What is this?
Ever since the year 2000, many young TVB Siu Sungs and Siu Fa Dans were given the opportunity to star in many series, but how many series are they truly a part of? How many series have they starred with each other? Thus, I decided to do some research of my own.
Although Wikipedia may not be the most accurate source to go for information, it was the fastest source to get information and what the heck, this is just for fun. So I went to the Chinese Wikipedia pages of the actors and actresses and tabulated the TVB serie they were a part of. Those serie in which they were a part of as leading or supporting were counted. For other series, I used my best judgment to consider whether they are just cameos and or have enough speaking scenes in the serie to consider it as one of their serie they are truly a part of.
Why were only these 10 people chosen?
For one, from what I have seen, these 10 people have been involved in a lot of TVB series since 2000. For two, they are all my top favorite TVB actors and actresses. Thus, these are my top choices to do some fast search on.
For those wondering why Michelle Yip is not on the list, I did not include her because she is not part of TVB anymore, but mostly, because she is not part of my favorites list and these ten actors and actresses are.
*Credits go to Chinese Wikipedia pages of respective actors & actresses listing their series
*The ones in parenthesis are the series I am not sure whether to count it as per their serie
What does the graph show?
I have included the series the TVB actors and Actresses are a part of due to leading, supporting, or having enough speaking scenes to consider the serie as one of their series.
The X indicates the respective actor or actress starring in the serie. The X in parenthesis indicates these are the serie in which I am not sure whether to really count as one of their series.
The total # of series I have counted are listed at the bottom, including those in parenthesis. In parenthesis is the # of series that I am not sure whether to truly count it as one of their serie. Thus, you could subtract the number in parenthesis to get the # that I think for sure they have a pretty big role in.
If you would like to take a view of the chart, save the picture and then use a program to zoom in. I am not able to make it bigger.
Some Interesting Results/Trends
1. There are 108 TVB series included in this list, counting new TVB series that has not been shown but that I have read on various news articles that they have finished filming, in the process of filming, or will film for sure. That means, these 10 actors and actresses have starred in over 108 series whether individually or co-starring with one another.
2. Using the total # of series from each respective artist (counting the series in parenthesis), the average # of series for these ten actors and actresses was 18.2
3. For the male actors, Bosco seems to have the most # of series, while Ron has the least # of series (counting the # in parenthesis).
4. For the female actresses, Tavia seems to have the most # of series, while Bernice seems to have the least # of series (counting the # in parenthesis).
5. The serie which starred the highest # of these ten actors and actresses was Find the Light starring five artistes : Ron, Bosco, Tavia, Shirley, Leila. Series starring four out of ten artistes include Twins of Brothers, Brink of Law, Survivor's Law, Triumph in the Skies, Twins of Brothers, Moonlight Resonance, and The Four.
6. Ron & Sammul seems to have co-starred the most together out of the five guys with 5 series, while Ron & Bosco seems to have co-starred the least with one serie.
7. Tavia & Leila seems to have co-starred the most together out of the five gals with three series, while Bernice & Tavia seems to never have co-star with each other before.
8. Raymond & Tavia seems to have co-starred the most together, with 7 series (including non-couple series). Kenneth & Tavia seems to never have co-star with each other.
9. Out of 108 series, 45 series are ancient. That means a majority of the series these ten actors & actresses have filmed are modern series. However, this varies for each respective actor and actresses.
10. Theres are about 20 grand productions these ten artistes have starred in.
11. So who actually is the Ratings King and Queen of these ten? Well, I don't know for sure. I originally wanted to do research on this but as I can not find the average ratings of their series, I was not able to see. From observations of this chart, I find it interesting that the male actors overall seems to star in more "hit series" (based on ratings hype I've read from news articles) than the female actresses. Wonder if that is part of the reason TVB is promoting more of newer actresses like Linda Chung, Kate Tsui, Fala Chen, Selina Li etc.
Don't Take the Results Too Seriously
Please do not take these results seriously. For one, for some series that I have not seen, I do not know whether these actors or actresses have a lot of screen time to actually call the serie as one of their serie. Of course, the leading and supporting roles are counted, but I have not watched all 100+ series these actors & actresses starred in, and I do not have photographic memory. Some of them are just based on guesses, and others could be bias due to what amount is considered a cutoff point to include the serie as theirs. For example, I counted Shirley in Forensics Heroes II as one of her series(although in parenthesis), but I did not count Ron in Aqua Heroes or Kenneth in The Last Breakthrough although they did have speaking scenes in those series.
If you note some errors or feel that a serie should be counted, please inform me so that I could make the changes to the list. Notice any other trends, leave your comments!
2 comments:
Interesting analysis.
But having many series doesn't mean anything. Tavia and Bosco have many series but most of them are supporting roles, while others like Linda, Myolie, Raymond and Kevin are leads in almost every series they're in, showing their position in TVB.
If you read the character profiles for HOG2 you'll notice that Bosco's role is very small, neglectable and irrelevant to the story. He's also having a supporting role in The Gem of Life which focus on the three sisters, and for BF3 its uncertain yet but from the news so far its apparent that the focus is onto Wong He, Kevin and Myolie love triangle. There's no news about him. So having many series doesn't mean someone's more loved by TVB, but having many leading roles mean opportunities.
Tavia might be having more leading roles now with BBOL and upcoming Salt Traders, but BBOL is just a neglectable TVB series. No comment about Salt traders yet.
Bernice is special. She's not much of an actress, but very much a pretty person. She's better off doing modelling jobs than acting in series.
Having said that, I'm actually very fond of Tavia, Bosco and also Linda, Kate, Bernice, Moses etc :P
hello anonymous, thank you for visiting.
I agree with you that having many series does not mean anything, it is the role/character that is most important. A good and memorable supporting role can be a role to shine in if the actor or actresses does a good job. Like for Bosco in Find the Light, he was not lead but yet his performance was very noticeable. Same for Raymond in Heart of Greed, or the usual supporting actor, Johnson Lee in Catch Me Now, who totally stood out.
It doesn't have to be a lead role to shine, but I guess it means much more when it comes to awards time for lead roles.
But from this mini research, I've realized that these ten younger actors & actresses have been in lot of series (about 108+) for TVB over the last 8 years or so. It is sad that save for Raymond, Kenneth, and perhaps a little of Bosco, the others are not as heavily promoted by TVB currently. In a way, it seems like a good thing since they will not be everywhere, but then that means lesser opportunities as well.
I like Kate and Moses too but not as much as the ten younger artistes on the chart I made. :)
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