BAGUATV BLOG BY PAUL CHAN

Here’s a sneak peek into the press con of our upcoming drama ‘The Best Things In Life 五福到’ which was held at Conrad Hotel on Wednesday. Chen Han Wei 陈汉玮, Phyllis Quek 郭妃丽, Cynthia Koh 许美珍, Darren Lim 林明伦, Zhang Yao Dong 张耀栋, Terence Cao 曹国辉, Koh Yah Hwee 许雅慧, and newcomer Tracy Lee 李美玲 were there.

First, check out the Preview Video of ‘The Best things In Life 五福到’:

You can click on the photo itself to bring you to BaguaTV YouTube for the videos and interviews. Check out the stars who were there on Wednesday here:

Introducing newcomer Tracy Lee. She was one of the finalists in Star Search (the same year which gave you Andie Chen 陈邦鋆, Jerry Yeo 杨伟烈, Desmond Tan 陈泂江 and Kola Zhou 周颖):

五福到 was her first drama in Singapore and she will be seen in the next idol drama with Felicia Chin 陈靓瑄, Dai Yang Tian 戴阳天, Elvin Ng 黄俊雄 and Yuan Shuai 袁帅. Is she the love interest of DYT or Elvin? Find out in the 2nd video (click into her photo):

瑞恩 Rui En isn’t the only one who wanted to beat up some baddies. Cutesy 许雅慧 Koh Yah Hwee wants to beat up some boys in the crime drama ‘Lost & Found’ (starring Zoe Tay 郑惠玉, Rui En 瑞恩, Tay Ping Hui 郑斌辉) BUT she ended up…

You can always trust Cynthia to deliver. After this lead role in ‘The Best Things In Life 五福到’, Cynthia is now busy shooting her next project ‘Precious Babes 三个女人一个宝’, also a lead role with Ann Kok 郭舒贤, Eelyn Kok 郭蕙雯, 715 戚玉武, Alan Tern 唐育书, etc. She said she cannot tahan anymore and wants to…

Find out who left the deepest impression in a rare interview with the EP who revealed her personal hot choice…just click on the image to view video:

‘The Best Things In Life 五福到’ will telecast on Channel 8 from 17 March (Wednesday) at 9pm. It is written by the same writer 洪荣狄 who gave you ‘团圆饭 Reunion Dinner’, ‘The Little Nyonya 小娘惹’, etc.

Bonus Video: Ch 8’s ‘Black Rose’ on Tuesday at 8pm will dig at the latest most sensational news 老牛吃嫩草. Catch the hosts as Jackie Chan, 谢贤, Angelina Jolie, etc coming together to talk about…

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Voting for the “Favourite Male/Female Character” is done via on-line and results are based on 100% public votes. On-line voting for these 2 categories has started since 1 March.

Top 10 “Favourite Male Character” leading in the rankings as of 11 Mar are:

Alex Tan (王沺裁) Alex Tan (Thomas Ong)
一切完美2 Perfect Cut 2

老外 (周崇庆) Caucasian Man (Dennis Chew)
女王本色 Paris & Milan

陈文远 (王冠逸) Chen Wen Yuan (Lawrence Wong)
向日葵的约定 The Promise

李家成 (郑斌辉) Li Jiacheng (Tay Pinghui)
添丁发财 Baby Bonus

林佳杰 (鹤天赐) Lin Jiajie (Nat Ho)
未来不是梦 The Dream-catchers

林小杯 (戴阳天) Lin Xiao Bei (Dai Yangtian)
当我们同在一起 Together

马大吉 (张耀栋) Ma Daji (Zhang Yaodong)
心花朵朵开II Love Blossoms II

Sato (黄俊雄) Sato (Elvin Ng)
未来不是梦 The Dream-catchers

泰山 (黄俊雄) Tarzan (Elvin Ng)
当我们同在一起 Together

叶正康 (陈汉玮) Ye Zhengkang (Chen Hanwei)
企鹅爸爸 Daddy At Home

Top 10 “Favourite Female Character” leading in the rankings as of 11 Mar are:

方宋乔(范文芳) Fang Songqiao (Fann Wong)
双子星 The Ultimatum

黄丽萍 (陈靓瑄) Huang Liping (Felicia Chin)
添丁发财 Baby Bonus

林佳乐(刘芷绚) Lin Jiale (Jesseca Liu)
未来不是梦 The Dream-catchers

林佳琪(瑞恩) Lin Jiaqi (Rui En)
未来不是梦 The Dream-catchers

孙敏(陈靓瑄) Sun Min (Felicia Chin)
双子星 The Ultimatum

陶海桐(陈靓瑄) Tao Haitong (Felicia Chin)
心花朵朵开II Love Blossoms II

吴晓莉 (郑荔分）Wu Xiaoli (Michelle Tay)
一切完美2 Perfect Cut 2

姚剑虹(欧萱) Yao Jianhong (Jeanette Aw)
当我们同在一起 Together

叶予晨(郑惠玉) Ye Yuchen (Zoe Tay)
双子星 The Ultimatum

张洛芸(瑞恩) Zhang Luoyun (Rui En)
书包太重 My School Daze

Note: names are in alphabetical order and not in ranking order.

MediaCorp TV Ch 8 will continue to keep you updated on a weekly basis on the results of “My Favourite Male/Female Character”.

Online Voting Details:

1. Favourite Male Character
2. Favourite Female Character
- First round of voting: 1 March – 11 April, midnight
All characters are from eligible Star Awards drama serials and variety shows.

- Second round of voting: 18 April
The respective Top 10 nominees of both categories will then battle for the honour of the title during Show All votes will not be accumulative and will have to start from zero during the live show.

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Check out the exclusive videos of the above event held recently. Thong Chai Charity Night 同济医院慈善夜will be hosted by Mark Lee, Quan Yi Feng and Zheng Guo Chen. The complete list of stars are as followed:

成龙 Jackie Chan, Asia’s biggest superstar will do a song and the Live Band medley with Wakin Chau 周华健, another hot favorite star with many hit songs. Wakin will of course bring us a medley of his most popular songs like 风雨无阻/亲亲我的宝贝/朋友/花心/爱相随, etc.

If you like Hong Kong’s TV Cantonese songs of the 80s, catch Michelle Yim 米雪 singing 万水千山总是情.

There’ll also be an unusal medley by Taiwan visually handicapped singer Ricky Hsiao 萧煌奇 and Singapore Kelvin Tan Wei Lian 陈伟联 (and their solo songs as well). Plus, a medley by Sky Wu 伍偲凯

Campus SuperStar Jarod Lee 李奕贤 and 蔡艾珈 Cai Ai Jia will perform the theme song 守护

Our MediaCorp stars will also perform and they are Adam Chen 詹金泉, Alarn Tern 唐育书, Ann Kok 郭舒贤, Apple Hong 洪乙心, Dai Yang Tian 戴阳天, Darren Lim 林明伦, Desmond Tan 陈泂江, Eelyn Kok 郭蕙雯, Elvin Ng 黄俊雄, Hong Hui Fang 洪慧芳, Jerry Yeo 杨伟烈, Joshua Ang 洪赐健, Koh Yah Hwee 许雅慧, Kym Ng 鐘琴, Lee Teng 李腾, Michelle Chia 谢韵仪, Nat Ho  鹤天赐, Nick Shen 沈炜竣, Ng Hui 黄慧, Priscelia Chan 曾诗梅, Rayson Tan 陈泰铭, Xiang Yun 向云, Yuanshuai 袁帅, Zhang Zhen Huan 张振寰 and Zheng Ge Ping 郑各评.

Our Mark Lee 李国煌 & his ‘students from ‘It’s A Small World 国记交意所’will do the Poweriser Dance. Veteran local songbird 庄雪芳: 感恩的心 (your parents will be familiar with 庄雪芳)

Thong Chai Charity Night 同济医院慈善夜 will be held on 21^st March at 7pm on Channel 8. Artistes and performing items are tentatively correct for now. Here are some of the videos taken of the press conference (I have only put up some here while you can watch the rest over at BaguaTV Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/BaguaTV)

Next up: ‘五福到 The Best Things In Life’ Press Conference and the most anticipated Star Awards 2010 Top 20 Most Favorite Characters (weekly release on Thursdays) and Star Awards 2010 Top 40 Most Popular List of Artistes!

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Many foreign stars have accepted the Star Awards 2010 invitation and they will be attending the events as presenters and /or performers. Both nights will be star-studded! Here’s the first batch of stars to expect:

VOGUE国际中文版台湾最有潜力新生代男星的高以翔与赵又廷。《败犬女王》杨谨华，《流星花园》与《痞子英雄》金钟奖最佳导演蔡岳勋和《我要唱下去》与《三菜一汤》的曾国城。

More foreign stars from Hong Kong and Taiwan will be announced in a later blog post. Star Awards 2010 will be held over 2 nights (18 April & 25th April). You can start voting for your Male & Female Favorite Characters now online: http://starawards2010.mediacorptv.sg/onlinevoting.htm.

Star Awards Top 40 Most Popular Artistes list will be announced very soon (follow me on BaguaTV Twitter for immediate release of names when it happens)…

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Updated with more cast: Rui En 瑞恩 and Zoe Tay 郑惠玉 take on the main leading female roles in the new CID/Informant drama ‘Lost & Found 最火搭档’! 剧中两名女主角是“亦敌亦友”(一老一少) 的矛盾关系，她们必须互相帮助，却又互相憎恨。

Rui En’s dream of playing someone who can fight like Jackie Chan will be fulfilled. She will become the CID Officer nicknamed ‘老大’ (her staff secretly call her ‘排骨精’ behind her back). 自小受到母亲的影响，灌输她这世界就是个大竞技场的观念，做任何事就如一场比赛，输了就是失败者。因此，她对输赢非常执着，养成她好强争胜的性格。

为了破案，她会使用手段，有时显得不近人情。因为她加入警队本就不为了伸张正义，维护治安。对她来说，警界是个不断往上爬的竞技场。但后来接触到Zoe Tay，让她逐渐了解，帮助人得到的满足感更大，可是…习惯成自然，为了帮助人，她依然不择手段。

Zoe Tay plays the role of a 警察卧底、警方线人、表面身份是小食店老板, Zoe 被训练成忍辱负重的性子。为了达成任务，她牺牲许多又坚持下去，显出她强韧的一面。没错，她认真起来是很可怕的。平常笑容可掬，擅于与人打成一片，给人毫无杀伤力的感觉，因此那些罪犯都不防范于她，也因此她交游广阔，便利于打听消息。接触了不少失踪案，越查越上瘾，以寻回失踪者为己任。

‘Lost & Found 最火搭档’ (20 episodes) is the new CID/Informant drama (thriller police genre like 破茧而出 Metamorphosis).  Both characters will be linked to another mysterious CID lead role played by Tay Ping Hui 郑斌辉.  Other cast include: Andie Chen, Kola Zhou, Shaun Chen, Joshua Ang, Paige Chua, Pei Xuan, Zheng Ge Ping, Rayson Tan, Wang Yu Qing, Brandon Wong, Zzen Zhang, Chen Tian Wen, Ong Ai Ling, Koh Yah Hwee, Zhu Hou Ren, Lin Mei Jiao, etc.

‘Lost & Found 最火搭档’ 监制：袁树伟 and 故事/编审：彭凯毅. Telecast on Channel 8 from 4 August at 9pm. Rui En has gotten all her dream roles, what’s next? The 30s songstress? Or simply retired? (Just kidding).

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Fresh out of 2010 comes the Best Actor’s next breakthrough project: ‘The Best Things In Life 五福到’. Preview video and press con videos will be up next week immediately after the press conference (Chen Han Wei, Cynthia Koh, Terence Cao, Darren Lim, Ong Ai Ling, Zhang Yao Dong, Tracy Lee, Phyllis Quek, Koh Yah Hwee, Desmond Tan, Rayson Tan, May Phua, etc). We have done up various print versions of this character coming to town:

Hot favorite to beat at this upcoming Star Awards 2010? Best Actor nomination again next year? You bet.

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Yes, the drama about sun, sea and classical music aka 游梦琴真  (Splashes & Strings) is adding more eye candy stars to support the 3 lead roles (Dai Yang Tian 戴阳天, Felicia Chin 陈靓瑄 & Elvin Ng 黄俊雄)…they are:

Yuan Shuai 袁帅 will get his biggest role to date (after a brief but surprise performance in ‘当我们同在一起 Together’). He will play ‘Thunder’ – 外国留学回来，有点名气的小提琴家，跟 Dai Yang Tian 在一起学音乐时认识。和 DYT 是朋友，同时也是音乐方面的劲敌。之前成绩一直比DYT来的逊色，直到出国留学，音乐造诣突飞猛进，频频赢奖，成就超过了DYT。懂得包装自己，外表看起来浪荡不羁，狂妄自大，做事不按牌理出牌，常常会制造出其不意的惊喜。好胜心强，喜欢向高难度挑战，对于得不到的东西，更是一定要得到，因此才开始追求DYT 喜欢的对象，为的只是证明自己做得到。

Yuan Shuai 袁帅 was the winner in Ch U’s talent quest ‘U Are The One’ which produced Zhang Zhen Huan 张振寰 as well. Am happy he has finally landed an important role (Yuan Shuai graduated in drama training and expected to excel if given a good role). ‘Thunder’ and ‘Fin’ are two major important supporting roles.

Tracy Lee 李美玲 will play Felicia’s rival swimmer Fin. Felicia’s 同母异父的妹妹，天才型泳手，从小就在泳池里大放异彩，也因此变得高傲自负。在澳洲长大，个性洋派，思想开放，对于喜欢的东西，一定会全力以赴，所以当她喜欢上Elvin，也知道对方是姐姐暗恋的对象时，也还是主动接近他。做事黑白分明，对于看不过眼的事，就会挺身而出，据理力争，但因对人不假辞色，说话直截了当，因此常会让人觉得不顾他人感受。外表坚强，其实内心脆弱，从不容许自己在人前落泪。

Tracy Lee 李美玲 also came out from Ch 8’s Star Search (the same batch which produced Andie Chen 陈邦鋆 and Kola Zhou 周颖) and will be seen next month in ‘The Best Things In Life 五福到’ drama with Chen Han Wei 陈汉玮. You can read more about her in my ’sister’ blogsite – 8gg (click left 8gg icon). Tracy is one of the few newbies to watch this year!

Felicia 的爸爸，当年的小飞鱼Wang Yu Qing 王昱清，曾赢奖无数，后因伤而不再参赛。老婆潘玲玲当年贪慕虚荣，抛弃他们父女，让他大受打击，性情大变，对生活变得毫无目标，得过且过，身上一旦有钱，很快就会花光。需要钱的时候，就到处行骗，有时扮残废，有时扮神算。虽然骗人无数，但他却有一套自己的行骗原则，坚持不骗比自己更惨的人。最大的嗜好就是打麻将。

Pan Ling Ling 潘玲玲 plays a 表面是个富有爱心，和蔼可亲，慷慨大方的女强人，实则自私，心机重，贪慕虚荣。为达到目的，甚至可以不惜利用自己的儿女。

Another veteran star Lin Mei Jiao 林梅娇 also joins the cast as DYT’s mummy. 性格单纯，没有心机，对生活也毫无规划，丈夫和DYT就是她生活的重心。虽然没名没分，但却从来没亏待两母子，给予他们一切物质上最好的享受，因此也养成了她的依赖性，认为生活的一切老公自会安排，却没想到老公会突然猝死，让两母子的生活顿时陷入困境。最大的乐趣就是逛街购物。

More stars will be announced later… ’The Little Nyonya’ and ‘Together’ 谢敏洋 is the Executive Producer and the story is written by 陈耀 and 谢俊源. Production will begin next month and you will see the drama in July on Ch 8.

Bonus: DYT & Elvin Ng won’t win Star Awards 2010 Best Actor, said Jeanette Aw (read all about her frank assessment here: http://is.gd/93Fr7)

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For stars who do not want to be seen as a LKK star, read on… 2 giants have become 1 = the largest online user base in the whole of Singapore! BaguaTV is proud to be featured prominently in this mega-scale project!

To be launched in the second quarter of 2010, xinmsn (www.xinmsn.com) will feature entertainment and lifestyle offerings currently on the websites of Microsoft’s MSN Singapore and MediaCorp. It will be bilingual in English and Mandarin, housing both global and Singapore-centric content.  Among its highlights:

• MSN’s entertainment and sports news, currently Number 1 in their category in Singapore
• Free video-on-demand from MediaCorp’s extensive library
• “Catch-up” TV including all Channel 8 dramas
• Live streaming of MediaCorp’s popular radio stations
• Lifestyle features and fashion tips from MediaCorp’s 8Days, i-Weekly, Style: and Style: Men magazines
• Celebrity gossip, forum and blogs of MediaCorp artistes
• Integration and convenient access to Microsoft’s Windows Live services such as Messenger and Hotmail.

MediaCorp’s current suite of TV, radio and entertainment websites, and MSN Singapore together attract close to 3 million visitors monthly. In addition, MSN Singapore also boasts Singapore’s most popular online communications network, which includes 1.4 million Messenger users in Singapore. Both parties expect traffic to xinmsn to grow many times over current levels.

For stars who are already actively embracing new media and will eventually be linked to xinmsn, congratulations! Your audience’s base will increase by many times! For those stars who have yet to engage in the new media to reach out to their fans, I am sorry to say you may be considered a LKK star… (fading off from memories of the audience could come faster than before).

No other online portals in Singapore can come close to the scale of this ‘monster’, so I hope all stars will get into the action and make yourself ’seen’ and ‘heard’ in xinmsn!

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Complaining about his 咬字 and 发音? Stop lah. Since Nat Ho first started acting in Chinese drama, I hear of viewers making unpleasant comments about his diction and his Mandarin. Give this boy a break K…

He is trying hard to improve and I just found out from him what could have caused the way he is enunciating his words today…

It all started in the early years when he was doing his NS. To save money (not every star is born rich and cushy), he got his teeth fixed with braces by a not so experienced but affordable dental surgeon. It was not a job well done and his teeth were pulled back a little too much… This resulted in his tongue being ‘blocked’ by his teeth and affected his speech ever since…

He is fixed with his braces again but this time he is trying to reverse the harm that was done. He is well aware of his speech issue and working hard to improve.

I am sure Nat will emerge alot stronger and better soon. For those who are supporting Nat, you can catch him every night at 9pm on Channel 8’s current drama ‘Priceless Wonder 游戏人生 ‘ with Zzen, Tiffany, Xiang Yun, Alan Tern and Pris,etc.

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She was only 12 years old then when she fell into a coma. A freak car accident killed her entire family on her 12^th years old birthday…

She woke up some 13 years later. She is now a 25 years old young lady. Yet, she is forced to face reality like a 12 years old kid ’trapped’ in the body of this grown up woman with no families and friends to turn to…

The only fragment of memory she had was that last phone call she overheard her father telling someone to get off his family. It is a race against time to outwit the evil. To do so, she will have to ‘grow’ up fast enough to challenge a world so filled with uncertainties and a dark force so evil even her existence could be in grave danger…谁说“天网恢恢，疏而不漏”，她就要破、天、网…

破天网 is the new contemporary 2010 year end drama (the musical drama slated for year end is now delayed to year end 2011 as it requires a lot of more preparation time). Written by the same man behind ‘出路 Stepping Out’, ‘小娘惹 The Little Nyonya’, ‘黄金路 The Golden Path’, ‘当我们同在一起 Together’ aka 洪荣狄, the full script is being developed now and casting will begin thereafter…

Her 2 ‘guardian angels’ (2 male lead roles) include a young autistic chap (self proclaimed to be 280 years old) who is brilliant in solving puzzles and mysteries and a rouge ex-lawyer (38 years old)…

The drama will require an actress in her 20s who still has that ‘child innocence’ in her to play the pivotal role. The autistic role must be played by a very good actor as it is an odd ball and not an easy role to play well…

Do you have any artistes in mind to play these 3 roles?

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