For two days on the weekend, Eric and Chris discussed in detail the plan to enlarge the development prospect of the portal website. On Monday, after a conference call between Nokia and Qualcomm was held at the headquarters of Firefly Investment, Chris rushed to Boston to start the layout.
The time is already May 29th, and the release date of the first blockbuster "Jurassic Park" of Firefly's summer vacation is set for June 2nd, Eric just needs to go back to Los Angeles to attend the premiere before then, so You can also stay in New York for a few days.
May is the month of promotion and ordering of TV shows of the new year. Numerous producers and TV stations gather in New York to promote or buy TV shows of the new year.
Firefly owns the three ace drama series "Survivor", "Story of the Emergency Room" and "Friends", so it seems calm in the process of selecting new dramas. The TV department puts a lot of energy on the upcoming expansion of lifetime On the TV station, in addition to "America's Next Top Model" and "Project Runway", which are about to start production, Lifetime TV also ordered a good-quality female workplace TV series and several TV movies at the TV program promotion meeting in May. At the same time, Lifetime TV has also made a new arrangement of the TV programs according to the series release plan.
Eric's focus is still on the two reality shows "America's Next Top Model" and "Project Runway".
The two reality shows have been prepared for a month and a half. In April, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista came up with a detailed production plan with the assistance of the producers of the "Survivor" team. In May, both of them were busy with the preliminary preparations for program production and the selection of contestants. At this time, all the preliminary work was coming to an end.
"This is the official competition venue for the contestants. According to the structure of the script, I will announce the content of the competition here at the beginning of each episode of the program. The production results of the contestants in the second half of the program will also be displayed here. The designer will sit where you are. Enjoy the fashion show of the models with the judges on the other side. In addition, there is a rest room at the back, which can provide some footage of the contestants starting the competition and waiting for the results... ”
Abc's studio in New York was built as a simple fashion show. It's just that there is no auditorium, only a pocket runway, and a few chairs are simply placed on both sides of the runway. Linda Evangelista is standing on the top to demonstrate the program flow to Eric and others sitting in the audience. This is also Eric's last job in New York. After confirming this matter, he will return to Los Angeles soon. .
Linda Evangelista explained for a few minutes, then looked at the audience on the runway, waiting for Eric to speak.
Emily Brydon and Anne Sweeney sat on Eric's left and right, and there were some other assistants. Cindy Crawford also sat next to Emily. In order to demonstrate, several specially invited judges and producers in charge of "Project Runway" sat on the other side of the judging seats.
ltd will sponsor these two reality shows and obtain part of the advertisement placement. Anne Sweeney is the president of AE Television Network, a brown-haired woman in her mid-thirties. Anne Sweeney was originally in charge of Disney Television. After confirming the expansion plan of Lifetime Television, Katzenberg replaced Anne Sweeney. Winnie was transferred here to take charge of this matter.
A preliminary production plan will be produced from the end of April. Eric has been following up on this matter and is just doing a final check at this time. Make sure all the details are perfect, so there is no big problem.
Eric discussed a few words with Anne Sweeney and Emily in a low voice, looked up at Linda Evangelista, and said, "Linda, is the catwalk under your feet wooden?"
Linda Evangelista was stunned for a moment, and her leather boots lightly stepped on the catwalk. Make a thumping sound of hitting wood, nod: "Yes."
Eric pointed to the screen at the beginning of the catwalk, and said with a smile, "Then you walk around and I'll take a look."
Linda Evangelista was a little puzzled, but obediently walked behind the screen and came out with catwalks.
then. There was a series of muffled bangs in the arena.
Linda Evangelista hasn't finished a one-way trip yet. Everyone has already discovered this problem. The sound of leather boots hitting the wooden runway is similar to noise. If the audience suddenly hears these sounds during the show, it is absolutely It will be very dramatic.
Walking to the end of the runway, Linda Evangelista was embarrassed to go on, walked lightly to the position just now, and said shyly: "Eric, I didn't expect this, we will get this out as soon as possible." A catwalk was replaced."
Eric nodded, and said to Emily and Annie: "I have no problem here, what about you?"
Emily shook her head. She mainly came to see the details of the advertising placement of the products under ltd. She was also not good at giving instructions on program production.
Anne Sweeney asked a few more questions in a row, until Linda Evangelista almost showed an expression of being overwhelmed, and then reluctantly let her go for Eric's sake.
The female executive who jumped from the Fox TV network to ABC a few years ago is also very ambitious at this time. She wants to rely on Lifetime TV to make some achievements, hoping to reach Shirley Lansing, Amy Pascal, etc. The height of women in Hollywood.
The original president of the ae TV network was from the Hearst Group. Katzenberg adjusted this position after getting the controlling stake. He transferred Anne Sweeney. The reason for the Hearst Group was a woman It can better control the essence of women's TV stations. Of course, everyone understands the actual situation.
Leaving aside the purpose of seizing control in private, Eric also agrees with Katzenberg's resolution very much. Although he doesn't have much information about Anne Sweeney in his memory, Eric still vaguely remembers, Anne Sweeney has directed a very famous TV series called "Desperate Housewives". From this point of view, she has a lot in common with Amy Pascal, who likes women's movies. Let her be in charge of leading women The lifetime TV station of the audience is indeed perfect.
It took a whole morning for everyone to go through the main shooting scenes of "Project Runway", and listen to Linda Evangelista explaining the process in person. The content of the afternoon activity is of course "America's Next Top Model" .
Both reality shows chose Midtown Manhattan as the main shooting location, and even the apartments of the contestants of the two shows are only one street apart. Therefore, it doesn't take a lot of trouble to walk through it.
At 5:30 in the afternoon, all work was over, and Emily, Anne Sweeney and others got off work and went home one after another. Eric was stopped by Cindy Crawford.
"Eric, are you free tonight, how about having dinner together?" Cindy Crawford said. Already stepped forward and took Eric's arm intimately.
Linda Evangelista came out of a dressing room after packing up her things. Just in time to see this scene, the corner of her mouth twitched, and she also walked to Eric, and said with a smile: "Eric , since you want to have dinner, why don't you come with me."
Eric joked: "Take the two of you to the restaurant together, and I will be killed by someone's eyes."
"Then go to my place, my cooking skills are not bad. By the way, I can continue to talk about "America's Next Top Model", I think I am not good enough in many places," Cindy Crawford said , while Eric wasn't paying attention, he threw a threatening look at Linda Evangelista, looking like he's going to mess with you again.
Linda Evangelista originally wanted to tease her a little bit, but Cindy Crawford's eyes self-defeating made her very upset, and she stepped forward to hold Eric's other arm provocatively . Said: "Then go to Cindy's place, our good sisters haven't got together for a long time."
Cindy Crawford couldn't take it anymore. Reached out from behind Eric, and lightly pinched Linda Evangeline Star's ribs.
"Ah, it hurts," Linda Evangelista cried out in pain, and immediately became tearful, complaining to Eric aggrievedly: "Eric, Cindy pinched me."
It takes two hours to drive back to East Hampton from Manhattan. Eric originally planned to stay in the city. At this time, the beautiful woman invited him, but of course he was disrespectful. He put his arms around Linda Evangelista's waist to comfort her Patted: "Okay. Go to Cindy's place. If you go, let's go together and let her make something for us to eat. If not, I will treat you to dinner next time I come to New York."
"Okay, I'll listen to you," Linda Evangelista said tenderly, her voice was not a baby voice, it was slightly hoarse, but it had the innocence of a teenage girl, very smell.
Seeing what Linda Evangelinsta said, Cindy Crawford could only stare at her, but couldn't refute Eric's decision.
After they went downstairs, they came to the parking lot and squeezed into Cindy Crawford's car. Cindy Crawford's apartment is in the Upper East Side. Although it's not far away, it coincides with off-duty time, and it will take about ten minutes. drive.
Realizing that the plan would definitely be spoiled by Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford resolutely focused on "America's Next Top Model" and said to Eric while driving. : "Eric, what do you think of our preparation?"
"It's all very good, I'm looking forward to seeing the results of your work," Eric replied simply because he didn't have much energy to talk about it after a tiring day. In fact, during the follow-up process, he already had a very deep evaluation of the two programs.
Cindy Crawford's "America's Next Top Model" program has a more unconstrained style, with a lot of spooky details. And she pays great attention to the interaction between the host and the contestants, and she also has more personal playing time. Relatively speaking, the format of "Project Runway" is relatively fixed. Each episode is 43 minutes long, divided into several program modules with fixed formats, and focuses more on demonstrating the abilities of the contestants.
Eric is quite satisfied with their work results, and he can't say who is good and who is bad, not to mention, he didn't want the two programs to be exactly the same.
Linda Evangelista listened sideways, seeing that Eric didn't say too much in detail, she remembered another thing, and asked: "Eric, the second season of "Survivor" just ended recently, I heard that the ratings of the final episode reached 50 million again, how much money can ABC make from this show?"
Eric shook his head and said with a smile: "This is an internal secret of the company, I can't tell you, but as long as the program in your hand can reach one-tenth of the height of "Survivor", it will be enough to fill your pockets full."
In fact, Eric is not very clear about the specific revenue of the second season of "Survivor". Now that the second season has just been broadcast, there are only preliminary advertising revenue data. The average advertising revenue per episode has reached 27 million US dollars, and the single-season advertising revenue exceeds 350 million. The production cost of each episode of "Survivor" is only about 5 million. After the later videotape release and syndicated distribution, Firefly can at least get ten times more income. (To be continued.)