Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
look at chinese dramaland in the past week.
And today we have way too much stuff to run through.
So i'm gonna be very minimalist with my subtitleling
because Tencent went nuts
ha ha
last week,
it was a little bit more on the iqiyi side of things.
And this week.
Basically,
it feels like the penguin is declaring i'm the richest kid on the block
and i'm gonna show you how much stuff I have on hand
first as usual,
let's talk about dramas that will air very soon
as this video goes out on saturday,
june the 25th.
A contemporary drama should have already gone alive called
Guan Yu Tang Yi Sheng De Yi Qie
English title Dr. Tang
As you can tell, it happens in a hospital, it's a medical drama.
(pulling alarm)
Let's hope it works out.
It's led by Qin Lan, Wei Daxun, Huang Jue, Gao Lu
In terms of the casting and
The specific actors I have confidence in their ability,
but scripts
wait till we see what it's like and
then obviously the medical procedures on camera,
that's always the tricky part.
Really for this type of drama,
whether it's within china or anywhere in this world,
but particularly china is very bad at doing medical dramas.
We shall see if this drama can provide us with any
improvement.
Then a couple of days after that,
at the very end of this month, 29th,
the long waited,
I think for a lot of my audiences,
contemporary drama led by Zhao Liying and Luo Jin is gonna go live
on both Youku on web and then Beijing television satellite tv
Xing Fu Dao Wan Jia, The Story of Xing Fu
Do I need to tell you what this story is about?
Probably not.
It's been talked about for too long,
but finally it's here
hey 2022 end of june.
And this is a very "现实主义”（realism) type of work,
which is totally focused on real life, not fantasy,
not period,
and is actually based on a very, very old,
not very old, but still quite old film and story.
Let's see the new version of the 21st century version
of this story and how well it's gonna play out.
Then although this drama hasn't officially
announced exactly when it's gonna come out,
but it's pretty straightforwardly now promoted as the drama
that's gonna follow meng hua lu, A Dream of Splendour.
So once Dream of Splendour officially ends, this drama comes in,
which means early july it's gonna happen.
XIng Han Can Lan, Love like a Galaxy,
the period drama that by Wu Lei, and Zhao Lusi
they've put out two more trailers this week. I think
like I said,
it will be stupid for Tencent not to do that
because this probably is the card on their hand that kind of
can get most people in to subscribe.
Or if they've subscribed due to meng hua lu,
they're gonna keep subscribing for another month.
If I were Tencent I definitely would do that.
so as long as a meteor doesn't come and hit earth,
you're gonna see this drama after meng hua lu.
Then let's talk about a couple of other dramas that are at
different stages of production
that have announced where they are.
First, there's a drama that has officially announced of its team makeup.
It hasn't started shooting yet
they're scheduling for September,
so quite a few months down the line.
Zhuo Zhuo Feng Liu, period idol sweet spoil drama.
That's how they classify it
It is gonna start shooting in september
and it's led by Jing Tian and Feng Shaofeng
I mean it's not so surprising that they pair
This is a period romantic love story between a
Wang Ye (prince) and a woman who is very good at acting.
That's how you would call this setup.
Feng xiao feng has raised his ranks further
previously in Story of Minglan and he's a Marquess
Now he's a prince marrying Jing Tian
and it's probably gonna be a lot of domestic fun
comedy kind of drama.
Then there's a drama has just started shooting.
And it's called Zuo Zi Ji de Guang
So chicken soup this title and the english title is
also very accurate translation Be Your Own Light
contemporary drama and it's gonna be led by Liu Tao and Liu Yuning
Another pairing I never pictured in my head,
I hope Liu yuning in contemporary drama it's gonna
work out better than him in period drama.
Usually it's an easier job if you're in a contemporary drama.
So let's see how well it's gonna work out.
Also there's a drama that's gonna start shooting very soon.
And it's called Huan Yan, english title, Fearless Blood
and this drama looking at casting.
I will definitely put it on my short list and it's a Tencent drama
reason being it's led by Liao Fan and Dong Zijian
2 sort of super indie movie type of actors
who are like destined for international awards.
If they stick in this industry long enough.
And it's a min guo setting drama,
I don't need to know more.
And just because it's these two guys,
i'm gonna definitely keep an eye out for it.
And since it's in Tencent's hand,
usually it has a more fierce way of promoting,
then say if it ends up in Iqiyi's hands
or youku's hands,
Youku, particularly bad and doing that.
okay, So these are the individual items i've looked at.
Then let's get to the part where why I say this video is gonna
have very minimum subtitles because Tencent went nuts.
Tencent during this week has promoted at least 20 dramas together.
Let me count them.
okay and I'll count about half of the number of
dramas they promote engine during this week.
The next half, they're not gonna show them altogethe at once, don't worry,
we have future to talk about them probably.
So i'm gonna start call out the roll of dramas,
Wu Jian, Contemporary drama, inferno affairs,
pretty much copied from the hong kong movie back in early 2000s.
Let's by Jin Dong, Wang Likun
Qian Fu Zhe, another espionage drama.
Minguo time setting we've talked about this multiple times
led by Huang Xiaoming and Jiang Xin
The Infiltrator
pretty much the twin or the sister drama of the Rebel,
last year that was led by Zhu Yilong and Tong Yao
Then Huang Xiaoming also has another drama
yeah promoted at the same time by Tencent.
Tencent just has way too much stuff on their ends, okay?
It's a business war contemporary drama called Mei Gui Zhi Zhan
and the English title is very accurate, Rose War
and it's gonna be led by him, HXM and also Yuan Quan,
and also Yu Feihong
cool
then also contemporary drama
a lot of people have been waiting for
this week they have released a first trailer
Gong Su Jing Ying, Prosecution Elite
and you know who leads it
yeah Dilraba and Dong Dawei
The prosecution drama that's helmed by the prosecution bureau of china,
a proper serious contemporary drama,
then also the drama that we've talked about many times now
Xi Chu Yu Men
that is still being filmed, West Out of Yumen
new posters showing you what the characters look like in this drama,
Yu Gu Yao, Xiao Zhan and Ren Min that's been going on for
a long time since last year
fantasy drama,
another teacher and student love fantasy drama
the longest promise that's the english title that's also been promoted,
then San Ti, Three Body that's like the only Sci-fi drama and
probably not just this year like for a long time to come
only serious sci-fi one.
That's led by Wang Ziwen, Zhang Luyi, Chen Jin
and quite a few other very well known people.
The states is making another version on their own.
Let's see which one can win
in terms of acting casting and actually getting the chinese vibe right
definitely chinese version,
but in terms of like cg
I don't know who can win out cause
how do you actually represent something that you cannot represent efficiently
in three dimensional space world on screen?
They released a new trailer and it looks 10 miles better.
Then the first one,
but also i've heard that it gone back to re-edit,
after the first round of censorship didn't go through,
so don't know when
but I really want to see it.
We haven't finished.
Let's keep going.
Chang Xiang Si
the one that's been filmed right now
not gonna finish filming until end of August at least
Yang Zi led
a nother fantasy period drama where she's the main lead with many guys.
That's a classic tencent thing.
They put a proper first poster out
love you forever.
So this one also promoted itself or tencent promoted it,
then Kun Lun Shen Gong
a lot of the fans of Candle in Tombs
you have something to look forward to Kun Lun Tomb
It's still the cast of Pan Yueming and Zhang Yuqi
This time it's Kunlun Tomb
so it's not the spider place where I
totally couldn't watch because I hate bugs.
Then Zhui Guang Zhe, Light Chaser Rescue contemporary drama
I've also talked about this one before
Luo Yunxi and Wu Qian
And title is pretty self explanatory.
It's about rescuers.
A lot of people definitely are very looking forward to this,
because LYX and WQ
they played the young version of
Zhong Hanliang and Tang Yan in He Yi Sheng Xiao Mo
And a lot of people loved the university
version of those two characters back then.
So now they're properly in a drama as the leads
also Xian Jian
yeah the remake of Xian Jian
the chinese paladin now is called Paladin Legend.
Does not matter
it comes from the game.
It used to be Hu Ge, Liu Yifei, and An Yixuan
early 2000s that made a huge impact.
Kind of started the whole genre of xian xia.
So the remake of it also promoted itself.
This time is with Hu Yu, Yang Yutong, Xu Hao, Li Chuan, Hu Yixuan
Hu Yixuan isplaying Anu
and Li Chuan, I think is playing the "shu sheng" (scholar) character anyway.
Actually i'm more interested in these two, not lead
but kind of supporting leads of this drama
Li Chuan, I've said in my previous reviews of other dramas
I really really like him and Hu Yixuan I also like her very much.
So in the future when this drama comes out whenever that is
I probably wouldn't really pay that much attention to Li Xiaoyao or Zhao Linger
I would actually pay a lot of attention to these two.
Then there is a drama I haven't heard before at all
and they're pretty much ready for it.
I can't wait to see it.
This is a period drama made by Tencent called
Fan Cheng Zhi Xia
english title Ripe Town
It's an criminal investigation,
kind of crime period drama
exciting.
And the reason it makes me excited is it's like by
Ning Li and Bai Yufan
just because it's these two guys,
it's type of excitement that I have with
the previously talked about Huan Yan
Fearless Blood,
Liao Fan and Dong Zijian
get the vibe, like it's almost the same kind of structure of actors
older, younger,
but both are very good and both are probably
really suited for independent movie.
Now i've gone through that many dramas.
Promotion news Tencent showing off how rich it is.
It's less than half I think of what they've talked about
and I don't have forever for weekly videos.
I do have to think about finishing editing,
putting subtitles on before tomorrow comes.
So i'm gonna just cap it here,
but there are more
I wonder after all the dramas air, right, on this list,
however that long that's gonna take
how many, percentage-wise is gonna in any sense,
achieve a level of
okay this drama did it
Personally like I said the two dramas I look forward to most
are the sci fi three body
because it's the one and the only one
you don't have another sci-fi
The other one is the period drama
that has Bai Yufan and Ning Li together.
I'm so excited for that.
There was one day when all this news came
out and I had to save them and categorize them
so that I can remember to talk about them.
That one day my hands was like twitching the muscle.
literally was what?
one? one more? one more?
one more? one more ?how many more do you have?
you know, Tencent is the Chi Ya Nei of dramaland.
I have like 12 businesses,
13 businesses,
I am in control of the capital
monopoly ~
okay definitely ranting too much
that would be the end of this video.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
I'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.