On Wednesday, the temporarily produced new episode of "Sophia Talk Show" was officially broadcast on cbs TV station. The guest of this episode should be a famous rugby player. When many rugby fans sat in front of the TV and waited for their idol to appear At that time, it was discovered that the guest was replaced by the young director Eric Williams, so some die-hard fans called the TV station to question.
But most of the TV viewers were not so picky, and instead had a feeling of surprise. After all, Eric's current influence is not comparable to that of a rugby player.
"Wow, that's pretty cool to think that the shootout was done like this."
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“eric williams bad jokes are hilarious, the robbers are playing poker with the swat guys lol...”
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"Why has Drew Barrymore not shown up? Since "Return to Seventeen", there has been no news about her in the media."
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"Eric is so scary when he's angry, he doesn't look like that at all."
"It's nothing surprising. He's so young, and he wants those older employees to be obedient and not be a little bit fierce."
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All kinds of discussions appear in front of the TVs of thousands of households. Because of the summer vacation, the proportion of teenagers in front of the TVs has increased greatly, and Eric's influence among teenagers is estimated to be greater than that of ordinary idol stars. Gao, after all, as a peer, if you surpass others by 100 meters, it may cause all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred, but if you exceed 10,000 meters, most of what you receive will be worship. Therefore, when many young people saw Eric rarely appearing on the TV, they couldn't help but call their classmates to remind them to watch the show.
The influence of "Sophia's Talk Show" is far from being compared with that of "Oprah's Talk Show". The "Sophia Talk Show" in China only has an average audience rating of about 4 million.
At the beginning of this program, the original ratings were only 4.2 million, but as the program was broadcast, the ratings curve soared. After the 40-minute program was finished, the number of viewers had stopped at 7.5 million. , almost doubled. After the program was finished, the hotline of CBS TV station was immediately exploded.
"If the publicity could be done a week in advance, the program's ratings would definitely exceed 10 million," a cbs executive said regretfully after seeing the ratings statistics.
Among the audience's hotline calls, more than 70% hope that cbs can replay it as soon as possible, while other messy reasons account for 30%. Drew and Eric appeared on the screen together, and a large number of people asked whether the video tape in Eric's hand would be released to the market.
cbs organized the audience's feedback into a file and forwarded it to Columbia and Firefly. At the same time, it also followed the public opinion to invite Eric, Drew and several leading actors of "Dark War". The film was promoted to create momentum, but it was rejected by Eric and others.
If it wasn't for clarifying the rumors, Eric would have appeared on the talk show, but Eric refused, and Drew would definitely not go.
At the same time, the managers of Cruise and Hanks felt that the influence of this program was a bit small and did not meet the identities of the two superstars, but Brooke Shields was a little moved. Cbs has brought a very good turning point in its career, but cbs, who was rejected by Eric and the two Toms at the same time, has no interest. The other big coffees are not on board, and there is no topicality if only the girl is invited. After all, Brooke Shields only appeared for a few minutes in "Dark Wars". Although the influence of "Sophia Talk Show" is far less than that of "The Oprah Show", cbs is also a national TV station. To the point of starvation.
Although the invitation was rejected, after communicating with all parties, cbs quickly came up with a way to maximize the benefits. When Eric participated in the recording of the program, he accumulated more than two hours of material, while the talk show Only forty minutes.
Therefore, cbs re-edited the two-hour material into two episodes, which were played in the next two days. Because of the short-term publicity in the prime time at night, the next day, it was re-edited. The ratings of the previous episode reached 9 million, and when the next episode aired on Friday, the ratings directly reached 10 million, and even reached 12 million at the peak.
A daytime show with an audience rating of tens of millions can be treated like a top show. It is because of this average score that "Oprah's Talk Show" has achieved more than 20 years of brilliance.
In order to keep the results, cbs directly gave up several programs that had already been produced, and spent a lot of money to invite other more important guests, trying to create a talk show comparable to "The Oprah Show". But in the end, the other party could only be disappointed. As Eric judged at the beginning, the biggest problem with this show was the host Sophia Temple. It was not that the other party was not good enough, but that Sophia Temple's character Good for hosting a talk show.
Therefore, after the second week, the ratings of this talk show experienced a miraculous peak. Even though a more important guest was replaced, the ratings still declined slowly. In the end, cbs could only give up its efforts. Eric originally participated The few episodes of the show also became the insurmountable peak of this talk show, until the show was cut off by cbs, Sofia Temple moved behind the scenes, and the ratings never reached such heights again.
Of course, these are all things to say later. The controversy about the gunman in "Dark War" quickly dissipated after the cbs talk show. After all, after that talk show was broadcast, especially the second and second episodes, the show played more than 20 minutes of filming highlights. Eric went from setting up the scene, telling the actors, to the detailed shooting process. The ground is fully displayed in front of the audience, and the big scenes such as blocking the streets from time to time also tell everyone that there is no possibility of forgery in the video tape, so if someone raises such a question, it is purely a test of the audience's IQ.
George Northam didn't come out after the broadcast of "Sophia Talk Show", because Columbia Pictures directly put pressure on "Premiere" magazine to force the other party to fire him. After all, because of George Northam's one An article almost caused immeasurable losses to Colombia. If Colombia does nothing, it will be too easy to bully.
Although several other major film companies secretly applauded George Northam's article that added to Columbia, they did not want this to happen to them in the future. Therefore, George Northam also appeared on the six major film companies as a film critic. blacklist.