On Wednesday, the temporary new episode of "Sofia Talk Show" was officially aired on CBS TV. Originally, the guest of this episode should be a famous rugby player. When many rugby fans sat in front of the TV and waited for their idol to appear, they found that the guest was replaced by young director Eric Williams. Therefore, some hard-core fans called the TV station to question it.

But most TV viewers are not that picky, but instead feel a sense of surprise. After all, Eric's current influence is not comparable to that of a football player.

"Wow, I didn't expect the gunfight scene to be shot like this, it's so cool."

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"Eric Williams's joke is so funny. The robbers are playing poker with SWAT players, haha..."

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"Why has Drew Barrymore not shown up? There has been no news about her in the media since "Return to Seventeen".

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"Eric was so scary when he got angry. He didn't look like such a person at all."

"It's nothing strange. He is so young. How can he be obedient if employees older than him are not fierce."

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Various talks appear in front of thousands of TVs. Due to the summer vacation, the proportion of teenagers in front of the TV has increased significantly. Eric's influence among teenagers is probably higher than that of ordinary idol stars. After all, as a peer, if you exceed one hundred meters, it may cause all kinds of envy, jealousy, but if you exceed ten thousand meters, most of what you receive is worship. Therefore, when many young people see Eric appearing on the TV, they can't help but share their emotions and remind them to watch the show.

The influence of "Sofia Talk Show" is far from comparable to "Opra Talk Show". Although the latter has only appeared for a few years, it has an average viewership of more than 11 million people per episode, while the following "Sofia Talk Show" has only an average viewership of about 4 million.

At the beginning of this program, the original viewership data was only 4.2 million, but as the program was broadcast, the viewership curve soared. After the forty-minute program was broadcast, the number of viewers had stopped at 7.5 million, almost doubled. After the program was completed, the hotline of CBS TV was directly blown up.

"If we could do promotion a week in advance, the ratings of the program would definitely exceed 10 million," a CBS executive sighed with regret after seeing the ratings statistics.

Among the audience's hotlines, more than 70% hope that CBS can be replayed as soon as possible, while other messy reasons account for 30%. Some people hope that the crew of "Dark War" can be on the show together, some people hope that Drew and Eric appear on the screen together, and a large number of people asked whether the videotapes in Eric's hands would be released to the market.

CBS sorted out the audience's feedback into documents and transferred it to Colombia and Fireflies, and also followed the public's opinion and invited Eric, Drew and several starring actors of "Secret War". Although Columbia was very moved, after all, this could once again create momentum for the film promotion, it was rejected by Eric and others.

If it weren't for clarifying the rumors, Eric would have shown his face on the talk show, and Eric refused, and Drew would definitely not have gone.

Cruise and Hanks' agents also felt that the influence of this show was a little bit small and did not match the identity of the two superstars. Brooke Xiaosi was a little excited. "Secret War" brought a very good turning point to her career, but CBS, which was rejected by Eric and two Tom at the same time, was no longer interested. Several other big names were not on the scene, and only invited girls alone would have no topic. After all, Brooke Xiaosi only appeared in "Secret War" for a few minutes. Although "Sophia Talk Show" has a far less influence than "Oprah Show", CBS is a national TV station, and it is not as hungry as it is.

Although the invitation was rejected, CBS soon came up with a way to maximize profits after communicating with all parties. When Eric participated in the recording of the program, he accumulated more than two hours of material, while the talk show only had forty minutes.

Therefore, CBS re-edited the materials for more than two hours into the upper and lower episodes, and played them in the next two days. Because of a brief publicity campaign in the prime time at night, the next day, the re-edited ratings reached 9 million visitors. When the second episode was played on Friday, the ratings directly reached tens of millions, and at the peak it even reached 12 million.

If a daytime program has a viewership rate of tens of millions, it can be treated as ace programs. "Oprah Talk Show" has created more than 20 years of glory because of this average score.

In order to save the results, CBS directly gave up several episodes of the show that had been produced and spent a lot of money to invite other powerful guests in an attempt to create a talk show that could be comparable to "The Oprah Show". But in the end, the other party could only be disappointed. As Eric judged at the beginning, the biggest problem with this show was the host Sophia Temple. It was not that the other party was not excellent enough, but that Sophia Temple's personality was not suitable for hosting talk show.

Therefore, after the second week, the ratings of this talk show experienced a magical peak. Although it changed to a more powerful guest, the ratings still slowly fell. In the end, CBS had to give up its efforts. The episodes of the show that Eric had participated in also became the insurmountable peak of this talk show. Until the show was cut off by CBS, Sophia Temple turned behind the scenes, and the ratings never reached that level.

Of course, these are all later stories. The gunman's questioning storm in "Secret War" quickly disappeared after the talk show on CBS. After all, after the broadcast of that talk show, especially the subsequent episodes, the program played for more than 20 minutes of shooting behind the scene. Eric showed everything in front of the audience from the scene to the detailed shooting process. Moreover, the large scenes such as blocking the streets that appear from time to time also tell everyone that there is no possibility of fake video tapes. Therefore, someone raised this question to purely test the audience's IQ.

After the broadcast of "Sofia Talk Show", George Northon did not come out again because Columbia Pictures directly put pressure on "Premiere" magazine, forcing the other party to fire. After all, because of an article by George Northon, it almost caused immeasurable losses to Columbia. If Columbia does nothing, it would be too easy to bully.
Chapter completed!