News bites: April 27, 2024
News bites: April 27, 2024 by tccolb A new poster has come creeping in for MBC’s upcoming Bittersweet Hell, where family psychologist Kim Hee-sun (Remarriage & Desires) and crime novelist Lee Hye-young (Big Bet) are putting on their sleuthing caps to protect their family from a mysterious blackmailer. Broadcasting on weekends following Chief Detective 1958, […]
Teaching and fighting manners with L in Dare to Love Me
Teaching and fighting manners with L in Dare to Love Me by tccolb A new teaser has arrived for KBS’s rom-com Dare to Love Me, this time following our Confucian-fashioned hero L (a.k.a. Kim Myung-soo)(Numbers), who swears by the motto that manners maketh the person. Indeed, his character teaser begins with Shin Yoon-bok (L) teaching […]
News bites: April 22, 2024
News bites: April 22, 2024 by tccolb Excuse me while I hold my breath for tvN’s The Midnight Romance in Hagwon, rapt under the spell of Wie Ha-joon (Gyeongseong Creature) in the latest posters – not that Jung Ryeo-won (May It Please the Court) isn’t bringing the pretty herself. With the premiere now just a […]
News bites: April 17, 2024
News bites: April 17, 2024 by tccolb A new period crime series called Low Life is in the works for Disney+, lining up Ryu Seung-ryong (Chicken Nugget), Yang Se-jong (Doona), and Im Soo-jung (Melancholia) among many talents in the larger cast. Based on a popular webtoon by the original webtoonist for Misaeng, the story is […]
News bites: March 27, 2024
News bites: March 27, 2024 by tccolb Go Kyung-pyo, Kang Hanna, Joo Jong-hyuk We finally have a Wednesday-Thursday drama on the horizon for JTBC, with the rom-com No Secrets coming to our screens this May. Starring an announcer Go Kyung-pyo (D.P. 2) who is suddenly unable to lie, overly optimistic show writer Kang Hanna (Red […]
News bites: March 14, 2024
News bites: March 14, 2024 by tccolb Yoo Yeon-seok, Chae Soo-bin A new romance-thriller is on the horizon called The Number You Have Dialed (roughly translated, working title), with offers out to Yoo Yeon-seok (A Bloody Lucky Day) and Chae Soo-bin (The Fabulous) to headline the webnovel adaptation. As an arranged marriage couple who realize […]
News bites: March 6, 2024
News bites: March 6, 2024 by tccolb Seo Kang-joon Seo Kang-joon (Grid) is considering roles for his first post-army project and may be ironing a new uniform as a secret government agent in MBC’s new action-comedy Undercover High School. Expected to start filming later this year with Im Young-bin (Bad Prosecutor) penning the scripts, the […]
Our Queen of Tears gets a second chance romance in teaser
Our Queen of Tears gets a second chance romance in teaser by Jenzy Okay, tvN really needs to stop taunting me and give me this drama already! The latest teaser for Queen of Tears starring Kim Soo-hyun (One Ordinary Day) and Kim Ji-won (My Liberation Notes) just dropped, and with the premiere just around the […]
Betrayal and bloodshed in Grabbed by the Collar
Betrayal and bloodshed in Grabbed by the Collar by solstices Another teaser is out for KBS’s upcoming thriller Grabbed by the Collar, starring Kim Haneul (Kill Heel) as the righteous journalist Seo Jung-won and Jang Seung-jo (Death’s Game) as her chaebol husband Seol Woo-jae. When Jung-won is framed for murder, her marriage and reputation are […]
Premiere Watch: Pyramid Game
This isn’t my usual genre, but I have had a huge soft spot for Bona ever since Girls’ Generation 1979 that was further solidified by Twenty-Five Twenty-One, despite her limitations as an actress. This seems like a role she can excel in (although I find it amusing she is still playing a high school student). […]