This rumored scheduling is too excellent not to share, not to mention highly probable to come true. MBC is lining up the remainder of the dramas this year and has a major trump card in hand for the fall season. Industry insiders are talking about famed screenwriter Lee Kyung Hee returning to MBC to air her new drama, with it being 8 years since she worked with the network as all her recent dramas have been on KBS or SBS. Lee Kyung Hee did Wonderful Days and Nice Guy for KBS and prior to that she worked with SBS on Will it Snow for Christmas.
Lee Kyung Hee’s new drama is tentatively titled Liking is Just Like That and will be directed by PD Lee Jae Dong, who worked with her on Thank You back in 2007 on MBC. I love PD Lee’s directing style and he’s has been a busy bee after doing Thank You, more recently he directed My Spring Days, Missing You, and Hero. MBC is reportedly slotting this new Lee Kyung Hee drama for Wed-Thurs in early fall to follow after Scholar Who Walks the Night. The only info on this new drama is that resembles Thank You in narrative mood and is described as an adult fairy tale like romance.
Thank You is one of Lee Kyung Hee’s non-melos, of which she’s super famous for such as Nice Guy, A Love to Kill, MiSa (I’m Sorry, I Love You), or Will it Snow for Christmas. TY feels more like Sang Doo, Let’s Go to School and Wonderful Days, this bucholic locale of a more simpler times hiding wells of pain and suffering made palatable by the strength and resolve of the leads in coping. Sang Doo is probably my personal fave Lee Kyung Hee drama with Nice Guy coming in a close second and Thank You rounding out the top three. She writes very resilient strong female leads and emotionally battered screwed up male leads, yet somehow makes it all come together in whatever narrative concoction she’s conjured up.
She also is known for working multiple times with stars cast in her dramas – Gong Hyo Jin (Sang Doo, Thank You), Rain, (Sang Doo, ALTK), Song Joong Ki (Will it Snow, Nice Guy) – so I wouldn’t be surprised to see a former Lee Kyung Hee alum potentially cast in this new drama. I so can’t wait, other than feeling nervous with there being strong competition as Lee Kyung Hee’s new drama will air in the same Wed-Thurs time slot a few weeks prior to the new Kim Eun Sook drama Descendants of the Sun. I’m so going to watch both even if my eyeballs fall out from exhaustion. MBC is clearly pulling out the big guns to go up against DotS on KBS while currently SBS hasn’t scheduled that far out yet. Let the competition flag fly, ladies!
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Is it too much to hope that Song Joong Ki will back out of DoS and go to Lee Kyung Hee's instead?
Ohh man, I wish.
Jang Hyuk Jang Hyuk Jang Hyuk!
Omg I need JH in a melodrama after his strings of Sageuks and rom-coms and combinations of both. He's been bringing in the ratings for MBC too - it would be perfect! I think Rain would be excellent as well. Either men and I'm in heaven.
A reunion of Jang Hyuk and Gong Hyo Jin and the entire Thank You cast, please! Thank You is my favourite of Lee Kyung Hee's dramas... and these two brought Min GiSeo and Lee Youngshin to life. Though I am not quite sure whether it is even feasible... seeing she is currently starring in Producer, still will continue to hope it miraculously happens.
that would be great!
Rain or Go Soo please
I would take this 10000x over the other rumor that MBC is planning a gangster drama with Lee Bum Soo (love you dude, but not enough to watch a gangster drama) and Jung Joon Ho. Unfortunately, the latter was actually reported in one of Jung Joon Ho's recent articles so my brain is telling me it's true but my heart is still hoping for Lee Kyung Hee!
I heard that gangster drama is slated for after Splendid Politics (Hwajung) on MBC Mon-Tues timeslot so both can still happen.
@ Ooh, yay! So that means Michelin Star isn't getting made this year? Good riddance IMO.
Im weary of her becos of Sang Doo
Damn thats hard, I hate Kim Eun Sook but she's got SJK oppa's comeback and Lee Kyung Hee has written some of my favorite shows. It'll be rough but I'm going to try my best to stick it out with DotS. Man how I wish SJK had been given her drama instead, lol. O well, I think DotS will still come out the ratings winners because its Kim Eun Sook
hyun bin please!!!!!!!!
I miss Moon Chae Won in dramaland,I will be very happy if ever she will be cast in this drama but it also means that she'll be competing with song joong ki..
Yes, take Moon Chae Won back! Its good if its not sad as Nice Guy and more like Sangdo and Thank You.
Hmm... I pity the dramas that will be up again KES's DoTS. It's kinda like being up again YFAS and MoonSun. I am iffy on LKH dramas for personal enjoyment but acknowledge that she is very good :) I like Thank You and WiSFC.
But whatever it drama ends up being overall, I just hope it brings up the quality of kdramas over all, especially in the writing department.
Why would you pity the drama pitted against KES's? Secret did perfectly well against a star studded Heirs. If Lee Kyung Hee writes the way she usually does, she can quite easily pull off what a rookie writer did in Secret.
Not really..Lee Kyung Hee's dramas were popular too and more acclaimed tha Kim Eun Suk..It is just that KES's dramas were more known internationally bcoz' most of them were romcoms.If it is about the ratings then we can't assure who will be the ratings winner..In the end it falls which drama is better and as far as i remember the famous "the heirs" lost in battle ratings with "secret"..