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These 17 new dramas herald this year's new track and new tricks

February 24, 2023 | Total Issue 3157

This year may be a "crazy" year for the film and television industry. The market began the year with explosive dramas, the management department opened the gates, the backlog of dramas continued to be released, and the starting gun of recovery has been fired. And the projects that are being prepared and started up also began to press the accelerator button.

These 17 new dramas herald this year's new track and new tricks

In the past three years of the epidemic, the market wind direction and the public mentality have undergone a lot of changes. How to capture the new needs of the audience in the changing is a new test for the producer.

Policewomen: The Entry Point for Female Orientation and Typification

After "Ideal City", "script control" Sun Li low-key took over an 18-episode suspense drama "Above the Clouds", this drama is directed by Hua Qi, will be filmed in documentary style, and will start soon.

"Above the Clouds" tells the story of the female policeman Han Qing because her lover partner Zhong Wei disappeared, and the investigation was fruitless, so she secretly continued to squat against the suspected target Chen Bin. At the same time, Lin Jiajia, a post-90s trainee police officer, was forced to be Han Qing's partner, he knows how to be polite and measured, and from time to time brings unexpected progress to the case. In the process of handling cases, criminals can always be one step ahead, and they find that there are "inner ghosts" ...

Whether it is the combination of middle-aged female policeman + young male policeman, or the setting of the documentary style, it is easy to think of the American drama "East City Nightmare" in the previous two years. In 2021, Sun Li also said in an interview that she was chasing this drama, and Kate Winslech's unadorned state is the charm she pursues.

These 17 new dramas herald this year's new track and new tricks

The suspenseful short drama involving the case with the middle-aged policewoman as the protagonist is not much in the market. Two years ago, "Fog Tracking" starring Jiang Qinqin was broadcast with a volume of 24 episodes, and the Misty Theater backup drama "Echo" starring Song Jia has also been completed for a year. Now, this kind of drama has ushered in Sun Li's entry.

Interestingly, 20 years ago, Sun Li also created the role of a policewoman in the Haiyan drama "Jade Guanyin" - peace of mind, but at that time it was popular in the market to see the world with pure love, and the occupation was only a profile. Now, how compatible the professional aura of female police officers and feminine traits are, the audience is looking forward to it.

These 17 new dramas herald this year's new track and new tricks

Another TV series "Sword Rose" with a policewoman as the protagonist is also in preparation, it is more traditional drama involved in the case, directed by Su Wancong, the heroine's setting is a police flower who is bent on entering the anti-drug detachment and finding the truth about the death of the boyfriend of the anti-drug police, because of the brilliant shine in the accidental operation to rescue the baby hostage, and is transferred to solve the child abduction and trafficking case, and the abduction and trafficking of foreign girls for forced prostitution.

Women's emotions and diverse painting styles

After "My First Half of Life" and "Golden Years", Sunli Media will continue to develop Yishu's IP, but this time the main creator has a new lineup.

The previous two were the cooperation of "screenwriter Qin Wen + director Shen Yan", and now the TV series "Rose Story" adapted from Yishu's novel "The Story of the Rose" is written by Li Xiao and directed by Wang Jun, and the heroine of the "Mary Sue Halo" will be played by Liu Yifei.

These 17 new dramas herald this year's new track and new tricks

Born in a family of scholars, Huang Yimei has shown her artistic talent since childhood. At the beginning of her career, she met and fell in love with her partner Zhuang Guodong, but eventually missed each other. After returning to school, she and her senior Fang Xiewen entered the marriage hall, but eventually chose to divorce. After starting her business, she met her soulmate Pu Jiaming, but Pu Jiaming only had a few months to live. After a thousand sails, Huang Yimei did not become depressed, and still tried to live a wonderful life.

Judging from the filing information, the TV series has adapted the age, emotional experience and occupation of the heroine when she appears, but the main characters are basically there, and the intention is also in line with the sentence on the poster "People love some people, and those who marry and have children with them are other people."

The TV series "My Country Has a Lover", adapted from the novel by Douban reading author Shemusi, will be launched in Fujian, directed by Cheng Liang, whose previous works include the drama "Shanghai Women's Guide", and screenwriter Chui Yiwei once wrote "My Babylon Lover".

These 17 new dramas herald this year's new track and new tricks

It can also be seen from the title of the play that this is a homecoming healing drama, Zhuang Jie is a career-oriented heroine with disabilities, and Chen Maidong is a body plastic surgeon, starring tentatively Zhou Yutong and Li Xian. I have to say that Li Xian has just finished broadcasting "Go to a Windy Place", and Zhou Yutong has the drama "I'm Very Good in Another Country", and this CP combination is quite safe.

The remake "My Uncle" is directed by Han Tian, funeral healing and literary charm are the two main themes of this drama, and the male protagonist tentatively sets Zhao Youting.

Healing has become one of the functions of TV series. The 6-episode short drama "My Altay", adapted from Li Juan's prose, has been filed in January, and the style of northern Xinjiang is bright and simple, and the tone of the drama may be closer to the British drama "Animistic", the key is how the main creator will grasp the boundary between the series and the documentary.

These 17 new dramas herald this year's new track and new tricks

If there is a film and television geography guide in recent years, we can clearly see that suspense dramas prefer Chongqing, Northeast China, Guangdong and other places. And Yunnan, Xinjiang, and coastal cities are always associated with travel and healing, "Go to a Windy Place" is Yunnan, "Sanyue Has a New Job" is Zhuhai, the filming location of the variety show "Goodbye Lover 1" is Xinjiang, and "My Altay" is also Xinjiang.

"Her Way of Survival" and "Leaving the Song" are two dramas that are emotional suspense, the former is written by Li Xiao and Teng Yang, directed by Li Mengqiao, she once directed the movie "Just a Chance Trip". "Leaving Song" is adapted from Rao Xueman's pain youth novel of the same name, directed by Wen Ye, starring Li Tingting and Zhou Chengao, telling the story of a pair of childhood sweethearts who suffered great changes in their families and became the "daughter of the victim" and the "son of the suspect", the two overcame their opposing identities and jointly pursued the truth.

These 17 new dramas herald this year's new track and new tricks

The filmization of pain youth novels, from the category of pure romance to the combination with social topics and suspense genres such as anti-bullying, can also be regarded as advancing with the times.

"To myself in 1999" and "Our Neighbor" are both neighborhood stories from a female perspective, the former directed by Li Zhi, and the plot is more like the nostalgic love of "Please Answer 1988"; The latter is written by Wang Liping, which tells the story of the female protagonist Gu Chang who experienced the contradictions of neighbors in different eras in Building No. 7 of Haihe East Village, experienced the true love of the world, and eventually became an excellent community cadre. The combination of urban and rural regional fireworks and trivial matters has the flavor of "Police Honor".

Few but fine entrepreneurial dramas and costume dramas

Through this wave of opening dramas, we will find that the home of women's stories is in modern times, in the ongoing tense; And men engage in careers mostly looking back at the "past tense".

The Noon Sun's series "Big Rivers 3" will start in Ningbo in early March, directed by Li Xue, and the starring cast remains unchanged.

Based on Teng Xiaolan's novel of the same name, Teng Huatao's financial drama "City within the City" will start at the end of March, starring Yu Hewei and Wang Xiao, the drama is based on two generations of Lujiazui financiers, telling the story of how finance promotes the development of the real economy, as well as safety supervision and crisis response.

These 17 new dramas herald this year's new track and new tricks

The upcoming new drama "Flying Elephant" starring Gong Jun and Ren Min focuses on car entrepreneurship, telling the story of the truck factory on the verge of bankruptcy, Duan Mingjie and Jiang Fang responded to the call of the country, from truck production to car production process to overcome difficulties, and finally create the "flying elephant" brand car.

The spy war drama "City Without Me" is expected to start in March, written by Wang Xiaogun and directed by Zhang Li, telling the story of our party's intelligence worker Song Zhuowen lurking in the puppet Harbin Special Service Section at the turn of spring and summer 1945.

It is worth mentioning that the costume highway detective drama "Tang Dynasty Mystery Record Westbound" will also start in March, just 5 months after the first part of the play was launched. The story of the first season goes from Chang'an to Nanzhou, Orange County, Ninghu and Luoyang, and the second season goes west, which should no longer be a rainy and humid detective atmosphere.

These 17 new dramas herald this year's new track and new tricks

After "Zheng Son-in-law" and "Qing Qing Daily", "Da Bong Fights More People" will be a new work launched by Xinli's carnival team, the series is adapted from the novel of the same name by Xiaolangjun, directed by Deng Ke, producer Liu Wenyang once revealed in the podcast "Yau Tsim Wang Midnight Show": "This drama is different from "Zhao Son-in-law" and "Qing Qing Daily", and will show a side more like our team."

In addition, "Long Street Chief", adapted from Jinjiang's novel "Shoufu Cultivation Manual", is also in preparation, and will be directed by Li Huizhu.

【Text/Flying Fish】

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