Not expecting to score a best actress nomination is Zhou Ying, who is not completely satisfied with her performance in “Breakout”.

“If given another chance, I would do better,” said the 26-year-old Shanghainese, adding that she is “just honoured to be nominated alongside shi jies” (seniors in Chinese) like Joanne Peh (“Your Hand In Mine”), Chen Li Ping (“Unriddle”), Jeanette Aw (“Breakout”) and Rui En (“With You”), also a first-time nominee in this category.

Besides “Breakout”, other frontrunners include “The Family Court” with eight nominations and “Unriddle” with seven, while heartwarming variety show “Love On A Plate” takes the lead among variety productions with five nods, including best variety programme and best variety show host.

Source: Channelnewsasia.com

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Rui En has good reason to smile this year – three of the shows she acted in “With You”, “Unriddle” and “Happy Family” placed among the Top 5 most popular drama serials of 2010.

By Han Wei Chou

SINGAPORE: Singapore broadcaster MediaCorp released a list of the Top 10 most highly-rated dramas for the year along with the ratings for television programmes which aired on its channels in 2010 on Thursday.

Channel 8 drama “With You”, a family drama with a supernatural twist, took home the top honour of being the most-watched Mandarin drama serial in Singapore last year, with an average of 969,000 viewers tuning in for each episode.

“New Beginnings” trailed close behind, attracting 937,000 viewers per episode with its heartwarming storyline of love and loss while third-placed Taiwan marathon drama “Love” drew 897,000 viewers.

Despite being the designated blockbuster drama of the year for Channel 8, “Breakout” only managed to take the ninth spot, attracting an average of 866,000 viewers each episode and nudging “Mrs P.I.” – which garnered 830,000 viewers per episode – to tenth place.

“Breakout” may not have placed well in terms of television ratings, but the recently aired series, which featured a cast of A-listers like Jeanette Aw, Christopher Lee and Dai Yang Tian, was the most popular show on MediaCorp video portal site xinmsn.com’s Catch-up TV service in December last year.

It was also the third most popular show in 2010 – behind action drama “Unriddle” (number 5 in television ratings) and “With You” – on the service, which allows xinmsn.com visitors to watch previously broadcasted local (and some selected foreign) television programmes online for free.

However, despite diversifying their subject material, none of the locally produced drama-serials managed to average more than one million viewers per episode.

Viewership for last year’s local dramas generally hovered around 800,000 and 900,000 compared to 2009’s crop of family dramas, which saw three productions breaking the one million-viewer barrier.

The full list of the Top 10 most popular dramas is presented below:

Top 10 most popular drama serials in Singapore

1 With You 969,000
2 New Beginnings 937,000
3 Love 897,000
4 Happy Family 896,000
5 Unriddle 891,000
6 Precious Babes 889,000
7 Priceless Wonder 875,000
8 The Best Things In Life 874,000
9 Breakout* 866,000
10 Mrs P.I. 830,000

*Calculated based on all episodes of the drama, which ended on January 7.

Source: Channelnewsasia.com

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By Alvina Soh

SINGAPORE : MediaCorp’s entertainment-and-lifestyle magazine 8 Days is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a photo exhibition and auction.

The event is being held at Nex, the mall in Serangoon Central.

If you have always wanted some of those fancy photos from 8 Days to grace your walls, now is your chance.

More than 200 of the shots from over 20 years of the publication’s history are now up for auction.

Proceeds will go to the Rainbow Centre Yishun Park School, MediaCorp’s adopted charity.

The exhibition cum auction is on till December 31.

Source: channelnewsasia.com

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SINGAPORE: MediaCorp has bagged nine awards including two gold at the prestigious PromaxBDA Asia 2010 Awards.

The competition recognises the best creative marketing campaigns in the Asian entertainment industry.

Channel 8 was the station’s biggest winner, with two gold and three silver awards.

Cop series “Unriddle” took silver in the Best Drama Campaign category.

Danny Loh, MediaCorp TV Singapore’s creative director (Channel 8), said: “Normally for MediaCorp…statistics (show) we do better at Promax World. So for this round, I think we are quite surprised…..to garner five awards just for Channel 8 alone in this Asian competition. I think we’re all overwhelmed.”

Source: Channelnewsasia.com, BaguaTV

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By Han Wei Chou | Posted: 28 July 2010 1758 hrs

Rui-En stars as a no-nonsense police detective in the drama serial “Unriddle”.

SINGAPORE: Upcoming Mandarin cop drama “Unriddle” is quite possibly the most action-packed production in the past year and a half, with a ton of fight scenes and gunplay woven into a storyline filled with dirty cops, deranged killers and violent betrayals.

While the show has a very serious theme, behind the scenes, Rui En, who plays a no-nonsense police detective, was laughing her way through most of the shoot because of co-star veteran actress Chen Liping’s infectious laughter.

Rui-En breaks into laughter after listening to co-star Chen Liping’s comments at the “Unriddle” press event.

Rui-En cracks up as Chen Liping brings on the laughs.

“We can be working on very serious lines and she would start laughing. Once you hear her laugh, you will start laughing!

“I almost got internal injuries trying to keep from laughing!” said Rui En at the recent “Unriddle” press event, giggling as Chen looked on in amusement.

Rui En went on to reveal that she had forged a very strong bond with Chen, who plays an informant in the show, although this was the first time they collaborated on a production.

Indeed, the pair was spotted exchanging friendly banter during the press event and playfully nudged each other during a later photo shoot.

“Liping is the most generous artiste that I’ve had the chance to work with. She took care of me from day one.

“She has just been nothing but generous. I have been very blessed for such a very caring [co-star],” said the actress, citing how Chen had even asked her own personal assistant to help Rui En with various tasks.

“It just left a deep impression on me because normally, people who have assistants don’t do that. They pay the person to take care of them.

“I’ve never seen it before, you know, where people [ask their assistants] to help someone else,” said Rui En, looking thoroughly impressed by her co-star’s generosity.

Rui En the Stuntwoman

When the discussion turned to the unusually high number of action scenes in the show, Rui En’s eyes lit up.

The actress proudly declared that she did most of her own stunts in the show, though she would have done them all herself, if she hadn’t suffered a major ankle injury during a fight scene with television veteran Zheng Ge Ping, who plays a crime boss in the series.

She ended up shedding tears of frustration and had to take painkillers for some time during filming.

“I was frustrated that I had a lot more action scenes that I have to do in a compromised state. I hated that because I told myself I am not going to use stuntmen for any of my shots … but because of the injury … some shots [were done] with the stuntmen,” said Rui En, who sounded more than a little disappointed.

Doing your own stunts while nursing an injury? Isn’t that a little hardcore?

“No it isn’t. I believe in being committed hundred percent, even if it’s for just 30 seconds on screen, I have to give like everything I have, if not, I just feel like I am cheating the audience.

“It’s just maybe a month or two of pain but what you film is going to last forever … so to me, it’s worth it,” she replied.

With shooting finally over, Rui En said she is looking forward to take a nice, relaxing break from work, as she had recently run into some “inner ear problems”.

“The doctors said it’s probably because of stress and lack of sleep, so I am going to take it easy,” she said.

“I have become a girly girl … So embarrassing!” said Rui-En, still sporting the hair extensions she got for her role at the “Unriddle” press event.

The actress had been involved in back-to-back drama projects since she played a happy-go-lucky girl in “Happy Family” earlier this year.

“I need a rest,” Rui En said, her face a mixture of weariness and relief.

“Unriddle” airs from August 4, every weeknight at 9pm on Channel 8.

Source: Channelnewsasia

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By Han Wei Chou | Posted: 04 May 2010 1712 hrs

SINGAPORE: Actress Rui En was happy and smiling during a ceremony to mark the start of filming of upcoming Channel 8 drama “Unriddle”. The words ‘happy’ and ‘smiling’ are not often associated with the singer-actress, who is usually thought to be rather morose and sometimes described as a bit of an ‘ice queen’.

But she is indeed happy and appeared to be genuinely excited about her new role.

Having played a naive, happy-go-lucky girl in “Happy Family” and a mother in the upcoming “With You”, she will play a cool policewoman named Hu Xiao Man in “Unriddle”.

Her character is forced to work with an informant (screen veteran Chen Li Ping) who is her polar opposite in terms of upbringing and lifestyle, to solve various police cases.

“I think the chemistry will be very interesting, so [it’s] sort of like they completely don’t match [on paper] but somehow match,” gushed Rui En, who is working with Chen for the very first time.

This will also be the first time she is acting in three dramas consecutively. It may be exhausting but it did not dampen her enthusiasm one bit.

“I love this genre, I love the police, I love doing action and police shows. So I am very happy,” she said enthusiastically, before playing amateur psychiatrist.

“Maybe because I don’t have much of a childhood. This is sort of like playing cops and robbers, like it’s fulfilling my childhood [desires]… I think la.”

When I commented that most ladies would prefer playing house over playing cops and robbers when they were younger, Rui En was quick on the draw.

“I am not most ladies,” she chuckled.

Going Undercover

The other thing about “Unriddle” that puts a smile on her face is the chance to ‘go undercover’, as she will be wearing hair extensions again, like she did in “With You”.

“It’s very funny how its like people don’t recognise me [with the extensions], so when we go filming, even for the last show (“With You”), because I had clip on extensions, I can just go to the kopitiam (coffee shop) at the shopping centre and have my lunch.

“People don’t recognise [me], which I loooove. It’s like a disguise… They go, ‘Eh that girl looks a bit like, er but cannot be, the hair is not right’,” she said, laughing while her assistant attended to her flowing locks.

The only problem with the long hair is that it can become a sauna when the whether is hot, which is practically all the time in Singapore.

“It’s literally so hot, and it’s sweaty and everything. I have actually gotten quite used to it but… I am not sure if I will keep it because of the heat,” she said, as she swept back errant strands of hair for the third time in five minutes, before clarifying that she had not become girly or beauty conscious.

She simply had to tend to her hair extensions which were a lot of work.

“I am not that sort to sacrifice [comfort] for beauty”, said Rui En.

In fact, after experiencing how hard it was to manage hair extensions, the 29-year-old singer-actress said she had a newfound respect for girls who bend over backwards to make themselves beautiful.

“I completely admire the girls who actually do this, I mean they are not actresses or anything, but they do it (wear hair extensions) because they want to have long hair. There are a lot of things to take care [of],” she said, bowing her head slightly with hands clasped together, as though greeting an imaginary kung fu master.

“I like it, the way it looks, but now I understand like ‘paying the price for beauty’ you know,” she said, with a pained expression on her face.

“Unriddle” airs weekdays at 9pm from August 4.

Source: Channelnewsasia

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独家！传郑惠玉因三度怀孕 辞演新剧

卓燕翎报道

今早，记者打听到制作组已向电视台内部和广告商发布消息，《最火搭档》的女主角人选已从郑惠玉改由陈莉萍出演。

记者马上向该剧的监制袁树伟求证，他接受电访时证实了郑惠玉辞演的消息。

《最火搭档》的另一女主角是瑞恩，该剧即将为演员做造型，并预计下个月中开拍。

Source: Xin.sg

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Exclusive! Zoe Tay quits new drama, fueling pregnancy talk

The crime drama’s production team confirmed this morning that the Queen of Caldecott Hill dropped out from the lead role of an undercover cop two weeks ago. She will be replaced by another veteran, Chen Liping.

In the series, which also stars Rui En, she plays a well-connected hawker who’s in fact an undercover cop.

Filming for Lost & Found is scheduled to begin mid-April.

Source: MediaCorp Buzz, Channelnewsasia

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阿姐怀孕后 新戏将换角

新闻来源: 新明日报 | 记者: 叶伟强

由于《最火搭档》是警匪剧，但在阿姐怀孕后，女主角确定由陈莉萍接替演出。

新传媒日前对外宣布，阿姐郑惠玉继去年主演《双子星》后，将在下月开拍的新剧《最火搭档》和瑞恩一起演出。

《最》剧其他演员的造型已确定，但陈莉萍还被长剧《想握你的手》绑着，因此她的定装会较迟才进行。

另外，《最》的主要演员也已被通知阿姐郑惠玉将不会参演，但剧组并未解释原因。

Source: Shinmin, Omy

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18 March 2010 By Jamie Yap

There’re new additions and others have been snubbed. Check out whether your favourite stars made it to the top 40 most popular artistes for the upcoming Star Awards

It’s that time again when the local entertainment scene becomes a high school popularity contest.

The list of 40 nominees gunning for this year’s Star Awards’ Top 20 Most Popular Artistes has some new faces in (see IN) while some familiar names have been surprisingly dropped (see OUT) — or maybe not.

The nominees were chosen via a poll of around 1000 people (aged 7 and above).

Voting lines open today and will close at 9pm on 25 April. The final results will be announced on the second Star Awards night on 25 April at 7pm on Channel 8.

The Top 20 Most Popular Female Artistes
Joanne Peh
Belinda Lee (IN)
Felicia Chin
Ann Kok (IN)
Hong Hui Fang
Kym Ng
Yvonne Lim
Jesseca Liu
Rui En
Michelle Chong
Jeanette Aw
Quan Yi Feng
Pan Ling Ling
Lin Mei Jiao
Priscelia Chan (IN)
Pei Xuan (IN)
Vivian Lai
Xiang Yun
Michelle Chia
Jin Yin Ji

The Star Awards 2010 will be telecast live on two Sundays, Apr 18 for the professional categories, and Apr 25 for the programme and performance categories. Both shows will air at 7pm on Ch 8.

Source: MediaCorp Buzz, Channelnewsasia

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Tough cookie Rui En turns all sunshine and rainbows in upcoming Channel 8 series “Happy Family”. And she tells us that fragrance played a part in her transformation.

By Han Wei Chou | Posted: 19 January 2010 0932 hrs

Rui-En plays Yang Xiaodong in the Channel 8 drama ‘Happy Family’.

SINGAPORE : The Rui En that we see in upcoming Channel 8 serial “Happy Family” is very different from the Rui En we know.

In “Happy Family” which airs on January 19 on Channel 8, Rui En plays an orphan Yang Xiaodong who helps an old man that adopted her, Dong Jian Ye (Chen Shu Cheng) to reunite him with his children, who he had driven away due to various incidents in the past.

Rui En’s screen persona Xiaodong is outgoing, optimistic and smiles a lot in the first half of the drama though she does quite a bit of crying in the second half. Xiaodong seems to be made out of sunshine and rainbows when compared with the tough, cool women Rui En had played in the past.

The 28-year-old actress said it took quite a bit of effort to play her character, who she described as “simple” and “a little bit like a little girl sometimes”, a far cry from the pensive, poised and composed person she is in real life.

Rui En, an avid perfume collector, wore perfume from her collection that she did not usually wear and listened to upbeat, happy music to get into character.

That’s not all. She changed the way she behaved and even the way she cried to be as convincing as possible.

“I changed the way I walked, the way I talked. I tried to change the way I cried because I felt this character would cry very directly, instead of the way maybe more mature people tend to fight it and hold it back,” she said. “I used a lot of things that I hope will add up to create a very real character.”

However, Rui En said she has returned to her same old self. While playing the cheerful Xiaodong did not change who she was, Rui En confided that participating in this production about family ties did cause her to think about her own relationship with her family.

Her parents separated when she was just 17. She now lives with her father, stepmother and grandmother.

“I was very touched by the story,” she said “It made me re-evaluate whether or not it was worth getting irritated with my family… is it worth it getting irritated over something small,” she said.

‘The Running Girl’ crosses the finish line

It has been a decade since Rui En burst onto the screen as ‘The Running Girl’ in a SingTel television advertisement in 2001.

She went on to appear in numerous dramas and was named one of the top ten most popular female artistes at the annual Star Awards from 2005 to 2009. She also released two music albums and even wrote all the lyrics for her songs in the second one.

That is quite a feat for a girl who said she entered showbiz because she was incredibly insecure and took on roles that disgusted herself in the early part of her career.

“It seems a lifetime away, even though it is just ten years, I feel like a completely different person [now] and I think I can say I have reached a point where I am at peace and very happy with the way I have chosen to conduct my life,” she said, adding that she had taken all the bad press about her ‘lack of PR’ and other misconceptions about her in her stride.

“I am at peace even with the misconceptions people have of me,” she said. “It is part and parcel of the job. It’s something that you have to accept if you are in this line.”

Looking ahead, Rui En said she has no intention of developing her career overseas yet and pointed out two things that she resolves to do in 2010.

“One is to spend more time with my family. Next is to be more prudent in terms of finance. Don’t spend so much and be a little more disciplined about saving”, she said.

Was it because she has a little too many bottles of perfume in her collection?

“Ya, ya, exactly,” she said with a wry smile.

Catch Rui En in “Happy Family” on Channel 8 on weekdays from January 19 at 9pm.

 
Source: channelnewsasia.com

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