"The Queen of News" finally ushered in the finale, do you think it's enjoyable to watch?It is said that TVB's filming this time was really bold, and it wasn't until I saw Huang Zongze's appearance that I suddenly realized: It turns out that this is TVB's own internal story!
Many people speculate that the prototype of Fang Yihua, the Taiyuan type in the play, is Zeng Lizhen, the prototype of Sister Man is Le Yiling, and the prototype of George is Zeng Zhiwei, who is now the general manager of TVB.
Why are TVB workplace dramas real and exciting?Maybe it's because it's the biggest "place of palace fighting" in itself. Today, let's talk about TVB's gossip, from the light of East Asian film and television to today's mountain culture, Leung Ka-shu and Zeng Lizhen's millennial infighting, as well as "News Queen", etc., all reveal that the factional competition within TVB has lasted for a long time, and has even become a well-known thing in Hong Kong.
Sister Wang Mingquan once bluntly said at TVB's celebration that she hoped that the company's mountain culture could be reduced.
After the live broadcast, Sister A's husband Luo Jiaying publicly said that he felt that Wang Mingquan was too elegant and lacked excitement in the live broadcast. He said: "Say it boldly, the live broadcast can be interrupted at any time anyway.
The problem with TVB is that they have too many hills!”
Zeng Zhiwei said that after he joined TVB's top management, he hoped to completely eliminate the internal factional culture. And now, TVB's big boss Li Ruigang also bluntly said that the company has seriously aged internally, and if it is not reformed, then it will face the danger of disappearing.
In TVB, the law of the mountain is king, not the moral order. Regardless of status, it is difficult for artists to get rid of the control of the mountain boss. If you want to survive in TVB, you must learn to stand in line, otherwise you will be marginalized like Hawick Lau.
And when it comes to TVB's mountain bosses, they are Brother Tommy, Sister Jane, Miss Le and Sister Sandy. At TVB's Taiwan celebration, actors and singers usually thank the organizer first when they win awards, but TVB's actors always thank these four bigwigs first.
The order in which they are thanked is also very important, as this usually means the mountain to which they belong. Brother Tommy, Sister Jane, Miss Le and Sister Sandy are the four major mountains of TVB, and their struggle is also TVB's most well-known infighting.
Among them, Liang Jiashu (Brother Tommy) and Sister Zhen had the most fierce struggle, Liang Jiashu used to be the director of TVB's drama production department, and around 2000, the Liang faction led by him shined in TVB.
The list of his works speaks for itself.
Tommy's most popular productions include Genesis, Ambition on Fire, Court No. 1, Criminal Investigation Files and Hands.
Around the turn of the millennium, Liang Jiashu's Xuan Xuan, Gu Tianle, Luo Jialiang and other Liang faction generals also emerged, among which Gu Tianle and Luo Jialiang won four emperors in five years.
Liang Pai is good at filming workplace dramas, and characters such as lawyers, policemen, doctors, and judges often play the leading roles in their dramas. In the first Emperor Selection, Huang Rihua became popular all over the country with the role of Qiao Feng in "Dragon Babu", and even wore Qiao Feng's costume to attend the award ceremony, but he failed to win the Emperor in the end, and Luo Jialiang became the winner.
Luo Jialiang is an artist that Liang Jiashu is very optimistic about, and Huang Rihua had rumors of discord with Liang Jiashu long before this, which made the dispute between the emperor and the outside world even more deeply affected the impression of these things.
When Xuan Xuan got the queen's view, she once inadvertently said such a sentence: "Thank you very much to those who have silently helped me behind the scenes." ”
Chen Baiqiang (anxious): Is there anyone silently supporting behind the scenes?Xuan Xuan (embarrassed): Anyway, thank you all for your help.
In 2000, "Men and Women Love" received wide acclaim, and Zheng Yuling won the post-TV award for the show. At the award ceremony, Zeng Zhiwei directly brought up the topic of Xuan Xuan last year, and he boldly asked Wang Mingquan of the Liang faction if there was any insider existence last year.
Wow, look at the time of this greeting, Zeng Zhiwei is the right time to add this fire. Why?Because he is a member of the Zeng family. That's right, Zeng Zhiwei is a relative of Sister Zhen Zeng Lizhen.
Sister Zhen is a great person, from 74 years from the choreographer to the boss of the production department, after the millennium, Sister Zhen began to strengthen her strength against the Liang faction.
At the award ceremony that year, Zeng Zhiwei mocked Xuan Xuan of the Liang faction, and then Ouyang Zhenhua came to the stage to receive the Shidi award. As Sister Zhen's favorite award, after Ouyang Zhenhua received the trophy, he first said something like this: "From this moment on, I will no longer believe that there is any predetermined situation in this world.
At the award ceremony in 2018, Ouyang Zhenhua first thanked Sister Zhen at the beginning, and then "counterattacked" Liang Jiashu, who had left TVB. It is rumored that Sister Zhen is a resolute person, does not speak much, pays special attention to the efficiency and strength of her subordinates, and will criticize (exaggerate) if she is slightly dissatisfied, so her subordinates are afraid of her.
However, despite her strictness, Jane's way of working is quite steady. At that time, in order to suppress the Liang faction, she directly used means to squeeze out Liang Jiashu's wife, who is also Gu Tianle's agent Xiao Xiaoming.
Xiao Xiaoming is Gu Tianle's Bole, when Gu Tianle was controversial, she strongly recommended him to star in "Xun Qin Ji", and won the title of Emperor Shi. Xiao Xiaoming's departure made Louis Koo feel deeply lost, and he decided to follow in her footsteps, leave TVB, and embark on the road of film.
The struggle between Liang Zeng and the two was actually a struggle for power. For example, Sister Zhen once arranged for Liang Pai's "No. 1 Imperial Court" to be broadcast at 10 p.m., but the audience of this workplace drama was not an eight-o'clock person, but won a reputation for Liang Pai.
Sister Zeng is strong, and her artist lineup is luxurious, including Ouyang Zhenhua, Cai Shaofen, Chen Hao, Yang Yi, Zhang Zhilin and many other well-known artists. However, even against this background, there is still the shadow of factional struggles.
Take Liang Pai's work "Student Police Sniper" as an example, the original heroine was Yang Yi, but due to Sister Zhen's deliberate suppression, she deliberately did not give Yang Yi a gap period, causing her to lose a valuable opportunity in her career.
The two also have a lot of interaction outside of work. Once, Sister Zhen took her team members to a dinner, but she didn't expect Liang Jiashu to come to the same place with a group of people.
After the dinner, they began to play the ** game, the prize provided by Sister Zhen was a *** and Liang Jiashu added to the five-day paid vacation. Throughout the dinner, the atmosphere and prizes on both sides became more and more intense, and they seemed to be trying to surpass each other in all aspects.
Although Liang Jiashu fought in full swing in private, Sister Zhen was undoubtedly the ultimate winner of this infighting. Since Brother Tianle left, Luo Jialiang, Xuan Xuan, Zhang Keyi and others have left TVB one after another, and the strength of the Liang family class has gradually weakened.
In 2015, with her unique vision, Sister Zhen successfully pushed Hu Dingxin, who has been playing a supporting role, to the throne of the backstage, and the opponent she defeated was Sister Wang Mingquan.
It is worth mentioning that Sister A's husband Luo Jiaying also posted on social **, implying that Wang Mingquan lost to Shantou Culture, because "the Liang faction has declined, you should be clear".
However, will TVB really make Zeng Lizhen's family dominant?This seems unlikely, because Le Yiling is halfway through"Cheng bites gold"The sudden appearance made TVB begin to pay attention to appearance?
Unlike Zeng Lizhen, who worked hard all the way, Le Yiling was parachuted from a high-level position and was mainly responsible for artist management. And because of the different experiences of the two, their preferences for actors are also different: Zeng Lizhen attaches importance to strength, while Le Yiling attaches importance to appearance.
Why does the sheep say that Le Yiling values appearance?Let's take a look at Miss Le's generals: Huang Zongze, Zheng Jiaying, Lin Feng, Charmaine She, etc. These stars are supported by Le Yiling, and Zheng Jiaying won the Emperor of Vision with "Lovers Under the Sky", however, because of the poor reputation of the show, Zheng Jiaying was nicknamed "Water Emperor".
Under the careful care of Miss Le, Zheng Jiaying's status is comparable to that of her own son. During the filming of "Fire Ambition", in order to add scenes to Zheng Jiaying, Miss Le forced the male protagonist Wang Xi to lie in bed for ten full episodes, which led to a sharp decline in ratings.
It is rumored that due to the private suppression of other actors, Le Yiling was cut by TVB's top management, and her status was once very unstable. But the rules of the game in Shantou culture are like this: the boss needs to be decisive, and the younger brother needs to be loyal.
Just like Louis Koo also left TVB after Xiao Xiaoming left, Zheng Jiaying also publicly said after filming "Step by Step" became popular: "As long as she is in TVB for a day, you will not see me on another TV station, because Miss Le is the reason why I can be in TVB."
TVB's top leadership attaches great importance to the loyalty of actors. For example, Hong Kong sister Xu Zishan, she was deeply loved by Sister Zhen when she first debuted, but because she openly discussed sensitive topics in front of the camera and destroyed the image of Sister Hong Kong and dignified, she was temporarily hidden.
Although Xu Zishan has a relationship with Sister Zeng, she did not mention Sister Zhen after winning the award in 07, but only thanked Le Yiling, and even knelt down to her backstage to express her gratitude.
Circulating. It's spreading!It is said that after Sister Zhen learned about this, she was furious and asked Xu Zishan to get out of the elevator in a hurry. Since then, Xu Zishan has also been suppressed by Sister Zhen, her career fell into a trough, and she finally chose to leave the entertainment industry.
The power struggle between the top leaders often comes at the expense of the artist. Ma Junwei, do you remember?He is the Kangxi in Chen Xiaochun's version of "The Legend of Deer and Ding".
Sister Zhen's "adopted son" Ma Junwei was about to renew his contract with TVB in 2009, but was blocked by Le Yiling on the grounds that his image was "inappropriate". This made Sister Zhen very angry, and even sarcastically said: "It's not suitable?."
I don't think it's suitable to cooperate with you!”
Although Sister Zhen tried her best to get Ma Junwei to renew his contract, due to Le Yiling's intervention, his resources gradually deteriorated, and there were almost no opportunities for advertising endorsements. Not only that, Le Yiling also arranged Ma Junwei's popular drama in a non-** file, and rejected a sky-high drama worth 1.5 million yuan per episode without authorization.
At the TV celebration that year, a reporter asked Ma Junwei and Le Yiling to take a group photo together, but Ma Junwei was very busy and had no time to cooperate. In the end, Sister Zhen stepped forward to solve the siege and pulled Ma Junwei away, avoiding an embarrassing scene.
Many people think that Sister Zhen is obsessed with palace battles, but in fact, she is the pioneer of palace fighting dramas herself. Since the success of "The Desire of the Golden Branch", Sister Zhen has begun to shoot this type of farce, and the female fight is like a palace fight script, and the male fight is like - "Eat, Liang Feifei!".
That's right, this classic line is from Sister Zhen's episode.
In TVB, Li Zi originally remained neutral, but under the pull of Sister Zhen, in order to fight against Charmaine Sheh of the music school, she overwhelmed the other party with "The Desire of the Golden Branch" and became the queen of the audience.
In order not to offend the bigwigs, Charmaine Sheh no longer showed loyalty to the music school like his predecessors in the later period, but called himself an apple pie.
Although Le Yiling has a strong wrist, Sister Zhen has never shown weakness. Cousin Zeng Zhiwei once publicly ridiculed Miss Le's double-standard behavior on stage, and used Le Yiling's love to make Lin Feng a laughing stock.
And he also hinted that every year on Le Yiling's birthday, the artist will give her a valuable gift.
The two people who had been fighting against each other did not stop fighting until Yu Yongshan appeared. Yu Yongshan is Sister Sandy, who is mentioned by artists when they speak, she started by producing variety shows, and Huang Cuiru and Hong Yongcheng are the artists she personally brought out.
In addition, she also introduced her husband, the owner of the record company, into the field of variety show production. In 2013, Sister Sandy launched the artist singing program "Legend of Star Dreams", and TVB took advantage of the situation to set up a record company and cooperated with Sister Sandy's husband.
The ratings of this show are very good, and in the face of seemingly powerful "opponents", Sister Zhen and Miss Le even had a sweet time. At that time, even Ma Junwei reconciled with Le Yiling.
Sister Jane and Sandy begin to team up against Miss Lok and try to get her to leave Shaw's Films. With Miss Le's loss of power, her actors have also been isolated in TVB.
For example, Lin Feng, who Sister Zhen and Sandy once loved, became a popular candidate for Emperor Shi because of "Thunder Sweeping Drugs". However, in order to prevent Lin Feng from winning the award, Sister Zhen and Sandy teamed up to modify the voting rules.
You don't have a lot of five years left on your contract, and if you want to be hidden, it's a no-brainer.
In 15 years, Li Ruigang replaced the "Shell King" as the big boss, and Zeng Zhiwei also parachuted into the high-level. However, at this time, TVB has long since ceased to be beautiful, the four heavenly kings are no longer singing one after another, and the Taiqing scene is no longer star-studded.
Liang Jiashu retired, Le Yiling lost power, Yu Yongshan left, and only Zeng Lizhen's cousin Zeng Zhiwei stayed on TVB. From this point of view, if you have to choose a champion among the four people's infighting, it is undoubtedly Zeng Lizhen, an out-and-out ruthless character.
Maybe some sisters will have questions: A company will always have a boss, seeing the top management of his subordinates fighting like this, doesn't the boss care?At TVB, however, internal strife has become part of its corporate culture.
In the early Hong Kong film and television industry, there was a shocking "Battle of Wutai Mountain". The war was fought by five media giants: ATV, TVB, Jiayi, Commercial Radio and Radio Television Hong Kong.
In this war, Run Run Shaw and his TV company, with their clever factional struggle, successfully defeated their competitors and promoted the company's performance growth to a certain extent.
Run Run Shaw brought several major schools with him, and the leaders of each school also began to recruit artists and screenwriters to strengthen themselves. Especially in the struggle between Liang Jiashu and Zeng Lizhen, the reputation and ratings of Hong Kong dramas have reached their peak.
It is said that Miss Le fell from the sky, but the truth is that she was arranged by Shaw's wife, Fang Yihua. Fang Tai noticed that Liang Jiashu's power was weakening, and in order to prevent Sister Zhen's family from becoming dominant, she arranged for Le Yiling to enter the company for checks and balances.
After all, TVB's success lies in the blossoming of a hundred flowers brought about by internal competition.
Although TVB has become the leader in Hong Kong, Le Yiling and Fang Tai are still struggling with infighting. This infighting is not healthy competition, but excessive consumption.
Zeng Zhiwei kept saying that he wanted to eliminate the Shantou culture, but the factional struggle over the years was deeply rooted and not so easy to eradicate. Moreover, Zeng Zhiwei himself is one of the beneficiaries of the factional struggle.
As a result, the actors have been suppressed in an unknown way, and good dramas cannot be launched normally.
TVB's declining reputation in recent years is obvious, and the rise of the Internet has had a huge impact on the TV industry, with many advertisers beginning to turn to other platforms.
In this case, TVB began to seek cooperation with mainland Internet film and television platforms, such as Youku for the filming of "The Queen of News".
TVB is facing external pressure, and the long-standing internal conflict has caused great damage to its credibility. Now, the feud will only consume the vitality of TVB.
And is "News Queen" a short-term glory for TVB, or a signal for its return to the top?Let's wait and see.