Eyes open big big…here’s the last remaining list of Star Awards 2011《红星大奖2011》nominees – Online categories…find out who’s not in the nominations…

Star Awards 2011《红星大奖2011》Favourite Female Character 最喜爱女角色:

杨念青(Jeanette Aw 欧萱 – Breakout 破天网)

谢谕谕(Michelle Chong 庄米雪 – Black Rose 爆料黑玫瑰)

摇摇(Quan Yi Fong 权怡凤 – Black Rose 爆料黑玫瑰)

杨小冬(Rui En 瑞恩 – Happy Family 过好年)

汤颖(Zhou Ying 周颖 – Breakout 破天网)

Star Awards 2011《红星大奖2011》Favourite On-screen Couple (Drama) 最喜爱银幕情侣:

邹杰明+汤颖(Elvin Ng 黄俊雄 & Zhou Ying 周颖 – Breakout 破天网)

沈希平+黄舒雅(Tay Ping Hui 郑斌辉& Chris Tong 童冰玉 – The Family Court 走进走出)

司徒东城+杨念青(Christopher Lee 李铭顺 & Jeanette Aw 欧萱 – Breakout 破天网)

陈伟中+云飞雪(Yao Wen Long 姚玟隆 & Cynthia Koh 许美珍 – Mrs P.I. 查某人)

张扬+叶思琪(Chen Han Wei 陈汉玮 & Rui En 瑞恩 – With You 我在你左右)

His name was everywhere in the last 2 Star Awards but no where to be seen in this year’s Star Awards nominations inlcuding the online list… Some fans already ’cry father cry mother’ about why he wasn’t in the ‘Best Actor’ category and even speculated that he could jolly well be ’frozen’ by the company or he ‘offended’ somebody up there…which I am telling you right now that all these speculations are pure rubbish. In every award show, there’ll always be winners and losers. If you don’t do so well this time, just work harder next year…and one day, your hard work will pay off (Rui En worked for 10 years before her first nomination this year)…

Public voting commences from 1 March 2011 on xinmsn.com/starawards2011

The winners with the highest number of votes will be announced during Show 1 of  Star Awards 2011 银光闪耀红星大奖2011: Sunday 17 April, 7pm ‘LIVE’ on Channel 8

Source: BaguaTV

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1. Newsstand Page 18

预热！红星 网路票选

部分入围名单 (5 nominees per category)

最喜爱女角色
瑞恩 – 过好年

最喜爱银幕情侣
陈汉玮 + 瑞恩 – 我在你左右

3月1日起可到xinmsn.com/starawards2011投选心仪的偶像！

2. TV MSN Page 73

3. TV Synopsis Pages 83 – 86

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1. Sunday Times (by The Straits Times) Lifestyle Cover

Breakout Stars

Elvin Ng starred in two of the top 10 Channel 8 dramas lst year while Rui En acted in three. Are they the new King and Queen of Caldecott Hill?

2. hot Pages 6 & 7

Top of the Hill

The recently released llist of Top 10 Channel 8 dramas shows there is a new crop of talent ready to take over Caldecott Hill.

By Rachael Boon

And the Top 10 Channel 8 dramas for 2010 are ….

Have a look at the list featured on these pages and many will wonder: Where are the names of Singapore TV’s enduring dynamic duo, Fann Wong and Zoe Tay?

The Queens of Caldecott Hill are nowhere to be seen in the line-up of those starring in the Top 10 list.

The new queen of the Hill is the versatile Rui En, 30, who acted in three dramas which are among the top five Channel 8 shows. She starred in With You, Happy Family and Unriddle.

As for Fann and Tay, they did not even act in any MediaCorp dramas last year to put them in contention. Fann has been busy filming overseas and Tay was pregnant.

The last blockbuster which both of them starred in, along with the two Ah Ge Li Nanxing and Tay Ping Hui, was 2009’s The Ultimatum, which received a lukewarm response. It was criticised for being too melodramatic.

Indeed, the top 10 list runs the gamut of content, from police dramas to stories about families and light-hearted comedy.

The top 10 shows are all MediaCorp’s productions except Taiwanese drama Love.

Modest productions such as With You a supernatural-themed tearjerker, New Beginnings, which dealt with the wedding and funeral industries, and the heart-warming Happy Family, trumped the blockbuster drama Breakout.

Indeed, with Channel 8’s top 10 dramas featuring a greater variety of actors and a wide range of drama genres, it is a sign that big names and blockbusters are not needed to lure viewers.

Things are certainly different from 10 years ago, says actress Cynthia Koh, who has been in the industry since 1992. She says viewers are constantly changing and looking for something more.

The Ah Ge and Ah Jie labels also no longer matter these days because teamwork is more important in producing good dramas, she says.

Rui En is clearly on a trajectory, with a Best Actress nomination for Star Awards 2011 in her bag for her role as a widow in With You, and having acted in three top-rated drama serials in a year.

She was one of MediaCorp’s Seven Princesses – the rest of whom were Jeanette Aw, Joanne Peh, Jesseca Liu, Felicia Chin, Fiona Xie and Dawn Yeoh.

The Seven Princesses was a term coined by the Chinese press in 2006, where the seven were said to be next in line to succeed Zoe and Fann.

Until last year, Rui En had never been a crowd favourite, but with other contenders such as Xie, Chin, Yeoh and Liu leaving MediaCorp, her name has come.

Life!’s Asian TV reviewer Foong Woei Wan says Rui En is finally getting the attention she deserves.

She says: “She doesn’t do the usual Channel 8 acting. In With You, she shows that you don’t have to shout, you can whisper and still hold viewers’ attention.”

Along with the new queen comes her royal partner, Elvin Ng, with two Best Actor nominates in a row.

Actor Alan Term, who has a decade of experience and appeared in various top shows last year, says he does see Ng and Rui En as the new generation of leads.

He says, “They are already leads now so I see them as the next pillars of MediaCorp as they are doing pretty well.”

What do you think of the new generation of stars at Caldecott Hill? Write to suntimes@sph.com.sg

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Ice queen turns nice queen

It has been a long climb to the summit, but Rui En, 30, is finally enjoying the view.

The actress, who has been in show business for more than a decade, looks set to be crowned the new queen of Caldecott Hill.

Recognition has finally come, thanks to her roles in three top-rated Channel 8 dramas – With You, Happy Family and Unriddle – and a Best Actress nomination for her role as a grieving widow in With You.

The fortunate series of events did not happen overnight for her. She is known as one of MediaCorp’s seven “princesses”, yet she says her has seen her career “progress in a backward manner”.

By this she explains that she is hardly on top of the popularity pack like the other “princesses” such as Jeanette Aw and Joanne Peh.

In an interview with LifeStyle, she says: “About what I achieved last year, in terms of ratings or anything else, I feel a lot of irony and a little bit of vindication.”

Explaining why, she says: “When this whole “seven princesses” thing was started by the Chinse press in 2006, the media would get people to compare the seven of us and there would be rankings and lists. The funny thing was that then, I was always No. 5 or No. 6.

“Just a few years ago, that was how the media and the public saw me. It was said that I was a bit too distant, the audience wouldn’t accept me, I was too aloof.”

But now, three of her shows have made it to the list of the top five Channel 8 dramas.

The supposed ice queen has since further melted viewers’ hearts with her role as the simle-minded and optimistic Xiaodong in Happy Family, which aired in January last year, She feels that it was that role which made viewers see that she could be more than an ice queen and credits this to the executive producer of Happy Family, Mr Paul Yuen, who cast her.

“For reasons that I don’t know, he decided to cast me as a girl who was simple minded to the point of being silly,” she says.

“The fact that he gave me the chance really changed viewers’ perception of me and I’m very grateful. It turned out to be one of the most comfortable roles I’ve ever played because Xiaodong was very happy and positive.”

Rui En’s hard work over the past decade has paid off. Loyal fans who have stuck with her are really being affected by her moving portrayals in tragic roles such as a widow in With You.

She says: “One auntie came up to me and said, ‘Watching your show makes me cry’. She paused and continued, ‘Actually thinking about it now, I’m going to cry already’. So I was like, ‘oh no, please don’t cry’.”

She adds: “I’m very grateful that viewers have matured to the point where they recognise you for what you are and what you stand for. The recognition I’ve got has proven that.”

Top 10 Channel 8 Drama Series in 2010

Source: The Sunday Times by The Straits Times

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日期: 16/02/2011 | 新闻来源: 联合晚报 | 记者: 陈秋雁 | 摄影: 曾美玲

击败视帝视后、阿哥阿姐、公主小生，瑞恩荣升收视女王，是电视上最吸睛的演员！

继在去年8月播出的《最火搭档》中饰演英姿飒爽的女警探后，瑞恩在前天首播的《乐在双城》一改本尊的冷酷严肃形象，饰演刁蛮但可爱讨喜的公主型女生。

“瑞（锐）”不可挡的她，开年第一部作品《乐》，首集收视就取得过百万收看人数，再度奠定她本地收视女王的荣衔。《乐》的首集收看人数达101万6000人，成绩更胜今年第一部9点档电视剧《喜事年年》，《喜》首集吸引约90万人收看。

破百万收视

电视剧收视率是深奥的学问，但据8频道中文节目与宣传企划部副总裁陈国明曾简单解释，“一般表现不错的戏剧能达到85到90万人左右的收视水平，95万人以上已属可以’开香槟’庆祝的水平。”。

瑞恩去年的3部作品《过好年》、《最火搭档》和《我在你左右》首集的收看人数分别是98万1000、96万1000及92万3000，名列2010年9点档首集收视的四强。

现在《乐》创破百万的收视，瑞恩可谓突破自己。但，可惜，她和白薇秀两大公主出击，首集收视却不抵欧萱及刘子绚去年合作的《红白喜事》的103万6000人。

但，若以剧集总收视来看，瑞恩的《过》、《最》和《我》都在去年9点档的总收视四强，其中《我》吸引平均96万9000人收看，打败《红》的93万7000人，是全年之冠。

因此，根据数字显示，瑞恩的电视作品都有收视保证。

不敢独领功劳

从酷公主变收视女王，瑞恩抗议：“（我）公主也不是，女王也不是！都是你们的错，都是媒体讲的！”

希望自己能谦虚敬业，不被数字冲昏头的她表示，只是做好本分，“收视还要看故事、演员的默契、演员的演技等整体的结合”，不敢因为自己是女主角而独领功劳。

但，比较奖项，瑞恩为收视的肯定高兴，因为那是观众最直接的反应，“奖项有时会牵涉其他因素，你知道的啦……”，言下之意，似指自己不是新传媒的“亲生女”，因此或许影响得奖机会。

至于自己的吸睛力，新科“收视女王”不否认接下来会有收视压力，但说“女王也有脆弱的时候”，只希望自己能做到让更多人欣赏演技。

Source: Wanbao, Omy, ChinaPress

Categorised in A Tale of 2 Cities 乐在双城, CH, ChinaPress 中國報, Happy Family 过好年, Unriddle 最火搭档, Wanbao, With You 我在你左右.

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By Han Wei Chou

SINGAPORE: Romantic drama “A Tale of 2 Cities” is off to a brilliant start after attracting more than a million viewers when it debuted on Valentine’s Day.

According to figures from MediaCorp, the ratings for the drama’s debut episode is the highest among the recent crop of high profile Mandarin dramas on Channel 8, such as the blockbuster drama “Breakout” and crime thriller “Unriddle”.

“A Tale of 2 Cities”, which revolves around the lives and loves of four odd couples, even managed to beat last year’s overall ratings champ, the supernatural family drama “With You”.

“With You” garnered 923,000 viewers when it debuted at the same 9pm time slot compared to the debut episode of “A Tale of 2 Cities”, which drew a whopping 1,016,000 viewers.

“A Tale of 2 Cities” executive producer Paul Yuen attributed the successful debut of the show to its believable story setting and of course, the hard work of its cast.

“I wanted to create something different with this drama. We used different editing techniques and made sure Singaporeans can relate to the story.

“One aspect of this drama’s storyline for example is how families think about money and happiness. I didn’t want it to be too burdensome with themes like revenge or whatever,” Yuen explained to channelnewsasia.com.

“The cast was also very willing to challenge themselves by playing roles that they have never done before and did not worry about hurting their public image,” he said.

Yuen cited how Rui En took great pains to play the spoiled, ultra-feminine rich girl Zhang Ya Le, who falls from grace and has to struggle to find happiness in the show, as a good example of the cast’s willingness to try new things.

It may have been hard work for Rui En, but the positive reception the show’s debut episode received makes it all worthwhile.

“As long as I can entertain my audience, any sacrifice is worth it. Including the awful gel manicures,” Rui En told channelnewsasia.com.

“I am very surprised and happy [the show debuted well]. I didn’t expect that a ditzy ‘princess’ would be such a draw.”

Yuen had also praised Joanne Peh for daring to discard her good-girl image and play Pan Le Yao, a sexy, materialistic man-eater with a wicked sense of humour.

However, Peh’s fans will have to wait for Tuesday night’s episode of “A Tale of Two Cities”, when her character debuts at 9pm, to see that different side of her.

-CNA/ha

“A Tale of 2 Cities” airs every weekday night at 9pm on Channel 8.

Source: Channelnewsasia.com

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郑净友

随着谢宛谕、陈靓瑄、姚懿珊离开新传媒，以及刘子绚签约新的经纪公司放慢演艺事业的脚步，有一些报道就说“7公主时代”已经结束，目前最活跃于新传媒戏剧作品的只有瑞、白薇秀和欧萱。

瑞恩和白薇秀恰巧都在目前播映的8频道 新剧《乐在双城》首次合作，而且都饰演“公主型”的都市女子。

迈入“后公主时代”，瑞恩庆幸从公主的框框“解脱”，白薇秀则笑说人们总会找其他方式把艺人拿来比较。

瑞恩上星期四在《乐在双城》上受访时被问起“7公主时代”的结束时笑说：“早就
结束了啦！”

她表示，媒体不再关注这个称号，让她轻松不少：“少了一些人，大家也不会把我们
7个拿来做比较，也没有了公主这个‘框框’，我们3个就能专心把各自的工作做好。”

其实，瑞恩曾向本报表示并不喜欢这样的称号，但“公主时代”因为有人离巢才终结，让她感到意外：“没有人意料到事情会有这样的转变，但是在这一行久了，渐渐明白
很多事情往往都会出乎意料之外。”

瑞恩: 不会夺视后

瑞恩在《乐在双城》中有诙谐的演出，尤其是不少与朱咪咪斗气的戏，与她近年不少严肃的角色有所不同。

记者就表示，这似乎呼应她在首部电视剧《考试家族》中轻松幽默的演出。

刚好《考试家族》日前在星期六早上重播，让她直呼：“我知道，可是我不敢看那
是我的第一部剧，华语好差但很高兴当时能演唱插曲《考验 》，是一首旋律很棒的歌曲。”

从2002年的第一部剧到目前在拍摄的《麻婆斗妇》，瑞恩再度表示，娱乐圈世事
难料：“当时是要克服语言问题，7公主时代我最不被看好、被批评最多，到去年终于觉得自己的表现还好，真的是需要时间适应。”

瑞恩给自己去年的表现打上“还好”的评分，但表现其实不俗，《我在你左右》是年
度收视冠军，她也凭此剧首次入围《红星大奖》的“最佳女主角”。

她笑说之前跟朋友打赌不会入围《红星大奖》，结果输了一餐饭，随后再次打赌自
己不会得奖：“我看好陈莉萍姐，因为我们一起演出《最火搭档》，大家拍得很辛
苦，她的表现也很好，所以我支持她。”

要从港星身上“偷师”

瑞恩接连两部戏都与香港资深女星合作，《乐在双城》有朱咪咪，拍摄中的《麻婆斗妇》则有李司棋。

能与前辈一起演戏，瑞恩笑说：“这几个月我很幸福，因为能跟她们偷师。拍《乐在
双城》时，我向咪咪姐了解香港电视台的工作方式，因为很想知道其他国家拍戏的方法和节奏跟新加坡有什么不同。”

她半开玩笑、 半埋怨地说，至今还没有与李司棋有对手戏“《麻婆斗妇》拍了差
不多一个月，但我还没有机会跟她演戏。在开拍之前，我就听说她非常专业，所以很期待从她身上学到一些东西。”

Source: MyPaper, OMY

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I would like to congratulate Rui En for her Best Actress Nomination at the Star Awards this year.

Her performance in With You touched my heart and moved me to tears on several occasions.

She has been in the business for 10 years yet this is the first time that she has been nominated. At least her performance did not go unnoticed this time.

Peh Xinyi

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This news clip first aired on 7th February 2011.

Categorised in CH, Star Awards 2011, TV News, Unriddle 最火搭档, With You 我在你左右.

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