Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at Chinese dramaland in the past week.
Let's get right into it.
As I'm filming this video on the 27th,
there is a variety show that has just come online.
On Tencent.
It is yet another detective/crime/deduction variety show
called The Truth, Kai Shi Tui Li Ba
If you're a fan of the Mango TV Who is the Murderer
which has been going on for a long time
Now we have another one on a different platform.
I haven't tested out yet,
not sure if it's that exciting,
but then the regulars of this variety show are mostly from dramaland
Bai Yu, Liu Yuning, Zhou Shen, Song Zuer
Actors and singers for dramaland
Then tomorrow on Saturday,
a drama we've talked about a lot on my channel
finally is going live which is the contemporary drama.
Jing Cha Rong Yu, Ordinary Greatness
Led by Zhang Ruoyun, Bai Lu, Wang Jingchun, Ning Li
community based small police station's
daily drama drama
in the department of acting.
I'm totally not worried about this drama.
I just hope it is well produced.
and it's based on a solidly researched and written script.
Then I don't know if anyone is watching the new Youku drama,
Dr Qin medical examiner.
If you've watched it,
I'm guessing you probably didn't continue watching.
cause that drama is ....
even though it has somebody that I really like leading it, Zhang Yao,
I have to say the drama itself is pretty disappointing,
but there is a rumor going on that after the
drama finish airing, the next one that's gonna follow on the same slot
would be the drama Hui Lang Ting
If it's the case it's gonna happen at the end of this month
because Doctor Qin finishes airing on the 20th of June,
Hui Lang Ring, The Murder in Kairoutei
I have no idea how to pronounce that properly in Japanese,
but that's a suspenseful crime story that's based on the
Japanese very well known author's book.
I'm pretty sure i've talked about this production before on my channel
when they started production as it's led by Zhang Xincheng and Deng Jiajia
both are very good actors and i've been waiting for this drama
for that long ever since they started production.
So fingers crossed it shows up.
Then during this week, the drama Meng Hreleased yet another trailer.
and it's just like teasing with the audiences,
not telling you when it's gonna come out,
everyone is getting very annoyed on internet,
because the trailers look really good
and makes you really wanna watch the drama.
It's the second or third one they've put out,
but still they're not telling you when from March.
Now we're looking at June,
it still is not out yet
come on.
A dream of splendour led by Liu Yifei, Chen Xiao, also featuring Lin Yun
also featuring Liu Yan
and this new trailer is all focused on the female characters,
everybody is so pretty
they look so pretty, come on.
We need a very pretty period drama.
Good one.
Now
then we have a couple of stuff that has started shooting during this week.
First is a drama that's led by Guan Xiaotong and Han Dongjun
It's a Republic of China setting drama called Mei hua Hong Tao
and the English title Mr & Mrs Chen
just by hearing that title, does it sound like Mr & Mrs Smith?
I think they follow the same logic of naming the drama in that
way in its English title
because it's a Republic of China setting,
Min Guo setting espionage drama
When it's set in that time,
usually it has something to do with espionage
Guan Xiaotong and Han Dongjun
I feel like they almost belong to two different generations of actors.
It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
Also during this week.
Actually, at the very end of last week,
a period drama has started shooting called Ning An Ru Meng
doesn't have an official English title yet.
And if you look at dramalist
it's also the Chinese pinyin
This is an ip web novel base period drama
that's led by Bai Lu, Zhang Linghe, Wang Xing Yue, Zhou Junwei
I haven't read the novel, so I have no idea what it is,
but one big female main character with three guys,
does it look like the Yang Zi one?
That is right now in the making with three guys,
I mean all those four people are very,
very good working people.
Zhang Linghe.
When is Tian Guan Ci Fu coming out?
Or is it ever gonna come out?
Wang Xingyue, he has been very active in recent 2 years
couple of different period dramas,
Zhou junwei,
one of the more interesting people in this business.
One is he almost wouldn't be somebody you
imagine would enter entertainment business.
Also he's married
ying nian zao hun (too early to marry)
anyway, that's a drama in the making
feels like Bai Lu is super busy.
She just finished end of the moon literally
immediately jump into another period drama.
And then tomorrow is the police drama.
She leads.
I feel Yu Zheng now has completely fully decided
she is the number one star of his company.
Then there's a very special project that announced during this
week that they have started
very early pre production stage.
And it's not really about the story itself makes it special.
It is who are leading it
yet another IP based period drama
that's gonna be led by Lin Gengxin and Zhao Liying
Yuwen Yue
Are you still in the lake
it's one of those things
In many other dramas, these days when you watch
people would type in the bullet or the live comment.
Whenever you see a main character falls into the lake,
somebody would be typing.
On other drama's live comment.
"Anybody thinking about getting Yuwen Yue out of that lake now? "
"He's been there for years. "
so Lin Gengxin
And Zhao Liying are gonna lead in another period drama after
5 years now
since the days of Princess Agent.
But obviously this is a different thing.
It's not that storie's continuous a story.
It's a totally different IP
and it's a period and it's fantasy
because it has gods and fairies and that type of things in the play.
And the title is also very interesting.
It's called The Legend of Shen Li
cause that's the name of the female lead character.
In the story,
Zhao Liying tends to lead a lot of dramas that
has the characters' name of hers as the title.
Legend of Fei, Legend of Shen Li
Legend of Lu Zhen
even Zhi Fou Zhi Fou
that drama, English title is The Story of Ming Lan
she kind of always ends up in a drama that has
this type of title, legend/story of her character,
absolute definitive big female lead in dramaland.
It's very early stages, very conceptual.
If you look at the promotional material from official site,
it's still looking very, very conceptual.
They haven't even gotten to this point where they start
to design and style for the story's character yet,
but you know it's for real and it's gonna be a Tencent drama
a little bit worrying
and it's also gonna be a Xin Li drama.
Not quite sure
cause Xin li sometimes produces ok drama or even good ones,
but then they also messes things up epically
It's very hard to gauge how it's gonna work out
since i've ranted about Lin Gengxin a lot recently.
I'm just saying Lin Gengxin
if you want now after 5 years act opposite Zhao Liying
first, you need to get yourself in shape and please use a dubber
I actually pray if this happens.
Use a dubebr
don't don't talk like your your mandarin needs work
unless you can sort that out in 2 months
might as well just get a dubber
and pay for it.
It's the new policy that has come up.
I don't know I'm being very sarcastic.
I'm sorry if you're a big fan of Lin Gengxin's
but can bring myself to say something that I don't believe in
then there is a quick piece of news of the drama,
the third season of Huan Le Song, Ode to Joy,
calling for advertising,
and they're aiming at air it
In Q3, the new one that has completely new cast,
totally not using any of the two first seasons's actor, actresses,
couple of people.
I definitely would wanna watch because of them such as
Zhang Huiwen, Zhang Jianing, Wang Anyu, Jing Chao, Dou Xiao, even
And then there are a couple of people
just when I see their name,
I'm like I worry,
I worry about their presence in dramas such as
Jiang Shuying and Yang Caiyu
So that is a drama we probably will see in 1 to 4 months' time
then to wrap up today's video.
A quick news on a specific platform,
which is iqiyi
if you still remember,
since end of last year,
they've gone through a huge change of structure.
They've laid off a lot of people like 20 to 30%,
and then they've changed their way of doing projects,
cutting down 80/90% of the proposals they receive
by doing that.
They managed to
why am I laughing,
trying to stay calm
They managed to in the history of this platform,
got a profit for a quarter
first quarter of 2022 in the entire history of iqiyi ever running.
They finally made money.
They didn't bleed money,
a 4% of profit
for the first time ever.
I don't know, like,
is that good thing?
or does it look even more like a joke now?
They did it by significantly reducing new projects
and then cutting a lot of people off
and considering recently like the big ones in the world,
such as netflix has lost so much.
It's not an easy time.
So for a business,
at least in this sense,
they've done the right thing to save their own ass,
but as for the future who knows
that should wrap up today's video from AvenueX
June is coming so fast.
We are almost at the halfway point of the year.
I hope by far this year has treated you well
and i'll see you at my next video,
meanwhile live long and happy
Drama watching.