Myolie Wu's busy day

Myolie Wu had a busy day today. First, she started out early in the morning to help represent TVB for a charity walk. Then, she went to a promotional event before heading out to to promote her new series, Wish and Switch. The previous night, she went to Bosco's mom's 60th birthday party.

Myolie and Sharon Chan pose together for the Walk for A Million charity event. They were there to represent TVB along with some other artists.

                   

2011 Music Awards

I am actually not very familiar with the Hong Kong Music Industry since I do not live in Hong Kong, so I mainly know songs by TVB-associated artists. That's why I can't really judge how deserving any of these awards are, but I did want to compile them all together in one post.
-There are 4 main music awards. The Chik Chak 903 awards are mainly based on radio airplay on their station. The Metro awards give out the most awards and seems like it mainly gives them out as a form of engouragement. The RHTK awards are a mix of radio airplay and fan and critic voting. The JSG awards are sponsored by TVB and since they have been in a dispute with some record labels, their artists have been shut out from the awards. They finally came to a compromise but they were too late to compete.
-Most of these awards are based on attendance and if an artist does not show up, they are most likely not to receive an award.
-The newcomer scene is mainly dominated by Alfred Hui (contestant of The Voice season 1), Mag Lam (winner of The Voice season 2), and Joyce Cheng (daughter of Lydia Sum and Adam Cheng and she also acted in a few TVB series). Congrats to all of them. All 3 of them have really good voices. There is no clear cut winner between the 3 of them since each of the 4 main music awards gave out different results. Chik Chak ranked them Alfred, Mag, and Joyce. RHTK ranked them Joyce, Mag, and Alfred. Metro split them up between male (Alfred) and female (Mag and Joyce shared the award). JSG also split them up so Alfred received gold for the males while Mag got gold and Joyce got silver for the females.
-I already bought Mag Lam's cd but after listening to Joyce and Alfred singing their songs on the award shows, I ordered their cds.

What are your opinions on the results? Is there any songs or artists that you would recommend?

All the results:

Sally Yeh at the 2011 JSG Awards

葉蒨文《信自己》@ 2011年度十大勁歌金曲頒獎典禮

via sallyyehchannel

Sally Yeh returned to the TVB stage to sing one of her classic songs (and present an award) and she was amazing. Not only did she look great, she also sounded great and kept up with all the dancing. It's hard to believe that she's 50!

War and Beauty 2 Updates

The confirmed cast for War and Beauty 2 includes Sheren Teng, Ada Choi, Moses Chan, and Astrid Chan as seen in the trailer. The latest addition is Christine Ng. I am so happy for her because I think she is really underrated as an actress and am glad that she will take part in such a grand production. Elaine Yiu also confirmed in another interview that she will also take part, so that makes her one of the additions from the younger generation. I believe Kenny Wong is also confirmed since Producer Chik likes to use him. Some of the people from the original cast that is not returning includes Gigi Lai, Maggie Cheung, Charmaine Sheh, and Bowie Lam. I'm sure that people will be sad that the entire cast will not be back to film the sequel, but I think the most important return that they could have gotten is Sheren Teng so that's why I'm okay with the cast change. I wonder who else they will add to the cast? I think they have enough heavyweight female actresses so I wonder which actors they will get to fill the cast. Other than Elaine, what other younger actresses will they add? Christine Kuo was featured in the sales presentation but the last time she participated in an ancient series (Life and Times of a Sentinel), they ended up dubbing her voice. Is there anyone you want to see added to the cast?
Source: ihktv.

More Darizi Wedding Ad Pictures

Here are some more pictures of Myolie Wu's wedding ad. I really like all these pictures and the hair, jewelry, and dresses are all beautiful.

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Linda Chung still filming while sick

Linda Chung and Cilla Kung were on the streets of Hong Kong filming their latest series, Dangerous Protection, even though Linda was sick and coming down with a fever. She took a lot of Vitamin C to keep her immune system up and you could see her resting her eyes during the down time. I hope she feels better soon!

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2011 TVB Series Rankings

Series                                                                     Avg. Ratings

*These stats have been taken from Wikipedia. This does not include the half-hour sitcoms.

Notes:
-The series in red are ones that aired at the 8:30pm time slot and the series in blue aired at 9:30. It seems like an advantage to be aired at the later time slot.
-The general ratings may be down from previous years but a big factor is due to people watching these shows online including TVB's official streaming site: MyTV.
-No wonder TVB is planning a bunch of sequels next year. The highest rated series of the year was an indirect sequel and the 2nd highest rated is a spinoff of a popular character. The Rippling Blossom is the highest rated original series, and it aired around Chinese New Year.
-Forensic Heroes 3 and Curse of the Royal Harem had the highest peak with 43 points each.
-If you look at the ratings, it's no surprise that Myolie Wu won the TV Queen award. All of her series for 2011 ended up in the top 5. Congratulations!
-There are 3 sequels planned from the 2011 series. Ghetto Justice 2 finished filming, Miss Koo (a spinoff from Yes Sir, Sorry Sir) is currently being filmed, and there are plans for a sequel for The Other Truth.
-A Great Way To Care was originally warehoused and released overseas, yet it still produced good ratings and finished in the top half.

Do you have any thoughts on the ratings? Is there anything you want to point out? Leave your thoughts below.

Bottled Passion and When Heaven Burns Ending Thoughts

Spoilers:
I'm not going to give an in-depth review of each of these series, but I did want to give my final thoughts on them.

Darizi Wedding Ad

Myolie Wu did a photoshoot for a wedding company. You can download the wallpapers here: http://wedding.darizi.com/hk/download/. I love these pictures and that fuschia color on her.

Wish and Switch Promo Event

The cast of Wish and Switch held their first promotional event where they all got dressed up in costume. I'm excited to watch this series mainly because of the cast. I think it's an interesting combination with Myolie Wu and Selena Li as the leads and I believe it's also the first time for Johnson Li as a male lead.

Photos via Weibo, Oriental Daily, and The Sun