On November 18, 2042, "Ambush" was officially broadcast on Tomato Channel.
For some weekly dramas, the premiere ratings are their highest ratings. After all, if you want audiences to watch only one episode a week, and their enthusiasm does not fade, it must be attractive enough, and the requirements for the TV series themselves are very high.
At ten o'clock in the evening, many viewers also opened the tomato station as usual, and some of them had already prepared a bunch of snacks, and exclaimed excitedly: "Ah, when will "Ambush" be broadcast!! !" And some people don't even know what this station is about to play, they just turn it on habitually to have a look.
The entire "Ambush" crew finished filming at eight o'clock, and at ten o'clock, everyone returned to the hotel room.
Rong Xu's room was a single room. He packed his things, washed up, hesitated for a while, and turned on the TV. Rong Xu was used to the feeling of seeing his face appear on the TV, but it was not too awkward. After watching it for a while, he turned off the TV and rested early.
And of course he didn't know that at this moment, in front of many TV sets in China, many audience members covered their faces with excitement.
The plot of "Ambush" is very fast, how fast is it
As the first episode approached, Bai Mingde and Liang Linghui had a good impression of each other, and in the next episode, Huo Xi and Liang Linghui were about to get married.
This drama is full of handsome men and beauties, and even a newspaper seller is pink and cute, making people want to reach out and pinch his cheek.
And the plot is just sour!
The stable and wise male protagonist is a very polite and serious officer on the surface, but secretly he is an underground party! The gentle and virtuous female gentleman on the surface looks innocent and ordinary, but her fiance is Shaoshuai Huo of the Huo family in Pingcheng!
The great contrast makes the audience watch with relish, and they can't guess the next plot. What they particularly liked was Huo Xi's appearance, riding a black wild horse, wearing a dark military uniform, a black cloak hunting and dancing in the wind, and shiny black mink fur wrapping him in it, which matched with the snow-white suit. , bright and dazzling.
Draw, shoot, kill!
All the movements are done in one go, like flowing clouds and flowing water, graceful and smooth.
Obviously the first episode has more than 40 minutes, but when this episode ended, countless viewers felt that it was only 20 minutes at all!
[This plot is so exciting! I have already made up a bloody annual love drama! Hong Kong, does Shaoshuai Huo like Liang Linghui or not? I think he is very fierce towards Liang Linghui, 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 the Virgin of the White Lotus? !]
[Hahahaha, I know the screenwriter's wife is going to spill a pot of blood on me, but I'm still looking forward to it~]
[Let the dog blood come more violently! For the handsome face, I am willing to drink ten pots of dog blood! ! !]
[Ten pots are not enough, I have to do a hundred pots! ! !]
[What young handsome? Wuli Rongrong said, how handsome! The booming is in a trance, Huo Duo is handsome~ What should I do, the name suddenly became more joyful, how handsome and handsome, suddenly I felt that Huo Xi was not cold at all, he was cute!]
In addition to these general audience comments, there are also some professional reviewers who have also made a simple evaluation of the show.
[Great River and Mountain Journey: "Ambush" should be a love story in the skin of a spy war film after all. The character setting is very good, and the contradictions and conflicts are quite fierce. It can be expected that the next ten episodes will definitely be full of blood.]
[Storm in the morning: From the beginning to the present, the most popular TV series often have high ratings. For example, the "Dumb Husband" from nine years ago, a low-cost TV series, actually broke 3 in the ratings. Although "Ambush" has only gone for one episode so far, it has a lot of room for development in terms of the character relationships that can be observed now. And it is also a weekly drama, the plot can be changed at any time, maybe it will become the dark horse of this round of weekly drama schedule.]
The first episode aired on Saturday gave "Ambush" a huge amount of discussion online. But in fact, in this round of weekly broadcast schedules, the degree of discussion of "Ambush" is not the highest.
Baidu Index: "Ambush" 3035234, "Summer Reality" 9545242.
Weibo Index: "Ambush" 1353452, "Summer Reality" 5139524.
The gap between "Ambush" and "Summer Reality" is a complete gap.
After midnight, the production director of Tomato Station called Director Zheng.
Director Zheng has never slept. He has worked as an assistant director and assistant director for more than ten years. This is his first leading film. He cannot fail, and he cannot stand failure. Although he said "I have confidence in our work", in fact, Director Zheng was anxious all night and jumped up from the bed when he heard the phone ring.
"You said... how much... how much?" Director Zheng asked again with trembling fingers when he heard the number said by the other party.
The other party replied with a smile: "The premiere was 0.7, which greatly exceeded our expectations. The average was 0.7, and the highest was 0.9. This is already very good for a rookie drama like you. After all, you only have one fan, Han Yanghao." He paused. , the production director added: "Oh yes, there's that male No. 2... is he named Rong Xu? His discussion on the Internet is also very hot, and now our station is going to use these two people to do a round of publicity on the Internet. , can you make them cooperate a little bit?"
Director Zheng nodded quickly: "Yes, yes! It's absolutely possible!"
The director of production said helplessly: "Actually, our ratings could be higher, but unfortunately, I didn't expect "Summer Reality" to suddenly change the file, I hope we can break 1 by the end. But congratulations to you, old man Zheng!"
Yes, the national ratings were announced the next day, and in the prime weekly drama at 10 p.m. on weekends—
The first place, "Summer Reality", 1.5!
Second place, "Ambush", 0.7!
The first place has more than double the ratings than the second place, which is simply insurmountable!
0.7 For any weekly drama, it can not be regarded as a hit. If you want to have a rating of breaking 1 for the first broadcast, then you must have a big-name actor or a big-name director, or a big IP. And these, "Summer Reality" are all collected, but "Ambush" is not a single one.
Someone in the industry said with emotion: "It's natural for "Summer" to get this score, but it was a little lower at the end of the first episode, and it was only 1.3. But "Ambush" is really unexpected, although it should not be able to break 1, but said It may not be able to stay above 0.5 all the time.”
On the Internet, the discussion of the two dramas is also extremely fierce.
The audience of "Ambush" excitedly discussed the next development. They opened up countless brain holes, and even just one night, someone drew a fanart of the TV series.
The handsome and elegant young marshal rode on a tall horse, looking down at you indifferently. The background is a snowy winter night, and the wind and snow could not infect his beautiful eyebrows and eyes.
This picture is the most widely circulated on the Internet, and it has even been forwarded by several marketing accounts, and it has directly received tens of thousands of forwarding volumes.
In fact, this is a marketing tool 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 is the CP marketing of Han Yanghao and Zhang Tongtong. The official gave them a CP name, called "Spy Couple", which tied the two together, heated up the popularity of CP, and also brought a lot of publicity.
Regardless of the effect of the broadcast, on this side, a new day has come, and the crew has started busy shooting again.
At present, the crew has handed over a total of five episodes to the TV station, and five more episodes need to be filmed below, and the filming will be completed within a month. So for the next month, it has completely become an Asura Purgatory, shooting every day from seven or eight in the morning to eleven or twelve in the evening, even in the early morning!
During this period, no one dared to say a single word of nonsense. Once Han Yanghao complained, Director Zheng scolded him angrily and asked him to pay attention to his contract spirit. 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, seeing that there were only two episodes left to shoot, and this day finally ushered in the third episode of "Ambush".
The ratings for the premiere of "Ambush" was 0.7. As expected by the TV station, the good reputation of the first episode coupled with their various marketing promotions on the Internet and in reality, the ratings of the second episode did not drop but rose. Reach 0.8! The production director also laughed and joked with his subordinates: "Maybe when the show ends, there is a real hope that it will break 1."
...to break 1 until the end
Not at all!
As soon as the second episode ended, the trailer for the third episode came out, which edited a scene: Huo Xi and Liang Linghui's emotional scene.
That's right, it's the emotional scene of "almost revealing your true heart when you're drunk" in the trailer!
As soon as the announcement came out, the Internet exploded. In the posts, super topics, and forums of "Ambush", people can be seen everywhere discussing the relationship between Huo Xi and Liang Linghui, and at the same time discussing the ending of the love triangle between these three people.
The TV station didn't notice this momentum, and the crew was nervously catching up with the schedule, and naturally they didn't notice it. And this topic, which has been discussed for a week, suddenly got a big explosion when the third episode of "Ambush" was broadcast!
At 0:00 on the second day, the national ratings were announced!
First place, "Ambush", 1.12!
Second place, "The Reality of Summer", 0.97!
The third episode, just the third episode, compared with "Summer" whose ratings are gradually declining, the ratings of "Ambush" have made everyone fall below their glasses. Who would dare to believe that in the "third episode rule" of the most nightmare of weekly dramas, there is actually a drama that made rapid progress in the third episode and won the first 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 will definitely be audiences who will give up chasing the drama. In this case, many people have found that the vast majority of weekly dramas have an iron-like rule: starting 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 weekly drama in the same period to break 1!
All of a sudden, all eyes were on the show. Tomato Station was ecstatic, and the production director excitedly shot his thighs: "The bonus is doubled! This time everyone's bonus is doubled!"
But in the Mango Terrace, it was a thick cloud and miserable mist.
The ratings of "Summer Reality" continue to hit new lows, and now it has even dropped directly below 1. Moreover, its reputation is getting worse and worse. Countless people scolded the show for being ignorant, and also scolded the heroine for her poor acting skills, who only knew how to stare; although the male lead was handsome and popular, he did not perform at all. The black belly of the original male protagonist has been pretending to force!
It can be said that the soaring ratings of "Ambush" must have grabbed the market share of weekly dramas in the same period. And "Summer's Reality" lost a large part of the ratings, definitely was taken away by "Ambush"!
In Mango Taichung, the production director gritted his teeth and said, "Let the crew change the plot based on the feedback from the audience! Change it immediately!" After a while, he said again: "Go and keep an eye on the Tomato Station, you must not let the ratings of "Ambush" If it goes up again, we're going to pull them down!"
These things, the "Ambush" crew did not know.
There were only a dozen plays this morning, and Director Zheng held a screenwriting meeting. They gathered together to analyze all the comments of the audience since the three episodes. At the end of the meeting, Director Zheng said seriously: "We may not only need the ratings, but 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 increase the explosion point of the whole show by 10%!