The Best Director

Chapter 254 The Big Bang Theory

Now 3-4 fall evening prime time, the six major public channels have different sitcoms.

Eight o'clock and nine o'clock, on Monday cbs has "Yes, Honey" season 4 (last week's ratings ranked second season (season 1 (16), these four sets of dramas have a common theme and content point, that is related to family, there are children's roles, education, values ​​and other conflicts form jokes and meanings. This is cbs' firm style now, their another "sitcom airing day" also has "king of queens" season 6 on wednesday (34), tells the story of a blue-collar couple who are postmen; the sixth season of "Becker" (47), describes the interesting world of John Becker, a world-weary doctor in a clinic, and his patients, colleagues and friends.

A few dramas only occupy the mid-range position, but the trump card "Raymond" has suffered such negative reviews, and the adult audience has lost sharply, and the next season will have to wait until the end; "Two and a Half Men" has high expectations. Immature and meet the enemy of "Prison Break"... cbs wants to get the new drama of Miracle Young! Succeeding the trump card status of "Lei Mengde", propping up the channel's demand for laughter.

"Everyone knows that Wang Yang is going to make a sitcom." In the conference room of the CBS Entertainment Department, Nancy Tellem's face was watery, looking at the subordinates silently nodding on both sides, and said: "The "Friends" Over, a big chance for all the sitcoms on tv, who will be the new king?? cbs? Without Wang Yang, I believe Two and a Half Men would be .1 and now he's in!"

She paused and waved her hands, a look of helplessness flashed in her eyes, and said seriously: "We have reasons to despise his drama series, but sitcoms, but now! There is no reason. This young man has the ability to make people laugh. Tummy ache ability, and this young man who knows best what young people need, and this young man has two youngest Oscars, and maybe an Emmy soon. I say this because everyone counts !"

Watching her tap on the conference table, program manager Caleb Dill and others nodded and said, "Yes!" Nancy Tellem also nodded, with a light but forceful tone: "It's an exaggeration. , which TV station has him, it will increase the probability of % becoming .1, who knows if he will suddenly join a variety show again? This time we will do our best to deal with it, and we must not let him run away."

Tuesday has "Eight Rules for Dating My Daughter" Season 2 (Season 1 (Season 3 (Season 2 (Season 4 (Season 1 (Season 3(75), ed--the-ke11ys "Season 1 (Season 1 (Season 2 (77).

The themes of the stories in this drama are about family, about work, love, family and friendship... The problem is that although there are a large number of stories, none of them can be produced. If you look at the first and second seasons, you will know that they just keep trying, praying to win the big prize. The cruel reality is that almost all of them are bad movies, and then cut off the bad ones that can't be worse, and try again in the next season .

So now in the three major channels,

No one is more eager to get that new series, as a way to revive the sitcom's decline.

"Guys, if you still don't understand, let me explain." In the conference room of the entertainment department, both sides of the conference table were also full of senior executives. Robert Iger, who was in a black suit, had an ugly face. It is almost at the bottom. Now the head office Disney is very dissatisfied with the performance of the channel, and it is heard that it intends to reorganize the top management.

Anne Sweeney (anne-eeney) may be the president of the TV group, so what about his position as the president of the entertainment department? Will the woman change or stay? He has to have good grades.

Thinking of this, Robert Iger paused and said: "We want to get Magic Young, we want to get that sitcom! This is our last chance, whoever wants to be fired, don't care! He looked at his subordinates with stern expressions, and said: "Magic Yang has an ambiguous attitude. He wants others to participate in the competition. Maybe we will lose to bsp in the end; The filmmakers have the ability to invite many big-name stars to guest stars, and they are also popular young net stars who are popular among young people. This is a good way for a sitcom to increase the ratings. People like Magic Yang He writes the script and produces it himself, and has very good popularity and connections. He just wants to have a big star guest star in the first season of Jiji, and he can do it.

Robert Iger thinks about it casually, there are a bunch of names, his fiancée Jessica Alba, or Rachel McAdams, Anne Hathaway, "Gilmore Girls" Alexis - Bledel, "Juno" Natalie Terman, Tom Welling, Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis from "The Hangover" and so on...even Fantastic Jan himself, with Who wouldn't agree to hua one day to record an episode of a sitcom by the amazing director?

Worried about making a cameo in a bad movie? Worried about not having room to play? joke.

"If we join, we still have the possibility to win." Robert Iger closed his eyes and exhaled, "Remember, this is our last chance!"

Today's comedy leader has the first season of "Season (Season 1 (Season 11) (Season 2 (Season 10 (Season 3 (Season 6 (Season 1 (26)) on Tuesday.

After losing "Friends" and "Family Fun" in the next season, the gap between them and cbs has suddenly become close, and even weaker than the other party. The set is almost certain to be cut in half. Fantastic Young's new show, Kevin Reilly, told everyone in the entertainment department that they were determined to get it! If you want a promotion and a high bonus, hug that young man!

As for the animated sitcom "The Simpsons" (32), which has a classic longevity, almost all live-action comedies are ranked outside the No. 1, and the ratings are in a mess; Take it home. But on the other hand, they also know that they have no conditions to attract him, and it is obviously unrealistic to want to win the three major channels, so try your luck!

Just relying on a blog post "Produce over 10,000 viewers", a sitcom with no name, no content, and no plan, but it aroused the big news of the Monday meeting of the entertainment departments of major TV channels. Move the universe, the holy king, create the holy king, kill the gods and seal the throne at night, seek the magic, proud of the world, the strongest abandoned young man, the royal family of Zhou, kill the gods and seal the throne at night, seek the magic, proud of the world, the strongest abandoned young man, the royal family of Zhou, the martial arts, move the universe and kill the night The Throne of the God Seal Seeking the Devil, the Audacious Ninth Heaven, the Strongest Abandoned Younger, the Great Zhou Royal Clan, God-Creating General, Killing God at Night After all, Steven Spielberg also has business failures, but Fantastic Young does not.

"Yes!! Good news, Miracle Yang is really going to make a sitcom!!"

In the female dormitory building of the University of San Francisco, looking at the computer screen on the table, a new log of Wang Yang's blog was displayed not long ago, and Evelyn shouted excitedly: "I will meet you on TV in September next year." ! It’s done!” Under her shout, Sophia and Lillian, who hadn’t gone out, immediately surrounded her, and they were also full of surprises: “Sitcoms!”, “Since "Juno", I’ve been Looking forward to this day!"

"There will be another must-see show next season, so busy!" Evelyn typed on the keyboard with both hands while leaving a message for this diary; while happily smiling, she asked, "What kind of show do you think this show will be? Sophia, who walked away with the magazine, replied: "I don't know, isn't Jan and Jessica getting married soon? Could it be about newlyweds, families, neighbors?" Evelyn shook her head slightly: "That's too Old fashioned, are you sure you're talking about Young? I don't think so."

Lilian, who was looking at the screen, thought: "Uh, it can't be an adaptation of "Juno", right? Or the lives of a few t students, maybe, usf..." She shrugged: "But no matter what, it will definitely be funny! So I don't care about the type, I'm looking forward to now, who will play the role, and who will comeo? I want to see Yang on pm8..."

Evelyn glanced at her, and suddenly felt that it made sense: "Will it be as smart as "K" and "Prison Break"? But how smart are sitcoms?"

"Evelyn, you better stop watching." Sophia, who sat down on the sofa over there, joked with a smile: "I've never seen a person watching TV laugh like that! It's "A Date with My Daughter" "Eight Rules", how bad! If you look at Fan Yang, I really don't know what it will be." Evelyn pressed enter and said with a smile: "Maybe you have asthma." Lillian questioned: "Do you have asthma? Evelyn said, "It's just a smile."

Los Angeles under the night, in a bright and elegant study room, after updating an announcement log on the blog, Wang Yang began to think about this sitcom, next September, the huge expectations of the fans of the drama on the blog... He rested his right hand Resting his chin, he reached out with his left hand to pick up a soldier figure on the desk. Recently, because of "Firefly", he missed the soldier figure from his hometown in San Francisco, so he brought it here.

I will get married next year, and all the models and everything will be moved into the new house. Spinning the World War II soldier in his hand, Wang Yang gradually thought about that idea, and a future sitcom. This idea, or enlightenment and interest, was aroused during the filming of "t-21-team". USC will not use numbers to become the language of the school, but t can be replaced by numbers and will use numbers, which is very interesting .

They can also make that kind of balloon bomb to catch Harvard, and they can also make remote-controlled cars that can count cards... The reason why the audience finds these interesting and cool is because they yearn for them. These are some abilities and smart people different from ordinary people The ability of genius, the ability of genius, and human beings always respect the strong and yearn for the strong.

In fact, other schools also have these interesting school ethos, with abilities and cognitions that are different from ordinary people. For example, the film school is about film and television, the medical school is medicine, and the law school is law. But these doctors and lawyers are too common and ordinary. My son is a doctor, his daughter is a teacher, her son is an athlete... Nothing new! No mystery!

Therefore, sitcoms with this theme want to make new surprises. It is not impossible to find unused jokes from almost used jokes, but it is more difficult.

And t, t's strange science students, the group called "smart people", "high IQ", "scientists", and "geniuses", have never been involved in sitcoms! From "Threesome", "Friends", "Everyone Loves Raymond" and so on, the sitcoms on the screen in the past and now are mainly aimed at the lives of ordinary people, ordinary and common occupations, "genius "It's full of mystery, freshness, fun and cool.

"t-21-team" allowed math geniuses to show on the big screen once, how could the life-focused sitcom make science students appear on the 6th screen?

This is not a youth net school drama, but a sitcom that wants the audience to laugh. "21" tried every means to be cool because it just wanted to be cool; the same is true for the tense and exciting "Prison Break". But if you want others to laugh, you must let the audience have an unconscious sense of superiority. In other words, if the people in the play are stupid or make a fool of themselves, how can a group of geniuses with high IQs keep being stupid and making a fool of themselves? In a sitcom they would.

In fact, the idea here is very simple. It is enough to deal with the usual sitcom role setting method, that is, "crazy", not the words and deeds of normal people, with many exaggerated personality traits, so the six characters in "Friends" Both have quirks.

"Smart people with idiots" should be the trend of the times. This subject matter is undoubtedly very novel, and there is no rotten substance in the pile of laughing fruits. In the next few years, the screen sitcom market will finally think of this group, and there will be the "it genius" British drama "it maniac", as well as the "scientific genius" "The Big Bang Theory", which exaggerates scientists The "stupid" approach is to set them all as geeks, or the most conventional nerds.

Comic mí, sci-fi mí, not good at communication... Wang Yang couldn't help but smile thinking about it, he swung the soldier's gun and made a "swish swish" sound, that's it! He laughs and thinks of going to San Diego Comic-Con, where the "geeks" are dressed like superheroes, like it's Halloween, but they're all very talkative and sociable.

In fact, he is also a geek to a certain extent, and his collection of various model toys, comic books, movie props and other things is not much less than "Sheldon", and he is also "half a game mí". Why half? Because he self-controls not to let himself become a game mí, he likes to play video games, but it is very easy to indulge in mí without sleeping and eating; but he has already strictly controlled his game time and enjoyed games healthily.

The "Tinder" game company has been working on some casual games for the past two years, and the income maintains expenses without any major achievements.

Anyway, these geniuses need to be neurotic weirdos, while "Jin" in "It Maniac" and "Penny" in "The Big Bang Theory" are ordinary people. Their weirdness highlights the life and wisdom of ordinary people, and she It also sets off the IQ of smart people, bursting out a funny chemical reaction.

Of course, the format and style of British dramas and American dramas are very different. In "It Maniac", it can be said that no character is not crazy. Regardless of the plot and shooting techniques, they are all nonsensical and absurd. For example, in the sixth episode of the first season, Jin is here. , In the office, the image turned into a golden-red demon; this special effect technique was also used in the 11th episode of the fourth season of "The Big Bang Theory", Sheldon turned into the Flash and imagined running wild.

Wang Yang wants to do this "idiot smart guy" theme now. His idea is to cooperate with the original "It Maniac" screenwriter and director Graham Reinhan, as well as the original "The Big Bang Theory" creative team, and then absorb Some elites form the "new" crew of "The Big Bang Theory" to create a first season that is absolutely mature and absolutely hilarious as soon as it debuts! Coupled with the market, the audience's attention to him, and the big money for publicity, there is no problem with "The Big Bang Theory" relaying "Friends".

The question is how to build this first season? The ratings for the first season of the original version of "The Big Bang Theory" were not high. On cbs Monday pm8: The broadcast averaged only 8.31 million viewers, ranking 68th in the year. There may be many external factors, but there are undoubtedly many problems in the series itself. It was not until the third season that the rhythm, story and line balance were considered mature.

One of the biggest problems in the first season is the imbalance. Regardless of the proportion of character lines, role scenes, life and t, the ratio of Penny's character is not enough explosive energy. At the same time, the details of the story are not dramatic enough, and often the whole episode is Sheldon and Leonard are telling each other the same jokes, translating everyday common conversation into scientific terms that seem like common sense to them, mysterious and amusing to the audience.

This is a "circle culture", no matter what the circle has its unique, innovative language and jokes, such as the whole day of filming Meng Taiqi, "You look very upside-down Meng Taiqi"; basketball players It can be said that "you are like an air ball", and "The Big Bang Theory" is the knowledge and terminology of various departments.

From the first season to the fifth season, this joke kept repeating, repeating, and repeating in the dialogue, but it still has a lot of fun, and more fun after the weight is balanced. Maybe this is the charm of science. The genre is bound to be a sitcom that those who love it will be hardcore, and those who hate it will hate it.

But there is no doubt that the newly created first season will immediately achieve the balance of "most likes". In terms of plot, he plans to absorb the most funny episodes in the five seasons that are close to the environment of three years; there are also some new event ideas, such as After watching "t-21-team", Sheldon and others thought they were smart and invincible, so they challenged card counting, and after practicing, they went to the casino to try together, and all kinds of interesting things happened.

The plots of these plots have been refined and arranged by the new screenwriting team, incorporating some story details and spoof thinking of British dramas, and the audience who like it must laugh to death!

However, Wang Yang frowned suspiciously. What kind of Chinese scientific genius role did he want to join? He wants Chinese faces to appear on the hit sitcom on the screen, which is an important step in changing the market and changing the audience; but he does not want to simply change the color of a character, turn Jews into Chinese, or turn Indians into Cheng Chinese, and then "translate" the dialogue again.

This is pure stupidity. After five seasons of scanning in his mind, Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, and Raj are all very mature roles for him, and there is no need to search and experiment; It is enough to become a group of five, and there is more plot space and joke combinations.

"Let's play the game for a while, I haven't played it for a few days." After thinking for a long time, Wang Yang suddenly rubbed his hands, picked up the mouse and clicked an icon on the desktop, He opened "Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne". The expansion pack of the Frozen Throne has been on the market for more than two months, but he hasn't played it much, and he doesn't even fully understand any new changes.

In a spacious and bright bedroom, a laptop is placed on the netg table, and a network cable extending into the wall is stably connected to the Internet world. Sitting cross-legged on the netg head and wearing plaid pajamas, Wang Yang looks focused, holds the mouse and presses the The keyboard was staring at the screen, and her hands were moving like flying; Jessica, who was wearing a blue pajamas with a monkey pattern, was sitting next to her. With the sound effects of the game, she commanded: "The tauren chief will come next."

"Ger-that, it's out." Wang Yang clicked the town center a few times, and then he heard the voice of "I have an ax to sharpen!" from the notebook, and went back to the monster-clearing team. Under his influence, Jessica is also an excellent game player, and when playing "Warcraft 3" together, unless you are fighting against each other, usually he, the quick-handed person, controls the keyboard and mouse, and she acts as the dog-headed military advisor.

"Oh my god! This bitch dared to sneak attack us." Jessica yelled suddenly, squinted her eyes slightly, pointed at the screen and said, "Hit it, hit it! Kill them all." Wang Yang gritted his teeth and said Saying ok, the wolf controlling the Prophet and several infantry clicked frantically; Jessica rubbed his head nervously and shouted: "O soul of the earth and the storm, attack! Attack! Attack!"

"Yeah!" After successfully killing the undead team of enemy players who came to sneak attack, the two cheered and clapped their hands together, and kissed. Before being calm for two seconds, Jessica screamed again: "Someone is disturbing, go back to the city!" Wang Yang nodded and said: "Okay, Chief!"

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