The "Love Homecoming" series, which began broadcasting in 2012, can be regarded as a mythical record in the Hong Kong television industry. In recent years, although the Hong Kong TV market has been quite dull, only the high ratings of "Love Home" have stood firm. Why can an unremarkable next meal drama be filmed for more than a thousand episodes?
The first series of "Love Home" received Changhong, surpassed the main drama many times, and won the popularity of actors such as "God's Horse Zhuang" Li Nuoyi, and even broadcast for 3 years.
TVB executives began to convert the second series in episode 805, the story background and actors changed blood, originally from the Ma family and the lawyer's office as the core scene, will be changed to a fitness room and seafood shop to continue the new story, the main actors such as Liu Dan, Guo Shaoyun, Li Nuoyi, etc. will fade out, and the new actors include Zhang Jicong, Huang Cuiru and so on. However, the performance of the two was not ideal, and the two left the crew after only two months of filming under the sluggish ratings, and the second series finally ended after barely surviving to 191 episodes.
In 2016, "Love Home at Eight o'Clock" found old partners Li Yaoxiang and Mao Shunjun, but the response was also mediocre, ending after 200 episodes.
In 2017, TVB launched "Love Home Happy Express", which was once again well received. Originally, only 180 episodes were expected to be opened, but I did not expect to become more popular the more I shot, breaking the records of "True Feelings" and "Hong Kong 81" to "Hong Kong 86" series.
Many people attribute the biggest reason for the success of "Happy Express" to the success of the series to create many pairs of popular CP.
After more than 1400 episodes, this week's two pairs of popular CP "GongShui Love" and "Lotus Love" finally came to fruition. Two pairs of important characters got married, almost the whole play actors, many actors who left the crew have "return" cameos, so that the audience are satisfied with the receipt, but the marriage is not the end, "Love Home" and follow-up.
TVB in recent years launched a regular drama has not many surprises, often accused of script plagiarism, lack of novelty, unreasonable, many people as soon as they hear tvB will throw out a sentence: "I don't watch TVB for a long time!" 」
But even today, when everyone watches Netflix, the situation of half an hour every night is still the signature of TVB iron, TV fishing, the more you shoot, the more fragrant!
The editors of "Love Home" once said that Hong Kong-style situation dramas and foreign situation dramas are two different things. Foreign situation dramas are funny, but Hong Kong-style situation dramas have ethics and the content is different. The characters in the situation drama are like family and friends, and they are also seen every night, and it is easy to enter the house. You can see the audience's reaction to the development of the story, the advantage is that it is more flexible, using mobility to strengthen the plot arrangement.
In addition, the creative freedom of the situation drama is extremely high, and "Love Home" has always been closely related to the hot topics in Hong Kong. The hottest "Squid Game" in 2021, the screenwriters changed it to "Squid Game", so that solitaire employees participated in the game together, just listening to the name is enough to play, in addition, peace of mind on the car, Tianwang Sister-in-law training camp and so on have appeared in the series.
A situation drama that can be "slow cooked", through the half-hour story of each episode, the only core is home and love.
Of course, the success of the series is inseparable from the actors. Speaking of TVB's classic situation drama, we must mention one person, that is, Liu Dan. In Hong Kong, Liu Dan is not only Liu Kaiwei's father, he is also a legendary actor who has participated in all of TVB's longevity situation dramas.
Liu Dan's first situation drama officially starred in was "True Feelings", which was broadcast from 1995 to 1999 with a total of 1128 episodes, and liu Dan's role of Char Siu Ping was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Two years later, from 2001 to 2002, he played Ming Xianzong in "Everybody's Joy" (costume version), to 2003-05 "Everybody's Big Joy" (Fashion Version) as Wang Shang, and from 2008 to 2009, he played Wang Guisheng in "Beat Yourself", and gradually became a regular guest in situation dramas.
Including the sloppiness of "Love Homecoming Series 1" (2012-2015) and "Love Homecoming Series 2" (2015-2016), followed by "Love. Xiong Shugen in "Happy Homecoming Express", so calculated, he has performed a total of seven sets of situation dramas, from 1995 to the present, only 2000, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011 there is no situation drama, can be called the king of situation drama, more than half a century of acting seniority, called a Danye is not excessive.
Tomorrow's upcoming TVB annual event "Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony 2021", "Happy Express" is still shortlisted for many projects.
Among them, Zhou Jialuo was shortlisted for "Most Popular TV Male Role", Teng Liming and Jiang Liwen were both shortlisted for "Most Popular TV Female Role", Shan Liwen was shortlisted for "Best Supporting Actor", Jiang Liwen was shortlisted for "Best Supporting Actress", JW Wang Hao'er's episodic theme song "Love Irrigation" was shortlisted for "Most Popular TV Song", and Lin Shumin and Xu Jiajie were shortlisted for "Most Popular TV Partner". Wu Weihao, Jiang Liwen and Kwong Jieyao, who have performed in "Love Home", were all shortlisted for the "Leap Forward Male and Female Actor Awards" respectively, which is a big harvest.