Perhaps the recent come to fruition airing rumors of C-dramas has my hopes up but I really really want Legend of Anle to air soon as speculated. The date keeps changing and now it’s said to air on July 12th on Youku after the conclusion of Hidden Love which ends its regular run (its VIP run has ended already last … 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Man, I thought The Longest Promise was delayed getting its airing permit because of the shizun (teacher)-student romance love line being frowned upon for breaching those ethical mores but turns out it was just a very poorly written, directed, and acted drama where the production may have tried to salvage it. Alas the just air dropped first four episodes just … Continue reading →
So all week I’ve been hearing word that xianxia C-drama The Longest Promise will be airing soon. And soon became an actual date of July 2nd and now word is the official confirmation will come in the early afternoon that day before the first six episodes drops that night at 8 p.m. In China this is like a day away … Continue reading →
This drama is not to be confused with the Hollywood movie series Twilight but the release seems as random as that whole story haha. Tencent on June 29th announced the release of modern romance drama Twilight on the very day of it’s drop so there are already episodes out as I type. Starring Allen Ren as a drama scriptwriter and … Continue reading →
This drama may require us adapting the Taylor Swift lyrics to sing It is “never, ever, ever going to” air. I am talking about Immortality (Hao Yi Xing) adapted from the beloved BL novel The Husky and His White Cat Shizun also known as Er Ha. Starring Luo Yun Xi and Chen Fei Yu, the drama has been done filming … Continue reading →
Filming is underway for the second installment of the Fox Spirit Matchmaker series the Zhu Ye chapter. With the word bamboo in the title and in female lead Liu Shi Shi‘s character name the first official character posters leaned wholly into the color green. But it appears Shi Shi’s character may flirt with the dark side as new filming stills … Continue reading →
