May 2025 is on fire with C-dramas dropping, first with The Prisoner of Beauty then Legend of Zang Hai, and now add a light hearted period drama Youthful Glory (Shao Hua Ruo Jin 韶华若锦) to the mix. Hunan TV and streaming on Mango platform C-drama Youthful Glory dropped this week on May 19th and stars Song Wei Long, Bao Shang … Continue reading →
Well this is a wildly out of left field and unexpected male lead casting. I along with probably the majority of viewers of Yumi’s Cells just went on a major Google fest to find out who this newb male actor is haha. Young and relative rookie K-actor Kim Jae Won has been confirmed to play Yumi’s third and final love … Continue reading →
The warm up in May has started to turn fire in drama land with the addition of another hot heat index period drama. Legend of Zang Hai with Xiao Zhan premiered this week and within 24-hours already hit 9500 heat index on platform Youku. Just a smidge more and it hits 10,000 and is well on its way to being … Continue reading →
I appreciate Hunan TV for making the effort to kick off super early promos for its currently filming C-drama Live Long and Prosper. This is a big male lead IP project with top billed Dylan Wang along with Li Qin as the female lead. The teaser poster and preview just released is understated with artistic flourishes, I like it a … Continue reading →
Only 25 C-dramas on Tencent have hit 30,000 heat index ever and now add another one with The Prisoner of Beauty. I hope this drama has the same legs as two of my favorites of all time Lost You Forever (Part 1) and Love Like the Galaxy both of which hit 32,000 at its peak but I’m not sure of … Continue reading →
This period C-drama has been casting around for the past year and earlier this year was nearly ready to start filming with leads in place. Then nothing happened and now is back in the casting news cycle with word that it will star Song Zu Er as her first post-return casting. The drama is titled Biao Mei Wan Fu (表妹万福) … Continue reading →
So C-actress Wu Jin Yan and her unofficial but widely known maternity leave is coming to an end. She got married last year which she announced but then was visibly pregnant during promos for her drama Kill Me Love Me but never went public with it. But she did deliver her baby earlier this year and has been on hiatus … Continue reading →
With all the talk of C-actor Zhang Wan Yi being typecast and looking almost exactly the same visually in costume and hair in his last four period dramas, the same can be said for the ladies side with Sun Zhenni. Her next drama to come is the xianxia romance Blossom in Darkness (Chinese title 十万狂花入梦来 or Hundred Thousand Flowers in … Continue reading →
I’ve decided to post more updates on Zhao Lu Si these days, she’s been doing the rounds of music festival along with CF and brand events in order to continue staying busy with her entertainment career during a period where she’s not actively filming any drama. For the last few years she’s been going from one drama set to the … Continue reading →
Well this is going to be a fulsome May of 2025, I’ll remember it well due to the fallow prior months in C-drama land and the potential for not just one hit drama but two. Youku has announced the airing of Legend of Zang Hai with top actor Xiao Zhan and successful drama actress Zhang Jing Yi for May 18th. … Continue reading →
So in drama casting for any star it’s never final until it has started filming, and even then it’s not final what with mid-shoot recastings all the way to post-production AI face swaps. Follow along long enough and I’ve basically seen it all happen lol. The coveted female lead role for the soon to start filming modern C-drama Dazzling with … Continue reading →
Et tu, Grandma? It’s like the tax evasion crackdowns in C-ent for the last few years haven’t put the fear of god in every single entertainer and yet here we are, another tax investigation of a star. Veteran C-actress Liu Xiaoqing, a top star in her heyday and still commanding onscreen as evidenced by her small but meaningful role as … Continue reading →
Better quality doesn’t always translate to more viewership but at least the second chapter of the Fox Spirit Matchmaker series has concluded with no major hiccups or as a big flop. Love in Pavilion is more like a shrug of the shoulder type of drama run, with the heat index in iQiyi never breaking 9000 (which the first chapter Red … Continue reading →
