Accompanied by Cai Yawen, Sun Dahai walked into the conference room. Gao Yi and Catherine did not follow them in and stayed outside.
Today is the first day of the review meeting in September, which is when everyone reviews the scripts and decides which scripts can be discussed as projects.
This conference room has been specially decorated. Whether it is the main judge or the guest judge, each person has a semi-enclosed partition so that they do not affect each other.
They were sitting in large seats similar to those in a first-class airplane cabin. In front of them was a desk with a computer on which the scripts to be reviewed were copied. The computer was equipped with a Chinese card, so both Chinese and English scripts could be used.
There are also many judges who are not used to using computers. But it doesn’t matter. The copied scripts have been sorted by the staff into categories and placed in the file box on the desk for the judges.
The back of the conference room leads directly to the rest area, where there are coffee and refreshments, and several booths where the judges can discuss the script in small groups.
Literary and artistic workers are rarely willing to follow rules, whether as they say, in order not to affect their creative inspiration and passion, or simply to express their individuality.
In short, there were not many judges who were willing to stay in the comfortable conference room and read the script quietly. Sun Dahai only saw Li Bihua, Zhang Wanting, Luo Qirui and his wife, and two or three unknown judges. The rest of the judges ran outside.
Rest area.
It is not convenient to talk here, as it will affect others. Sun Dahai nodded to the three people he knew, Li, Zhang, and Luo, and then went to the rest area.
Cai Yawen led the way. As soon as she opened the door to the rest area, Sun Dahai heard Uncle Zhan with a loud voice talking loudly inside.
Uncle Zhan is talented, and together with Jin Yong, Ni Kuang and Cai Lam, he is known as the "Four Talents in Hong Kong". In addition to being unique in the field of music and being the leading music producer and songwriter in Hong Kong, he is also a famous host, writer and
actor.
The business of Lingyu Music Factory is busy, but now that Uncle Zhan has Luo Dayou to help him, he has some freedom in time. He is also easy to show off, so he almost never attends the review meeting of the Union of Friendship.
In fact, in addition to Lingyu Music Factory, Uncle Zhan now has another job to do, which is to test the waters of Youlian TV program and independently produce an interview program "Undefended Tonight".
This project must have been initiated by the reborn Sun Dahai.
Last year, when Sun Dahai was still studying peacefully in the capital and enjoying his last student career, he suddenly thought of this column.
In its previous life, "Undefended Tonight" can be said to be the best artist interview show in Hong Kong. Although it was only launched for a short period of one year, it had a huge impact on the entertainment industry and the general audience.
This column is produced and broadcast by ATV, with three of the "Four Talents in Hong Kong" Huang Zhan, Cai Lam and Ni Kuang as hosts, and popular celebrities as guests.
The style of this program is mainly relaxed and humorous. Since it is broadcast late at night on Saturdays (adult program), the freedom of speech is open and the scale is amazing. Moreover, the three hosts chatted with the guests on many topics, and there were constant insider revelations and
Digging deeply and being widely praised by the audience.
The column team did not hesitate to spend a lot of money and successively invited almost all the most popular non-TV artists in Hong Kong to serve as guests, involving almost half of the film and television industry.
As for why the guests are "non-TVB" artists and "half of the film and television industry", the reason is naturally due to the competition between TVB and ATV (originally Li's TV station).
This is also the fundamental factor why this column was offline after only one year of airing.
Although Wireless has withdrawn from the film field, and due to harsh contract conditions, its artists generally choose to leave after their contracts expire.
However, TVB plays an unparalleled role in star creation and promotion. Therefore, TVB’s artists occupy at least 40% of the artist market.
In the previous life, "Undefended Tonight" was a column independently developed by ATV. Its purpose was to compete with TVB for ratings and audiences.
As a result, TVB was naturally merciless in suppressing this column. Not only did it organize multiple popular columns to pursue and block it, it also warned its artists not to participate in this interview.
Therefore, one year after its launch, "Undefended Tonight" finally lacked success and had to exit sadly.
However, now that Sun Dahai has become interested in this column in this life, the ending will naturally be very different.
In fact, Sun Dahai remembered this column because of Uncle Shao Liu himself.
ATV changed owners in 1982. Far East Group Chairman Qiu Degen purchased 50% of the shares for HK$100 million. Two years later, he purchased all the remaining shares and achieved full control.
Qiu De basically wanted to make a big splash in the television field. As a result, the Far East Group was caught up in the "Far East Bank Fraud Case" in 1988, and had no choice but to seek to transfer the shares of ATV again, abandoning the car to keep Shuai.
When Sun Dahai was still his good student in the capital, news came from Xiangjiang: Far East Group was constantly spreading rumors in the top Chinese business circles and looking for ways to transfer ATV.
Shortly afterwards, Far East Group sent senior executives to secretly contact Qiao Hongwei, hoping that the Future Group could take action to fully acquire ATV.
At that time, the Erection Future Department was already well-known in the top Chinese business circles in Hong Kong for its accurate project judgment, fierce and decisive actions, and unusually abundant cash flow.
The Far East Group is a long-established consortium in Hong Kong with great strength. It mainly operates banks, amusement parks and theaters. Chairman Qiu Degen is also a celebrity in the economic circles of Hong Kong. He is a frequent visitor to major economic conferences and charity events in various schools in Hong Kong, so he naturally knows Qiao Hongwei.
Qiu Degen is also a very capable manager. The predecessor of ATV was Li's TV Station, a small TV station operated by the Britten Group in Hong Kong.
After Qiu Degen took over, he renamed it Asia Television, injected a large amount of capital after the reorganization, and attracted many industry experts to join, such as Li Zhuanglie, Xu Xiaoming, etc. as senior executives of the television station.
In just a few years, ATV has produced a large number of exciting TV programs.
TV series include the "Huo Yuanjia" trilogy ("Huo Yuanjia", "Chen Zhen" and "Huo Dongge"), as well as the costume historical dramas "Wu Zetian", "Qin Shihuang" and "Xi Shi", etc.
ATV also broke the monopoly of wireless for more than ten years, won the right to host "Miss Asia", and subsequently launched the "Mr. TV Election" column, the predecessor of "Mr. Asia".
There was also the "Everyone Morning" column, which replayed highlights of comprehensive programs, and was later renamed "Asia Morning" and determined to be an information morning news column.
In addition, ATV also followed the example of TVB and launched its own artist training class to build talent for the TV station. Many artists such as Ho Kar-jin, Mak Cuixian, Lai Ming, Zhang Jiahui, Zhang Min and so on have emerged. (Anthony Wong is also from the ATV artist training class, skip here.