfortunately, every time Fang Lintao went to see Yu Qiuqin, this woman would look around without any definite information. She was very smooth in performing Tai Chi. Fang Lintao asked her several times and she kept getting the same response. It seemed that she had no idea what the Chinese website was thinking.
Last time, Penguin Pictures had to wait for the TV series invested by its platform to be released as scheduled due to special reasons. So after comprehensive consideration, Penguin Pictures decided to release the sequel of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" ahead of schedule.
This biased approach should have displeased the Chinese website. Fang Lintao secretly speculated in his heart that if it weren't for Li Changle and Guo Zongming's desperate overtime, the sequel to "Chinese Paladin" would probably not have been able to be presented so perfectly.
In other words, Li Changle's suggestions saved the crew a lot of detours in post-production and reduced a lot of trial and error costs. Otherwise, the film could have been completed in time, but the effect would have been much worse.
Although Penguin Pictures proposed to the Chinese website to exchange certain resources when the second part of Legend of Sword and Fairy was broadcast earlier, this approach obviously made the Chinese website feel a little unhappy. Li Changle and Guo Zongming were even more unhappy. After all, they were the ones who were tired from this operation.
In fact, when Fang Lintao heard the senior management of Penguin Pictures propose to shift the production schedule of the two TV series, Fang Lintao disagreed in his heart. The Chinese Paladin series of TV series had already shown an unrivaled posture in the first part, and the second part was bound to set various records.
The broadcast time of a TV series is closely related to the ratings. To give a simple example, the prime time is usually from 8 to 10 pm. The audience at this time is the most free, so the ratings at this time are particularly high.
Major satellite TV stations will choose to broadcast the hottest and best-quality TV series or variety shows at 8 o'clock, and the ratings can easily exceed 4%.
If you broadcast a TV series at one or two o'clock in the morning, no matter how high the quality of your TV series is, the ratings will not exceed 2%.
By the same token, winter and summer vacations are often the two time points with the highest ratings in the year. This is because the main group of people watching TV dramas are young people, and students account for a large proportion of young people. Therefore, during the winter and summer vacations, the ratings of TV stations are often much higher than during normal time periods.
Fang Lintao understood this principle clearly, and the senior management of Penguin Pictures must also be aware of it. Fang Lintao even guessed that they should know how high the quality of the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" series of TV dramas is.
However, the TV series in the Chinese Paladin series was not completely produced by Penguin Pictures, but the TV series during the schedule change was, and it was even solely invested by Penguin.
The relationship between these two TV series is like "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is an adopted son, and the TV series produced by the film and television industry is the closest son to the parents. No matter how outstanding the adopted son is, the parents will most likely not let him inherit the family business. They will only choose their biological son, even if this biological son may not be as outstanding as the adopted son.
The sequel to The Legend of Sword and Fairy will be released during the Spring Festival, and the ratings and click-through rates will definitely be even better. Although the current data is also very explosive, Fang Lintao once felt very sorry because the drama "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" obviously deserves better and higher results.
However, it was indeed because of the selfish motives of the executives of Penguin Pictures that they made a bold move to directly switch the schedules of the two TV series. Not only was Guo Zongming caught off guard at the time, even Fang Lintao was confused.
But after all, he is only the head of a Penguin Pictures project team, not the head of Penguin Pictures, so his opinion is not very important.
Everyone knows that the early release of a TV series will definitely bring a lot of difficulties to the post-production of the TV series. If the effect is not good, it is not impossible that the second part of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" will collapse directly.
I don’t know if the executives of Penguin Pictures regret doing this now. I think they don’t regret it. They are very happy that "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" did not collapse, and they are even happier that it broke the record.
But that's all. The TV series in the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" series are not self-produced by Penguin Pictures. In their opinion, the priority cannot be higher than their self-produced dramas, even if the quality of their self-produced dramas is worse than "Legend of Sword and Fairy".
In other words, Fang Lintao felt that he was earning money on his knees, otherwise he would definitely point at his boss's nose and curse him. But if he really did this, it would be like standing up, and standing up would not make any money. Fang Lintao was very clear about this.
So, making money is not shameful.
Fang Lintao saw clearly that if the copyrights of the martial arts novels in the hands of the Chinese website could be filmed according to the standards of the "Chinese Paladin" series, Fang Lintao believed that the sensation caused by the film would not be worse than that of "Chinese Paladin".
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