News bites: February 8, 2023

tvN’s new Family will be bringing us a secret agent Jang Hyuk (Red Heart) and his unbeknownst loving wife Jang Nara (Sell Your Haunted House), marking the actors’ fourth (!) time working together. Also starring Chae Jung-ahn (King of Pigs) and Kim Nam-hee (Reborn Rich), the action-comedy cannot come soon enough this April with Jung Yoo-sun (That Man, Oh Soo) penning the scripts and co-directing by PD Jang Jung-do and PD Lee Jung-mok. [News1]

Over on SBS, the retro vibe continues for their new posters and video teaser for Taxi Driver 2. But our vigilante team will need to be more vigilant now that they’re being targeted by an unknown enemy. Starring Lee Je-hoon (Move to Heaven), Kim Eui-sung (Under the Queen’s Umbrella), and Pyo Ye-jin (VIP), the crime-action will be returning to our screens on February 17. [News1 (1), (2)]

TVING is lining up a new crime thriller called Unlucky Day, with Lee Sung-min (Reborn Rich), Yoo Yeon-seok (The Interest of Love), and Lee Jung-eun (Missing: The Other Side 2) headlining the series. Launching towards the end of 2023, the webtoon adaptation has filmmaker Pil Gam-sung (Hostage: Missing Celebrity) at the helm with scripts co-written by Kim Min-sung and Song Hanna. [News1]
Park Min-young (Love in Contract) is currently reviewing an offer to star in the web novel and webtoon adaptation Please Marry My Husband. Should the stars align, Park will be playing the central character and wronged wife of Lee Yi-kyung (Critical X). Filming is set to begin early this year, once casting has been finalized. [YTN]

Speaking of revenge, tvN’s Pandora has unveiled a new poster, showcasing Lee Sang-yoon (One the Woman) as our story’s ambitious presidential candidate and husband to Lee Jia (Penthouse 3). Directed by PD Choi Young-hoon (One the Woman) with scripts penned by Hyun Ji-min, the horrors of Pandora’s box will be unleashed on March 11. [Maeil Kyungje]
The first script reading stills have dropped for Channel A’s Queen of the Mask, featuring the fierce quartet: Kim Sun-ah (The Empire), Oh Yoon-ah (Once Again), Shin Eun-jung (Dr. Park’s Clinic), and Yoo Sun (Eve). The mystery-thriller also stars Oh Ji-ho (No Second Chances) as Kim’s boyfriend and Lee Jung-jin (The King: Eternal Monarch) as Shin’s fiance. [News1]