Simon just heard some noises and could roughly determine where the first episode was played. He did not look at Jerry Hall, and could not see it clearly through the crowd. He just sniffed the smell of a woman beside him and said: "These players are sponsored by Tinkobaier. According to the cost price, 5,000 iPlayers are only more than one million US dollars. If you use this little money to exchange for a TV program with a rating of 30 million, I think anyone in several major TV stations would be willing to continue doing this."

Jerry Hall is now considered to be in the TV industry, and you will understand it after thinking about it a little.

That's true.

According to the current advertising quotation of TV programs on TV networks, it is estimated that 500,000 yuan in 30 seconds. A one-hour reality show, with a conventional 43-minute content and 17-minute advertising. This is $17 million. According to the 23-period advertising period, the advertising revenue alone reaches $390 million.

"Fashion Workshop", produced and hosted by Jerry Hall, does not consider syndicate revenue, and the single-season advertising revenue is less than one-tenth of 39 million.

This is the gap.

Thinking to himself, Jerry Hall asked curiously: "The cost of this reality show should be very high, right?"

Simon smiled and shook his head: "Trade Secret."

Jerry Hold immediately rolled his eyes at the man again.

Actually, it's not too confidential.

It’s just that Simon is too lazy to explain too much to women because the cost of "American Idol" season 1 is not fixed.

During the project planning stage, in order to avoid risks as much as possible, this reality show has set up two production plans, one set of stop loss plans when the project fails or the response is mediocre, and the other set of expansion plans after successful ratings.

Simon never felt that he would be able to succeed 100%. He was not stingy with American Idol, but he also made the worst plans.

Because the production cost of this reality show is indeed very high compared to other TV shows in this era.

According to the stop loss plan, the production cost of the first episode of "American Idol" reached US$7 million. "The Story of the Emergency Room", which was just aired some time ago, is also a feature series, and the cost is not low, but it is only US$6.5 million. Although the number of viewers of "The Story of the Emergency Room" is only about 20 million, as a TV series, it has rich syndication benefits in the future, and even if it is more than ten or twenty years later, reality shows are time-sensitive and have very low replay rate.

Therefore, even if the average viewership of "American Idol" reaches 10 million, it can be renewed for other dramas, and this reality show must be cut.

According to the stop loss plan, if the number of people on the air reaches less than 15 million, "American Idol" will only produce one season, with a total of 18 episodes, 8 episodes before the year, 10 episodes after the year, and then the end is without a follow-up.

The 18th issue of a single quarter is calculated based on a single period of 7 million US dollars, and the total production cost is US$120 million.

If the number of viewers on the air exceeds 15 million, the second expansion plan will be implemented. Starting from the second week of the airing, two episodes will be played per week, and the total length of the first season will also reach 32 episodes. Because the filming and broadcasting mode is adopted, the materials shot every week will be split from one episode into two episodes, and the cost will naturally be diluted. It is expected that the production budget for each episode will be reduced to about 5 million.

The 32 periods of a single season are calculated based on a period of $5 million, and the total production cost is US$160 million.

These details can’t be explained clearly to the women around you in just a few words.

Now, the number of viewers on the air has reached 30 million, and I will definitely choose the second set of expansion plans for 32 single seasons.

Whether it is 120 million or 160 million, this era is considered a bombshell for TV projects. When Daenerys produced "Survivor", the straw team and the continuous compression cost were continuously reduced. The total budget for the first phase was only 5 million US dollars, which was simply saving money to the extreme. Unfortunately, this kind of thing seemed to have happened a long time ago, when the $25 million US dollars in "Rain Man" was already a big production.

Actually, it's only 7 years.

But it has been two eras.

Hollywood in the 1990s was like Simon's memory of the great explosion in China's film and television industry after 2010. Capital influx, celebrity pay soared, production costs soared, and Hollywood returned to rationality after the bursting of the Internet bubble in 2000.

Simon and Jerry Hall hid in the corner and chatted for a while, got up and continued socializing for half an hour, then left the cocktail party early.

Stay overnight in Hall's Greenwich apartment.

Get up at six o'clock in the morning.

The woman who was exhausted last night was still lying on the bed. Simon washed up and put on her clothes and left the master bedroom. The spacious large flat apartment seemed very quiet. She walked through the long corridor to the living room, but someone was already busy in advance. Not only was there a waiter and a guard next to Jerry Hall, but two other waiters from the Wei family. During the greeting, she said that Ms. Davis asked them to come.

Several other servants in the apartment have been sent away for temporary holidays.

Simon didn't think the butler would make his own decisions. Even if it was to serve him, it was more likely that it was the order of Girl A, but he did not mean to go into it in depth.

There is a gym in the apartment, but I didn't plan to exercise this morning.

Sitting by the window of the living room, reading newspapers, drinking coffee, and enjoying the autumn scenery of Manhattan.

It is not easy to see autumn in the city, but it is actually divided into locations.

The apartment chosen by Jerry Hall is planted on the street outside the apartment. At the end of September, the leaves of the paulownia are red and yellow. Looking down from the sixth floor, it looks like a wonderful ribbon, setting off the old apartments in Greenwich Village that are basically old in the past. It has a special sense of nostalgia, which makes people unable to help but think of the passing of time.

So even the newspaper in front of me didn't want to pay attention to it.

A maid asked a few questions. The other party quickly sent an iPlayer player and said softly that if Simon had any songs she wanted to listen to, she could download them now. The maid was approaching while speaking, and the pleasant fragrance of the young girl floated faintly. Simon smiled and pointed at her feet. The maid was very smart and sat down respectfully beside the coffee table in front of her, quietly helped the man to renew a little coffee, and then lowered his head to pretend to tidy up the scattered newspaper on the coffee table.

Simon put on the iPlayer headphones, selected it in the list, found a song "Young and Beautiful", and pressed the single loop button on the body operation interface.

Some classics are really suitable for the single loop at some point.

In the early morning of autumn, the mottled streets hidden by the sycamore trees outside the window, coffee, music, and women's fragrance.

Perhaps God always doesn't want to see some people sinking in a perfect situation. The singing in the headphones had just been circulated twice or three times, and another slender figure appeared at the exit of the corridor at one end of the living room. This was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl with red hair, fair skin, big eyes, wearing a navel-exposed vest and short hot pants, revealing two long legs that were inherited from her mother's chopsticks.

Seeing Simon, the girl was not surprised at all. She came over secretly, poked out her little hand and touched one side of Simon's earphones and stuffed them into her ears. Her slender body leaned on the backrest of Simon's single sofa where she was listening for a moment, and then she said a little teasing: "Simon, you must be very narcissistic, you are actually listening to your own songs."

Simon found the girl approaching after being taken away from her headphones, but she didn't react. After hearing the little girl say this, she smiled and said, "What's your father sings his own songs all day?"

"My dad..." the girl wanted to retort, but she was stuck just after she opened her head, giving in and saying, "You are all narcissistic people."

The little girl said, turning to the side of Simon's sofa near the window, squatted down and lay on the handrail, glanced at the Wei family maid who was still kneeling beside the coffee table. These were not the two of them, but the girl knew the other person's identity very smartly. For some reason, she felt a hint of threat inexplicably, so she pretended to be very dissatisfied and said to Simon: "You were so rude last night, making my mother so loud."

Simon just picked up the coffee and delivered it to his mouth. When he heard this, he almost squirted out a sip of the coffee. He quickly calmed down and did not get choked.

The waitress next to the coffee table also lowered her head slightly, probably concealing her smile.

After recovering, Simon signaled to the waitress next to her: "You go and prepare breakfast and tell them to add another one."

When the little girl saw the waitress standing up, she reminded her: "There are four people in our family."

The waitress looked at Simon, and saw that her boss ignored her, and ignored her, and turned around and left.

Seeing that the two of them ignored her, the little girl bulged her cheeks and simply got up and walked towards the single sofa opposite the coffee table, sitting cross-legged on it invisibly.

Simon didn't want to talk to the little girl, so he put on his headphones again, listened to music, drank coffee, and looked out the window.

The little girl confronted Simon for a moment, and finally said, "My name is Elizabeth, you can call me Leeds."

Simon responded casually: "Yes."

The little girl paused, raised her voice slightly and repeated: "It's Elizabeth Jagger."

"Um."

"Simon, you're so cold."

"Um."

"This will be very unpleasant for girls."

"Um."

"I will tell my classmate that Simon Westeros is actually a arrogant, cold, um, and erotic bastard."

"Um."

"Don't think my mom likes you, it's just because you're very rich."

"Um."

"Simon, I'm interested in a Hermes bag. Can you buy it for me?"

“Well… won’t buy it.”

"So stingy." Seeing that Simon finally stopped ummy, the girl curled her lips, but still refused to give up: "You are my mother's lover, and you can also be considered my stepfather. You should buy it for me."

"You still have to find your biological father in this kind of thing."

"My dad is even more stingy," the girl said, and opened her eyes slightly, "Do you want me to call you dad and sell it to me?"

"yes."

"dad."

"purchase!"

The little girl tried her best to hide her excitement and immediately said, "Dad, can I ask me to borrow your private plane? I want to take my friends to Miami on weekends and learn surfing. Cynthia always shows off her surfing in front of me. By the way, we also need a coach, we need a little handsome, well, just be half as handsome as Dad."

“…”

"Dad~~Dad~~"

"Stop, this requires your mother to agree."

"Mom will definitely agree."

As the little girl said, she jumped up from the sofa with a grin, stepped over the coffee table with barefoot, threw herself into Simon's arms and kissed him hard in the face, and then said she wanted to make up for her sleep and disappeared again.

Really.

Girl, where is your integrity?

Too obvious.

Simon leaned on the sofa, and the old god was thinking for a moment, making up his mind that if his son dared to act like this, he would beat him up first.

It's a daughter.

Um.

Still need to be raised in wealth.

But thinking about it, Seattle probably won’t act like a spoiled person with me like this. Snow, who uses a female assistant to cultivate children’s style, is most likely to become a lady.

This is pretty good.
To be continued...