Alrighty this is great news to get an actual date rather than a general time period. K-ent is reporting that tvN has scheduled When the Stars Gossip (Ask the Stars) for a January 4th premiere on its biggest timeslot on Sat-Sun. The drama stars Gong Hyo Jin and Lee Min Ho with a big name supporting case and even bigger budget, with the leads playing an astronaut and a OB/GYN doctor respectively. The screenwriter did Pasta, Miss Korea, and the most recently Iron Family, and the PD directed Bravo, My Life and Hi! School – Love On. All I can say is bring it on because this drama will have been done filming for almost two years by the time it airs.
I don’t like either of them so this is an easy skip!
On another note, isn’t anything related to sci-fi or space notorious for flopping in korea? Why do they keep giving these shows elaborate budgets?
Yes space themed projects do have a notorious reputation in SK for flopping and unless there is a massive twist aside from the setting the plot doesn’t sound like anything special to justify such a huge budget.
I guess they thought it would pay for itself because of the star leads but the production climate when this drama was greenlit three years ago is very different to today.
This drama took alot longer to air then I expected.
The title of the drama sounds silly. Makes me wonder what direction the story will go.
Agree with you lol, stars.. gossip(?) how funny
Meh
Unlike others, I’m still looking forward to this drama even if that excitement has dimmed considerably due to all the delays.
In other news, Trunk’s trailer is out and for that, I am SO EXCITED. I feel like every kdrama fan is probably waiting on it. Gong Yoo. Finally!!!
Good, coz I am busy with cdrama right now.
GHJ hasn’t done even 1 drama this whole decade. That’s so crazy to me and happy to see her back finally. She tends to pick similar roles but always knows to pick well written ones.
I don’t have strong feelings either way to LMH. He also always picks the similar roles but I really love his visuals in this drama.
Pressure is on with ratings. Massive budget to overcome, and from an earnings standpoint, let’s see if tvN can match 2024’s first quarter in 2025. Probably not but we’ll see.
I don’t see anyway they can recoup the budgets since Netflix/Disney/Prime have all set limits to how much they are willing to pay to buy broadcast rights and this drama with the mega star cast and the extremely long post production period and sitting on the shelf for a while now will have an inflated budget. Even if they sell at the highest possible price, have high ratings and do numerous pop up stores and merch it’ll possibly still be in the red.
Oh yea for sure. By matching 2024 Q1, I meant let’s see if they can be as successful as Queen of Tears and that is a benchmark 99.9% of dramas will never reach.
Ask the Stars took a long time to even find a partner OTT willing to take it on. Atp, tvN just needs to air it and recoup whatever they can. I am curious to see how much advertising dollars they are willing to throw at it. This year they backed Queen of Tears and Love Next Door only. Jungnyeon’s promotions were suboptimal. So 2 might be their cap unless next FY budgets are higher or their strategy different.
I like both leads and have been looking forward just for this OTP alone. What makes this even more interesting is that this is from the same screenwriter as Jealousy Incarnate/Don’t Dare to Dream which was surprisingly well-written—it had one of the best ensemble cast I know for it’s genre.
I’m so curious as a huge fan of GHJ. Interesting to see how LMH would generate chemistry with her. On the one hand, GHJ has always had strong chemistry with her ML. On the other hand and to the opposite, LMH did not have a consistent record in this part of acting. I like him too and I’m a huge fan of western sci-fi. So I’m looking forward to this Korean made.
As someone who Finally watched TK:EM after years of putting it off, I’m really looking forward to this. I think LMH had a huge evolution in his acting from his TKEM era to Pachinko and I’m really curious how he fared in this one. And GHJ has always been someone who picks great scripts.