The straight man of steel in the entertainment industry

Then everyone's curiosity was unprecedentedly strong, they all put down their work and gathered together.

"Hey, who is this person? Isn't this too big a name, was he brought in?"

"Our show doesn't have the budget to invite big names. I think the possibility of people with disabilities is relatively high."

"The handicapped are also pushed in in wheelchairs, how could it be possible to carry a big sedan chair!"

"Don't your production crew know who this is?"

"I don't know, we were talking about why there is one less guest in this episode, but I didn't expect to come by myself!"

"Xiao Zhao, don't the people in your broadcasting team know who this is?"

"I don't know, I have to ask the director about it."

"No matter how mysterious the guests who came before are, the people inside our program group should know who they are. This person is too mysterious."

"Wait and watch the recording, I'm not playing it, as long as it's a star I know, I can recognize it!"

"How about we make a deal?"

Chapter 368

The recording of this episode of The Masked Singer is about to start, and the chief director Yu Hui is checking the preparations of various departments.

Recently, the ratings of the Masked Singer program dropped again, almost becoming the program with the lowest budget and ratings in the station.

Yu Hui couldn't say anything, because even he himself was a little discouraged.

Yu Hui was walking, suddenly seven or eight people walked up to Yu Hui with shame on their faces.

"Director Yu"

Yu Hui took a look at them, and found out that there were scene management, lighting, and choreographers inside.

"Huh? Is there a problem?"

The few people looked at each other and pushed out a leader.

"Director Yu, it's like this. The program group next door is going to hold a new program. They are short of people and want us to come over. The few of us think that our program doesn't seem to require so many people, so"

Yu Hui understands that the welfare of the employees in the TV station is related to the programs they are in charge of. If the ratings of the programs are good, the employees will get more bonuses, and they will speak louder in the station. Similarly, if the ratings of the programs are not good, then the program group The people in the show have no money and no status, and it is very difficult to go to other program groups to negotiate some things, depending on people's faces.

The snobbery of various program groups is very common. Yu Hui's show is no longer good, and it is natural for some people to want to develop elsewhere. After all, these people are not Yu Hui's own team.

"Okay, after the recording of this episode, if you want to leave, I'll let you go." Yu Hui said.

"Thank you, director!" Those people all bowed to Yu Hui to express their thanks.

Yu Hui was in a complicated mood, so he went to the surveillance office. Just as he went in to sit down, the producer Fang Minghua came.

"Director Yu," Fang Minghua said hesitantly.

"what happened?"

"The budget for the next period has been applied to Taili."

Yu Hui asked: "How much?"

"3300 million, I really tried my best"

Yu Hui frowned. Excluding the 50 program production fee, the seven singers, Luo Fei and Lin Li, were 80, Huang Haining 30, Hu Junfeng 20, and two new guests 15. Jiang Mengyao was a little cheaper, 10. [-] appearance fees.

This adds up to 300 million, not counting the seven members of the guessing team.

There are two hosts in the guessing group, and the fees can be ignored. Although the appearance fees of other guessing groups add up to the cost of Lin Li alone, but because of this, there is no way to spend the guessing group's expenses Squeeze out again.

With such a lineup, a program, no matter how to save costs, cannot be less than 350 million.

Now the station only gives 300 million yuan to the next episode, which is a shortfall of 50 yuan. This means that according to the current program lineup, there will be basically no production fee for the next episode.

Yu Hui and the others were silent, and everyone felt a little disappointed, but they were not surprised by this result.

At the beginning of the establishment of each program, the station will have a budget, and then share the amount of money for each episode. If the program is popular, there will be countless sponsors who will add additional advertisements, and the budget for the show will also increase in the station. But if the program is not good, Budgets will also gradually shrink.

At the beginning, the budget for each episode of The Masked Singer was 400 million. Due to the continuous decline in ratings, the budget of the show also began to shrink.

The program budget of 350 million yuan for the previous episodes was applied for by chief director Yu Hui and producer Fang Minghua after exhausting their efforts to secure tickets from the director.

This time, Taiwan leaders seem to have lost their patience, and they are only willing to give a budget of 300 million.

Now that the budget of the station has been reduced so much, the signal is very obvious, and it is almost said that the station has given up on this program.

With a gap of 50, the only way is to change the lineup, cut off the player with high appearance fee, and replace it with someone with low appearance fee.

This is also Taili's idea.

The idea of ​​the station is to invite some not-so-famous stars to wrap up the show sloppily.

Luo Fei signed three episodes of the show, which means that he will definitely be in the next episode.

And here, Luo Fei and Lin Li have high appearance fees, Luo Fei can't move, so Lin Li can only be moved.

At this time, the show's budget dropped sharply. If the show wanted to continue, it had to go through the route of popular singers. A quasi-first-line singer like Lin Li couldn't afford it.

When Lin Li first talked with Yu Hui, he didn't sign many contracts. Instead, he asked Yu Hui not to disclose his information, and to have a real masked singing for people to guess. If the members of the group can't guess themselves, they will continue.

Yu Hui originally hoped to keep the secret together with Lin Li to see the effect, but now that the program budget is like this, it seems that he can't keep it.

If the members of the guessing team can guess Lin Li today, then they don't say anything, just follow the trend and let Lin Li leave.

If the members of the guessing group can't guess that it is Lin Li, Yu Hui also decides to tell the members of the guessing group the result through the headset at the last moment and let them announce it.

In short, Lin Li could only participate in this episode.

Although Yu Hui was unwilling, he had received a lot of criticism from the director in the previous episodes, and he had promised many times. As a result, the show did not improve, and he was ashamed to fight for anything with the director.

Yu Hui looked at the others and asked, "Have all the guests from Lin Er arrived?"

"It's all here, we can record right away."

"Ah."

Yu Hui walked out of the monitoring room and went to Lin Li's lounge.

He also wanted to catch his breath.

Lin Li sat in the lounge, and soon heard a knock on the door.