C-actress Yang Xi Zi Reportedly Finished Shooting Scenes for Cheng Yi’s The Journey of Legend to AI Face Swap with Second Female Lead Eleanor Lee and Drama Tentatively Scheduled for Early September

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Streaming platform Tencent made a decisive decision to replace second female lead Eleanor Lee (Lee Kai Xin) in its big male lead C-drama The Journey of Legend after her alleged insulting Chinese people and entertainment industry scandal exploded in May three months ago. That’s why the reshoot with C-actress Yang Xi Zi has finished and the AI face swap post … Continue reading →

New August 2025 Weekend K-dramas Deliver Unexpected Ratings Results with Mary Kills People Tanking to 1% Range and Beyond the Bar Doubling in Ratings

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There are two new August weekend K-drama arrivals, neither of which particularly appeal to me in either subject matter or cast but would happily check out if I heard it was good. It’s now been three episodes for each and the ratings of MBC drama Mary Kills People with Lee Bo Young and Lee Min Ki are on an opposite … Continue reading →

Zhao Lu Si Continues Her Daily Livestreams to Increasing Viewership But Still No Movement on Her Demand for Contract Termination with Her Agency

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It’s now almost a week since C-actress Zhao Lu Si started to livestream on social media platform Xiaohongshu (Red Note) in her attempt to terminate her contract with her agency Galaxy Kuyu. Her livestreams have huge viewership numbers and whatever she’s eating, wearing, using, recommending is gets a boost in sales. Her conversations range from accusing her agency of mistreating … Continue reading →

Disney+ Starts Promoting High Profile K-drama Tempest with Jeon Ji Hyun and Kang Dong Won Airing September 2025

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This year 2025 was supposed to be a big year for Disney+ K-dramas, with the platform late last year holding a splashy star-studded media event in Singapore with the stars of the various on deck shows attending. Then in March of this year right before the biggest of all its K-dramas Knock Off was about to air the next month, … Continue reading →

Li Lan Di and Ao Rui Peng From Coroner’s Diary Rumored to Reunite in iQiyi Produced Modern C-drama My Queen My Rules

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Never change C-ent, haha, always jumping on a hot bandwagon and doubling down on what worked. C-ent casting rumor this week has Li Lan Di and Ao Rui Peng in talks for a new iQiyi modern romance drama My Queen My Rules. If they accept it will be another fast reunion of popular drama CPs in the recent year, after … Continue reading →

Caesar Wu and Yue Yu Ting Start Filming Yield to You the Mini Drama Version of The Prisoner of Beauty

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Well this mini drama version of The Prisoner of Beauty is certainly going for spicy all out, at least for the female lead lol. Filming has started for Yield to You starring Caesar Wu and Yue Yu Ting, and he’s got the general look down but she’s straight up rocking a courtesan look rather than the sheltered noble daughter raised … Continue reading →

K-actress Gu Hye Sun Calls out Korean Variety Program and Her Ex-Husband Ahn Jae Hyun for Continuing to Mention Their Divorce Years Later as a Conversation Topic

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I am so on the side of Gu Hye Sun here on this issue, like a million billion percent. The actress posted online this week a long statement calling out both the Korean variety programs, hosts, and her ex-husband Ahn Jae Hyun for using the topic of their divorce for conversation still. She said that it’s been 5 years and … Continue reading →

Latest Casting Melon has Dylan Wang and Song Zu Er for Tencent Period Drama Ah Zhi Ah Zhi

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There’s a very fun casting melon that came up this week and I for one would love to see this pairing. Song Zu Er has been in talks for the Tencent Republic era period C-drama Ah Zhi Ah Zhi adapted from the same name novel and now the platform wants Dylan Wang as the male lead. If he joins the … Continue reading →

Legend of the Female General Premieres to Strong Buzz Thanks to Tencent’s Heavy Promotion But Mixed Reviews

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Yesterday was D-Day for those of us (memememe!) waiting for the premiere of Legend of the Female General, adapted from a novel by Qian Shan Cha Ke titled Rebirth of a Star General. Tencent had to delay the drama for six months due to the scandal with a male supporting lead and then filming his scenes with a different actor … Continue reading →

C-actress Yu Shu Xin Leaves Longtime Agency Huace TV & Film After 8-year Contract Expiration

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I don’t know if these two ladies are meant to be this always tied together in recent years (two times each have had dramas premiered the same time), but here it goes again. This week Zhao Lu Si is topping all C-ent buzz for her contract dispute with her agency Galaxy Kuyu and trying to terminate it. At the very … Continue reading →

Zhao Lu Si Continues Her Livestreams By Dropping More Allegations Against Her Agency and Also Selling Out of Her Outfits and Jewelry

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C-netizens are right, this is the must see TV of the summer and it’s just a sad state of affairs all around to get to this point. C-actress Zhao Lu Si is dominating C-ent search and buzz after she went public with an SNS post demanding a termination of her contract and revealing all sorts of allegations of bad behavior … Continue reading →

My Daughter is a Zombie with Jo Jung Seok, Jo Yeo Jung, and Young Choo Yoo Ri Becomes First Big Hit of 2025 in Korean Box Office

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Two million admissions and $15M USD in box office within 6 days is quite the feat in the Korean box office and even more so with the prolonged slump this year. The movie is My Daughter is a Zombie with Jo Jung Seok and Jo Yeo Jung as the leads and young teen actress Choi Yoo Ri as the titular … Continue reading →

Period Romance C-drama Wrong Era Now in Talks with Chang Hua Sen as Male Lead to Join Zhang Miao Yi

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So it looks like the WIFTY reunion will not be happening. Recently it was discussed that Tencent was going to reunite the When I Fly Towards You cuties Zhang Miao Yi and Zhou Yi Ran for its upcoming period romance C-drama Wrong Era. That melon sounded like basically a lock since Zhou Yi Ran is Tencent’s prince and this is … Continue reading →