The hit drama ended its run with a heartbreaking finale and makes way for Poetic Justice.

The finale of Channel 8’s 9pm drama Don’t Stop Believin’ made history by crossing the million-viewer mark with an average viewership of 1,047,800. This surpasses Joys of Life’s finale viewership of 993,000, showcasing the ever-increasing popularity of local TV.

Taking over the timeslot is modern day drama Poetic Justice, starring Rui En, Dai Yang Tian, Rebecca Lim and Desmond Tan. The four are involved in investigative journalism, which ends up putting them in the midst of dark truths and uncovered secrets.

The series debuted strongly last night with an average reach of 882,800 for its pilot episode. It surpassed the 852,000 viewership Don’t Stop Believin’ garnered for its first episode, narrowly losing out to the debuts of Joys of Life and Unriddle 2. With Don’t Stop Believin’ currently holding the crown for highest rated drama for the year, audiences are anticipating if Poetic Justice will be able to do as well as – or even better than – its predecessor.

Poetic Justice 微笑正义 is now airing on Channel 8, Weekdays at 9pm.

Source: Xinmsn

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Poetic Justice

Channel 8, 9pm

A show producer’s love life is jeopardised when her missing boyfriend haunts her new relationship with her colleague. Starring Rui En, Dai Yangtian.

Poetic Justice 微笑正义 is now airing on Channel 8, Weekdays at 9pm.

Source: The New Paper

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TV Guide

小迷看电视

一向与媒体“关系紧绷”的瑞恩，于新剧《微笑正义》饰演记者，瑞恩日前在记者会透露自己曾为负面报道觉得困扰委屈，但她如今只用3分钟阅读报道，5秒后就忘记它，看样子，在新剧饰演记者的瑞恩，已能轻松笑看媒体品评了……

微笑正义（首播）

8频道 晚上9.00

新闻记者言之（瑞恩饰）从不做让自己后悔的报道，她与女主播洛凌（林慧玲饰）、律师智胜（陈浻江饰）及黄金单身汉（戴阳天饰），四人间发展出错综复杂的感情关系。

Poetic Justice 微笑正义 is now airing on Channel 8, Weekdays at 9pm.

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1. Advertorial Page 75

Poetic Justice Poster

2. TV Pages 76-77

爱上女主播

以新闻工作为题材的剧集，本地今年罕见。

金牌监制袁树伟正式退下火线成为戏剧掌舵人之一的告别作，瑞恩与戴阳天首次搭档演出…对《微笑正义》确实有期待。

文：黄敏玮

故事30秒：言之（瑞恩饰）在《真电视》负责主持时尚生活节目，只想低调平凡地过日子。《放大新闻眼》主播洛凌（林慧玲饰），集美丽与智慧于一身的她为博收视与点击率绝不手软。大律师智胜（陈浻江饰）与富家子正业（戴阳天饰）分别对两女一见倾心，为接近她们，前者称为《放大新闻眼》法律顾问，后者潜入电视台当记者……

幕后事大公开！

瑞恩出马，剧本随身带努力背台词是必然。首次演主播，华丽排场其实不多，倒是街头烈日暴晒辛苦戏不少。采访坐着轮椅的小女孩，当然是…让她趁机坐箱子好好歇息一番。

成功女人背后，有个……无聊男人。陈迥江开拍前还在担心该怎么和冰山公主瑞恩相处，开拍后竟很不怕死地在她身后流露搞怪本色。

记者会上…

演员们嘻嘻哈哈卖力宣传分享拍摄趣闻。

谁被shoot谁最敢死，一一揭晓。

剧中人名，原来是有意思的？瑞恩饰演的“言之”，被指代表“言之有物”，戏里公正报道事实，确实如此。

3. TV Synopses Pages 89-92

Poetic Justice

4. 口水花 Quotes Page 112

“反正什么报道都出现过了，我其实在等人写我是‘外星人’！”

3分钟读报道、5秒后忘记它，瑞恩应该感谢媒体的“用心良苦”方能练就一身过目就忘的超能力。

Poetic Justice 微笑正义 debuts 11 September 2012 9pm on Channel 8.

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1. Scene & Heard Page 18

Sugar, spice and all things smize

Story: Jasmine Teo

For the uninitiated: the term ‘smize’ – that’s “smiling with your eyes” – was coined by Tyra Banks on America’s Next Top Model. We get Daniel Boey, Asia’s Next Top Model judge and fashion guru, to play Tyra for a day and tell us which of these stars smize and which don’t.

RUI EN

Daniel says: “She shows how to smize fearlessly. She looks bold, sassy and full of attitude with her strong eyes and don’t-mess-with-me-but-hey-don’t-I-look-good pose.”

2. Scene & Heard Page 24

Story: Jonathan Fam

Li Nanxing, star and producer of teen gangster flick, Imperfect.

8DAYS: What else have you been busy with?

Li Nanxing: I’m now doing post-production work on Beyond, the Ch 8 drama I filmed in July. Then I’ll start filming CLIF 2 (opposite Rui En, Qi Yuwu and Joanne Peh) in Oct.

3. TV Synopses Pages 122 – 123

Poetic Justice

Poetic Justice 微笑正义 debuts 11 September 2012 9pm on Channel 8.

C.L.I.F 2 警徽天职 2 debuts 18 February 2013 9pm on Channel 8.

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Are you excited for our upcoming drama Poetic Justice << 微笑正义 >>?!

The Four includes: Dai Yang Tian, Desmond Tan, Rebecca Lim and Rui En.

*hint hint* Remember our Facebook live updates on the trampoline?

The Four literally jumped on the trampoline for half hour each. You may say it’s a great work out… But don’t forget, they are ‘working out’ in stunning stylish outfits!

Imagine all that perspiration…

There is also a cue to their jumps. It goes: Bounce-Bounce-Bounce-UP!

Then, there is the smile and no smile version of the shots. But here’s an example of one of their MANY expressions when they jump!

As for Rui En…:)

The Four reviewing some of their jump shots for better improvements…

Cool eh? Make a guess of how many shots did each person take in order to get that ONE perfect shot…

辛苦你们!

It is definitely not easy to concentrate on jumping and giving the correct expression at the same time!

All their efforts paid off~ the end result… tada~!

What do you think about the design of the poster? It looks impressive right?! Hahas

Stay tuned for the release of the behind-the-scenes video of this photoshoot!!!

Vote for Yanzhi as your Favourite Female Character now!

Poetic Justice 微笑正义 debuts 11 September 2012 9pm on Channel 8.

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洪文婷报道

陈泂江在新传媒8频道最新9点档电视剧《微笑正义》，饰演温文尔雅的律师唐智胜。以前，唐智胜对心仪的女生往往无法提出勇气示爱；然而却在喜欢上刘言之（瑞恩饰）后，成功克服心理障碍勇敢的向她表白。

戏中，林慧玲饰演的冯若凌喜欢上了方正业（戴阳天饰），而陈泂江饰演的唐智胜喜欢的却是瑞恩饰演的刘言之，两人因此在此剧中，并没有太多的交际。

Poetic Justice 微笑正义 debuts 11 September 2012 9pm on Channel 8.

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Fans willing to pay to get up close to their local TV idols.

By Kwok Kar Peng

It has become the norm in recent years to pay at least $100 for a ticket to attend the fan meet of a visiting Korean celebrity.

Now, fans of local TV stars are also willing to pay to get up close to their idols.

Last friday, more than 200 people paid $38 each to attend an event.

The event, held at iFly Singapore, was to promote their upcoming Channel 8 20-episode drama about journalism titled Poetic Justice, which debuts on Sept 11 at 9pm.

Rui En and Rebecca Lim play investigative journalists who team up with businessman (Dai Yang Tian) ane lawyer (Desmond Tan) to solve cases.

In june, a free event was held at concert venue TAB to promote drama Joys of Life.

Autographs

Participants registered online for a spot and received autographs from Taiwanese artistes Alien Huang and Cynthia Wang, and local stars Rui En, Chen Liping, Andie Chen and Kate Pang.

Poetic Justice 微笑正义 debuts 11 September 2012 9pm on Channel 8.

Source: The New Paper

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We get the reserved actress talking about her new role as a budding reporter who harbours big dreams and ideals

Text: Joanna Goh

When we first spoke to Rui En about taking on the role of Yan Zhi, a reporter in the upcoming Ch8 drama series Poetic Justice, the actress admitted that she was caught in a ‘Catch-22’ situation. She has a love-hate relationship with the media and you can’t blame her for it. After all, she’s constantly bogged by labels and bad press over the most miniscule things – remember the whole smiling-or-not-smiling fiasco she had during the Star Awards this year?

Post-filming three months later, when we sat Rui En down for an interview at iFly Singapore last Friday, the actress shared that her opinions and afterthoughts on the role are more or less still the same. ‘I wouldn’t say there is a huge change. I just feel a bit more aware that we’re all here to make ends meet and work for a living. That’s all we’re doing.’

As if she read minds and saw where this topic was heading to, she adds with a tinge of resignedness, ‘Unfortunately, for celebs and the press, there are times when you’re at loggerheads with each other…’

Luckily, as the topic of our interview veered towards her role and her co-cast in the show, the actress loosens up and let out a couple of grimaces and chuckles when we touched on the hot weather in Macau and her state of ‘maturity’ in showbiz today.

So, what kind of interview questions unnerves Rui En and who would she pick if she had to choose between Dai Yang Tian and Desmond Tan in the show? We find out more below!

xinmsn: Were there any personal experiences that helped you ease into this role easily?
Rui En: I guess it helps that we’re always facing reporters (laughs). Just generally being interviewed on a regular basis by reporters. We’re talking about entertainment news, and for us [in the show], we’re doing society news. It’s kind of different but just generally being surrounded by reporters all the time is something that makes it familiar.

How was the on-set chemistry with Yang Tian?
We can be quiet at times but when it comes to communicating about the role, we’re really open and he’s also open to suggestions like playing a role in a different way. We’re actually flexible. The lines of communications have always been very open, but there are times we’d rather be quiet and in our little quiet corners.

And how was the atmosphere on-set with such a young cast?
It was really comfortable, some of them – especially the ringleader, Sora – tend to have a lot of fun. Most of the time I do my own thing lah, but it can get quite infectious. It was a light-hearted set.

Your character gets caught in a love triangle between Yang Tian and Desmond’s characters. So if you had to pick between the two guys, who would it be?
I would pick… Rebecca! (chuckles) I can’t, they’re two really different [guys]. Their roles are also really different. But I like the fact that there’s a story development between Desmond and me. It isn’t your typical fall-in-love-and-happy ever-after type.

You guys traveled to Macau to film parts of the show. Anything interesting that happened?
Just unbearably hot. You can’t even imagine, it’s like going to Cambodia. I wasn’t prepared for that kind of heat at all and it was quite a nightmare to film ‘cos basically, you’d be soaked and you still have to strike a lovely pose.

Your character in the show is idealistic and a girl with big dreams, any similarities to when you first started out in showbiz?
Yes of course, when you first leave school, you think you can conquer the world and you actually believed it. You have all these profound ideas; it’s just so typical at that age where you just feel like Gandhi and all those people combined into one and then life hits you and you realise… I definitely can relate to her zest and ideals ‘cos coming out of school was exactly the same, except I think she’s more worthy of admiration ‘cos she wants to help people.

Does that mean you’re jaded with showbiz now?
Jaded? No no no no. Its called maturity (laughs). That’s a big difference. It’s not about being jaded. It’s just that when you come out to work, you start to realise things are not the way you had imagined them to be. Things are a lot more complicated.

Is there anything today that gives you that burst of excitement or adrenalin rush?
Very rarely. In the first place, I don’t really react to most things with excitement, the most happiness, but not really giddy with excitement.

What about drama ratings?
Of course you’d be happy, because after all it’s two to three months of hard work, but it’s not everything lah.

So what kind of interview questions gets on your nerves? Any particular questions, for example?
I guess open-ended questions tend to leave me a little bit [unnerved]. Yah, as a person I don’t really like open-ended questions or the ‘what if’ questions. What’s the point [of asking them]? You can imagine what it’s like but when the situation is in front of you, it could be a world away.

WATCH Rui En’s video interview below!

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Poetic Justice 微笑正义 debuts 11 September 2012 9pm on Channel 8.

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