A new K-drama is being prepped and gives me Crash Course in Romance casting vibes. The drama is titled My Golden Star (or My Precious Star) and offers are out to Uhm Jung Hwa and Song Seung Heon as leads in a second chance story with romance and a career reboot of sorts. Uhm Jung Hwa will play the youngest … Continue reading →
Oh hells naw! Like, WTF is Liu Xue Yi and his agency even thinking accepting this drama. I can totally see C-ent wanting to elevate talented and adorable former child and now teen actress Ai Mi into leading lady level but it should be in a modern youth high school drama and not in an actual romance with an adult … Continue reading →
Well this is both fast and really odd of a pick. K-ent is reporting that young actor Lee Chae Min has been offered the male lead in the K-drama A Tyrant’s Chef with still confirmed female lead Yoona. The male lead role was recently opened back up after Park Sung Hoon dropped out post his Squid Game 2 parody porn … Continue reading →
Period c-drama Guardians of the Dafeng is now on the second half of its airing and has some notable and ignominious records as of this week. The drama hit the 30,000 heat index on Tencent which certifies it as a major hit for the platform, but at the same time the opening Douban ratings are out and its a low … Continue reading →
The first big crash and burn drama of 2025 is likely going to be When the Stars Gossip (Ask the Stars), and rather apropos as it was the first drama to premiere this year and also has a whole space theme whatnot. The drama premiered to 3% ratings and now in this Saturday’s episode 3 dropped to 2.237%, a meaningful … Continue reading →
An upcoming xianxia C-drama finished filming recently so let’s take a look at Love in the Clouds, starring Hou Ming Hao and Lu Yu Xiao. It’s yet early in the post-production but I do expect this drama sometime in late 2025 to be released. Hou Ming Hao continues to do one drama after another, all looking promising but none being … Continue reading →
The drama gods giveth and the drama gods taketh away, and in this case within the span of one very eventful month for K-actor Park Sung Hoon. Early in December he was cast in upcoming time travel romance sageuk drama A Tyrant’s Chef with Yoona and it would be one of his highest profile male lead roles. Then his ensemble … Continue reading →
So the two big male lead period C-dramas that were rumored to air in December 2024, only one arrived. It’s Guardians of the Dafeng on December 28th and the other The Immortal Ascension with Yang Yang will now air three months later in March 2025. After what happened to Youku when it aired The Story of Pearl Girl head to … Continue reading →
The holidays are done and hopefully January is off to a great start for everyone! For K-actor Kim Soo Hyun, he’s on the cover and pages of Esquire Korea February 2025 edition which is out next week. The preview is here and hot diggity he looks soooooo handsome *swoon*. I can’t believe it’s been over 15 years since I first … Continue reading →
So it feels like every popular drama C-actress and C-actor has a drama currently filming, currently/pending airing, and another one in talks always at the same time. This week C-ent casting rumor mills has Bai Lu and Cheng Lei in 莫离 (Mo Li). The excitement is that the director is Lin Yu Fen who a lot of people are waiting … Continue reading →
So this drama was announced last year with big excitement since it was the pairing up onscreen of two big Korean movie stars, one of whom hasn’t been in dramas for over two decades. I’m talking about the political intrigue K-drama Tempest (Korean title Polaris) starring Jeon Ji Hyun and Kang Dong Won, with Korean-American actor John Cho also in … Continue reading →
So this is a big casting news so rather frustrating to have zero anything substantive about it. K-ent is reporting that Cha Eun Woo and Go Min Si have been offered the leads in the next Hong Sisters K-drama, with some saying Go Min Si is confirmed while Cha Eun Woo is still considering. There is no information about the … Continue reading →
It’s not been a good start to 2025 for K-dramas, with the first big release When the Stars Gossip on tvN already on track to be a disappointment. There are looooong ways to go of course but with K-drama production volume down it’s been harder for me to have as many dramas to look forward as in prior years. One … Continue reading →
