In the 1990s, Hong Kong films and television dramas were at the peak of their development, when they could represent the highest level of film and television in the entire Chinese-speaking world. After experiencing prosperity, it will surely usher in decline, and today's green and yellow will not let Hong Kong movies and dramas decline day by day, and will no longer be brave.
While we lament the current situation of Hong Kong film and television and remember the classics of the past, this year there is still an exciting good news, and Asian television has been rebroadcast.
As the first television station in Hong Kong and the world's first Chinese television station, ATV's establishment marks that the Chinese have broken through the monopoly of film and television in Europe and the United States, and have a television station that can freely broadcast Chinese programs and spread Chinese culture.
ATV opened on May 29, 1957, as a network television company under the Hong Kong Hip Fung Group, originally named "Li's Yingsheng", later changed to "Li's TV", for the early karaoke videos with impressions of friends recall, you will find the "Li's" station logo in the upper right corner of the screen, in fact, this is the predecessor of ATV.
On September 24, 1982, "Li's TV" was officially renamed "Asia Television", and the legend of ATV also began. At its peak, ATV was completely rival to Hong Kong Wireless.
Although the graduates of ATV's self-run Asian Television Artist Training Course rarely appear as international-level superstars, they are often evergreens in the film and television circle with solid basic skills and excellent appearance. For example, Wang Mingquan of the first training class, He Jiajin, who is well known by Zhan Zhao and Ma Yongzhen, Huang Qiusheng, who has won many film emperors, and Zhang Min, who has a fatal charm, are all excellent students of this training class.
Atuta used to explore the rookie actress "Miss Asia" selection is also different from the wireless "Miss Hong Kong" selection, at least from the author's aesthetic point of view, "Ya Sister" for appearance selection criteria seem to be higher than "Hong Kong Sister", and pay more attention to the noble and elegant temperament and bumpy figure.
Qiu Yueqing
To give a few examples, you can understand that Li Yanshan is the champion of the first "Asian Sister" selection, and her beautiful appearance of her swimsuit of that year made the audience excited and very feminine.
Li Yanshan
And she seems to be more attractive as she gets older, and she starred in the latest season of forensic pioneers last year, not looking old at all.
Not to mention the second chief Li Zhi, who debuted on the mature and sexy route, had a very high starting point, and also attracted the "Kung Fu Emperor" Jet Li to abandon his wife and kiss Fangze.
Lee Chi
The fifth champion and runner-up Weng Hong and Wan Qiwen are the most difficult for the audience to choose, one is sexy and gorgeous, one is delicate and cute, but the final voting results also show the judges' preferences.
Weng Hong
Fortunately, both of them eventually became the pillars of ATV, and their development was comparable.
Wan Qiwen
Ya Jie's peak appearance is from Yang Gongru and Chen Wei, and Yang's own princess temperament makes her basically stereotyped as a vase role of a rich family.
Yang Gongru
Chen Wei's heroic and capable image is much wider, and he is still active in major Hong Kong dramas.
Chen Wei
Other excavated actresses such as Ye Yuqing, Wu Qili, Wu Yongwei, Qiu Yueqing, etc., look at the old photos of that year, you know that what the author said is not false.
Wu Yongwei
Digging stars is naturally not the ultimate goal, TV stations want to make money or have blockbuster works, and many of the film and television dramas produced by ATV that year can be called high-quality.
"Silkworm Change", starring Xu Shaoqiang, who was praised by Ya Vision at that time, can be said to be an unshakable classic in martial arts dramas, and it is also one of the martial arts dramas with the most replays.
As the first Hong Kong TV series introduced by the Chinese mainland, "The Great Hero Huo Yuanjia" has become a classic memory in the minds of countless people, and its broadcast has caused a boom in mainland martial arts culture, and has also made more and more people like Cantonese and learn Cantonese.
Huang Yuanshen
Ya regarded as the filming of this TV series can be described as elite, when the popular Xiaosheng Huang Yuanshen and Michelle played the male and female protagonists, but also used three experienced directors, and the final production effect was really good, once caused a hit on CCTV and various local stations.
Michelle
ATV's fashion fantasy drama "I have a date with a zombie" was also the most popular and trendy TV series at that time, not only a rare three consecutive shooting, but also the elements of long body immortality and time and space travel were very avant-garde, and now the so-called crossing drama is all played by people, this drama also won the popularity of "Guan Tianyou" Yin Tianzhao and "Ma Xiaoling" Wan Qiwen, making them the hottest idol stars at that time.
It is reported that ATV will remake "I Have a Date with Zombies" and try to recreate the classic charm with the most advanced film and television production technology. In terms of plot arrangement, the new "I Have a Date with Zombies" is set for three seasons, and ATV will merge the original three content into two seasons, and use a new script to produce a third season.
Wan Qiwen's devil figure
In the production of this new drama, ATV chose to cooperate with Huanrui Century, who has produced many film and television dramas such as "Ancient Sword Qitan", "Glory of datang", "Notes from the Tomb Robber", etc., while the director used Gao Linbao, a Hong Kong director who has directed works such as "Heartless Mage" and "Flowers and Bones", as the actors are still in the selection stage, and there is not much news to release.
ATV this rebroadcast can be said to be ambitious, sweeping away the previous downturn in performance, in the period from 2012 to 2014, ATV due to the dispute between shareholders' interests made the company unstable, a number of fist programs and news columns were suspended, advertisers have withdrawn, at this time ATV is weak to even the salaries of ATV employees can not be opened, the salary arrears are as high as 15 million Hong Kong dollars.
In order to solve the urgent problem of wage arrears and operating expenses, ATV has sold the copyright of self-produced dramas many times, and sold several blockbuster dramas such as "Interpol", which welcomed the return of 97, "Jingwumen" and "Hong Xiguan" starring Zhen Zidan, to survive the difficulties.
Nowadays, the Asian Television, known as "Hong Kong Radio" by Hong Kong citizens, has been reloaded, absorbing the funds of the mainland CICC Group, not only restoring the business of the past, but also increasing the global satellite TV and Netflix, Amazon's OTT multimedia plate business, ATV in the near future may become the premier TV media in Hong Kong and even East Asia, the Chinese first TELEVISION station will eventually rebuild its glory, keep up with the footsteps of the rise of the motherland to embark on a new journey.