So the big November C-drama premiere actually had two high profile dramas arrive on the same first day of the month. Female empowerment Tang dynasty drama The Story of Pearl Girl with Zhao Lu Si and Liu Yu Ning and game play fantasy xianxia drama Love Game in Eastern Fantasy (The Guide to Capturing a Black Lotus) with Yu Shu … Continue reading →
This Friday is this day, the start of November and the arrival of big budget C-drama The Story of Pearl Girl. Youku will hold a press conference with the leads in the days prior to the premiere and drum up more interest, but it’s been spending loads of ad money with giant billboards in cities and buying up searches to … Continue reading →
Oh lawd it’s a-coming! I am so hyped up for The Story of Pearl Girl, for leads Zhao Lu Si and Liu Yu Ning, for their reunion, and for the fact that this is her one drama on deck that I actually want to watch for story and her male lead. The premiere is still reportedly November 1st and what … Continue reading →
Word on the street was that Youku was trying to speed up the release of its Tang dynasty big budget drama The Story of Pearl Girl with Zhao Lu Si and Liu Yu Ning into a very drama packed October, likely towards the end. This week two new lead posters were released along with new rumored release updates. It will … Continue reading →
October 2024 is fast becoming loaded with new period C-dramas. Last week there was Snowy Night Timeless Love with Li Qin and Zeng Shun Xi and also The Rise of Ning with Zhang Wan Yi and Ren Min. Next week is reportedly Kill Me Love Me with Liu Xue Yi and Wu Jin Yan. There may be more but the … Continue reading →
So this genre has been done before but when done right can be so much fun. It’s the do-over genre or the meta story-within-a-story genre whereby one or even both leads know the outcome but want to change it. A Dream Within a Dream with Li Yi Tong and Liu Yu Ning just released new drama posters and the first … Continue reading →
It looks like modern C-drama Family Business is starting filming soon as the schedules for the leads have aligned and the investors are chomping at the bit for a rare S-plus budget drama. The female lead is Yang Zi, no change, and the male lead is by all accounts Liu Yu Ning, but some say Wei Da Xun and his … Continue reading →
So, er, Monday September 2nd is tomorrow when this rumor first started but could be today already for you read the news. C-netizens are abuzzing that Tencent is going to airdrop ALL episodes of C-drama The Prisoner of Beauty on Monday the 2nd, and true or not this is totally newsworthy. The drama is high budget and high profile, with … Continue reading →
So first word on the street is that The Days of Seclusion and Love is being postponed and now Tree of Life (Born to be Alive) is going to be moved to 2025 start as well, which frees up the male and female leads for those dramas to pair up elsewhere. C-ent casting says Yang Zi and Liu Yu Ning … Continue reading →
I’m excited that Tang dynasty C-drama The Story of Pearl Girl is arriving sooner than I expected on the small screen. The drama released two new stills last week of leads Zhao Lu Si and Liu Yu Ning and when I went looking for airing rumors the latest is that post-production just finished and the drama team plans to do … Continue reading →
So this is really recent airing scheduling change rumors but we should know in the next week or two whether it’s going to happen or not. Tang dynasty drama The Story of Pearl Girl with Zhao Lu Si and Liu Yu Ning was slated for a Q4 2024 basically end of year airing which fits with the filming and post-production … Continue reading →
So C-dramas typically release stills on major holidays in the full year or more leading up to the premiere. Chinese Valentine’s Day is big, Lunar New Year, Mid Autumn Festival, you name it, but Dragon Boat Festival or Duan Wu Jie isn’t one that I recall getting as many drama still releases but this release for one highly anticipated drama … Continue reading →
Ahhhhhhhhh I’m so happy to see a sudden drop of the first promo poster and preview for recently wrapped filming period C-drama The Story of Pearl Girl. Starring Zhao Lu Si and Liu Yu Ning, it’s a female lead centric drama about a slave girl pearl diver and her rise to becoming a self-sufficient business woman and of course a … Continue reading →
