单集制作费1亿元，《权游》如何改变美国电视剧

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大家翘首以待的美剧《权利的游戏》最终季明天就要在中国上映了，今天跟大家分享一篇《纽约时报》的分析文章，看看这部神剧是如何改变美国电视行业的。

新闻正文——源自《纽约时报》作者John Koblin

《权力的游戏》如何改变了电视行业的游戏规则

How ‘Game of Thrones’ changed the game of television

没有哪部电视剧比《权力的游戏》更有影响力，也没有哪部比它更能引起全行业的妒忌 日，。4 月 14该剧将在 HBO 电视平台开播最后一季。

“过去我们对电影和电视行业的工作体验和认知是不同的，”最近离任福克斯电视台的联合主席加里·纽曼说，“现在你可以感受到两者在结合。我认为，这归功于《权力的游戏》这部剧。”

每家公司，包括像 Hulu 网和苹果公司这样比较新的门户，都在寻找下一部像《权力的游戏》一样可以定义一个电视联播网的剧。这部剧使得人们心甘情愿地每月交 10 美元或 15 美元的订阅费用。

《权力的游戏》的预算最开始只有每集 500 万美元，但最后一季已经飙升至每集 1500 万美元。它开创了如今电视制作巨额开销的时代。

HBO 电视台的节目总裁凯西·布洛伊斯认为，（过分）强调大规模——大预算、大制作，可能不是从《权力的游戏》的成功中学到的最好经验。但同时，他确实承认这是这一成功模式中的一个重要部分。

布洛伊斯说：“《权力的游戏》第一次表明了，电视人可以用真正的电影制作规模来制作电视作品的剧集。电视人可以更加大胆地去设想——无论是在角色、戏剧还是特效方面，只要你不断尝试、投入真金白银、再把它搬上荧幕，就会取得成功。”

现在，就等着一家公司来发掘出下一部“《权力的游戏》”了。

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原文：

No series has had more influence or created more industrywide envy than “Game of Thrones, ” which will begin its final season on HBO on April 14.

“We used to have a different experience for movies and the television business, ” said Gary Newman, the recently departed co-chairman of the Fox Television Group. “Now you can feel it melding. I give ‘Thrones’ a lot of credit for that.”

And everyone, including newer outlets like Hulu and Apple, has been looking for the next “Game of Thrones, ” a series that can define a network and help persuade people to hand over $10 or $15 a month for a subscription.

“Game of Thrones, ” which had a budget that started at $5 million an episode but ballooned to as much as $15 million an episode in the final season, helped create the current era of enormous spending.

Casey Bloys, president of programming at HBO may think that an emphasis on bigness — big budgets, big productions — is the wrong lesson to take from the success of “Game of Thrones, ” but he does allow that it was a significant part of the formula.

“‘Thrones’ was the first show that demonstrated you could produce a show with real cinematic scope, ” Bloys said. “That you could think bigger — both in terms of character and drama and in special effects. That it would work, that taking shots and spending real money and putting it on the screen would pay off.”

Now all someone has to do is find the next “Game of Thrones.”

John Koblin

© 2019 THE NEW YORK TIMES

纽约时报https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/arts/television/game-of-thrones-television.html

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