Chapter 74 Traitor

"Dear, what are you writing?"

In the morning, when Bonnie woke up, she found that Barron was no longer around...

This was not surprising to her, because she knew that the young duke always had the habit of getting up early to exercise.

When she finished washing up and walked into the study, she saw Barron sitting at the desk writing something, and saw the title at the top of the manuscript paper - The traitors!

"Traitor? Is this some new novel or game?"

Hearing Bonnie's question, Barron put down his pen, stood up and kissed the girl on the face:

"It's a new game similar to Werewolf, or to be more specific, it's the planning of a reality show."

"Reality TV? Can I watch that, honey?"

When Bonnie heard that it was a reality show planning, she immediately became interested. After all, she was engaged in the television industry and was a host, and she had appeared in quite a few reality show 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 asks them to enter the castle. Three of them will be chosen to be "traitors", and the others will be "loyalists".

Traitors hide among the Loyalists, and can gather together every night to choose a Loyalist to kill.

And everyone will speak and point fingers at the meeting after dinner every day, and vote collectively to choose a player to be exiled.

The purpose of these people participating in this variety show is to win the final prize of 250,000 pounds - "traitors" and "loyalists" win prizes through daily game tasks during the show, and the prize money can be accumulated up to 250,000 pounds.

When the time comes, those who remain in the castle will vote in a final meeting until they believe there are no more "traitors" among them.

If there are no "traitors" left after the final voting, they will share the final prize equally; but if there are still "traitors", the prize will go to the "traitors".

So the most interesting part of this reality show is the consideration of human nature. Does "loyalty" exist? Whether it is the "traitor" camp or the "loyalist" camp, perhaps "betrayal" will always appear.

"Very interesting ideas. After reading this, I want to participate in this program. The whole feeling is a bit like "Survivor", no, more like "Big Brother"..."

What Bonnie said was not wrong. Just like the famous American variety show "Big Brother", many amateur players gathered in a closed place, played games and voted, and those who stayed at the end won prizes.

It's just that the show "Traitor" adds the element of "Werewolf Killing".

This is also the variety show that Barron thought of after "creating" "Werewolf", which he had watched in his previous life.

In other words, whether it is the warm-up for Werewolf or the variety show "Traitor", Barron's ultimate goal is to enter the television field.

"Are you planning to shoot this reality show? Indeed, judging from your plan, Chatsworth House is very suitable for the shooting 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. Being able to come up with a good idea is one thing, but being able to present it better also requires certain abilities."

"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 "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and "Idol" have had their copyrights imported into many countries and are extremely well-known.

Therefore, Bonnie is no stranger to these variety shows, including reality shows.

For Barron, if he wants to enter the television industry, funding is not a big problem. What he needs to solve is a qualified operation team.

This cannot be achieved entirely through acquisitions, because in this field, its biggest rival, Sky TV, is extremely powerful. If it simply acquires a local team in the UK, the final result may still be that it will be crushed out like ITV Digital.

Therefore, in Barron's opinion, the most important thing is to cultivate a team that can compete with Sky TV in terms of creative thinking and operational level.

To achieve this, it is not something that can be achieved overnight, but it must be achieved through a certain route.

This includes his idea of ​​cultivating a variety show production team through the "Traitor" program and subsequent variety shows.

Then through the TV series production of "Downton Abbey", we can train TV series production teams, etc...

He built his team step by step, then participated in the negotiations between the BBC and ITV, and finally got his own channel and set up his own TV station.

All of this needs to be done slowly.

Now back to the variety show. Just as Barron said, you may 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 "copyright" of those well-known variety shows?

This is not 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 borrowed, it is difficult to define it as infringement in law.

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 show "Pop Idol" for plagiarism! Did

"British Idol" plagiarize? The producer of this show is indeed a celebrity guest of "Pop Idol" before, and many processes of this show are obviously influenced by "Pop Idol", but in the end, the court did not make a final conclusion on whether it was plagiarism.

Later, many variety shows in China were like this, with obvious "reference" but no fear of being sued.

But even so, many people are still willing to spend money to buy copyrights, because what they buy is not just copyrights, but also a detailed "user instructions". The copyright they bought includes detailed instructions for the entire variety show, including how to set up the scene, how to appear on stage, like some reality shows, and even what types of resident guests need to choose, certain plot settings, etc., all have instructions...

The copyright owner will even send someone to help with the recording, providing fool-proof instruction. 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 "borrow" some successful variety shows, they may still fail in the end, and the probability is even very high. There are many factors that outsiders don't know the reasons for.

The same is true for Barron now. If it is just a novel and ingenious idea, then it is still unknown whether it will be successful after it is finally formed.

To be on the safe side, he also planned to completely "reproduce" the extremely famous British variety show in his previous life - "The Traitor". This variety show can be said to have won several of the most important TV program awards in Britain that year, and the copyright was also bought by the United States. It also completely replicated their process and achieved great success.

"You wanna try it, baby?"

"I?"

Bonnie looked surprised when she heard Barron suddenly say this.

"Yes, you are the only one around me who has experience in this area, so I need your advice on many things. I was thinking, why don't you just join in? Didn't you say before that you hope to have more autonomy?"

It can be seen that Bonnie is still very moved by Barron's proposal, but this matter is really a bit sudden. She said with some hesitation:

"But I have no experience in this kind of reality show before. I am afraid that I will not do well."

"What does it matter, baby? You have connections with the TV station. I can recruit or directly buy a team that has experience in producing this kind of reality show."

Barron took Bonnie's hand and said softly,

"In the beginning, you can be the host of this show. After the first season is finished and you have accumulated experience, you can try the role of producer."