The first big crash and burn drama of 2025 is likely going to be When the Stars Gossip (Ask the Stars), and rather apropos as it was the first drama to premiere this year and also has a whole space theme whatnot. The drama premiered to 3% ratings and now in this Saturday’s episode 3 dropped to 2.237%, a meaningful … Continue reading →
An upcoming xianxia C-drama finished filming recently so let’s take a look at Love in the Clouds, starring Hou Ming Hao and Lu Yu Xiao. It’s yet early in the post-production but I do expect this drama sometime in late 2025 to be released. Hou Ming Hao continues to do one drama after another, all looking promising but none being … Continue reading →
The drama gods giveth and the drama gods taketh away, and in this case within the span of one very eventful month for K-actor Park Sung Hoon. Early in December he was cast in upcoming time travel romance sageuk drama A Tyrant’s Chef with Yoona and it would be one of his highest profile male lead roles. Then his ensemble … Continue reading →
So the two big male lead period C-dramas that were rumored to air in December 2024, only one arrived. It’s Guardians of the Dafeng on December 28th and the other The Immortal Ascension with Yang Yang will now air three months later in March 2025. After what happened to Youku when it aired The Story of Pearl Girl head to … Continue reading →
The holidays are done and hopefully January is off to a great start for everyone! For K-actor Kim Soo Hyun, he’s on the cover and pages of Esquire Korea February 2025 edition which is out next week. The preview is here and hot diggity he looks soooooo handsome *swoon*. I can’t believe it’s been over 15 years since I first … Continue reading →
So it feels like every popular drama C-actress and C-actor has a drama currently filming, currently/pending airing, and another one in talks always at the same time. This week C-ent casting rumor mills has Bai Lu and Cheng Lei in 莫离 (Mo Li). The excitement is that the director is Lin Yu Fen who a lot of people are waiting … Continue reading →
So this drama was announced last year with big excitement since it was the pairing up onscreen of two big Korean movie stars, one of whom hasn’t been in dramas for over two decades. I’m talking about the political intrigue K-drama Tempest (Korean title Polaris) starring Jeon Ji Hyun and Kang Dong Won, with Korean-American actor John Cho also in … Continue reading →
So this is a big casting news so rather frustrating to have zero anything substantive about it. K-ent is reporting that Cha Eun Woo and Go Min Si have been offered the leads in the next Hong Sisters K-drama, with some saying Go Min Si is confirmed while Cha Eun Woo is still considering. There is no information about the … Continue reading →
It’s not been a good start to 2025 for K-dramas, with the first big release When the Stars Gossip on tvN already on track to be a disappointment. There are looooong ways to go of course but with K-drama production volume down it’s been harder for me to have as many dramas to look forward as in prior years. One … Continue reading →
The C-drama Guardians of the Dafeng isn’t just an oddball in terms of the tone and plot, which I love, but its performance after airing is also really hard to pin down. It’s not an undisputed hit male lead Dylan Wang hoped for like his Love Between Devil and Fairy but does have heat and is doing good numbers in … Continue reading →
So the early airing rumors last month said Legend of the Female General would be coming in Q1 2025, likely by March. But now the more concrete airing rumors say the drama has been moved up by Tencent and will now air this month in January, my guess is towards the end of the month. This may be my personal … Continue reading →
Man, I don’t even know how to accurate capture the totally WTF-ery that was episode 2 of When the Stars Gossip. I was one of those open to this drama’s tonal weirdness and scientifically preposterous set up in episode 1 and was game to give it time to get settled on its feet. But episode 2 just punted it into … Continue reading →
There is a new C-drama being prepped and casting is out and sure to generate discussion. The C-drama is a xianxia period piece titled Thriving After the Moon Falls (Chinese title 烛月潮生 Zhu Yue Cao Sheng) and is the prequel story to the xianxia novel turned C-drama Till the End of the Moon which starred Bai Lu and Luo Yun … Continue reading →
