The musical chairs of TW-casting totally hit a homerun here and brought up a complete reunion of all four leads. This week TW-ent announced and upcoming anthology series titled Not Kind Enough Us (不夠善良的我們) with dual female leads Ariel Lin and Tiffany Ann Hsu playing onscreen romance rivals for 12 years. Man, is the It Started with a Kiss rivalry … Continue reading →
I can’t muster up much interest in this story but of course there will be the first “scandal” to start the new year. TW-actor Mike He is all over the island tabloids on this first day of January 2020 after being caught on December 14th late at night coming out of a KTV with fellow actor Michael Zhang and an … Continue reading →
Okay, this is just a weird everything but news enough to report on the rumor. Chinese-speaking news is reporting that Taiwan is planning a drama remake of hit K-drama Goblin, two years after the popular series aired. The male leads will reportedly be Jerry Yan and Mike He, two of the OG male actors that grounded the Taiwan idol drama … Continue reading →
Maybe it’s the fall weather and the recent seismic shift in Asian drama viewing options but I’m in a nostalgic mood and one of the classic eras that passed naturally was the Taiwan idol dramas of the 2000s. Starting from Meteor Garden which was remade by a new cast this year in 2018 who may have just been born when … Continue reading →
School’s starting again and it also feels like the drama train is coming to life as many Taiwan actors and actresses have upcoming dramas to look forward to. Adding a new one to the lineup with a big name director and cast but on a more du jour platform – Director Winnie of In Time With You and It Started … Continue reading →
Daddyhood suits TW-actor Mike He, as does a perfectly tailored suit and posing for the cameras. He’s always been the charming type with a slight veneer of smarm that never crosses over the line, like the too cool boyfriend who is self-aware but toes the line on being too full of himself. Earlier this year Mike announced that he was … Continue reading →
One of the perks of being a long time drama fans is watching the generations grow up and hopefully do so in mature and happy ways. Fans of Ariel Lin have watched her go from chubby cheeked college student to sleek and sophisticated married actress over the course of her fifteen year acting career, which continued to be broadened with … Continue reading →
The festivities have moved from Hawaii back to Taiwan for the final stop in TW-actress Ady An‘s wedding extravaganza of the year. Celebrity weddings can be lavish and over-the-top and Ady’s definitely is up there in terms of how much money she and her billionaire hubby must have spent to pay for everything, including all expenses for the Hawaii wedding … Continue reading →
Talk about a total bombshell announcement from out of nowhere, this is the stealth to end all dating news stealth. This weekend Taiwanese actor Mike He announced that he was married and the father to a 4 month old baby girl! He posted on his SNS account that that he registered his marriage today and his baby girl with his … Continue reading →
The second single is out for Rainie Yang‘s latest album Traces of Time in Love, and it’s so much win I don’t even know where to start. It’s an emotional ballad of the kind that Rainie croons rather than belts down, firm in feeling with a soft touch. The song “Audience” is about love, of course, and for the MV … Continue reading →
Folks ask me all the time when so-and-so prefilmed C-drama will air and honestly its a big unknown with tentative air dates often getting moved around. With that said, sometimes a network randomly shoehorns in an airing at the last minute, and that’s what likely happened with Zhejiang Network‘s premiere on July 6th of the drama Go, Single Lady (Chinese title 真愛遇到他 … Continue reading →
All of TW-drama land feels so lugubrious lately. There is a snail’s pace crawl in both currently airing and upcoming dramas, some of which are not bad but nothing that drives me rabid with want. Pleasantly Surprised (Love Myself or You) is solid and sweet but I’m still getting up the impetus to write about it in any way, shape, … Continue reading →
There are some TW and C-dramas that are pre-filmed and then sit on the shelf for what feels like an eternity. Sometimes it has nothing to do with quality but more like shopping around for a network to air it. I remember one of my fave TW-dramas Sunny Happiness completing filming over a year before it aired. Last year Mike … Continue reading →
