Television Broadcasts (TVB)

Profile | Meet Dayo Wong, stand-up comedy icon and Hong Kong box office king

3 Jan 2025 - 3:04PM

Profile | How ‘big sister’ Liza Wang has delighted Hong Kong for over 50 years

20 Dec 2024 - 7:19AM

Hong Kong culture

From movie villains to TV nice guys, Hong Kong’s original crossover stars

Hollywood actors like Harrison Ford have been hailed for making the move to small-screen roles, but in Hong Kong this is nothing new.

18 Dec 2024 - 7:15AMvideocam

Hong Kong actors Shek Kin (left) and Lau Hak-suen in Midnight Bells (1950). The two actors, often cast as villains, made the move to TV to play kinder characters. Photo: Hong Kong Film Archive

Profile | How Hacken Lee, once snubbed by fans, thrives as a Cantopop star

The singer has made his mark on Cantopop despite once being told by superstar Anita Mui that she wanted to ‘slap you upside the head’.

6 Dec 2024 - 7:15AMvideocam

Music

How beloved Cantopop classic The Bund took Hong Kong by storm

Featuring Frances Yip’s commanding voice, The Bund, theme tune to a TVB series of the same name, was also a hit among the Chinese diaspora.

17 Nov 2024 - 8:27AMvideocam

3 Hongkongers convicted for soaking policemen, journalists at Thai festival

Court remands taxi driver, clerk and steel fixer to await sentencing, saying their actions went beyond mere ‘horseplay’ at Songkran festivities.

17 Oct 2024 - 2:01PM

(From left) Tsang Wai-shing, Yuen Tsz-kin and Ip Ka-kin at Kowloon City Court in August. The trio have been convicted of assault after soaking policemen with water guns at the Songkran Festival in 2023. Photo: Brian Wong

Hong Kong entertainment

Miss Hong Kong Ellyn Ngai aims to promote women’s rights, redefine beauty

‘Michele Reis of City U’ says she wants to use status to give back to society, urges more support for women in coming policy address.

16 Sep 2024 - 11:28PM

Hong Kong entertainment

‘Michele Reis of CityU’: Ellyn Ngai, 23, crowned Miss Hong Kong 2024

Winner is former member of local dance group Morii Girls, which she joined in 2022 under name Stella Ngai.

16 Sep 2024 - 5:27PM

Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung and Stephen Chow were all in this 80s TV show

Many future stars appeared in TVB’s comedy series Angels and Devils, including Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Stephen Chow, but it was the former who stole the show with his screwball antics.

8 Sep 2024 - 10:22AM

Chow Yun-Fat (left) and Tony Leung Chiu-wai in Angels and Devils. Photo: TVB

Hong Kong property

Chinese uber-influencer ‘Crazy Xiaoyangge’ expands to Hong Kong

Three Sheep rents a 5,570 sq ft office for around US$23,000 a month as agents note an uptick in inquiries from mainland-based companies.

23 Aug 2024 - 10:17AM

Three Sheep Group, the firm founded by Zhang Qingyang, known as Crazy Xiaoyangge (in red and black jacket), held a ceremony for the opening of its Hong Kong branch on Thursday. Photo: Three Sheep Group

TV shows and streaming video

Hong Kong broadcaster TVB net losses drop 65% year on year to HK$143 million

Rebound in advertising revenue drives robust growth of broadcasting business in first half of year, with company’s operating costs also lowered.

21 Aug 2024 - 8:52PM

Art

Mocked online, TVB actor turned to painting. Now he has a solo show

Hong Kong actor and artist Karl Ting explores identity, love and societal pressure in his first solo show of paintings, “Who Are You?”, on display at an art gallery in the city’s Sheung Wan neighbourhood.

13 Aug 2024 - 7:17AM

TV gold? When TVB battled ATV to screen the 1988 Seoul Olympics

TVB obtained a High Court injunction to stop ATV’s monopoly on screening the 1988 Olympics in Hong Kong – but a multimillion-dollar deal allowed both to broadcast the games

8 Aug 2024 - 8:15AM

Deacon Chiu Te-ken, Chairman of Asia Television Ltd (ATV), displays an advertising package for the Seoul Olympic Games in 1987. Photo: SCMP

Trio’s Instagram clip hasn’t clouded view, Hong Kong reporter tells assault trial

Prosecution witness says three defendants hurt his eyes and ears by shooting jets of water at him with ‘relatively powerful’ toy guns.

5 Aug 2024 - 9:39PM

TVB cameraman Tam Wing-man (left) and reporter Ng Ka-hin testified in court on Monday. Photo: Brian Wong

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong reporter soaked in Songkran assault case ‘wouldn’t have told police’

Three men accused of assaulting three auxiliary police constables and two journalists by attacking them with water guns at Thai new year festival in 2023.

6 Aug 2024 - 3:35PM

Old Hong Kong

How Frances Yip helped put Cantopop on the map, seen in a new exhibition

Yip is in Hong Kong to give 2 concerts and to attend the exhibition ‘Soundtrack of Our Lives: Joseph Koo x James Wong x the Rise of Cantopop’ held at Tai Kwun, where she was once an auxiliary policewoman

29 Jul 2024 - 2:14PM

Art

Blossoms novelist Jin Yucheng on his writerly art and debut Hong Kong show

Chinese author and artist Jin Yucheng, whose novel was made into the TV series Blossoms Shanghai by Wong Kar-wai, holds his first art exhibition in Hong Kong featuring evocative portrayals of China.

22 Jul 2024 - 5:24PM

Writer and artist Jin Yucheng. Photo: Lu Yuanmin

Hong Kong TVB host Koba dies at 29 after 6-month battle with rare cancer

Fans pay tribute to Clark Chan, known by stage name Koba, after death announced on his Instagram account.

14 Jul 2024 - 6:17PM

‘I will wait and marry her after’: ex-TVB star’s fiancée jailed for 25 months

Wang Qingxia convicted of five charges related to overstaying in Hong Kong and forging university certificates to obtain entry permit.

19 Jun 2024 - 11:43PM

Hong Kong’s TVB gets nod to sell stake to finance firm in push for drama funds

Communications Authority says it has approved an application by TVB to allot 8.7 million new shares to GF Global Capital.

31 May 2024 - 12:53AM

Broadcaster TVB has racked up losses for six straight years. Photo: Yik Yeung-man

Hong Kong culture

Inside look at inspiration for Doraemon’s limitless world ahead of Hong Kong show

Jitsuko Katsumata, daughter of late Japanese manga master Fujiko F. Fujio, says father cherished ‘daily life’ inspiration in creating beloved characters.

26 May 2024 - 12:00PMvideocam

Children pose for a photo with Doraemon in Sai Ying Pun. Photo: Yik Yeung-man

Profile | She was Hong Kong’s ‘happy fruit’: the life of ‘Fei Fei’, comedian Lydia Sum

With Lydia Sum ‘everything came from the heart’, said the TV producer who turbocharged the career of the comedian and actress. Known as Fei Fei, she is remembered for the joy she brought audiences.

16 May 2024 - 12:17PM

Answers sought on approval of channel deal by Hong Kong’s TVB, satellite TV firm

TVB has leased a channel to a satellite television firm, allowing it to broadcast content without the need to go through the complicated process of applying for a free-to-air licence.

29 Apr 2024 - 8:10AM

Crime in Hong Kong

Cantopop singer Hubert Wu fined for bringing banned e-cigarettes into Hong Kong

Singer pleads guilty after 129 heated tobacco products and vaping devices discovered in luggage and coat.

26 Apr 2024 - 12:22AM

Hubert Wu said he had been helping a friend purchase the products in Guangzhou and claimed to have little knowledge of Hong Kong’s import regulations. Photo: Instagram@hubertwu

Hong Kong culture

Letters | Dub TVB’s wuxia classics into English for the world

Readers discuss the value of making English versions of television series based on novels by Jin Yong, the potential for collaboration between Western and Chinese medicine, and China’s tech advancement.

14 Apr 2024 - 11:28AM

A picture of Barbara Yung, Lau Dan and Felix Wong, in character as Huang Rong, Hong Qigong and Guo Jing in TVB’s The Legend of the Condor Heroes, is shown at the Jin Yong Gallery at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum in Sha Tin in 2018. Photo: Nora Tam

Hong Kong

Editorial | Hong Kong strikes gold with TV deal for Olympics

By stepping in to buy broadcast rights, the government has ensured a Paris summer spectacular for sports fans.

10 Apr 2024 - 6:15AM