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...News Corp. officials decline to disclose ad revenues. But Davis insists Starry Sky will be profitable in three years. For one thing, he argues, co-producing shows locally is relatively cheap. In addition, Mandarin content could attract a huge global market that has yet to be tapped. "We're building a library that will become the backbone for channels in Chinese-speaking markets around the world," Davis says. He also expects the company will ultimately be granted the wider distribution rights it needs to reach a larger audience. "If I thought we'd be in Guangdong forever, it wouldn...
...embrace the reality shows the company is trying to hawk. So far, the critical reception has been less than glowing. Rocky Liang, entertainment critic for New Weekly magazine in Guangzhou, offers halfhearted applause: "Regardless of whether it's good or bad, it's still nice to watch locally made content." As for that TV Court verdict on the donkey, the judged ordered the creature out of the apartment. As News Corp. may eventually discover, China can be a ruthlessly inhospitable place to make your home...
...only programmers that have creative differences with China's television regulators. Consider the fate of Hunan Media Group, once China's funkiest broadcaster. In the 1990s this studio in central Hunan province took advantage of a rule allowing provincial broadcasters to deliver one channel nationally across cable networks. Not content to just retransmit the local crop report, Hunan came up with a slate of all-new programs geared to popular (read: low-brow) tastes. Its leading show, Happy Camper, let celebrities and ordinary folk embarrass themselves by, for instance, dangling from 20-meter cords while tossing basketballs at a hoop...
...when they do, they don’t want to treat it as a marathon runner’s pleasant surprise. They want to do it again, top it. If players and coaches and the athletic department didn’t—if they were truly content to settle for mediocrity—they’d be pretty lousy in their respective roles...
...beginning of 1886 and, as the show's curators note, "underwent one of the greatest transformations in the history of art." In the Paris museums he could see original paintings, including Delacroix's Christ Asleep During the Tempest, and his letters abruptly start to exult about color over content: "Christ in the boat ... with his pale lemon-yellow aureole, luminous in the dramatic purple, dark blue, blood-red patch of the group of disciples, on that terrible emerald-green sea ... what an inspired conception!" He had read about Impressionism, too, but imagined it to be simply the use of lighter...