Kevin Cheng and Tavia Yeung Win TVBC’s Inaugural Awards
On December 16, Kevin Cheng (鄭嘉穎) and Tavia Yeung (楊怡) became the first winners of TVB’s newly added “China’s Most Popular TVB Male and Female Artist” <中國內地最受歡迎TVB劇男女藝人> awards.
A joint event between TVB’s Mainland division TVBC <上海翡翠東方傳播有限公司>, and Internet video giant Youku Tudou Inc. <優酷土豆網>, the awards were determined by online polls conducted on iTVB, Youku.com, and Tudou.com. Mainland viewers were encouraged to vote for their favorite artists until December 12. The results were revealed on today at a small ceremony just hours prior to the TVB Anniversary Awards.
The five finalists in the Most Popular TVB Male Artist category included Kevin Cheng, Kenneth Ma (馬國明), Chilam Cheung (張智霖), Bosco Wong (黃宗澤), and Raymond Lam (林峯). With an established Mainland presence via major roles in well-known productions such as Bu Bu Jing Xin <步步驚心> and Ip Man <葉問>, Kevin took home the top prize as expected after winning 38 percent of the total votes. He thanked Mainland fans for their support, and was reluctant to speak about any potential pay raise. Additionally, Kevin revealed that he is scheduled to film a police drama for TVB in April, and when asked about his ideal leading lady,he did not hesitate to include former flame Charmaine Sheh (佘詩曼) on the list.
Although she has yet to break into the Mainland market, Tavia Yeung became China’s Most Popular TVB Female Artist with 41 percent of the votes, beating out favorites Charmaine Sheh, Kate Tsui (徐子珊), Linda Chung (鍾嘉欣), and Myolie Wu (胡杏兒). Since she has yet to renew her management contract with TVB, some speculate that the company is using the award to entice the TV Queen to stay.
Tavia thanked fans and expressed surprise over her win. Admitting her weak presence in Mainland, she joked that she deserves the title very literally since Mainland viewers can only evaluate her based on her performance in TVB dramas. She added that if her schedule allows, she hopes to have the opportunity to film in China in the coming year.
Source: Ming Pao
This article is written by Katrine for JayneStars.com.
Im happy for Tavia! Congratulation!! May u can penetrate into d China market.
wow! didn’t know there was such an award! but congrats to kevin and tavia both!!! both are two of my favorite tvb artists!! 😀 anticipating kevin’s 2014 return to tvb to film a drama!!!!
Why is Linda nominated, even though she hasn’t film dramas in mainland??
She shouldn’t even be nominated at all. TVB can’t put in her name in all types of awards, that ain’t fair to the others
I don’t think Tavia has filmed any mainland dramas either so I don’t know why you’re only targeting Linda
I believe Tavia did filmed a mainland drama, The Emperor’s Harem, in 2011. But I think this award was voted my mainland ppl and they also watched Tvb dramas, hence Linda and Kate name were on there…
FYI Tavia filmed 后宫 with Patrick tam. It is Linda who didn’t film any
That one is TVBC’s and it has every single lead artists of Txb. And anyone can vote, have a weibo or wechat account, not only restricted in Chinese.
The only problem with that was the cheat of Txb to delete votes of particular artists.
wiki –
“In early 2011, with less than two months of rest, Tavia was presented with a role and opportunity she could not turn down from mainland China. She cut short her leave to participate in an ancient grand production The Emperor’s Harem (后宫) alongside Ady An and William Feng as the evil and conniving Imperial Corsort Wan.”
Tavia did filmed 1 mainland drama with Patrick
Tam, Ady An and William Feng. I thought she was good in it, better than some of her TVB dramas. When I was in China, many if my Beijing colleagues watched THC1 and really like Tavia too.
Why do they have to film in china to be china favourite tvb artist? They can just watch tvb drama to know them.
hope raymond can get this award next year
Lolz, he got that type of award with similar name (favourite actor in Mainland) in 2007 (together with Gigi Lai).
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Haha, is TVB saying Tavia doesn’t need to film Mainland series? Apparently, the audience can watch her TVB series. Guess she’s not going anywhere.
Go Kevin and tavia
tavia looks good. hopes she can film more mainland dramas. i love her in ancient costume dramas.
Congrats to tavia me soo happy for her
Was this the one where all the votes had to be thrown out because people were trying to rig the votes?
This must be the voting board where at the beginning, some hackers rigged Raymond Wong and Priscilla Wong’s results from single digit to 4 digit votes within a short duration. Whereas the votes for Lam Fung, Kevin, Bosco, Kenneth, Myolie, Tavia, Kate all between 2-3 digits only at that time. In short, riggable poll for those fans who are cheap minded enough to do so.
AYYYYYY LOVE KEVIN!
Why Kevin never grow old ? and above pic he looks so adorable….congrats both of them.
LOVE THEM!! Congrats, so happy for them 🙂 hope they can collaborate soon…would be wonderful.
also would love to see tavia venture out into mainland china. She needs to move forward. Her schedule for tvb is always so tight every year…..
they always line her up and pack up her schedule….its a pity.
Never made sense to me why myolie gets to film mainland drama as well as kevin bosco and others whereas tavia and some of the other fadans never got the chance too??
Because Myolie has the invitations and good price for Txb to feel unable to deny. So does the men.
Tavia and kenneth have both stated that they have numerous filming invitations for mainland…however they cant fit it into their tight schedule…..
so i doubt thats the reason…i think tvb gives myolie, kev etc more flexibility…
I have no idea about their statements, but the price is a factor. Unless the price is worth for Txb to release ppl, they won’t do so for any reason. Myolie or KC or even Ron Ng received many invitations in a year time but only the ones with high price will be accepted. Random invitations mean no. Not that Myolie has more flexibility but rather high price.
Like that, you can’t compare an invitation of 10k per eps to an invitation of 100k per eps. If Myolie is offered 40k per eps, I doubt TVB will agree to release her.
In fact every Txb artists have fair amount of invitation each year to film in China. The leading artists have many. However some have really good price (more than 100k per eps) while some only have 10-40k per eps. Those with at least 100k++ per eps will have better chance to go because they gain more money for Txb. Lolz, it’s a shame if a leading actor/actress of Txb accept a 10-40k per eps Chinese series although it’s even higher than their prices in Txb.
I love how Tavia keeps winning all the different types of award (Best performance of the year, most improved, favourite character, best supporting, and best actress).
I rmb someone questioned Linda’s popularity and here we have an answer: http://ww4.sinaimg.cn/bmiddle/70e120a9tw1ebmrqhsw3zj20c80ywjwq.jpg
Although the picture of Linda doesn’t show all of her supporters but we can see at least 20 ppl. Put it in a comparison with the above fan group and we can jump to an assumption.
P/S: I’m not a fan of Linda nor her acting, but I reckon her fanbase.
love both of them, great to hear Kevin back to TVB next year, miss him in tvb series. love Kevin 🙂
So happy for the two to receive the award 😀 congratulations! Proves Tavia’s popularity in mainland is continuously rising despite the lack of exposure into the Mainland market. Hope she can really film mainland series next year and make it big there.
Love you two. So happy for Tavia’s popularity in China.
If pure voting, i dont think raymond lam will lose. But i duno the authenticity of the polling though. Just like TVB last year. But of course even Raymond Lam not getting the award, he is already popular enough..
Weird that tavia is so popular in china but her fees are so low. Something just isn’t right. I do not doubt Kevin being popular in china.
Being popular has nothing to do with money
Oh yes, it does. If you’r popular, you’ll be paid more, at least not 40-50k/eps as she’s paid now.
that still dosent have anything to do with how popular you are among viewers. Yes mabey popularity means more money but thats a personal thing for the artist themselves but not on how popular you are with fans. People vote for their favorite artists regardless of how much money you think they make.Honestly are those managzine really depict how much an artist make? Do you really know how much tavia makes? no, because people here dont know her nor do they live with her to know how much she truly makes. I can make up an article and say that tavia makes the most money so to speak…
Congratulations to Tavia and Kevin for getting their awards. I was rather surprised when I saw it was Tavia, who is apparently new to the Mainland, with an award. That will give her lots of confidence when she starts to work in the Mainland.
Problem – too many awards
Good: many people get awarded
Wowwwww congrats to Tavia Yeung n Kevin Cheng n MG Tavia is getting so much more pretty these days huh!
i think they both look very compatible :p
Congrats Tavia and Kevin! I hope to see you two act as a couple in a new drama next year!
Tavia looks really gorgeous here!
I agree that Tavia’s taste in dressing has improved tremendously recently. She is looking more sophisticated and chic. She must be having a good adviser on dressing the right way to enhance her beauty.
Kevin deserves to receive this award with all what he has contributed to the drama industry. He is a responsible actor. Congratulate to Kevin. wishing him all the best with wonderful health in order to continue gaining success in his career.
Yay Tavia! Congrats on her win. I do hope she continues filming TVB drama along with Mainland dramas. 🙂
Love Tavia . She has the most natural acting skills in tvb. I’ve love her acting since Twins of Brothers. She is beautiful and can act in any role thrown her way. Just wish she didn’t change her nose and kept it natural how she was first debuted. Such a shame she ruined her look with that god awful nose. Still love her though . Tavia forever!!!