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The series starts its read-through today.

As the one who read the novel (in Thai), all 7 of them fits the description of the character nearly 100%, so I think they cast the right one.

The number of EP I gave you is just the production order, I don't know if it gonna sequence like this in the broadcasting order.
For which story has who in it, you can check on The Standard Pop, they are the closest news provider of GMMTV series . They even give synopsis of every GMMTV series this year and numbers of episodes of some GMMTV series this year. However, they published news only in Thai so it won't be easy for interfans to read.
I already send a friend request to you, so that if you want to ask me for update of the show, feel free to direct it to me, I will answer as fast as I can.

Parbdee have already started shooting the fifth episode (Bright and Thanerng) last week, but the fourth episode (Win and Pat) haven't finished shooting yet. If you search #GoodOldDaysSeries on Twitter you'll find the update of the show.

P'Koo mostly didn't spend that much time on his post production, so I think if they wrap up Astrophile in April, GMMTV can release the series in May.

I don't sure, because the rumor I told you last time that there were changes in tentative released date of GMMTV series became true, so I can't rely on the first leaked schedule anymore.
Rumor stated Astrophile is coming on May. Although it comes from an unreliable source, there is a chance this maybe true.
P'Goy said in her live that Astrophile tend to wrap up it's production in April, but she also said she's not sure about the premiere date of the show and whether the series will extend its production period or not.

Yes, they've already started the shooting since February 28. On that day, @flukepusit_ is taking an IG story with janeeyeh and @besevboom.
@capitalfluke post on twitter about the support one day before the first shooting date.
The stars of the show, @nicole_officialaccount @pongnawat @gawincaskeyy, @flukepusit_ @panly.v @besevboom are all updated about the show quite frequently on IG stories.

It's 7 AM in Thailand, so not now.

They have to shoot some parts of the series while airing, similar to The Player, Not Me and F4 Thailand, so I think an episode a week might suit them more.

It's still shooting, you can see it in @besevboom or @panly.v IG stories, they kinda updates eveyday they are shooting.

They already uploaded it on mydramalist for Mama Gogo dates, its come from @crishorwang's IG story and rtuituika's yesterday youtube live.
Devil sister airing schedule comes from director's IG story, @mrkoo.
Vice Versa starting period confimed in Safe House Season 3 by Jimmy, I saw that clip on twitter too, check #ViceVersaSeries. Another source comes from @filmpawis' IG story. In this series, he will be a assistant director.
The Three Gentlebros's shooting schedule confirmed in @bimbeambab's IG story Q&A session she held a month ago, also Gun Atthaphan indirectly mention about the series in his top spender live of Safe House Season 3.
My Dear Donovan's planned shooting comes from @pongpular IG story, she will be a screenwriter of the show.

It seems to be like that, Tu even confirmed by herself that the series will start its production in June.

News
Mama Gogo moved to Saturday starts April 23, replacing F4 (April 16 is a public holiday so from April 13 to 16 There won't be new episodes of any series).
Devil Sister confirmed to be released in April, don't sure what series it will replace which series, The War of Flowers or Drag, I Love You.
Vice Versa confirmed its filming starts on early april.
The Three Gentlebros and My Dear Donovan are both started filming on late april or early may.

If my loved one is inside his sister and I've already known the solutions to make both of them comes back to normal. I wouldn't do anything like kiss or hug my loved one in another body. Why? because I've to protect both of their honor. In my culture, we have a tradition that if you want to love a person, you have to respect their families and relatives too. The body of his sister is still his sister, if I do anything to the body that's means I disrespect to his sister too. I will wait until I finished the mission and when they return to their own body, now I can kiss him.
(However, I'm pretty OK with series adjustment with the issue, though it's soapy in my opinion)

In the novel and in the series are the same, Win is in Lin's body, if not, then why Korn sees Lin's body is having a period. They just used Mix in most scenes to make viewers believe that what Korn sees is Win, which actually isn't. That's why I felt it's cringey and illogical for me.

Overall, I still insist that I don't hate it, but I don't like it either. It felt like an OK show for me. I still wait for the new cut though, I believe this new cut is gonna be better.

I agree that if they adapted 100% from the book it's gonna be less excited.

As you say the medias have different audience demographics, I would says that BLs in Thailand are still limited to some demographics with most of them are also a novel readers. Even Lakorns (Thai soap operas) are always getting criticize on how similar of them compare with original works, BL series that most of watchers are readers are gonna met much more criticism than Lakorns.

For Not Me case, the book got a copyright infrigement issue, it is actually a fan fiction but the writer informed the publisher that it is an original work. In my country, fan fiction can't be adapted into other medias. That's why P'Nuchy have to change most of the details, she only kept characters' detail the same as the book. Not Me book was revoked by publishers before the series aired, but it still available online because the online publisher denied to cancel the book. Some viewers in my country decided to ban the series because of this issue on the novel and most fans of the show in Thailand also know about this issue and not compare it with the original novel.

My opinion is that, Korn and Win's relationship can be represented in non-intimacy way too, because if anyone sees Korn and Win in Lin's body do that, when Lin is waking up in her body, she's the one who goes into problems without knowing or doing anything. It's about respecting other's body, which I think the series shouldn't rid this concept just to serve fanservice scenes.

You ask what if I do if I were in their place.
If I were in their position, I wouldn't adapt this book in the first place, because this is a rushed project, fantasy series needs a lot of time on post-production process, such as CG and voice-over. I would choose light BL novel that feature adult characters instead, which is less focused on storyline and more suitable with this team's strength in comedy.

I have to say that my opinion is quite different from here.
I don't hate it, but I don't like it either.
Here's why,
- The storyline in the novel is done better than the series, some changes in the story are unnecessary and made the storyline illogical and repetitive. Many romantic scenes between Korn and Win is happened when Win is in Lin's body, even though the scenes are cute, but in logical term it looks cringey, totally fanservice.
- The character design are changed so much from the novel to the point that many character felt flat at some point, which in the novel, they aren't. I like the changes they made on Korn's characteristic but I don't like the changes they made for Win's charateristic.
- From what I see from twitter, Thai viewer expected the series to show and promote Thai tourist attractions, but the series kinda deliver it not on the level that most of Thai watchers expect it to be, which as Thai, I agree, though I like the wide views using drones, but the whole series didn't attract me enough to follow to the sites the series used.
- The coloring and CG is so poor on Disney+Hotstar, it's too dark in most scenes and the CG scenes is too bright.

The strong point of the series is that
- All actors are great, especially Earth and Mix; their acting is really top notch more than A Tale of A Thoudand Stars, which on that series they were already great, thier chemistry is so natural that will make you forget all logic when you watch it. Special mention for Janhae, the series shows she's a really great actress and her next series that she takes the lead roles, she will be great too.
- The comical sequence of the series is done right. It is funny when it should and I feel it less forcing than Fish Upon The Sky.

I think it's done poorer than The Shipper in terms of story progression, but if compared with other BL comedy series, it is still better.
I kinda symphatize with the cast and crew though, the series is a hot plate one. They have to done it in a really short period of time, similar to Tonhon Chonlatee, the worst BL series GMMTV ever produce in my opinion. GMMTV should stop rushing series to produce and air before it's ready because the crew didn't have enough time to work on the script and the production quality will be lower than the ones that have time.

The new cut on 27th March will improve several things, I think they might recolor the whole series, imptove CGs and cut some out-of-sequenced scenes, which will be better.

I'm sorry I'm writing a over-negative sentence.
No, I think there won't be reruns if the situation are normal.

I think GMMTV is gonna change their schedule format to fit the whole schedule of this year.
Also, if no interuption from pandemic or other incident. I don't think there will be reruns.

It depends on many factors
1. Director's queue. Thai TV industry's crew salary are really low. If directors don't have producing or executive jobs, they need to direct at least 2 shows a year to make them profitable.
2. The process of each Co-production company. Some company works fast and have enough crew to split into many teams for each series. While others might work slower and with less crew, they can shoot only one by one.
3. Star's queue, each actors have different experince, different amount of time to prepare and different jobs to do. Some of them are still studying and some of them have thier regular jobs.

Astrophile
Never Let Me Go (Even though it's a BL, but it's aim to salute the success of Exact Lakorn)

I don't sure about The Three Gentlebros, because it's the combination of 3 novels that aren't in the same genre (although it's set in the same family), but judging from pilot trailer, it likely be soap opera style.