Early the next morning, when Song Wenbin, Huo Yu, and Su Tina arrived at the Seal Company building, they felt an unprecedented chilling atmosphere.
Jiang Lu and the program team were sitting in the conference room. There were also several executives who had never met him in the conference room. Of course, Song Wenbin also saw the man in white he met before going to the North Pole. The investor's secretary, Bai Shou, who had a strange name, was also sitting among a group of people in suits and ties, silently watching the three people entering the conference room.
This is the first time Song Wenbin has seen such a big battle. In the past, if a task came, the program team would be more casual. It was the first time for him to see a group of people sitting together like this without saying a word. The battle almost felt like a court trial.
Huo Yu seemed to have a lot more experience in the company. After she walked in, she was only slightly surprised for a moment, and then asked: "What are you all sitting here for? Director He, Director Liu, aren't you two from the legal department?" , why did you come to our entertainment and information department too?"
The two people she named just tilted their heads slightly and said nothing.
Su Tina was a little uneasy and subconsciously shrank behind Song Wenbin.
At this time, Jiang Lu, who was sitting in the front seat, said, "I watched the live broadcast at Station D last night. What's going on with you? Are you making such a fuss?"
"What?" Huo Yu frowned, "What's causing such a fuss? Someone is obviously leading our rhythm, okay? By the way, Jiang Lu, do you know who is leading our rhythm?"
Jiang Lu didn't answer and took a sip of coffee silently.
At this time, a middle-aged man wearing glasses next to Jiang Lu said coldly: "Director Huo, Teacher Yan, Su Tina, the three of you now represent our Extraordinary Journey program team, how can you broadcast live together in the same frame without any notification? ?”
"ah??"
Huo Yu's frown deepened, "What do you mean by live broadcasting privately in the same frame? Do we have to discuss it with the company when we start a live broadcast?"
"Otherwise, it's too shameful." The executive said coldly: "We were all shocked when we saw it. I simply can't imagine that you, as adults, can do such childish things. Your image is the company's." If a valuable asset appears in front of the camera casually like this, what do you want the rest of the team to think, what do you want the boss above to think, and what do you want the investors to think? "
"What do they think?"
Huo Yu was shocked and said: "There is no stipulation in the contract for the second season that we cannot live broadcast together, and there is no law that says that as a natural person, I am not allowed to live broadcast."
"In fact there is."
A soft-looking assistant from the legal department said. He clicked on the remote control, and a scan of the contract immediately appeared on the projector. He pointed to one of the items and said: "Party B has the obligation to host program activities as required by Party A. If the program cannot be carried out or the broadcast of the program is affected due to Party B's fault, Party B shall bear full responsibility."
Song Wenbin listened to the words of these company people, not daring to say a word. These elites in suits and ties were approaching menacingly, when he smelled a hint of the coming storm.
Huo Yu glanced at the big screen and her face turned cold. She crossed her arms and said, "Assistant Wang, this clause is for the situation in the show. Now that the show has been filmed and we are off work, can we live broadcast after get off work?" Is it also within the jurisdiction of the contract?”
"yes…"
Su Tina also whispered behind Song Wenbin: "When we were filming the show, we all filmed it carefully..."
"presumptuous!"
A supervisor with a Chinese character suddenly gave a loud reprimand.
Sutina was so frightened that she quickly turned back.
"After the show ended, not only started a company privately, but also started a joint product delivery! Do you still have seals in your eyes!? Do you still have this show in your eyes! Do you still have leaders?" The middle-aged man took pictures The table said angrily.
Huo Yu glanced at the man sideways and sneered: "Director Liu, you have such great authority. I don't remember that there was an option in the contract between Seal and I that did not allow us to open a company. Since I was transferred from the safety and environmental protection department to the entertainment and information department, When Seal and I signed, the employment agreement we had previously signed was terminated, and now our contract only has a cooperation agreement.”
"You...!" Manager Liu was about to have a seizure.
Huo Yu glared, "What am I? You have to pay to hire me. I remember that you were trying to save money, so you only gave me a cooperation agreement. Why, you still want to pressure me with the cooperation agreement? You won't let me Opening a company, who do you think you are, the King of Heaven!?"
Huo Yu's voice became serious at the end of his words. Manager Liu looked at her and was a little scared. Then he looked at the people around him, pointed at Huo Yu and said submissively: "Look...what do you do with this kind of person?" Be reasonable..."
"Sit down, Director Liu."
Another executive on the side said: "This is the first time this kind of thing has happened. We are just discussing it so as not to hurt the company's harmony."
Manager Liu sat down angrily.
Song Wenbin has been with Seal Company for a year. Although he has been running around outside, he has some impressions of the people in the company. The person who spoke was He Feng, the company's legal director. He had mentioned foreign piracy to this person before. I don’t know if this guy has dealt with the video issue.
"I hate the teacher."
Manager He did not argue with Huo Yu, but looked at Song Wenbin and said: "We seals are not here to unblock you. To be honest, the impact of your live broadcast is very bad. Maybe we have to use It takes a lot of resources and a lot of public relations to sort it out.”
"It's a bad influence. Why am I such a bad influence?"
Song Wenbin turned his head and frowned: "Does it mean that just selling a few bottles of drinks will have a bad impact?"
"certainly."
Director He said: "Teacher Yan, as the first brother of Station D and the male host of Extraordinary Journey, you should cherish your feathers no matter what.
Last night, we received thousands of reports and protests, asking you to leave the Extraordinary Journey program group. Do you know how hard we worked to suppress this matter? "
"Report, why report me?" Song Wenbin was confused.
"No reason, I just see that you feel uncomfortable."
The speaker was Jiang Lu, the producer of Extraordinary Journey. She put down her coffee cup, clicked on the big screen, and said, "Since the Arctic Special aired, the ratings have dropped by 30% year-on-year. Not only are the ratings not good, but the ratings of the program are also getting worse."
She pointed to the comments on the screen.
I only saw one high praise comment saying: "The program has no beginning and no end. I really can't understand it. The program effect is mediocre and not interesting. The male host went crazy at the end and the female host hit people at the end. I really don't know what happened." How did this program pass the censorship? Really, three people are just three pure psychopaths. No wonder the ratings are not as good as other programs.』
Jiang Lu clicked again and made another comment: "This episode can be said to be the most inexplicable episode. Inexplicable quarrels, inexplicable madness, inexplicable beatings, and inexplicable failure in the end. It is said that it is the search for the ultimate end. I didn’t find the extreme point, it’s completely incomparable with the previous specials, bad review! 』
"BYD beat people when they were in the national team, and now they are filming a show and they can't change their behavior. I can only say that the show team is blind. Anyone dares to use it, and they don't know what the background is. 』
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Following Jiang Lu's remote control, the positive and negative reviews were vividly visible, giving Song Wenbin a headache.
Huo Yu's face on the side also turned blue and white.
Finally, Jiang Lu put down the remote control and said: "Originally, the Arctic special series was not that good, and the ratings were low. But after you came back, you ran to open a company to bring goods, which simply pushed our program into the abyss..."
"Can I interrupt for a moment?"
Song Wenbin raised his hand and said: "If I remember correctly, the Arctic Special is an idea you planned and came up with with investors. Exile us to an empty wasteland, and then let us live and improve the effect of the program. I I would like to ask, how do you survive on the ice with nothing when there are only three people? Do you think we are some kind of gods, or are you going to let me give a Seoul-style speech with a group of sled dogs??”
Jiang Lu: "It was indeed planned by us, but..."
“But our program is one!”
Song Wenbin said: "Not one person can decide how much the program will be played. If I were you, I would reflect on myself. Don't be a leader and look for scapegoats all day long. You must know that you invited me back in the first place. Yes, I’m not begging you to come back!”
Song Wenbin's unceremonious words silenced everyone present. As highly educated elites, they were not used to facing such an aggressive attitude.
This attitude made Huo Yu very satisfied. She stood next to Song Wenbin and said, "That's exactly what happened. We are only responsible for implementing your decisions. If you want to trouble us because of low playback volume, I suggest you Find trouble with that guy.”
Huo Yu pointed at Baoli, who was sitting in the corner, "As a director, this guy came up with the idea of ice swimming from beginning to end. If you want to blame, blame him. As a director, he cannot escape the blame!"
Everyone looked at Baoli. Baoli hesitated for a moment, hesitated to speak, and finally could only raise his hand.
"Blame me, blame me." He calmly said, "I am fully responsible for the failure of the filming."
But even though Baoli had taken responsibility for herself, Jiang Lu still had no intention of giving up. She said: "I know there was a problem with the planning of the last episode, but I didn't come to you just because of the volume of the show." Come, otherwise I would have called you. I called you today because the live broadcast last night was very bad."
bad? ?
The three people on the Extraordinary Journey looked at Jiang Lu with wide eyes.
"Why is this so bad? I only sold a few bottles of drinks, which were all produced legally." Song Wenbin said: "I am an anchor, is there any problem with bringing some goods? Are you too strict?"
"Teacher Yan, we recruited you because you won't have anything to do with women, right?" Jiang Lu asked.
"Yes." Song Wenbin reluctantly admitted.
"But you said last night that you couldn't stand the hard work anymore." Jiang Lu said again.
"Indeed, this is true." Song Wenbin said calmly.
"It doesn't matter if you can't fix it." Jiang Lu said, "We have a lot of planning here, and we can help you plan some reasonable and legal tiring activities."
"What??" Song Wenbin was stunned.
The two girls on the side were also shocked.
Jiang Lu stood up, sighed, and said: "I have to admit that with the development of the show today, the conflict between Teacher Yan and you two girls has become a huge highlight of the show. To be honest, even myself , I also really like watching the clips of you quarreling on the show..."
After a pause, Jiang Lu said: "However, last night's live broadcast did great damage to the image of Teacher Yan. To be honest, many negative comments only appeared after last night, or they were there from the beginning. But no one liked it at all. Teacher Yan, what you did is undoubtedly damaging the program and the extraordinary journey."
The feminine lawyer on the side asked: "Director Huo, do you still want to say that you have not violated the contract and agreement? The damage to the extraordinary journey caused by that live broadcast is immeasurable."
Huo Yu was stunned.
Sutina looked empty.
At this time, Bai Shou, who was silent on the side, also sat up straight and said earnestly: "Teacher Yan, you can't give up your character setting. Your setting is one of the main contradictions of the show. If you give up on the character setting of Yan, With my status as a woman, our program will be reduced to an ordinary travel adventure program, and our ratings will definitely drop significantly, which is not what investors want to see."
Teacher Yan stared blankly into the void. In some fantasy and abstract world, he felt that he was already drooling.
Huo Yu said in disbelief: "No...we have been to so many countries, to so many areas, and experienced so many crazy adventures and incredible things, and then you tell us that the audience only cares about this guy's character? Only care about this guy's personality?" What is the relationship between men and women??”
"It's a pity, but it is."
Jiang Lu said honestly: "No one cares about what you have done, no one cares about your adventures, no one even cares about which country you have gone to. According to our data, only when you have friction with Yan and Teacher Yan makes a mistake When the show is crazy, the number of barrages is the largest, and the audience is the most excited. Even for the Arctic special, in such a boring situation, it was Teacher Yan’s crazy behavior that saved some views in the end.”
Huo Yu:…….
Sutina:......
Song Wenbin was petrified, and the blood on his face faded away little by little, as if he had fallen into an endless whirlpool. Although there seemed to be many people around him, there was no one there.
"No... no no no no..."
Su Tina shook her head vigorously and said hastily: "Indeed, Brother Song used to be something like that, but Brother Song is now a program host! Brother Song has not done that kind of work for a long time... Why do you still use it? Looking at him from the perspective of the past, isn’t this... isn’t this a desperate attempt to find a sword!?”
"You don't have to tell us any nonsense, Sutina. We don't care what Mr. Song was. We are a commercial company here. Whether it is an investor or a seal, we must respect the audience's choice."
Manager He from the Legal Department said in a very professional tone: "Mr. Song, since the Chinese audience calls you Mr. Yan, and even the foreign audience affectionately calls you, Mr. Yan, then you must be Teacher Wei, this is the choice of the public and the market. I hope that as the host of a commercial program, you can respect this choice."
Song Wenbin's mind went blank.
"But..." Sutina was anxious and wanted to say something else.
Huo Yu interrupted her angrily, and only heard her say: "Do they know the meaning behind Yan? Do they know that Yan is the abbreviation of misogynistic me? This guy has already been banned once! Do you still want him to be banned again? The second time!?”
"You don't have to worry about that."
Jiang Lu comforted Huo Yu and said: "We don't care why Teacher Yan is Teacher Yan, and neither does the audience. The audience doesn't need to know why, and we don't need to know why. But as long as Teacher Yan doesn't mess around, he won't be seal up."
Bai Shou also took advantage of the situation and said: "Yan is good. Simple and clear. Whether it's Song Wenbin or something else, it's too complicated. The market doesn't need things that look complicated. We need simple things, the simpler. The better, I hate teachers, I don’t like women, but I still travel with two beautiful girls. This is good, the audience likes it very much, this is enough, what do you think?”
Song Wenbin raised his head little by little and looked at Bai Shou, his lips moved a few times, not knowing what to answer.
(End of chapter)
