By Han Wei Chou
The death of Singapore television icon Huang Wenyong on Saturday cast a pall over the Sunday’s “Star Awards 2013 Show 1″, which honours the best talents in Singapore Mandarin television.
Rui En and Elvin Ng won the Favourite Onscreen Couple (Drama) award to the cheers of their fans.
Newcomer Xu Bin picked up the Favourite Male Character award, his first award ever, with the Favourite Female Character award going to Rui En.
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By Han Wei Chou
The Star Awards 2013 Top 10 Most Popular Male / Female Artistes nominees were revealed at a media event on Friday.
Big names like Elvin Ng, Qi Yu Wu, Dai Yang Tian, Rui En, Jeanette Aw and Joanne Peh made the list again this year.
The nominees list remained largely the same as last year’s, though there were some surprises.
The Top 10 Most Popular Male/Female Artistes awards are completely decided by audience votes.
The results will be revealed during the “Star Awards 2013 (Show 2)”, which will be broadcast live over Channel 8 on April 28.
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The nominees list for this year’s Star Awards, an annual event that celebrates the best in local Chinese-language television productions, was released on Wednesday.
The Star Awards 2013 nominees list contained some interesting surprises.
Kym Ng (“It Takes Two” ) and Rebecca Lim (“Unriddle 2) have been nominated for Best Actress for the first time, and will be vying for the award with Joanne Peh (“Pillow Talk”), Rui En (“Unriddle 2”) as well as Cynthia Koh (“Show Hand”).
The winners will be revealed at the “Star Awards 2013 (Show 2)” which will air on April 28, on Channel 8.
“Star Awards 2013 (Show 1)” which honours production staff like scriptwriters and backstage crew will air on April 21 on Channel 8.
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By Han Wei Chou
She schemes against her peers, she is prone to having feelings of intense jealousy and has a number of other huge character flaws.
Zhao Fei Er, Singapore actress Jeanette Aw’s character in the upcoming drama “The Dream Makers”, is a real piece of work.
“The Dream Makers” boasts a star-studded cast, including Chen Hanwei, Zoe Tay and Rui En, all three of whom will be working with Aw for the first time in a drama serial.
Aw expressed that she is looking forward to working with them, but lamented the fact that she will have relatively few scenes with screen veterans Chen and Tay.
“It’s such a pity though, because it’s a huge cast, it’s impossible to have scenes with everybody,” said Aw.
The Dream Makers 志在四方 debuts 24 June 2013 9pm on Channel 8.
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By Han Wei Chou
Rui En plays a bubbly, talkative variety show director in ‘The Dream Makers’.
She is known for being a woman of few words.
But for the next few months, Singapore actress Rui En will transform herself into a bit of a chatterbox, to play the bubbly director Fang Tong Lin in the upcoming drama “The Dream Makers”, which is set in a fictional television station.
“I play a variety [show] director who … eventually becomes discovered, then becomes an artiste, becomes a host and becomes an actress.
“She is very chatty and talkative! As long as she is like in a normal mood – she doesn’t even need to be in a good mood – she is like talking all the time.”
“Basically, my character is the sort of girl that can be friends with anybody that she meets within five seconds. Not guarded at all. The exact opposite of who I am,” Rui En said with a laugh.
“She is really just like any other girl on the street. Just quirkier.”
The hard part, said the actress, is bringing out Fang’s ‘girl on the street’ quality, and making the talkative director “relatable”.
“It’s a lot harder than most people think.
“When you get the camera in front of you, you clam up, and you get conscious [of the camera],” said Rui En.
“My goal in this show is try to remove all of that, as much as I can, to be as natural as possible.”
Rui En shows off her ’employee pass’.
Speaking at the commencement ceremony for the drama, Rui En went on to reveal that she is looking forward to playing such a “colourful” character and has been preparing for her role by observing the crew in action.
She even went shopping for an assortment of accessories, from colourful bracelets to small stuffed toys, that would help make her look more convincing as the warm, affable Fang.
“The personal touches are important,” said Rui En happily, looking every bit like one of the drama’s production staff members, who were present at the ceremony.
Personal touches: Rui En and the accessories she bought especially for her role in “The Dream Makers”.
“The Dream Makers” also stars Zoe Tay, Chen Hanwei, Chen Liping, Qi Yuwu as well as Jeanette Aw, and marks the first time both Aw and Rui En are appearing together in a local drama.
The 30-parter, which commemorates MediaCorp’s 50th anniversary, will air in June.
Love triangle: Qi Yuwu (left), Rui En (right) and Jeannette Aw’s (right) characters become caught up in a love triangle in “The Dream Makers”, the first drama Aw and Rui En appear in together.
The Dream Makers 志在四方 debuts 24 June 2013 9pm on Channel 8.
Source: Channelnewsasia
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By Kimberly
MediaCorp artiste Rui En has won the Best Performance by Actress in a Leading Role at this year’s Asian Television Awards.
She clinched the prize for her portrayal of a tough-as-nails cop in Channel 8’s “Unriddle 2”.
Singapore artiste Michelle Chong, who’s well-known for her role in MediaCorp programme “The Noose”, took the Best Comedy Performance title.
During the ceremony, actors Mark Lee, Suhaimi Yusof, Devarajan Varadarajan, and Pan Ling Ling received high commendation for their performances in MediaCorp’s Channel 5 and Channel 8 programmes, while MediaCorp was highly commended as a terrestrial broadcaster.
The glitzy event, held at the Shangri-La hotel, saw more than 1,300 submissions.
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By Kimberly
Stars from Singapore and around the region shone on the red carpet at the Asian Television Awards on Thursday evening.
The glitzy event, held at the Shangri-La hotel, saw more than 1,300 submissions.
These were eventually whittled down to 248 nominees from 17 countries.
MediaCorp has 29 nominations.
MediaCorp actors Christopher Lee and Chew Chor Meng are nominated in the category of Best Actor in a Leading Role, while Ann Kok, Rui En, and Joanne Peh are up for the same award in the female category.
Source: Channelnewsasia
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By Francine Lim
It’s not time for the police officers of Tanglin Police Division to give up their badges just yet.
Channel 8 has once again joined forces with the Singapore Police Force for “C.L.I.F. 2”.
The sequel to the hit police drama series “C.L.I.F” will however be without Singaporean actor Tay Ping Hui who had a leading role alongside Guangzhou native Qi Yu Wu.
So other than the missing lead, what’s new for “C.L.I.F. 2”?
“The big difference is that “C.L.I.F. 2″ will explore the emotional relationships between the characters more,” said Singapore-based actor Qi Yu Wu.
“But of course there is still real police work to be done to solve cases like in C.L.I.F.”
The actor added that he was “looking forward” to working with the new cast, one of whom is actress-singer Rui En.
The bubbly actress who just wrapped up filming for “Poetic Justice” is head over heels with her latest role.
“I’m looking forward to the scenes where the police conduct their operations!” said Rui En who plays a police officer.
“There’s also going to be a scene where the star team comes and they’re going to catch someone, I’m so excited about that!” she gushed.
“How they conduct the whole operation, it’s not something that many people will get to see… (unless) you’re the one being caught… then I don’t think it’s very good.”
“But you know, it’s quite a treat for me!” grinned the actress.
The self-professed “little boy” will also show her girlish charms, with her character involved with two men Chen Yan Jun (Pierre Png) and Wei Lan Tian (Li Nanxing) in the police drama.
“I’m playing a psychiatrist.” said Png who seemed just a tad disappointed that he wasn’t playing a police officer role.
“My story revolves around Li Nanxing and Rui En, so again I play a third party,” he added with a laugh.
C.L.I.F 2 è¦å¾½å¤©èŒ 2 debuts 18 February 2013 9pm on Channel 8.
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By Han Wei Chou
Shot in Singapore and Macau, “Poetic Justice” traces the lives of two reporters with very different views on journalism, the principled Liu Yan Zhi (Rui En) and aggressive Feng Luo Ling (Lim), as well as the men who love them – the wealthy playboy Fang Zheng Ye (Dai) and his lawyer friend Tang Zhi Sheng (Tan).
It is the first drama to experiment with new production techniques designed to impart a more dramatic, film-like feel to the show.
Poetic Justice 微笑æ£ä¹‰ debuts 11 September 2012 9pm on Channel 8.
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