Chapter 74 Traitor
"Honey, what are you writing?"
In the morning, when Bonnie woke up, she found that Barron was no longer around...
This was not a surprise to her, because she knew that the young Duke always had the habit of getting up early to exercise.
When she finished washing and walked to the study, she saw Barron sitting at the desk writing something, and saw the title on the top of the manuscript paper - The traitors!
"Traitor? Is this some new novel or game?"
After hearing Bonnie's question, Barron put down his pen, stood up and kissed the girl on the face:
"It can be regarded as a new game similar to Werewolf, or more specifically, it is the planning of a reality show."
"Reality show? Can I watch it? Honey."
When she heard that it was the planning of a reality show, Bonnie immediately became interested. After all, she is engaged in the television industry and is also a host. There are also many reality shows and variety shows on Sky TV.
"Of course, and I'm ready to listen to your opinion..."
This reality show called "Traitor" is not complicated. It selects about 22 contestants and enters the castle. Three of these people will be selected to become "traitors" and the others will be "loyal." By".
The traitors hide among the "loyalists" who can gather together every night and choose one "loyalist" to kill.
In the meeting after dinner every day, everyone will vote collectively to select an exiled player by speaking and identifying.
The purpose of these people participating in this variety show is to win the final prize of 250,000 pounds. During the course of the show, the "traitors" and "loyalists" win prizes through daily game tasks. The maximum prize can be accumulated to 25 million pounds.
When the time comes, the people left in the castle will vote in the final meeting until they think there are no more "traitors" among them.
If after the final vote, there are no more "traitors" among the remaining people, they will share the final bonus equally; but if the "traitors" still exist, then the bonus will go to the "traitors".
So the most interesting thing about this reality show is the consideration of human nature. Does "loyalty" exist? Whether it is the camp of "traitors" or the camp of "loyalists", perhaps "betrayal" will always appear.
"It's a very interesting idea. After reading these, I want to participate in this show. The whole thing feels a bit like "Survivor", no, more like "Big Brother"..."
What Bonnie said is correct. Just like the well-known American variety show "Big Brother", it gathers many amateur players in a closed place to play games and vote, and those who stay in the end receive bonuses.
It's just that the show "Traitor" has added a "werewolf" element.
This is also what Barron thought of after "creating" "Werewolf", a variety show he watched in his previous life.
In other words, whether it is the warm-up of Werewolf or the variety show "Traitor", Barron's ultimate goal is to enter the television field.
"Are you planning to film this reality show? Indeed, judging from your plan, Chatsworth Manor is very suitable for the filming of this reality show."
It seems that you are really interested in this reality show, so Barron said:
"Yes, I have this idea, but it's not easy, isn't it? After all, I have no such experience before. It is one thing to be able to think of a good idea, but it also requires a certain amount of time to present it better. ability.”
"That's true."
In fact, the quality of British variety shows has always been very good, and many of them have been imitated by countries around the world.
Programs such as "Millionaire" and "British Idol" have been copyrighted by many countries and have a high reputation.
Therefore, Bonnie is not unfamiliar with these variety shows, including reality shows.
For Barron, if he wants to enter the television industry, funding is actually not a big problem. What he needs to solve is a qualified operations team.
This cannot be accomplished entirely through acquisitions, because in this field, his biggest rival, Sky TV, is extremely powerful. If it just acquires a local British team, the final result may still be the same as ITV Digital. Got crushed out.
Therefore, in Barron's mind, the top priority is to first cultivate a team that can compete with Sky TV in both creative thinking and operational levels.
Achieving this cannot be achieved overnight, but must be achieved through a certain route.
Including his idea of cultivating the variety show production team through the "Traitor" program and subsequent variety shows.
Then through the TV series production of "Downton Abbey", we will train the TV series production team and so on...
Step by step, he formed his team, then participated in the negotiations between the BBC and ITV, and finally got his own channel and established his own TV station.
All this needs to be done slowly.
Now back to variety shows, as Barron said, you have a good idea, but it is not certain whether it will succeed in the end.
Just like why do we have to buy the "rights" to those well-known variety shows?
This is not to say that it is just to respect "copyright". In fact, there is no clear boundary for the protection of variety show copyright. Even if most of the processes are used for reference, it is difficult to define it as infringement legally.
Just like the well-known British talent show "X Factor", also known as "British Idol", in fact, this variety show was once sued by the producer of the previously very popular British program "Pop Idol" for plagiarism!
Is there any plagiarism in "British Idol"? The producer of this show was indeed a celebrity guest on the previous "Pop Idol", and many of the procedures of this show clearly had the shadow of "Pop Idol", but in the end the court did not make a final decision on whether it was plagiarism.
Later, many variety shows in China were like this. They obviously used "references", but they were not afraid of being accused.
But even so, many people are still willing to spend money to buy copyright, because what they buy is not only the copyright, but also a detailed "user instruction manual". The copyright they bought includes the entire variety show The program is explained in detail, including how to set the scene, how to appear, like some reality shows, and even what types of resident guests need to choose, certain plot settings, etc., are all explained...
The copyright owner will even send someone to help with the recording and provide fool-proof teaching. It can be said that buying the copyright is equivalent to completely replicating this successful program.
After all, there are many examples that prove that even if you "learn" from some successful variety shows, you may eventually fail, and the probability is extremely high. Many of these factors are unknown to outsiders.
The same is true now when it comes to Barron. If it is just a novel and exquisite idea, it is still unclear whether it will be successful after it is finally formed.
To be on the safe side, he is also preparing to completely "reproduce" the extremely famous British variety show in his previous life - "Traitor". This variety show can be said to have won several of the most important TV program awards in Britain that year, and also The copyright was bought by the United States, and their process was completely replicated, and it was a great success.
"You want to try it, baby."
"I?"
Hearing Barron suddenly say this, Bonnie showed a surprised expression.
"Yes, you are the only one who has experience in this field around me, so I need your advice on many things. I thought, why don't you join in directly? Didn't you also say before that I hope More autonomy?”
It can be seen that Bonnie is still very excited about Barron's proposal, but this matter is a bit sudden. She said with some hesitation:
"But I have no experience in this kind of reality show before, so I'm afraid I won't do well."
"What does it matter, honey? You have connections in the TV station. I can recruit or directly buy a team with experience in this kind of reality show production."
Barron took Bonnie's hand and said softly:
"At the beginning, you can be the host of this show first. After the first season is completed and you have accumulated experience, you can try the role of producer."
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