The Top 10 Most Anticipated TVB Series of 2011

Following last year's Can't Buy Me Love and No Regrets being the hottest series of the city, this year TV King Wayne Lai and TV Queen super candidate Maggie Cheung got the essential attention. The other TV Queen Charmaine Sheh encounters the most difficult role to portray of her life, the female version of Ah Wong in Flower Sister Flower World paired with Raymond Lam for a 'sister-brother love'. For publicity, there are Johnson Lee, Louis Yuen and Wong Cho Lam's comedy series version of Fun With Liza and Gods.

FLOWER SISTER FLOWER WORLD (花花世界花家姐): Female Version Ah Wong

Producer: Kwan Wing Chung
Starring: Charmaine Sheh, Raymond Lam
Broadcast Period: Last half of the year

Charmaine plays Fa Lai Chu, a girl with a mental age of 10. As Charmaine mentioned, this is her most challenging role. In the series, she goes into Raymond's company to be an office assistant, but for his own pleasures Raymond pretends to pursue her. Later, Raymond loses everything and his company gets taken over. Although Charmaine knows she was used by him, she still offered her place for him to stay in. Under Charmaine's care, Raymond starts over and discovers he actually did fall for Charmaine. The story is old-fashioned, but just watching how TV Queen Charmaine develops this role, is already enough to anticipate.

GRACE UNDER FIRE (女拳): Liu Xian Shows Off Material

Producer: Lo Wing Yin
Starring: Liu Xian, Kenneth Ma, Bosco Wong, Fala Chen
Broadcast Date: March 7th

Wong Fei Hung (John Chiang) was early widowed, until a lion dance large convention, he meets a girl 40 years younger than him MOK Kwai Lan (Liu Xian). LAN was very attracted to him, and did not care about the age difference or secular vision and eventually married Wong Fei Hung.

RELIC OF AN EMISSARY (洪武三十二): Costume version of Laughing Gor

Producer: Wong Wai Sing
Starring: Michael Tse, Joe Ma, Sammul Chan, Elanne Kong
Broadcast Date: April 4th

In 2009, Michael Tse made a breakthrough in his role as Laughing Gor in E.U. Relic of an Emissary is the ancient version of E.U. Joe Ma is newly added into the cast. The whole series is produced by the E.U crew. In the series, Michael plays Ngo Siu Fung who is Laughing Gor in the ancient times. He was sent out by the Yongle Emperor (Joe Ma), to be by the Ming Emperor's side to solve cases, but in fact his real identity is the Yongle Emperor's undercover to fight the Ming Emperor.

YES SIR, NO SIR (點解阿Sir係阿Sir): Hilarious Moses Chan

Producer: Lau Ka Ho
Starring: Moses Chan, Linda Chung, Tavia Yeung
Broadcast Period: April or May

Moses Chan's hilarious kung fu develops vividly. He left deep impressions on viewers' hearts for his comedic roles. In the series, Moses plays a police officer, but because he was investigating a case involving a school teacher, he went into the school to be an undercover. This series slightly resembles Stephen Chow's film Fight Back to School, just that this time Moses is an officer and a funny one too.

WHEN HEAVEN BURNS (天與地): Cannibalism for Survival

Producer: Chik Kei Yi
Starring: Moses Chan, Bowie Lam, Kenny Wong, Charmaine Sheh
Broadcast Period: Last half year

Charmaine Sheh and Moses Chan's Can't Buy Me Love was the highest rated series of 2010, the two play a couple again in When Heaven Burns, will definitely be a great appeal. The shooting of this series completed last January. The story is about three good friends Moses, Bowie and Kenny encountered an unexpected situation in the snowy mountain and had to be cannibals to survive. The delusion and memory in turn brings out the darkness of people.

JIUJIANG TWELVE SQUARE (九江十二坊) (Tentative): Brothers fights for property

Producer: Wong Wai Sing
Starring: Bowie Lam, Sunny Chan, Pierre Ngo
Broadcast Period: September

After over 10 years, Pierre Ngo finally makes a breakthrough for his roles in Rosy Business and No Regrets. This time, in this new series he takes on the lead actor role alongside Bowie Lam and Sunny Chan. The three of them fight for if 'you die, I live', the theme of the series is fight for property. Also, the series is shooting in Jiujiang for something new to audience.

FORENSIC HEROES III (法證先鋒 lll): Hot Man Cracks Cases

Producer: Miu Siu Ching
Starring: Wayne Lai, Maggie Cheung
Broadcast Period: November

The original FH received good public praises and high TV ratings. Initially FH3 was tailored for Wayne and Charmaine, but because Charmaine accidentally injured herself, Maggie Cheung replaced her. Before when Wayne played Chai Gau and Lau Sing, he did not care about his physical appearance, but for FH3, he is a handsome forensic scientist that cracks cases. Working alongside the coroner Maggie Cheung on the cases, love sparks between them.

FLS.COM (荃加福祿壽探案): Dropping Laugh Bombs

Producer: Kwan Wing Chung
Starring: Liza Wang, Johnson Lee, Louis Yuen, Wong Cho Lam
Broadcast Period: November

Last year Fun With Liza and Gods popularity skyrocketed. The TV series version sets in the 60s where Liza operates a private investigation firm. She invited the FLS (Fuk Luk Sau) to help her on solving the cases and drop laugh bombs. Added to the cast are Wong Cho Lam's girlfriend Leanne Li, Johnson's girlfriend Egg Roll (Bobo Wong) and Louis' "long last sister" Michelle Lo.

THE WAR AT HEART (心戰) (Tentative): Complicated Suspense.

Producer: Chik Kei Yi
Starring: Adam Cheng, Moses Chan, Maggie Siu
Broadcast Period: Not decided.

Adam and Moses are two Siu Sangs from different generations that collaborate for the first time. Naturally this will get attention. In the series, Adam plays an acting master, Moses is a magician serial killer. It's battle of wits for the two in the series. The story is about the police borrowing Adam's acting theory to investigate a case involving a serial killer. However, in the process of the investigation, Adam suddenly discovers that his daughter kidnapped 25 years ago is still alive. This unfolds an even bigger plot, the story is totally suspenseful and complicated.

LAUGHING GOR: Undercover Comes Back to Life

Producer: Chong Wai Kin
Starring: Michael Tse, Fala Chen, Damien Lau
Broadcast Period: October or November

The series is not a sequel to E.U or Laughing Gor Turning Point. It is actually a completely new story about Laughing Gor coming back to life from being an undercover (he faked his death). He is arranged to be a CIB instructor. His girlfriend, Fala Chen, who appeared in the film version also comes back to life. Fala is a new character who looks exactly like Laughing Gor's late girlfriend, so he gave her special attention and because of that a new love story starts.

Source: Apple Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU