Yearly Archives: 2023

BL-novel Adapted C-drama Justice in the Dark is Removed from Streaming Months After the Just Premiered Drama Stopped Releasing New Episodes After Episode 8

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The C-ent sudden generosity to awarding airing permits for C-dramas left and right will still not help any in limbo dramas adapted from BL-novels. The detective drama Justice in the Dark with Zhang Xin Cheng and Fu Xing Bo aired early this year and only 8-episodes were released before the drama stopped releasing new episodes. But the released episodes could … Continue reading →

Kim So Hyun Rocks the Bangs in New Stills for tvN Thriller Romance Useless Lies

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tvN has been releasing promos for Useless Lies since early June when the drama isn’t even airing until the end of July but I’m not complaining, it’s definitely on my must watch list. The production released new stills this week with female lead Kim So Hyun and all I can see are her blunt bangs and how good she looks … Continue reading →

Yang Zi is Ready for Her Cool Girl Summer Vibe in Madame Figaro July 2023 Edition Pictorial

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The sudden torrent of airing C-dramas to kick off this summer 2023 doesn’t mean much since it’s all been bad to passable so far but there are plenty still on the burner. One of them is the C-drama adaptation of Tong Hua novel Lost You Forever with Yang Zi as the female lead in a true female centric story. The … Continue reading →

Hunan TV Broadcasts Medical Relief and Romance Drama Fireworks of My Heart with Yang Yang and Wang Chu Ran

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So the recent tidal wave of C-drama releases have all been on streaming networks but the first big terrestrial broadcast is here with Hunan TV airing Fireworks of My Heart (My Fireworks on Earth) starting July 5th. It’s streaming on Hunan TV’s own Mango TV online platform but for the international release it’s going on iQiyi so this is a … Continue reading →

Hong Kong Born Superstar Coco Lee Passes Away at 48 Years Old After Taking Own Life

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What a shocking news to wake up to and it just brings me back exactly 20 years in 2003 when news broke about Leslie Cheung’s passing. Hong born and America raised singer superstar Coco Lee (Lee Wen) has passed away as confirmed by her two older sisters in an official announcement. She was 48-years old and took her own life … Continue reading →

tvN Fantasy Romance See You in My 19th Life Averaging 5% Ratings Through Episode 6 as the Story Continues to be Carried by Shin Hye Sun’s Stellar Acting

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I wanted See You in My 19th Life to be better than it is but what it is remains worth watching. The Sat-Sun drama is now through episode 6 and the ratings are high 4% on Saturdays and low 5% on Sundays consistently. But the story feels like it’s stuck in Shin Hye Sun‘s characters 18th life and she’s not … Continue reading →

Wang Chu Ran Getting Major Glow Up Thanks to Stealing Female Lead’s Visual Thunder in The Longest Promise Just in Time for Her Own Starring Role in Soon-to-air Drama Fireworks of My Heart with Top Star Yang Yang

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Dang, talk about fireworks to come and also what major timing that is going the way of C-actress Wang Chu Ran. She’s currently the second female lead in The Longest Promise with Xiao Zhan and Ren Min and honestly she’s been supporting/female lead up until now. So her casting as female lead in modern medical/disaster romance drama Fireworks of My … Continue reading →

TW-star Aaron Yan Attends Police Questioning for His Sex Tape Recording of Then Underage Boyfriend and Surrenders Passport

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Well this looks like justice at least has a chance of being served. This week TW actor-singer Aaron Yan went in for 4 hours of police questioning for his role in the recording of a sex tape with his then boyfriend. According to the now ex-boyfriend, he did not consent and he was also underage at that time being 16 … Continue reading →

Kim Sun Ho in Talks for Hong Sisters Romance Drama Can This Love be Translated and Han So Hee Considering Female Lead Along with Other Scripts

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There is additional movement with the upcoming Hong Sisters modern drama Can This Love be Translated, after Son Seok Gu turned down the male lead role it’s now being offered to Kim Sun Ho. The story is about a polyglot translator and his romance with a top actress. Kim Sun Ho’s antagonist return in the thriller K-movie The Childe has … Continue reading →

Period C-drama Legend of Anle with Dilraba Dilmurat and Gong Jun Rumored to Air on July 12th on Youku

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The hot summer of C-drama plows on as now Legend of Anle is rumored to air on July 12th on Youku. This means there are SO MANY C-dramas airing overlapping at the same time – Back from the Brink just finished, Destined is wrapping up, Twilight recently premiered, and The Longest Promise and Divine Destiny premiered on the same day. … Continue reading →

jTBC Weekend Romance King the Land Rockets to 12.017% Ratings by Episode 6 Continuing the Classic Rom-com Beats

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When young people tend to take things for granted but living through changing tides allows appreciation in the moment. Rom-coms used to be a dime-a-dozen in K-drama land and honestly most were meh and only some exceptional but even the meh ones were worth watching as time wasters. Then the great rom-com demise of the 2010s happened where a decade … Continue reading →

K-ent News Report Claims Yoona and Junho are Dating But SM Entertainment Denies it Claiming They are Just Good Friends

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Well this was a good hour’s worth of entertainment between the release of the first report and the follow up from their agency. A news report claimed that top idol-actors Junho and Yoona are dating in real life, and on top of that they accepted jTBC romance drama King the Land so they could act together because they are dating. … Continue reading →

iQIYI Joins the C-drama Abrupt Release Party with July 2nd Premiere of Xianxia C-drama Divine Destiny with Angelababy and Ma Tian Yu

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The spring C-drama drought is over and of course its now the extreme with a full on flood. Today on July 2nd iQIYI released xianxia C-drama Divine Destiny with zero announcement and promotion. Starring Angelababy and Ma Tian Yu, the drama was filming in late 2020 so its another one of those long shelved likely meh efforts that seems to … Continue reading →