A fantasy romance K-drama is headed our way in late summer 2023 and the first script reading stills are out for Destined with You starring Ro Woon and Jo Boa. Airing on jTBC Wed-Thurs time slot, Jo Boa plays a normal government employee who becomes the owner of an old wooden chest with the key to lifting of curse on … Continue reading →
C-drama Hidden Love kicked off the summer C-drama season and just wrapped it’s 25-episode run this week on Youku. Aside from early controversy around the female lead being too young for the male lead when she was played by a child actress developing the crush, the drama starring Zhao Lu Si and Chen Zhe Yuan got going when the two … Continue reading →
The liuliangs are heating up the 2023 hot C-drama summer with first Xiao Zhan‘s The Longest Promise, then Yang Yang with Fireworks of My Heart, and now tomorrow we get Legend of Anle with Dilraba Dilmurat opposite Gong Jun. We just need Lost You Forever with Yang Zi (airing soon) to send the online search engines, water armies, and antis … Continue reading →
I still remember the heyday of the 2000s when MBC sageuks were the sageuks to rule them all. Sadly the long form slow burn and more accurate to history sageuks were replaced by more youth romance and fusion sageuks but it appears MBC is going back to the original formula for the upcoming K-drama My Dearest (Lovers). Starring Namgoong Min … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
