Chapter 132 - Turning Point
"Chen Ran, the program's viewership ratings are a bit unideal, but it's only the first episode. This ti slot itself is a tough bone to chew. To have the current viewership ratings is already very good, make sure you don't get discouraged."
While eating, Director Zhang comforted Chen Ran.
Actually, when the viewership ratings ca out, he wanted to call Chen Ran, but thinking they would probably have an internal eting, he held back until now.
Chen Ran smiled slightly and said, "I'm fine, Uncle. The current viewership ratings are sowhat poor, but this is just the beginning. The results will need at least a few more episodes before a conclusion can be drawn."
Director Zhang patted Chen Ran's shoulder and said:
"It's good that you can think it through. I also watched the program last night; it's very interesting. I feel it shouldn't just have its current viewership ratings. It's a pity your program crew is too short on budget; otherwise, if the promotion kept up, it would definitely be much better. Let alone comparing to 'Magic Cute Babies', at least it wouldn't be the sa as it is now."
Everyone in the program crew thought this way, but this was a Thursday late-night slot, and a ti slot the station completely didn't favor.
With the 'Zhou Zhou Show's premiere viewership ratings being sluggish, the station couldn't possibly invest more.
Wanting the station to increase promotion was impossible, let alone continuing to increase the budget.
Director Zhang kept comforting Chen Ran.
Along the way, Chen Ran had had smooth sailing. Starting from the public channel, the results of the several programs he produced weren't bad, and he even won an award for Best Planner of the Year.
Now, having just entered the satellite TV channel and suddenly suffering such a Waterloo, Director Zhang was a bit worried Chen Ran wouldn't be able to hold up.
Chen Ran had always behaved very steadily in front of Director Zhang, but in this world, no one could constantly manage to be not arrogant in victory and not discouraged in defeat.
Entering the satellite TV channel to produce a program was a turning point in Chen Ran's career. With the viewership ratings being this unideal, he would definitely unavoidably be depressed.
In fact, Chen Ran's mindset was much better than Director Zhang thought. Just as he said, the sluggish viewership ratings were definitely only temporary. He firmly believed this; it was just that wanting it to rise still required so ti, that's all.
The Thursday late-night slot was inherently quite obscure, and the 'Zhou Zhou Show' was a small program. Let alone its viewership ratings ranking at the bottom, even if the program was axed on the spot, it wouldn't cause the slightest ripple.
Director Zhao Peisheng seed to be sowhat disappointed in the program too. He used to occasionally bring up the progress of the preparations, but recently he hadn't asked or shown any concern.
The mood of the people in the program crew was indeed sowhat lost the past two days, but as Chen Ran and Director Wu Tao constantly did ideological work to encourage them, they had also recovered for the most part over these two days and continued throwing themselves into their work.
The script for the third episode had already been written. Chen Ran and Zhou Zhou were discussing it; they were going to continue recording the third episode tomorrow.
Chen Ran noticed Zhou Zhou was sowhat absent-minded and asked, "Teacher Zhou, you're a bit out of sorts today."
Zhou Zhou snapped back to reality, slightly embarrassed, and smiled bitterly, "To tell you the truth, I really haven't been able to sleep these past two days."
"Because of the program?" Chen Ran asked.
"Yeah. After leaving the satellite TV channel five years ago, I kept thinking that one day I could return. Later, doing programs on the tropolitan Channel for a few years, as I got older and older, I also knew it was impossible. Now that I have such an opportunity, the results aren't too ideal. If this sole opportunity is gone, I might just spend my whole life at the tropolitan Channel until I retire." As Zhou Zhou spoke, he let out a sigh.
Chen Ran understood this ntality of worrying about personal gains and losses, and it was hard to console him. He reckoned the only thing that could set his mind at ease was a sudden explosion in viewership ratings.
But right now, the promotion couldn't keep up, so they could only wait for the program's word-of-mouth to slowly fernt. This wasn't sothing that could be achieved in the short term; it required quite a bit of ti.
Wanting it to explode in the short term—unless so sudden turn of events appeared, otherwise, they just had to wait slowly.
Zhou Zhou also felt he shouldn't bring his emotions into work. After briefly adjusting his mindset, he continued to discuss the program with Chen Ran.
The third episode of the 'Zhou Zhou Show' finished recording smoothly. Zhou Zhou was, after all, a veteran host; when recording the program, he didn't bring his emotions into it, and the quality remained very good.
During this period, a piece of good news for Chen Ran arrived. The 'True Feelings' program he gave to the tropolitan Channel premiered, and its premiere unexpectedly broke 9%!
The tropolitan Channel attached great importance to this program. From the ti of its production, they had been continuously running comrcials. After every program, there would be promotion for 'True Feelings'.
If this program continued to broadcast, it would definitely be another program to break 10.
Director Zhang called over, giving Chen Ran a round of comfort and praise.
Chen Ran didn't participate in the 'True Feelings' program, but the program proposal was his. For it to beco popular even like this proved that the current poor viewership ratings were not to bla on the program, but because of other factors!
Chen Ran understood Uncle Zhang's aning; it was wanting him not to doubt himself.
Regarding this, he felt both touched and helpless in his heart. He had assured Director Zhang several tis that his mindset was very good, but Director Zhang still couldn't put his mind at ease.
Not only did Director Zhang comfort him himself, but he also passed the news to Zhang Fanzhi, asking her to call over and have more heart-to-heart talks with Chen Ran.
This made Chen Ran not know whether to laugh or cry; it seed he didn't look that fragile, did he?
……
After Zhou Zhou finished recording 'Zhou Zhou Cos to Visit', he couldn't help but let out a breath.
Last ti he changed his style, 'Zhou Zhou Cos to Visit' not only didn't have any problems, but instead received widespread praise.
This was fine too. The viewership ratings over at the 'Zhou Zhou Show' weren't good, but at least he could stabilize things here at the tropolitan Channel.
Speaking of the 'Zhou Zhou Show', his heart was still sowhat apprehensive. The second episode was going to broadcast tomorrow.
After agonizing over these past few days, he now didn't ask for the viewership ratings to soar; he only asked that they could stabilize and not drop, and that would satisfy him.
Just as he was packing up his materials, a colleague looked at Zhou Zhou in surprise and shouted, "Teacher Zhou, Teacher Zhou, you've gone viral!"
Zhou Zhou was slightly dazed, sowhat baffled, and asked inexplicably, "What's gone viral?"
That colleague pointed at his phone and said, "Weibo! Hurry and get on Weibo, you've gone so viral you're on the trending search list now!"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Zhou imdiately felt it was impossible. He had registered a Weibo account, but nobody really paid attention to it, and he rarely logged in. How could he possibly go viral?
"You're not mistaken, are you? Could it be soone with the sa na?" Zhou Zhou asked.
The colleague said speechlessly, "If it was soone with the sa na, would I be this excited? Look, 'Zhou Zhou Show', isn't this the program you host on the satellite TV channel? It's on the trending searches!"
The colleague handed the phone to Zhou Zhou. He took a look—ranked in the twenties on the trending search list, wasn't it exactly the 'Zhou Zhou Show'!
"How could this be?"
Zhou Zhou completely couldn't believe it. Their program's viewership ratings were so low and it had flopped so badly, how could it still get on the trending searches?
Let alone Zhou Zhou, at this mont, Chen Ran also found it sowhat hard to believe.
He hadn't expected either that so netizens would cut out the video of Zhou Zhou slamming dicine prices from the first episode and put it on Weibo, and that it could even spark such a huge discussion.
So Big Vs, seeing the topic was relatively hot, also followed suit by retweeting and discussing it.
And then...
A small, obscure program like the 'Zhou Zhou Show', after a few days of ferntation, was just like that, vividly thrust onto the trending search list!
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