It’s only been five years since the first season of Yumi’s Cells aired in 2021 but it feels twice that long honestly. The drama did a great job of adapting the webtoon and also managed the messiness of love and breakups through two seasons of fairly realistic and happy/sad emotional beats. But the big break between season 2 and the … Continue reading →
So this drama already looks like a love it or hate it proposition, or basically it’s your cup of tea or not at all. iQiyi is prepping to release How Dare You! soon, with scheduling rumors has it will air next week in early February 2026 maybe on the 5th or 6th. The drama is adapted from a novel where … Continue reading →
This drama was cast in late 2025 but won’t arrive on screens until 2027, but it’s a big production so that is understandable. Which means the drama continues to add cast members this year and the latest addition is Choi Hyun Wook. The actor has joined Soul starring Kang Dong Won and Kim Go Eun, and penned by hitmaker Park … Continue reading →
So C-actress Zhao Jin Mai has become the latest “collector of flower boys” so to speak, whenever an actress does successive dramas with a bunch of hottie actors she becomes the lucky one so to speak. She recently did Shine on Me with Song Wei Long but also did back-to-back dramas The Princess Royal and Our Generation with Zhang Ling … Continue reading →
A new C-drama has been softly confirmed this week and it’s titled Feng Bu Qi (凤不栖) and is a sprawling war between various kingdoms and politics drama adapted from the novel Phoenix Empress. The leads will be Wu Jin Yan and Wei Zhe Ming, and fresh pairing and probably a selection that skews towards acting ability over buzzy stars. I’m … Continue reading →
Not every K-ent dating news involves big name stars but this one has two up-and-comers who are on audience radars recently so it’s sweet to hear they are having positive personal lives outside of work. K-ent reported the rumor that actress Shin Eun Soo and actor-variety star Yoo Seon Ho are dating, and their respective agencies later confirmed the news. … Continue reading →
A new period C-drama has started filming this week and it’s titled Dancing with the Tide (何不同舟渡 He Bu Tong Zhou Du). Airing on Hunan TV and streaming on Mango, the drama title is so familiar to me because this project has been in development for probably three years and has had so many familiar names attached or courted for … Continue reading →
Well this is a surprise beyond surprises, like stuff never even considered in any context suddenly tied together in a cozy bundle. K-ent is reporting that actor-singer Lee Jun Ki is in Taiwan currently and filming an yet to be named new project with Taiwanese actress Alice Ko and Japanese actor Sakaguchi Kentaro. It’s like they saw Can This Love … Continue reading →
So Youku is playing coy with giving an exact date but all airing rumors has Unveil: Jadewind with Bai Lu and Wang Xing Yue being released either by the end of January this weekend or the beginning of February next week. I am excited but after watching the newly released trailer a little less hyped solely because the drama looks … Continue reading →
The perpetual train engine that is C-drama productions keep trudging along and recently I spotted first stills and pictures for one that I’m mildly curious to check out. The C-drama is titled Genius Girlfriend and is a modern romance starring Tian Xi Wei and Hu Yi Tian. It’s an odd pairing but could be in a good way, she’s so … Continue reading →
For a few years now Asian entertainment has noted that Italian couture house Prada appears to be the cursed advertisers with both Mainland Chinese and South Korean stars that rep the brand getting cancelled for various personal scandals. Now there is a domestic equivalent with Shinhan Bank seeing not one, or two, but three of its high profile star spokespersons … Continue reading →
It’s no surprise that the success of Shine on Me is already seeing cascading changes in C-ent casting carousel. This week the rumor is that Song Wei Long will be the male lead for Youku period C-drama Inverted Fate, which has been penciled in for Zhao Lu Si as her high profile comeback drama since her filming hiatus last year. … Continue reading →
C-actor Wang Xing Yue is only 23 years old this year and that’s always wild when I remember it because he’s been in so many dramas since his debut in 2020 and has really earned his chops and elevation to male lead. A lot of thinking he’s older is because he’s done so many period dramas where he always comes … Continue reading →
