Why are TVB artists turning to the mainland? Look at Wang Mingquan's many times shouting about high-level salary increases, you know - introduction.
【The main writer of this article: Tuantuan】
When TVB went downhill, a drama called "The Case of The Strange Case against the Sky" unexpectedly stood out, which was a co-production drama with the mainland, and compared with "Guys Do Big Things", "The Case of the Strange Case against the Sky" appeared exceptionally good.
The rhythm of the series is tight, the emotional line from the protagonist to the supporting role is very full, but it is not too much portrayed on the emotional line, which captures the core theme of the drama - solving the case, which is a rare good drama for TVB in recent years.
Why netizens will compare these two plays, in addition to the similar broadcast time of the two dramas, but also because the actors in the two dramas overlap extremely highly. Many netizens will jump when watching the drama, commenting: "Yang Ming next door died undercover and came here to successfully become a policeman."
It is not difficult to find that many well-known artists of TVB have not focused their careers on the development of Hong Kong, and there are only a few people left with acting back and forth.
In the environment where TVB artists have left their nests one after another and gone to the mainland for development, there are still many "green leaf" supporting roles familiar to netizens in "The Strange Case against Heaven", such as Gu Minghua, who plays the role of Qi Weide (a police officer of the male protagonist's first team).
I believe that many netizens have seen his dramas, just the "Forensic Pioneer" series, Gu Minghua has played 4 films.
In "Forensic Pioneer IV", Gu Minghua plays Tan Yiqiao, the editor-in-chief of a magazine, who is the real murderer of the "cement child bone case", and netizens who have seen it should still have some impression of this person.
Gu Minghua, who has starred in hundreds of dramas, does not earn much in TVB, plays mostly supporting roles, and many roles are still unpleasant villains, filming scenes for so many years, and even some viewers do not know his name.
After decades of hard work, in the end, Gu Minghua suffered from liver disease and could not be treated, and finally the "cruel" Gu Minghua could only cut the liver.
As miserable as Gu Minghua, TVB workers, in fact, there are many, before the economic environment was tense, TVB had about 600 artists unemployed, thanks to Gu Tianle's 8,000 yuan relief payment, they can barely support a period of life.
A Hong Kong variety show called "It's Not Easy to Do" once caused a hot discussion on the Internet. In order to make money, several unemployed middle-aged artists can only do some things done by low-level workers, such as delivering takeaways, purchasing errands, moving goods, and so on.
Mai Changqing also said to the camera, "When you don't have food, don't you earn 15 yuan?" Many netizens are distressed by this and feel bitter for TVB artists. The life of TVB actors is no different from that of ordinary workers in the mainland, and even they do not earn as much as the people who deliver takeaways in the mainland.
Wang Mingquan once on TVB Taiwan Celebration, directly shouted, asking for a salary increase for artists, and this is not the first time Wang Mingquan has asked for a salary increase, like her in TVB for many years, even if there is a head and a face of people personally out to shout, there is no effect, no wonder TVB artists have chosen to leave the nest and come to the mainland to develop.
TVB is a salary system, and signed artists can get a fixed salary, about 12,000 Hong Kong dollars a month, and they have to work for a full time to get it. TVB third-line artists are paid about 6,000 or 7,000 yuan. It is good to have a scene in a month, but if there is no drama, you can only get some basic salary.
In other words, TVB's artists' salaries are linked to their performances, and the artists' performances are arranged by the company, which is an endless cycle, unless you are popular enough, otherwise the general small supporting roles have no performance opportunities, and the salary can only be how much to get a month.
For example, before TVB's supporting role Ruan Dejun broke the news that he originally had 60,000 a month, but after the company system changed, he only had one performance a year, and his salary was only more than 1,000 yuan, and he could not maintain his livelihood and could only leave TVB.
Veteran artist Liu Jiang was also forced to sign a contract with a mainland company because his salary was reduced to 5,000 yuan by TVB, and fell out with TVB.
According to the salary list of TVB artists on the Internet, TVB first-line artist Deng Cuiwen's remuneration is 80,000 Hong Kong dollars per episode, She Shiman 65,000, lin Feng is 50,000, and after they develop in the mainland, they can rise from 50,000 to 500,000 per episode.
After She Shiman became popular because of "Yanxi Raiders", his value soared, and he also bought tens of millions of mansions in the mainland.
Actor Wu Qihua was also a popular student of TVB when he was young, but after his popularity declined, TVB certainly did not reuse him, not to mention the problem of salary. In desperation, Wu Qihua also chose to come to the mainland for development, and the results were obvious.
Wu Qihua also bought tens of millions of mansions in the mainland, which is completely different from the treatment and living standards in TVB.
In Hong Kong, the remuneration of popular first-line artists is only tens of thousands, and in the mainland, this little money is estimated that even an Internet celebrity cannot be invited.
This is also the reason why TVB can't retain people, TVB artists would rather be Internet celebrities in the mainland, live streaming goods, rather than filming in Hong Kong.
How long can this society last without the love of bread? Some traffic stars in the mainland have poor acting skills but can get high salaries, and those powerful actors and "old drama bones" in Hong Kong are diligent and earnest in acting but no one cares about them, and they cannot be rewarded.
TVB is gradually decaying, not without reason, if you want to retain people, hardware such as salary increases must keep up, otherwise the artists who are still sticking to TVB now do not know how long they can last.