It’s off to the races and what was billed as a thoroughbred of top actors and acclaimed production team does not disappoint from the start. Reborn Rich (The Chaebol’s Youngest Son) premiered this Friday on cable network jTBC with 6.058%, the second highest network premiere of all time behind The World of the Married with 6.260%. It’s the only other … Continue reading →
Two of the more popular C-dramas this year in 2022 was sci-fi Groundhog Day-esque Reset and period romance Love Like the Galaxy, so it’s only fitting that two of the leads will be teaming up in 2023 for a new C-drama. It’s called During the Snowstorm and is adapted from the same name web novel and currently will star Wu … Continue reading →
There is leeeeetle bit of reel mixed with real juiciness in this dating news but it’s really just a coincidence more than anything. C-ent tabloids captures HK-actor Hawick Lau with C-actress Wang Xiaofeng recently appearing out on a date, closing walking proximity and holding hands. They’ve even posted the same Halloween pumpkin carvings recently as well. After news broke, Hawick … Continue reading →
Oh I remember this news story and it’s legit one of the most rage inducing ones I’ve read from J-ent. During the height of COVID-19 in June of 2020, Japanese veteran comedian and MC Watabe Ken was outed by a tabloid as being a habitual cheater on his drop dead gorgeous model-actress wife Sasaki Nozomi, from when they were dating, … Continue reading →
It’s good to have a plan B, or C, D, E, F, lol I don’t know how wide the production of C-drama Hidden God cast the net to so quickly line up a replacement male lead and not impact the filming schedule. The drama is slated to start filming at the end of the month in November and reportedly supporting … Continue reading →
It’s time for jTBC drama Reborn Rich to arrive and also time for Song Joong Ki to fire his coordi lol. All K-netizens could about after today’s press conference was WTF kind of pants is he wearing? Wide-legged pleated thick grey wool trousers that made him look like a hobbit when we all know he’s an elf. If he was … Continue reading →
Watching Asian dramas for over three decades not only has seem my tastes age as I have but it’s also followed plenty of stars from their own leading man/woman days to their playing dad/mom days. Most recently I did “what tha what?!?” when I saw Han Chae Ah playing Yook Sung Jae‘s MOM in Gold Spoon. I should have seen … Continue reading →
So I skipped Story of Yanxi Palace when it aired in 2018 as by then I had lost interest in C-dramas and also because it’s a Yu Zheng produced drama and that man is the trolliest of all trolls. It also looked like a weaksauce copycat version of The Legend of Zhen Huan (Empresses in the Palace). Yanxi was there … Continue reading →
It appears the Great and Lonely God isn’t so lonely anymore judging from the smile on his face this weekend as Gong Yoo shared a snap of his beloved hobby that is deep sea fishing. I don’t know when he got into it but in recent years he’s shared fishing pictures and always with a mega watt smile which tells … Continue reading →
K-netizens love a great casting when the role seems tailor-made for a star. Such is the response to the news that K-actress Kim Tae Ri will likely be the live-action version of webtoon Jeong Nyeong, a period story about a Korean woman in the 1950’s striving for success. It almost feels like a less dark version of her debut character … Continue reading →
Oh man, these two were impossibly cute together and a reunion would be must check out for all drama lovers. C-ent casting gossip is saying that Dylan Wang and Shen Yue of Meteor Garden 2018 OTP fame have been casting 2023 xianxia C-drama Sea of Flowers (Chinese title Yue Du Hua Luo 月都花落 Moon Capital Falling Flowers). It’s a xianxia … Continue reading →
Them kids, they grow up wayyyyyy too fast. And in the case of child actor Lee Yoo Jin, he literally went from chubby cheeked squirt into hunky boy band center in a short three years. The teen actor got his big break in the 2019 hit drama Sky Castle and this year was seen on the small screen in Why … Continue reading →
I’m with the K-netizens on this one but also think it will make for an interesting works/mega fail dichotomy when the drama comes out. The casting of Ahn Bo Hyun as the male lead in the upcoming fantasy romance See You in My 19th Life with Shin Hye Sun as the female lead sounds like a good pairing of two … Continue reading →
