Seasons of Love Promotional event

The first story with Him/Toby was quite cliche but I thought Kandy was so cute as the little sister who idolized Season BB. The second story with Ron and Kate will end on Monday. I'm excited to see the final 2 seasons.

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! You can watch how TVB rang in the new year with performances by Myolie Wu, Nancy Wu, Grace Wong, Oscar Leung, Pierre Ngo, and a few others.


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TVB Winners Celebrate

Best Supporting Actress Nancy Wu, Best Supporting Actor Koo Ming Wah, Most Improved Male Oscar Leung, and Most Improved Female Mandy Wong celebrated their win together at a Japanese restaurant in Tsim Tsa Tsui. They were joined by many friends and family who helped celebrate such as Felix Wong and Myolie Wu.

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2012 Asian Television Award Winners

Congratulations to Moses Chan and Nancy Wu for their wins at the Asian Television Awards! There is a panel of judges that pick out the winner and the nominees are included from over 15 countries so it is considered a more prestigious award that judges the acting and not the popularity. This year, Moses won Best Actor and Nancy won Best Supporting Actress.

Past TVB winners include: (The name of the award changed over the years but it's basically Best Leading and Best Supporting awards.)

2007 Best Comedy Performance by an Actress: Myolie Wu (To Grow With Love)

2008 Best Drama Performance by an Actor: Raymond Lam (The Master of Tai Chi)

2009 Best Drama Performance by an Actress: Michelle Yim (Moonlight Resonance)
2010 Best Drama Performance by an Actor: Bowie Lam (Sister of Pearl)
2010 Best Drama Performance by a Supporting Actress (Susan Tse, Beyond The Realm of Conscience)
2011 Best Actor in a Leading Role: Kevin Cheng (Ghetto Justice)
2011 Best Actress in a Leading Role: Charmaine Sheh (Can't Buy Me Love)
2011 Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Evergreen Mak (No Regrets)
2011 Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Fala Chen (No Regrets)

Triumph 2 filming in Hainan, China

Some of the cast members of Triumph in the Skies 2 recently flew to Hainan, China to film some location scenes. These cast members include: Myolie Wu, Ron Ng, Nancy Wu, Him Law, Elena Kong, Kelly Fu, Adrian Chau, Chiu Hoi Yeung, Rocky Cheng, Quinn Ho, Kibby Lau, Snow Suen, Eliza Sam, and Rebecca Zhu.

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Seasons of Love filming

Seasons of Love will consist of 4 different love stories with Kenneth Ma portraying a private detective to tie in all the stories together. Ben Wong will be the narrator of the series. One of the stories consists of a love triangle between Nancy Wu, Oscar Leung, and Vincent Wong.

In real life, all three are good friends. Nancy was one of Vincent's "groomsmen" for his wedding while her and Oscar are old friends. Vincent and Oscar are also good friends who can be seen chatting in between takes.

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Nancy Wu Wedding Event

Nancy Wu was a model at a wedding event the other day. She was asked about her small cameo in The Hippocratic Crush in which she portrayed a surgeon for a few seconds. She just happened to be in the studio and volunteered to do the small guest role and did not expect people to recognize her. When asked if there is a chance of reconciliation with Kenneth Ma, she did not answer directly. They are still friends and will let things go with the flow. 

Nancy Wu in Tsuen Wan

Nancy Wu attended a mall event in Tsuen Wan the other day. Because filming of The Great Eunuch just started, she's missing out on opportunities to earn more money from events during the Christmas and New Year time. However, she is happy to collaborate with Wayne Lai for the third time. (Actually, wouldn't it be her 4th time since she collaborated with him in Rosy Business, No Regrets, and Forensic Heroes 3?)

Source: Oriental Daily

Curse of the Royal Harem Finale Event and Ratings

Curse of the Royal Harem had its finale promotional event the other night and some of their stars showed up such as Myolie Wu, Sunny Chan, Nancy Wu, Gigi Wong, Elena Kong, Vivian Yeo, Jess Sum, Sire Ma, Charmaine Li, KK Cheung, and Ben Wong. I really liked both Myolie and Nancy's dresses! So pretty!

The average ratings for the 2 hour finale was 39.4 with a peak of 43 points! It is the highest rated series for for the 8:30 timeslot in Hong Kong.

I thought the series as a whole was really great. The storyline made sense and everything happened for a reason. The acting was also superb and all the lead and supporting actors and characters had a time to shine. I would definitely recommend this series. 

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Curse of the Royal Harem Episode 1-9 Thoughts

Random Thoughts:

• This show is getting really good with Jessica finally fighting back! Jessica's character was a little boring to me in the beginning, but I'm glad that she's finally taking a stand! The other scene I really liked with Jessica was when she was with Sunny and he thought he was going to die.
• I think Myolie's character is not very likable so far, but I think she's doing a really good job with her role playing a bratty and immature empress. I totally cackled when Nancy was freaking her out and got her to confess her wrongdoings, but I wish that Myolie suffered some more. I also really like seeing her with Joel because I think you see the real her, instead of what her mom wants her to be.

• People need to stop complaining about what their ages are supposed to be and how Jessica's role is supposed to be younger than Myolie's and blah blah blah. It's a story, not a documentary.
• I also like Jess Shum and Vivien Yeo's bickering. I wish it lasted longer, and I also hope to see Jess more in this series.

• The scenes revolving around the males is pretty boring to me. I'd rather see more catfighting!
• Although I really like seeing Joel and Myolie together, I also like seeing him with Sire Ma. I'm not a fan of Joel Chan as a person, but I do think he's a pretty good actor and I like his role here.
• I can't wait to watch the rest of the series. I hope the end doesn't disappoint.

More Beauties

TVB is promoting the 5 Beauties of TVB as their first line artists and that includes: Myolie, Tavia, Linda, Kate, and Fala. After them, there's another crop of female artists that are considered another 5 Golden Flowers that lines up behind them. My original guess is that it would Aimee Chan but someone put together this other list which excludes her and has Elaine Yiu instead.

(From left to right: Elaine Yiu, Nancy Wu, Natalie Tong, Selena Li, Sharon Chan)

Do you agree with this list? Is there anyone you would replace?

Other Fadans

TVB has been trying to promote the "5 Beauties" as sort of an A-list fadan list. In a way, I do think they succeeded because they are probably the most popular with the general audience and sponsors even though I do think a few of them really need to work on their acting still. If those 5 are considered A-list, I think the following 5 are considered their B-list. Some of them already have had leading roles while others will have their first leading role this year or they usually play a big supporting role.

Nancy Wu

She's yet to have a leading role but she's been able to play a variety of big supporting roles. She's able to play a variety of roles, but has not had the opportunity to play a leading role just yet.
Coming up: an evil role in Curse of the Royal Harem, deaf and mute boxer in Boxing King

Selena Li

She's already had the opportunity to play lead in Life and Times of A Sentinel and will continue to do so in Boxing King and will also be lead behind Myolie in Endless Exchange of Enjoyment. She also moved up to the front row during the TVB lighting ceremony.
Coming up: More lead roles where she is paired up with Kevin Cheng in Boxing King. Kevin has been getting more and more popular and it will be to her advantage when their series airs.

Aimee Chan

Honestly, I think the only reason TVB is promoting her to a front-line fadan is because she's dating Moses and they want to make it seem like one of their top stars is dating another top star. TVB made a lot of money from the Bernice/Moses pairing and they probably want to do the same with this. She's cute and does okay in small supporting roles but her enunciation is pretty bad and her acting is not so good either.
Coming up: big roles in Psychological Warfare, ATF, and Ladder to Heaven

Sharon Chan

She's played a bunch of supporting roles and she finally gained attention for her role in Ghetto Justice. Because of this, it looks like TVB is finally giving her a lead role in Schemes of East and West along with Fala Chen.
Coming up: her first lead role

Natalie Tong

She won the Most Improved Award last year and has been getting a lot of 2nd female lead roles now. I always think of her as really young because I'm used to seeing her in roles as someone's sister, but did you know that she's now 30?
Coming up: Boxing King and a role in King's Makers