News bites: June 8, 2023
News bites: June 8, 2023 by tccolb Creepy new promos have dropped for SBS’s Revenant, featuring the occult horror’s leads Kim Tae-ri (Twenty Five Twenty One) and Oh Jung-se (Uncle) in new posters and a video teaser. Launching this month on June 23, the series follows Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 3 in the weekend slot. […]
News bites: June 6, 2023
News bites: June 6, 2023 by tccolb Cha Hak-yeon, Kim Hyo-jin, Park Eun-bin, Chae Jong-hyeop, Kim Joo-hun tvN announced that Desert Island Diva has been slated for broadcast later this year, with Park Eun-bin (Extraordinary Attorney Woo), Kim Hyo-jin (The Good Detective 2), Chae Jong-hyeop (Unlock the Boss), Cha Hak-yeon (Joseon Attorney), and Kim Joo-hun […]
Drama viewership ratings for the week of May 8-14, 2023
3 May 15, 2023May 14, 2023 Drama viewership ratings for the week of May 8-14, 2023 by DB Staff It’s more of the same this week as our stragglers continue to straggle (or is that struggle) and the dramas winning the ratings game continue to do so. Doctor Cha knocks it out of the park […]
Drama viewership ratings for the week of May 1-7, 2023
Drama viewership ratings for the week of May 1-7, 2023 by DB Staff My Perfect Stranger wins the Monday-Tuesday battle, but when Queen of the Mask approaches the ratings level of the Jang Hyuk x Jang Nara drama? (Things that make you go hmmm). Mid-week, Stealer continues to dip, The Good Bad Mother continues to […]
News bites: April 19, 2023
I feel guilty for consciously / unconsiously partaking in these two trends after reading the comments: 1. Jumping into a drama just for the leads’ pretty faces and not realising how problematic the subject matter is. Is incest the newest trend in Kdramas? I don’t care about the morality and social acceptance, but I do […]
Chaos abounds in Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 3
Chaos abounds in Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 3 by Jenzy Strap in everyone, Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 3’s second teaser is out, and it’s essentially a clipshow of our Doldam doctors frantically running around trying to save lives.We jump directly into the action, with our titular romantic doctor Han Seok-kyu (Recipe for Farewell) and Cha […]
News bites: April 6, 2023
News bites: April 6, 2023 by tccolb Yoon Chan-young, Bong Jae-hyun, Lee Seo-jin A new body-swap fantasy called I, a Gangster, Became a High School Student (roughly translated) is in the works, with Lee Seo-jin (Behind Every Star) playing the hardened gangster whose soul ends up in the body of Yoon Chan-young (Delivery Man). Still […]
Drama viewership ratings for the week of Mar. 20-26, 2023
Drama viewership ratings for the week of Mar. 20-26, 2023 by DB Staff Sometimes in ratings land there are clear winners and clear losers, and that’s what we have this week, as we say goodbye to The Heavenly Idol and Kokdu: Season of Deity, both of which struggled through their runs for reasons discussed elsewhere. […]
News bites: March 11, 2023
News bites: March 11, 2023 by tccolb While we await for the premiere of Stealer: The Treasure Keeper, Joo-won (Alice) is fielding offers for his next project and is considering a new thoughtful romance called Nighttime Photo Studio (roughly translated). If he accepts, Joo-won will be playing a photographer who takes photo of the dead […]
Politics and peril in The Secret Romantic Guesthouse
Politics and peril in The Secret Romantic Guesthouse by solstices Whoa, talk about a tonal shift. SBS’s upcoming romance sageuk The Secret Romantic Guesthouse has just released its second teaser, and it’s a lot darker than any of the promotional material thus far. Starring Shin Ye-eun (The Glory), along with her three flower scholars Ryeoun […]