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Surprise, surprise: Chinese legends are most popular TV dramasPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn on Monday, June 13, 2005 at 8:41 PM
 CSM is a market research firm owned by global market research house TNS and a company controlled by CCTV. CSM has released a report about China's TV drama industry in 2004 which Xinhua has summarized. These are some of the key points in the Xinhua summary: - In 2004, 156 TV stations in 33 cities nationwide broadcast more than 180,000 episodes of 1,500 different TV drama series. - The above total represents a 5.8% increase from 2003.
- Because of recent limits on cops and robbers / crime dramas put in place by SARFT (State Administration of Radio, Film and TV), the number of such dramas went down to under a quarter of the previous quantity.
- Dramas based on Chinese legends (传奇剧) were the darling of Chinese TV in 2004 making up 20.5% of all dramas watched.
- The TV drama market in China is worth 4.3 billion yuan. LINKS:
- Xinhua: China TV drama report - CSM home page The image is a screenshot from the TV drama Longfei Xianggong (龙飞相公) |
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