From Leaning Back to the Mainland to Embracing the Mainland-Hong Kong Drama Enters the "New Century"

"Iron Detective" is a quality work produced by the complementation of communication, cooperation and superior resources

Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, October 31st. Title: From the back of the mainland to the embrace of the mainland-Hong Kong drama enters the "new century" zz

zz 2518zz19, Hongkong 19 Miss used her tablet to click on the "Apostle Walker 3" episode, which was updated that day, to comfort her busy day at the office in Central. At this time, Mr. Chen, who was 1,200 kilometers away, was also watching the same episode on his mobile phone at his home in Shanghai.

Although the two "post-80s" have different backgrounds, they have memories of chasing Hong Kong dramas in front of the TV in childhood and adolescence, and would not even miss the Cantonese opening song. The drama they are chasing is a police drama co-produced by Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (TVB) and Shanghai Tencent Penguin Film and Television Culture Communication Co., Ltd. It is also TVB's first global priority TV series to be broadcast on a streaming media platform.

In a conference room full of trophies in the TVB headquarters, Du Zhike, the producer of the show and TVB deputy general manager (program and production), told Xinhua News Agency reporters that TVB used to mainly shoot easy-to-digest "dining tables". "Plays", more feature TV series planned and targeted creation based on market demand will be filmed in the future.

, established in 1967, TVB has gone through half a century of history and is the benchmark of Hong Kong drama culture. Its creations such as "Shanghai Beach" and "The Great Era" have become the memories of several generations of people in the north and south of the Yangtze River. It is believed to have created a precedent for genre dramas, and martial arts dramas such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of Condor Heroes" based on Jin Yong's novels have set off a boom in ratings in the Mainland and Hong Kong.

In addition, many of the music in TVB's TV series have become the golden songs that have been sung to this day, and some have become milestones in the development of Cantonese pop music. The talents in the performing arts industry cultivated by TVB are the wealth of today's Chinese cultural circle.

In the 1980s and 1990s, TVB created a large number of TV series that profoundly influenced the Chinese world. Hong Kong TV series represented by TVB TV series entered the "golden age".

Du Zhike said that at that time, the reform and opening up of the mainland created a huge cultural market, and Hong Kong, as a bridge connecting China and foreign countries, gained a lot of capital favor and was able to support film and television creation. In addition, Eastern and Western cultures and values ​​have influenced each other and learned from each other in Hong Kong, forming a multicultural social foundation for film and television drama creation.

"Thousands of Waters and Thousand Mountains are Always Love", "Huo Yuanjia", "Jing Wu Men" and other works full of family and country feelings, although the story background is set in the mainland, they are still masterpieces of Hong Kong drama.

"At that time, under the British colonial rule, Hong Kong people's strong family and country feelings needed to be vented, so Hong Kong dramas on the subject mattered naturally." Du Zhike said.

Once, life-oriented scenes, dramatic plots, typified industrial models, etc. have created the style and appeal of Hong Kong dramas. However, with the development of the mainland film and television industry, the intensification of overseas TV drama competition, and changes in broadcasting platforms, audience needs, production models, etc. , The market share of Hong Kong dramas has lost a lot, and the influence is not as brilliant as in the past.

Some people say that today's Hong Kong dramas have faded. "The taste of Hong Kong is a reflection of the life of Hong Kong people. As long as the life and experience in Hong Kong dramas are Hong Kong, then there is a taste of Hong Kong." Du Zhike, for example, said that from the past to the present, many mainlanders have come to Hong Kong and gradually integrate into Hong Kong. In Hong Kong life, and their stories reflected in Hong Kong dramas are also Hong Kong flavors, just with the imprint of a different era.

Once, Hong Kong dramas leaned back on the mainland to take a road to success; now, Hong Kong dramas embrace the mainland to reap a new world. In recent years, TVB and Penguin have jointly producedPin's "Iron Detective" is a quality work produced by the mutual communication and cooperation and complementary resources. The scores of "Bridge of Sigh" and "Jinxiao Building" on the mainland information sharing website Douban are as high as 8.9 and 8.4 respectively.

film and television drama producer Tan Haoran believes that audience opinions can now effectively reach film and television drama creators through the Internet, thereby innovating the content and production of the drama series and bringing a different look and feel to the audience.

, who goes to the mainland several times a year, said that TVB's board of directors and management attach great importance to the mainland market. In response to the rapid development of mainland video broadcasting platforms, TVB, a traditional TV industry chain company, has decisively embraced mainland Internet companies and has conducted a large number of cooperation with them including copyright sales, derivative development, and cooperative shooting.

"In fact, TVB has been cooperating with the mainland since the 1990s. After 2016, the mainland's video broadcasting platforms have flourished and the cooperation with each other has become increasingly close." Du Zhike said that this year TVB has broadcast 6 different from the mainland It is estimated that there will be 10 TV series of cooperative forms by next year.

In addition, in recent years, TVB has also purchased and played a number of mainland-produced TV series including "Langya List", "Red Sorghum", and "Jubilee Strategy", forming a two-way communication between the mainland and Hong Kong TV series. "In the past, Hong Kong dramas entered the mainland, but now mainland dramas entered Hong Kong." Tan Haoran said.

Du Zhike especially hopes to make some "real co-production dramas" in his mind. He took a mainland drama "Beijing-Hong Kong Love Line" more than 20 years ago as an example, saying that this drama "has traces of life in the mainland and Hong Kong" ". ( Xinhua News Agency reporters: Liu Fei, Qiu Bo, Ding Ziyi )