When a top star’s contract nears its expiration there is always industry and netizen chatter over next step(s). Top C-actress Dilraba Dilmurat has been with one agency Jay Walk Studios (嘉行传媒 Jiaxing Media) within one year of her debut in 2013 so she’s been very loyal staying with the agency. There has been a lot of speculation in the last … Continue reading →
Filming has commenced for the CCTV and iQiyi C-drama Born to be Alive (Chinese title Life Tree) starring Yang Zi with special male lead guest star Hu Ge. It’s filming in the Tibetan Plateau in Western China and tells the story of a girl who was adopted and grew up in that region and becomes a police officer patrolling the … Continue reading →
A new bullying allegation has emerged in K-ent and this one allegedly points at K-actress Go Min Si. Her new ENA drama Tastefully Yours with Kang Ha Neul started airing two weeks ago to a solid premiere and has doubled in ratings so is doing quite well for a small cable offering. But over the weekend there was an anonymous … Continue reading →
The bountiful May of 2025 continues as another C-drama is about to drop right at the end of the month. Tencent has confirmed the premiere of modern romance Be Passionately in Love with Liu Hao Cun and Wang An Yu mid-week on May 28th. With three high profile period dramas already released this month it’s nice to get a change … Continue reading →
Good lord what has the costume designer done to poor Li Yun Rui! The man has been riding a swell of popularity and leveling up thanks to Blossom last year and the first drama he picked after that aired has started filming just last week. It’s a modern romance titled Dazzling with female lead Guan Xiao Tong and is adapted … Continue reading →
There is still the entire second half of 2025 left but it’ll be hard to imagine another period C-drama beating the buzz and viewership of Legend of Zang Hai. Mega popular C-actor Xiao Zhan has delivered a resounding hit for Youku, confirmed with the drama reaching 10,400 heat index on the platform for the first time ever of any drama … Continue reading →
So I’ve written about this novel being adapted into a drama before. Late last year it was rumored to be wanting Dylan Wang and Zhao Lu Si, but her health and hiatus situation has stymied taking on a new project and Dylan ended up picking Live Long and Prosper. The drama has the literal title Why Not Cross By Boat … Continue reading →
This is certainly a likely fast fall before a star even got a chance to become famous. TBH I don’t really feel bad because it all happened because she wanted to show off, though young girls tend to want to look pretty and rich so it’s also rather predictable to have happened. C-actress Huang Yang Tian Tian wore over $300K … Continue reading →
The success of airdropped Tencent period romance C-drama The Prisoner of Beauty has immensely benefited male lead Liu Yu Ning in addition to cementing the return of female lead Song Zu Er. Her back-to-back airdropped dramas TPoB and the earlier The Demon Hunter’s Romance all got strong buzz and reportedly she’s back to the same level as before with her … Continue reading →
It’s been slow for me in K-drama land but with the end of May arrival of Good Boy on jTBC and then the mid-June arrival of Our Movie on SBS there are two dramas I’m looking forward to that could potential hold my interest. Our Movie from synopsis sounds like a true classic melo, with Namgoong Min playing a movie … Continue reading →
A new K-drama got the main cast finalized this week and it a reunion from a long time ago. Park Shin Hye and Go Kyung Pyo will be the leads in tvN drama Miss Undercover Boss airing on tvN. It’s a comedic drama set in the late 1990’s during the IMF crisis, the female lead is a top managerial employee … Continue reading →
Talk about self-owning and likely shooting herself in the foot, and maybe her entire family as well. Young C-actress Huang Yang Tian Tian recently celebrated her 18th birthday and held a lavish party to commemorate her coming-of-age, which is great and all but what she wore incited C-netizen scrutiny and criticism. She wore a pair of USD $320,000 Graff diamond … Continue reading →
So at least the female lead casting carousel went fast this time rather than dragging on for weeks into months. Filming has commenced for the modern romance C-drama Dazzling and the leads will be Guan Xiao Tong and Li Yun Rui. He’s been linked to the project for weeks but she became the unexpected female lead pick after the production … Continue reading →
