There is so much headdesking here I don’t know where to start. Let’s just go down the laundry list of future prohibitions a C-ent insider claims is about to be handed down by the National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) of China. The first part is the rule, in parenthesis I try to make sense of it. (1) No romance in any military themed drama (because soldiers are robots who don’t have feelings). (2) Costumes in historical dramas must be correlated to a real Chinese dynastic period (because everything was China created as opposed to influenced by travelers and cultural exposure), (3) No star with either sickly looks or plastic surgery can be used, especially not in military or police themes dramas (because every soldier and police officer looks like they wouldn’t recognize face wash and moisturizer if it fell on their head), and no feminine looking makeup on male stars. (4) Liulang stars, any singing or dancing variety show idol cannot be cast as the first male or female lead (because our legit actors or actresses cannot also know how to sing or dance well).
(5) Strong encouragement to produce real life inspiring themed dramas (because that’s all that is worth watching). (6) Supernatural mystery, excessively sweet and charming relationships, and demons and monsters – those dramas are to decrease and no such drama can have less than 60% content be actual real life uplifting material (I can’t even commentate on this…..), (7) Drama titles must be inspirational and likely for audiences to approve of (yes, because the title is so important). (8) No shipping CPs (why even watch dramas at this point). (9) Decrease in volume of streaming dramas, especially targeting period dramas and xianxia dramas which will be hard to get airing permits now (death knell of C-dramas, start sounding). And lastly (10) If it doesn’t pass permit review three times, it will be permanently denied (three strikes, you’re out!). And let’s not forget all prior regulations in recent years from ban on time-traveling to real historical periods and ban on BL novel adaptations into dramas.
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If too many regulations with "No" may as well "No" drama. Too controlling....scary!
My C-dramas!! 😭
They’re gonna take away most, if not all, that I love about C-dramas!! Might as well watch a documentary.
LOL. Why would anyone bother to make a Cdrama now? Doesn't seem to be worth the hassle. They should have just banned all dramas & only allowed documentaries.
I hope the god that this is a joke. These rules are too ridiculous to be true. These rule makers are trying to make entertainment in China depressing. The rule about less streaming dramas is mind boggling. They are trying to put youku iQIYI and ten cent out of business. Everywhere in the world people are moving forward. Some people in China seems to believe that backward is the way to go.
Chinese people will have to watch Teletubbies at this point...
WOW..!!! Just wow...!!!
Though the sickly look most likely derived from the excessive 'THIN' culture was something worrying. But man these bans are just wow..
Most likely they are saying, let's all be boring...!
People really need to take "C-ent insider" aka YXH's words with a grain of salt. NRTA doesn't specifically list out rules so clearly like what you see up there. They only give out vague words that can be interpreted in multiple ways so that they can backtrack whenever they want to. So all in all, it's just fake news made up by YXHs to drag Liuliangs again.
Funnily enough, YXH used Xiao Zhan's picture in Ace Troops for the "No romance in any military themed drama" when it's Huang Jingyu's part of the story in the drama that's embroiled heavily in romance, not to mention Huang Jingyu also has plenty of other military themed dramas focused on romance like My Dear Guardian.
I watch Ace Troops and was laughing the whole time at how ridiculous they make the main couple romance story is. Cringe is beyond description especially when they flew on plane through the cloud (really fake-looking cgi taking place here) 😂 AT can do so much more without the romance part, they actually have a good core story, if they just properly build it up, it would be one good military drama for sure.
Huang Jingyu's scenes in that drama were so cheesy as FUQ. My mom was watching it too so I as able to follow. I dare everyone here to watch it, it's a cringefest.
-Giving a girl multiple dresses falling down from a wire
- Flirting with the girl even if she already has a boyfriend
- Girl proposing to him in a chessy manner in the middle of a military practice
- Nepotism- befriending girl's father who is higher ranked, and this dad constantly "forgives" his constant failures
I just want to roll my eyes whenever his scene appears.
Pardon me, what the purpose of that policy (if true)? To sabotase their own drama industry that starting to gain popularity with international audience?
Maybe I am old-school, but I agree with more restrictions. Too much fluff is being produced, and I feel that most dramas are just trying to outdo one another visually, be it casting idols, make-up or costumes, or setting up the most romantic scenes.
The only point that alarms me is that no idols in main roles (how would they define who are idols or not ? there are many talents who can act/sing/dance, I still want to see them getting main roles)
Its their country so they can set their own rules but I am wondering what kind of c-dramas will air with those kind of restrictions. I feel like this will lead to family+terminal disease dramas. Just reading about the whatnots is freaking snoozefest and suffocating but maybe it will lead to better quality dramas. Who knows?
I am just glad that Love like the Galaxy aired before all that censoring. To think that an awesome drama like that not seeing the light of day is just depressing. Maybe it will be the last cdrama worth watching.
Good luck to future cdramas because they will definitely need it.