TVB’s Anniversary Awards were often regarded as the year-end report card for the company’s leading artists. The fight for TV King and TV Queen often grabbed the entire city’s attention. Unfortunately, the first half of 2011 did not yield any wildly popular series. Currently, Michael Tse’s (謝天華) Lives of Omission "潛行狙擊" was considered to be the front-runner. To make the battle for TV King more intense, TVB will be airing Men With No Shadows "不速之約" and Forensic Heroes 3 "法證先鋒III" in September and October respectively, adding Wayne Lai (黎耀祥)and Raymond Lam (林峯) to the Best Actor race! Over the past eight months, no particular TVB series garnered extremely popular ratings or word-of-mouth. Earlier regarded as one of 2011’s heavy-hitters, Raymond Lam and Charmaine Sheh’s (佘詩曼) My Sister of Eternal Flower "花花世界花家姐" generated only mediocre ratings and response. Yes Sir, Sorry Sir "點解阿Sir係阿Sir" also failed to boost Moses Chan’s (陳豪) popularity higher. Branded as “ungrateful in love,” Moses’ character in Yes Sir, No Sir dragged down his image. The remaining series Ghetto Justice "怒火街頭" and The Other Truth "真相" resulted in the audience’s favorable response towards Kevin Cheng (鄭嘉穎), Raymond Wong (黃浩然), and Ruco Chan (陳展鵬). With the current broadcast of Lives of Omission in Hong Kong, Michael Tse was considered to be in the brightest spot. Allegedly, TVB did not want the TV King race to be one-sided. To increase the exciting atmosphere of the upcoming Anniversary Awards, TVB changed their strategy by adding Raymond Lam and Wayne Lai to the Best Actor battle. Due to the disappointing results of My Sister of Eternal Flower, this lowered Raymond Lam’s chances to win the TV King title. As a result, TVB decided to broadcast Men With No Shadows, which stars Raymond, Bobby Au Yeung (歐陽震華), and Tavia Yeung (楊怡) on September 12, 2011. In addition, two-time Best Actor, Wayne Lai’s Forensic Heroes 3 was currently in non-stop post-production work, hoping to catch the broadcast timeslot in October. This allows Wayne the opportunity to join the battle for TV King and enhance the competitive atmosphere. Forensic Heroes 3 Producer, Miu Siu Ching (梅小青), uploaded two promotional clips of the series on her blog, attracted lively discussion among netizens. Barring unforeseen circumstances, this year’s TV King race should be between Michael Tse, Raymond Lam, and Wayne Lai! Regarding plans to film a new “Laughing Gor” movie, Michael Tse said, “Whether the plans for this movie are definite or not, we have to wait for the official announcement.” Michael revealed that the new Laughing Gor movie should start shooting in late September 2011. New roles and actors will be added to the movie, which may be a departure from Lives of Omission. Regarding outside speculations that TVB was interested to crown Michael as the new TV King, he stated, “By the time the movie is done, it will be released at year-end. As you know, the TVB Anniversary Awards will also occur at year-end, which turns out to be a timing coincidence!” With Lives of Omission achieving average ratings of 29 points in its first week of broadcast and peaking at 33 points (approximately 2.09 million viewers), Michael admitted that the ratings were a good start. To his knowledge, in Lives of Omission’s first week of broadcast, the series’ website received 2.2 million hits. Michael hoped that the ratings would continue to improve. Asked whether this will increase his confidence in becoming TV King, Michael said, “It is only August now. There is still a period of time before the year-end Anniversary Awards. Of course, the more people supporting Lives of Omission, my confidence will become greater.” Asked whether he wanted to receive the TVB Best Actor Award, Michael replied, “Every parent wants their child to earn the top score, rather than the bottom score.” (Do you have confidence?)“I have confidence in everything I do.”
Laughing Gor as TVB King aint bad. Wayne already has 2... & making it 3 in a row would seem remarkable. Lam Fung.. i dont think he is there yet
i'm rooting for michael this year for sure. laughing is such an enjoyable character to watch. wayne and sheren are both going to win another one in rosy business 3. i agree with your assessment of raymond.
Look like some interesting TVB series are coming. So far this year, I think only The Other Truth is good.
Oh yea. Its funny how they kicked Law Ba & Keith outta this race. Noooo!!!! Well.. Ruco can win Best Improvement & Law Ba as my Fav. character -lol
yeh Raymond Lam is not on that level yet, hes far from best actor, and steven ma but yeh as much as i like Ruco's character in the other truth, itll be weird for TVB to give him an award for best actor this year... so my only choice is Wayne Lai
erm THE FUCK? ... im sorry but raymond lam is a shit actor ... his roles are always the same "im such a spoilt brat then randomly finds redemption due to love" ... he can really fuck off out of tvb and i hope his singing career goes down the drain ... im sorry but its people like raymond lam who is making tvb shitter then ever ... why he has the chance to get tvb king we'll never know ... also kevin and ruco should at least get an award for something ..... This year really has been shit apart from other truth and ghetto justice
Laughing and Wayne started acting in the 80's or 90's i think & Lam Fung started almost in 2000. That's a good 10-20 years head start of acting, and those years you can improve a lot. He isn't shit.. but improvement are needed for Lam Fung to be lk Tin Wa or Wayne. & Raymond doesn't get to pick his role, the director chooses it!
^ whats with all the protectiveness chin chin ahaha and actually ... it is the actors choice to whether or not decide on doing the role before doing it ... just goes to show he wont get out of the "heartthrob im so cool role" ... whether he is or isnt shit as an actor is geen yan geen chii yeer
Yea, the actor does get to say yes or no before doing the role.. but say for Professor King. We may or may not know if the scriptwriter wrote the role for Raymond or not. In fact, didn't it was said to be "inspired" by a Japanese drama? So the personality of the character may also be "inspired" by the drama and thus, the director find Raymond suitable for those role since he has the "rich boi" look. Compared to Sister Fa, yea he is still kinda the rich boy kinda thing but he does not have the "see mun" look in Sister Fa imo. && im jus stating a fact that Laughing and Wayne had way more experience in acting than Raymond, which is why their performance is better than Raymond. Kevin Cheng started in the late 90's i think, & his acting is better than Raymond imo.
i wanna say script writers do not write roles with actors in mind .... if that was the case then every drama would have exactly the same character (the way tvb is going now im not surprised if it is) but what im sayin is that raymond lam is always wanting to keep that image of lerng jai yow yow jing just because he wants the girl fans to carry on supporting him ... for me its people like that which pisses me off as tvb is not so big and it doesn't expand his acting skill nor personality .... ive been watching tvb all my life and everytime i see raymond lam within these 10 years + he has not improved at all ..... remeber him in cham chun gay .. the one with louis koo going back in time? .. EXACT SAME ROLE ! .. the higher class with money and a random event happens and he shows remorse and redemption .. REALLY? what im really saying is that lam fung needs to sort his shit .... you'd think after so many years he'd say no to the "im so rich and pretty and beautiful but that one thing can change my personality to make me seem tsun ching " ... Fuck off ! i mean look at kevin chuerng ... i remeber when all his roles was the bad boy who feel in love ,, now look at him ... so much diversity now .... Lam fung needs to sort his shit .. hes acting as that one person but everyone (apart from screaming fan girls) sees through him
^ EXACTLY !!! ...... but it was far far sai guy far gar jer ... the one with charmaine cheh being a .. not so capable adult
yeh, that series just screams "I'm retarded"...i question a lot of the plot in that series...Raymond Lam is far from TVB king...and as much as I like Charmaine, her role as fa ga jie, is an exact copy-cat of Roger's ah wong... and I agree, Raymond Lam's role are the same thing, if not variations of it...the ONLY role that I see him play out of his comfort zone is in A Step into the Past with Louis Koo where he plays Qin Shi Huang
Lam Fung is not being nominated from Fa Ga Jeh.. prolly from 3 Kingdoms or Men in Shadows (according to sources). But as i said, he shouldn't win this year. Laughing Gor is way better this year. Lam Fung has to wait another 2-3 years -lol
