Hi guys, Marcus here and welcome to Chinese
Entertainment Update Sept 6th, 2020.
I release episodes every Tuesday, Thursday
and Sunday, and this is episode 278.
Because I use Chinese names quite a bit on
my show, if you want the English spelling
of them, click CC for English subs, I create
them myself.
In this episode, Immortality's new controversy
and the Top 10 Chinese dramas and actor at
the moment, but
as always we begin with what's recently premiered.
Ordinary Glory 平凡的荣耀 is a modern
drama starring Mark Chao and Bai Jingting
and it premiered on Sept 4th.
Mark Chao stars as a workaholic team leader
who's career plateaus in an investment company.
Bai Jingting plays a wide-eyed rookie who
enters the company and works under Mark Chao's
character.
They form a strong mentor-intern relationship
and achieve great heights.
I am looking forward to watching Mark Chao
in this as I feel he is great at playing intense
characters and from the look of the trailer
it seems his character is just that.
I first saw Mark in the 2010 Taiwanese gangster
movie Monga in which he starred with Ethan
Ruan.
Throughout the years he's done a bunch of
movies and dramas including of course the
wildly successful Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms
but I get the impression that he is very selective
of his projects.
In fact the only drama he's done since Ten
Miles of Peach Blossoms is a guest appearance
on Midnight Foodstore, a 2017 drama.
As far as movies go, he has the fantasy movie
Qing Ya Ji coming up -
he stars in that with Deng Lun.
Ordinary Glory is a remake of the 2014 Korean
drama Misaeng.
I haven't seen it but I read that it won a
bunch of awards, recorded high viewership
ratings and was a cultural phenomenon.
Seems like the bar's set pretty high, but
hey that's never stopped Chinese producers
from doing remakes.
Ordinary Glory's scriptwriters reportedly spent
two years researching the finance sector before
writing the script.
The drama is slated for 42 episodes and and
premiered on Youku.
No English subs anywhere at the moment but
it looks like it might be coming to YouTube.
Way Back Into Love 拾光里的我们 is a
modern romance drama starring Daddi Tang and
Sun Qian and it premiered on Sept 4th.
It follows two people who missed the chance
to express their love for each other when
they were young.
They meet again years later and make sure
not to let history repeat itself.
So another modern romance drama for you if
that's your thing.
This one's slated for 26 episodes and is available
on YouTube with English subs.
And moving on, some controversy or should
I say some more controversy coming from Immortality.
Immortality 皓衣行 is an upcoming costume
drama starring Arthur Chen and Leo Luo and
they began filming on April 24th.
Since then, they've taken a pretty hush hush
approach to production - they haven't released
any character posters yet -
and that's fine, they're entitled to how they want
to run their show.
Some productions can't wait to show their
fans their work, others prefer to build up
excitement before eventually unveiling their
work.
They put up barbed wire and green cloth normally
used for CGI to block out paparazzi from taking
pictures from outside.
This approach has caused many fans and paparazzi
alike to go to great lengths to catch a glimpse
of the stars.
So much so that not long ago, a fight broke
out on set involving a crew member and an
overzealous paparazzi photographer.
Recently, rumors surfaced that the drama's
scriptwriters injected romantic scenes between
Arthur Chen and Sebrina Chen's character,
and some netizens weren't pleased to say the least.
Immortality is based on the BL novel, The
Husky and His White Cat Shizun.
In the drama, Leo Luo plays a grandmaster
of the cultivation world whereas
Arthur Chen plays his rebellious disciple
who eventually turns over a new leaf.
Sebrina Chen co-stars as another one of the
disciples.
Netizens were so unhappy with the alleged
romantic scenes between Arthur and Sebrina,
that they bombarded the drama almost half
a million comments bashing, of all people,
Sebrina.
The drama's lead scriptwriter responding to
all this by saying,
"I signed a non-disclosure so I can't show
the script.
I can only give assurances: what should be
there is there, and what shouldn’t be isn't.
When the drama airs, everything will come
to light."
For me, this is yet another case of "I don't
get their logic".
Even if the rumors were true, why bash Sebrina
Chen, the actor who most likely had no creative
input in the script and is just doing her
job as an actor?
This is just like when netizens lashed out
at Zoey Meng when they thought her character
was going to have a romantic relationship
with Xiao Zhan's in The Untamed.
Like where's the logic?
Ultimately, that ended up becoming much ado
about nothing
and personally I think this will end up being
the same.
The data is provided by Vlinkage, a marketing
consultant company based in Shanghai and we
begin with the top 10 web dramas.
The list is based on view counts on Youku,
iQIYI and Tencent, social media discussions
and Baidu searches.
Sisyphus makes a strong debut at number two
-
I've checked it out and it's suspenseful -
but it is the impressive Love and Redemption
which makes it five weeks in a row at number
one now.
And now the top ten Chinese TV dramas at the
moment.
These are based on TV ratings and social media
discussions in China, and they include reruns.
So Ordinary Glory premieres at number five
as Go Ahead continues it's strong run as champion
- that four consecutive weeks for them now.
And now the Top 10 Chinese Drama Actors at
the moment.
The list is based on drama performances, social
media discussions and Baidu searches.
And in this list, there's no separation between
web and TV, it's just drama actors as a whole.
So not much changed since last
week as Seven Tan continues to dominate.
The two stars of Love and Redemption continue
their strong run while regulars Wang Yibo
and Xiao Zhan continue their presence on the
list.
So there it is guys.
Hope this gives you guys an idea of who and
what drama's hot in Chinese drama land at
the moment.
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