Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week.
A lot of dramas were scheduled for this week,
and luckily they all went live including
the postponed for month Gold Panning
Now let's talk about dramas
this week, a couple of more dramas have announced
they're gonna go live very soon first.
Chronologically on january the 25th a tencent period,
idol romantic drama is gonna go live,
Ling Long Zhang Gui Xiao Chu Wang
doesn't have an english title yet,
and it's pretty much nobody has heard about it type
of drama before it threw put a poster and a trailer.
And judging from the title,
it's gonna be about restaurant,
cooking, food, set in period time.
And it's gonna be led by Ma Ke, Jin Shixi, Yang Luoqian
Honestly I don't know anyone else apart from Ma Ke
He is a rather like veteran actor of his age range
and in idol drama or period dramaland.
Think about the days of Journey of the Flower
after that many years, right?
Still hasn't really advanced much.
So now he shows up in this.
Apparently very low budget hasn't gotten any promotion led by people.
Nobody knows period setting comedy,
romantic drama.
What can we say?
This is a cruel business.
Let's see when it airs
whether it's gonna manage to get any attention
then one day after that on january 26th
a drama i've mentioned multiple times before
contemporary high school leading up to young adulthood.
Type of drama is going to air Xi You Liu Li Wa
Memory of Encaustic Tile
led by Chen Yuqi and Lin Yi
So Chen Yuqi will have two dramas she leads airing at the same time.
Let's see the battle between her and herself between
mirror city and encaustic tile
who is gonna win.
Then there's a film that has announced it's gonna go live on valentine's day,
so february the 14th,
and it's the film version of the novel ip
Shi Nian Yi Pin Wen Ru Yan
Ten Years of Loving You
That's led by Ding Yuxi and Ren Min
This ip also has a drama version,
also is done
and there's no news yet about when that's gonna come out.
Then 2 pieces of news on BL adaptations specifically for two projects.
One is Chase the Light
Xuo Jian You Ni which is based on the novel Sa Ye
The director said they finished editing.
So the final cut version that's in post production is done.
Now the long journey begins and even the director said
about getting everything else done like music and then
all the publication thing and obviously censorship.
Because bl now is like something that just may never get aired.
I really, really wanna watch this drama.
The other piece of news is also regarding a BL adaptation drama,
Tian Guan Ci Fu, Heaven Official's Blessing
I feel like it's been forever since they started shooting.
and it's true they've been shooting for like over half a year,
they've only just completely the whole crew wrapped shooting.
Obviously, now it's called Ji Xing Gao Zhao
with that really lucky sounding name.
But then what happens afterwards?
How much money they're willing to put in now that the
situation is so unclear about the future of this project.
If there's any sort of confirmed thing about bl
dramas is just not gonna show up anytime soon
whether following up investment is worthwhile or
whether they would just keep it there,
not even bother to do all the post production
just to see if we never gonna air it.
Why waste money?
Who knows
future of this type of production is super uncertain at this moment.
But we do know that at least they've gotten all the shots they need
The rest is
leave it to fate.
Then let's talk about a couple of projects at different stages of production.
First, a drama started shooting during this week,
pretty much at the very end of last week didn't catch it.
Like in time to put it in last week's video,
the drama is based on an existing ip that's a manga called
Hu He Yao Shi Lu
english title, Tiger Crane
Yao Shi Lu is like the record of masters of capturing yao.
you know Animal turned cultivating beings.
It is an iqiyi drama.
The leading cast is pretty interesting
Jiang Long, Zhang Linghe, Chen Youwei, Wang Yuwen
Jiang Long is the actor who played Bai Lang in Luo Yang
and a couple of other rathing interesting supporting roles
And he's got really popular recently in china because he's on a comedy show.
On stage comedy show and did really, really well.
So he plays one of the male lead.
The other male lead is played by Zhang Linghe
who is the leading actor of Tian Guan Ci Fu
heaven officials blessing who played hua cheng in that one.
This is not bl really,
but it just has multiple male leads
Chen Youwei
If you've watched actors get ready or even earlier on the second
Shuang Shi Chong Fei, Eternal Love
you know who he is
Wang Yuwen
Really cute actress.
Last year I had a lot of fun with her Once We Get Married
So I mean these four people young people look pretty interesting.
I'm curious to see how it's gonna look at the end
because they're different.
Jiang long I definitely put him more on the skillful,
but not super good looking type of more
oriented towards being proper serious actor,
side of things,
Zhang Linghe, much more idol
Chen Youwei much much more idol-ish
and Wang Yuwen
She's been in multiple different types of productions,
some very serious, some not serious at all
So I mean by all means this is a very interesting cast
I hope this drama turns out to be an interesting one
Then a drama has officially released more posters, just posters,
but previously it has only released one for the male lead and the female lead
Now they have pretty much everybody.
It's the qing cheng yi qing huan,
The Emperor's Love
previously when I mentioned it,
I did talk about the chinese title.
Sounds like a really old fashioned web novel title.
This is the period drama that's led by Zhong Hanliang and Yuan Bingyan
Then this drama also features actors such as Gu Jiacheng and Zhang Yue
who's been in a couple of productions in recent years.
These days when I look at a period setting drama
that has this makeup of
leading actors being a guy who is much much much older than the actress.
I worry
because last time when Zhong Hanliang was in the drama like this,
it was Jin XIn Si Yu
and ....
but ok, I really do have to just jam in here is
Zhong Hanliang is interesting.
When he's acting opposite certain people,
he's like a piece of wood these days.
But when he's acting opposite other people,
I see the old 15, 20 years ago him coming back.
And that showed up in A Chance Meeting
when he's opposite Li Xiaoran
sometimes you feel maybe they're fated
they're like the screen couple that heaven dictates
these two when they're on screen
wow
magic.
Anyway, so this drama has released all its new characters posters.
And we don't know when it's gonna come out.
I mean maybe highly likely within this year
for this drama on the chemistry.
If it doesn't work,
Zhong Hanliang (Wallace Chung) and Yuan Bingyan
Then it will prove again
that some people just needs the other person to be
the right person to work
also during this week a drama has started production.
Again, I i'm a little bit worried about it.
It's called Xia Hua
doesn't have an english title yet,
literally means Summer Flower
okay the part that i'm worried about is
it is again a much much older actor and a much much younger actress,
not that I think you know having a relationship between people
who have a huge age gap is really any problem,
but you just almost don't see the reverse in dramaland
like you see one drama every year.
That kind of has a much older woman and a younger guy
and then every time it is still like it's 2022,
you know you still see much older actors,
much much younger actresses,
both like the actor and actress in real life plus their characters
in story are all having that
at different stage of their life type of thing
and it start to fall out of fashion these days.
And I mean from what I can see on internet
when people hear about this drama's news,
the first thing they react is ah again,
a guy who's like 20 years ago,
he's the little fresh meat,
but now he's the middle age guy and he still
gets to act with somebody who's born like in
98.
And people start to not be happy about that.
And I understand why.
Anyway, this is a contemporary drama led by
Yan Chengxu and Xu Ruohan
Yan Chengxu, who doesn't know him.
If you're Asian or if you care about asian dramaland right?
Liu Xing Hua Yuan (Meteor Garden)
Since then he he he is him,
he is the lead of f F4
And then Xu Ruohan,
Xu Ruohan is the young actress
who's very talented at drawing and who led the
Wan Mei Xian Sheng he Cha Bu Duo Xiao Jie
Perfect and Causual last year, I really really... no, not last year
the year before 2020
I really liked yeah and they're playing a contemporary romantic drama which is
about a young rich girl fall in love with
a much older man who is a hairdresser.
I mean if it's well written, well acted still works fine
But in terms of the particular character set up,
and genre in general
I see why it's not popular these days.
Let's see if this drama can successfully navigate through the
land mine field that it's heading into just by the setup itself,
wish them good luck can come out in 1 piece.
Then during this week there are a couple
of other dramas that have been rumored,
will be led by this person that person will start shooting,
but hasn't got a hundred hundred hundred solid percent confirmation.
I'm not gonna mention all of them.
I'm just gonna talk about one that is
more likely to happen for real
a contemporary drama
that's based on a novel aimed at starting to shoot in march.
And it's gonna be Youku drama,
not sure about the drama title 100%
because the novel had two titles.
When it was a web novel, it has one title.
And then when it got published on paper,
it had a different title.
Anyway, the current title on dramalist is Hai, Ni de Guo Chan,
which is the original web novel title,
and the published book is Yang Fang Li de Mao Xian Sheng
So they're totally different.
I haven't read the book itself,
so I don't know about any of those interesting
naming background stories and so far.
the news says it's gonna be led by Ma Wenyuan and Hu Yixuan
Both of them have that very pleasing, pleasant.
What's the old word for it?
Countenance?
it's like a very Jane Austen style word
they have that sweet and easy to get along with
kind of appearance in dramaland
So let's hope it turned out to be an interesting enough production.
These are all the news i've collected during this week
in terms of all the dramas that are ongoing.
The I may or may not make a video on
quickly let you know Mirror Twin City
I'm watching, i've watched 8 episodes decided to quit.
If I make a video, it will be a rant video,
so warning
Kai Duan is towards the end next week last 2 episodes
it's gonna be done
and cannot wait for how it's gonna end
gold panning.
I've watched half an episode
haven't had time to follow up.
So once i've watched more,
I will form an opinion
right now I don't have one
because I literally haven't watched that much
Jin Sheng You Ni, A Chance Meeting
Surprisingly good.
I expected to be chicken rib.
It's a pity to throw it away,
but it doesn't have much to chew on,
but right now after i've watched 10 episode as well,
actually much better than I thought
And like I said, Li Xiaoran and Zhong Hanliang
heaven sent cp on screen.
te zhan xing dong
The operation special force thing watched 88% of one
episode and couldn't quite continue watching
Liu Guang Zhi Cheng, City of streamer,
i've watched 3 episodes,
surprisingly better than I expected.
so, those are the super fast recap of what i've been doing
now oh plus i'm watching Beyond which is Chao Yue
which is the skating drama that's actually really good
and not many people are watching it,
but it's really good.
ah There's another drama i'm watching actually.
Heavens,
I have how many like already six or seven
dramas that that i'm watching at the same time.
I'm gonna mix all the characters up in my head.
It's gonna be hodge podge mess.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
i'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.