TVB announces a set of new variety shows starting on March 27th

Yesterday TVB held the "TVB Influential Variety Shows Press Conference" and announced that starting on March 27th, a new variety shows will be released including: "Fun With Liza And Gods", a new season of "Super Trio", "Taipei Palace Museum" an informational show hosted by Michelle Yim and "The Voice 2" hosted by Sammy Leung alone. Looks like TVB is bringing out all these new programs to calm the Stephen Chan's ICAC arrest situation down.

Liza Wang refutes "Hong Kong Gossip" copied "Enjoy Yourself Tonight"

Liza Wang advised the Media not to make the press conference too complicated by asking about Stephen: "We currently have so many new shows, we want to promote them! Why think everything is related to Stephen Chan's corruption case? Our operations are currently back to normal." It was said that the show she hosts "Fun With Liza And Gods" is a copy off ATV's "Hong Kong Gossip - 香港亂唞". Liza said: "Crazy! Out of all the variety shows, "Enjoy Yourself Tonight (EYT)" started first! It's hard to say who copied who!"

Eric Tsang denied that the press conference was held to stabilized the situation, but he admitted Stephen's incident has affected TVB, he said: "Every artist, management companies, advertisement companies and production companies learned a lesson. Pay reduction is a problem, but friendship price is not, so friendship prices will never disappear. There are many artists who are willing to have lower incomes than no job at all." Speaking of the new season of "Super Trio", Eric expressed the "oldie" Chin Ka Lok will not be participating in it, the candidates to replace him should be Kam Kong (金剛) and Alvina Kong. He said: "Hopefully the new "Super Trio" can bring out more new people. The great imitators Wong Cho Lam and Louis Yuen are great choices for "Fun With Liza and Gods", and also they are only one person, can't do two shows at once."

"Be My Guest" set to be replaced by new talkshow

Coordinator Manager Ho Lai Chuen denied the rumors regarding this press conference: "In April there will be many new shows, so we are holding a larger press conference. TVB will add more strong shows, and there are currently still other shows in production." As for "Fun With Liza And Gods" being said that its a copy off "Hong Kong Gossip", Ho Lai Chuen strongly stressed that the show appeared on the TVB Sales Presentation two years ago, there were already production plans for this show. Lo Hoi Pang's "EYT" has already been around for a number of years "don't know who's copying who". Speaking of "Be My Guest" being replaced with a new talkshow, Ho Lai Chuen exessed that the candidates for the host has already been chosen, but confirmation will be announced tomorrow's meeting.

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU