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| Monday, May 01, 2006 |
| HK and Ratings |
HK and TV ratings
This is more of a ramble… lol bear with me…also all this is my own opioion. Don’t be offended… at least I don’t think I said anything offensive anyways.
-skip down if you do not want to read about HK skip down to the ratings part of it-
Just fast facts about Hong Kong
Population:
6,940,432 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 13.5% (male 488,607/female 445,593)
15-64 years: 73.7% (male 2,495,679/female 2,620,336)
65 years and over: 12.8% (male 413,031/female 477,186) (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.59% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
7.29 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
6.29 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.08 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.1 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.95 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.87 male(s)/female
total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2006 est.)
Nationality:
noun: Chinese/Hong Konger
adjective: Chinese/Hong Kong
Ethnic groups:
Chinese 95%, other 5%
Languages:
Chinese (Cantonese), English; both are official
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I can say that most of the people reading this blog is not in HK. It is hard for someone outside HK to understand their lifestyle, their way. Looking from the outside in doesn’t give the whole view, but what if we had an inside look in HK.
A few months ago I had a pleasant visit from my aunt who lives in Hong Kong. Hehe, she was fun and we even watched all of Golden Faith together! During the viewing of Golden Faith, she said that she vaguely remembers seeing small fragments of the show. Then she said that she hardly ever watch TVB anymore! (screaming inside…) Thinking back to my last visit to Hong Kong I realized that hardly anyone was ever home. Always out on the “fast track”. Out of the whole month I think we ate in like seven times. There was a different restaurant everyday. I have to say it was yummy mmm…food. (I do say I love the train system in HK)
Something about Hong Kong that some must realize is that most people in Hong Kong spend most of their income on living. Apartments are very expensive because of the lack of space Hong Kong has. (Something shocking I learned that the land bought in HK isn’t actually your forever. The deed only last for x amount of years and then the land is return to the HK government and resold again. I have always wondered how come the HK government has so much land to give out and it seems never run out of land, but in fact they are just reselling land over and over. Sounds unfair, it is. Something that is starting to be used in China too…they took the idea from HK)
Lol I got off topic al little there. But I just wanted to point out HK life is very fast and it’s a pretty though life out there. Reason HK population has been dropping is because Kids are very expensive these days. More exactly the books needed for school are very expensive.
Back to my conversation with my Aunt, she said the main reason she didn’t watch series is because she is just busy, Her shift at work varied and to follow a series was quite difficult.
Something that has troubled me is the unpredictability of ratings.
Who would of thought one of the most talked about series LWOLAP but do so horribly in ratings? When TVB moved back the date there was an upraising of protest. But when it finally aired the ratings were very disappointing. I haven’t seen it so I can’t comment.
I was looking at the Top Series from 1997- present.
Here are some observations
1999- It like a desert that year… the highest averaged rating was 32? Lol thinking back to what happen that year. I finally understand why… even I was diverted from TVB. The Taiwan series HZGG (Pearl Princess) was aired on HK’s other free channel ATV, which it drew impressive  ratings. (umm whoops I was also one of the people who was drawn into the hype…lol I was obsessed at that point)
Anyways, one of my all time favorite series was aired at this time Detective Investigation Files IV… ahh Louis and Jessica…*heart*
War of Gender the series with the highest single ratings was the third highest average rated series with its average ratings of 35 pts.
Sigh one of my biggest shock was from two series who had disappointing ratings
2002
9. Golden Faith
Cast: Gallen Lo, Deric Wan, Jessica Hsuan, Raymond Lam, Michelle Yip
Average Ratings: 29 PTS
First Week Ratings: 24 PTS
Final Week Ratings: 37 PTS
Peaking: 43 PTS
and A Threshold of An Era
Which I do not have the exact ratings for... but for the impressive cast ensembled it was quite disappointing…
War And Beauty did not have THAT impressive ratings… overall. But it did make it the second highest rated series that year.
View Truned In: 2.08 Million
Average Ratings: 32 PTS
First Week Ratings: 30 PTS
Final Week Ratings: 33 PTS
Peaking: 41 PTS
The Highest rated series is a tie between Square Pegs and Jewel In The Palace
Both with average rating of 36 pts
2006
Weird year…
Le Femme Desperado did not flop
One of the least hyped series, Safe Guard, had a very impressive run peaking 40 pts
LWOLAP failed to be a hit
Ekin’s return failed Always Ready
Under the Canopy of Love- a cast comprised of the “younger generation” was very successful
Welcome to the House did not flop like expected.
Benny’s returned saved many series cough…Biter Bitten… woot Benny!
Sigh…
HK viewers are just too hard to understand…. That is my conclusion
to be continued... there is more but I have to go study now... bye! |
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