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Netflix is also saying Jan 25 for my region (SEA) but no time.

end of March supposedly

no, that was Wang Xing

I only saw their schedules so I'm not sure about the other actors. if you know the studio account of your fave on weibo they usually post them at the beginning of the month.

LYX and WXY have a drama promotion event in Beijing scheduled on January 18 so it's airing soon (🍉 January 23)

they just added 2 more ads 6 months after release!

she was one of the maids in the beginning (the ones sent to spy on Jiang Li/XFF).

there's a lot more lists, just waiting for official announcements so I can gather them (+ the Yunhe one on twitter isn't final yet since We Are Criminal Police is definitely making it to the top 10.)

Tencent released their 2024 White Paper Report (that analyzes the year in entertainment) and here's all the lists where The Double (or actors related) were mentioned:

#8 in Top 10 Most Popular TV Dramas
#2 in Top 10 Most Sponsored TV Dramas (53 brands)
#9 in Top 10 TGI Index Dramas for Women
#5 in Top 10 Ancient Idol Dramas
#10 in Top 10 Most Influential TV Dramas

#9 in Top 10 Most Popular TV Drama Actors - Wang Xingyue
#10 in Top 10 TV Drama Actresses - Wu Jinyan
#4 in Top 10 TV Drama Actor Breakthroughs - Wang Xingyue
#1 in Top 10 TV Drama Actors with Potential - Guan Yue (for The Double and You Are My Lover Friend)
#10 in Top 10 TV Drama Actors with Potential - Chen Xinhai

#4 in Top 10 Male Celebrities with Rising Potential - Wang Xingyue
#10 in Top 20 Celebrity Hot Searches - Wang Xingyue
#8 in Celebrities with >9 Spokesperson Endorsements - Wang Xingyue (10 brands)

newest 🍉 December 18

looks like it's a global netflix release. now we just need a premiere date:

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/perfect-match-to-launch-exclusively-and-globally-on-netflix

Day and Night 2 is coming soon and it's the sequel to a beloved show so it has a good chance of becoming Youku's 2024 champion (or if Yang Yang's Immortal Ascension drops in December.) Nothing will probably beat The Double as biggest surprise hit though.

9winni on ao3 has great ones. it's in chinese but google translate worked well enough.

That "unauthorized" clip had already shown up in promos weeks before it was posted in his social media so that was a gross overreaction from cnetz. Yu Zheng also said before that he approves all the marketing materials of his artists and he never really fired anyone so he was probably lying as usual.

Anyway, none of her fans have actually read the script and all of the unfounded rumors is just because YZ mentioned there's more romance in it than people assumed. That doesn't immediately mean that WXY is stealing screentime and plot importance from BL. If it turns out YZ is exaggerating just to rile up the fans on both sides then all of this fighting would have been based on nothing.

there are (were?) 2 ding feng bo's in production. this is iqiyi, the other is youku.

it's currently at 6.6 which is not high but not too bad for an idol drama (to compare Fangs of Fortune, Kill Me Love Me and The Rise of Ning all opened below 6.) Douban likes their slice of life dramas so this year the highest rated shows are She and Her Girls at 9.5 and City of Sunlight at 9.0 which both aired recently. currently airing ones like Romance in the Alley, Love Game in Eastern Fantasy and Story of Pearl Girl are getting good feedback but don't have scores yet.

it was either cut or just a shot for promotional photos. it might have been more shots of xff hallucinating xh's return because I remember bts of a back hug that was also cut.

Joy of Life 2, Legend of Shen Li, and Blossoms Shanghai.

currently #4 in the 2024 Yunhe list for web series with cumulative playback of 65M/episode. (as a benchmark, anything below 15M is considered a flop and anything above 40M is popular. It's a cold year so only 11 shows so far are considered popular.)

They haven't released the nominee list but apparently the Wenrong Awards shifted over the years to highlight "newer" talents in the industry so WJY would not be in their ~brand since she already won for Yanxi Palace/Haolan.