Celestial Pictures currently produces and acquires hundreds of hours of television programmes each year, including television dramas, children's programmes, animation and documentaries.
Celestial plans to expand its activities in new Chinese film content, including remakes of Shaws films that will refresh its large film library and serve as a continuous source of content for its TV networks. In China, Celestial is also producing new big-budget costume-drama television series for broadcast in China and throughout Asia.
Empress Feng of the Northern "Wei" Dynasty
Genre: Period drama
Year of Release: 2008
Duration: 42 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Wu Chien Lien, Shen Au Jun, Wang Qing Xiang, Zhang Tie Lin, Li Guang Jie
Plot Outline:
An account of the time, and the first drama on China's first uncrowned empress, when her power, strength of character and diplomacy directly influenced four generations of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Thanks for Having Loved Me
Genre: Modern drama
Year of Release: 2007
Duration: 34 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Vikki Zhao; Tou Chunghua; Zhou Ziwei; Qin Hailu
Plot Outline:
Wei, a magazine editor, just got a new job. In addition to her heavy workload, she has to handle mounting pressure from her mom who is urging her to get married soon, and to take care of her best friend Ji who has returned from abroad to have an abortion. Amid all this, Wei is also pressured to choose between her three suitors, and must make a painful choice.
Men & Legends
Genre: Action
Year of Release: 2007
Duration: 32 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Peter Ho, Dylan Guo, Hao Lei
Plot Outline:
Enveloped within the political turmoil in the 1910s, Huo Yuan-jia, the most celebrated kung fu master from the north joins forces with Huang Fei-hong, the most revered martial artist from the south, in the hope to fight against the foreign powers. When both are murdered, their students Zhai and Yan undergo rigorous training to become accomplished artists of both unarmed and armed combats to avenge their masters’ deaths.
Healing Souls
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2008
Duration: 34 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast: Jessica Xu, Francis Ng, Jessica Hester Hsuan, Wang Yanan, Lau Siu Ming, Lu Jing-jing, Mia Yan
Plot Outline:
Healing Souls is a drama centered on the personal and professional lives of two doctors. Polar opposites, leaders of their field, Huo and You answer their true calling to heal patients. Two young doctors trying to lead a life in a world where on the job can be a matter of life and death makes having personal lives almost impossible.
Dragon Tiger Heroes I
: The Wizard Pack
Genre: Action
Year of Release: 2009
Duration: 40 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
To be confirmed
Plot Outline: Based on Wong Yuk-long's renowned kung fu comic, Dragon Tiger Heroes is the first TV series to feature the story of the three legendary heroes Hu, Shek and Long, fighting for justice for the community in the 1970s when gangsters’ influence was at its peak.
My Depraved Brother
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2008
Duration: 36 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Michael Tao, Wu Xiu Bo, Shu Chang, Jess Zhang, Deric Wan
Plot Outline: Blood Brothers separated at age of nine and six, older brother Tian is raised in China as the adopted son of a wealthy businessman, while younger brother Fei is raised in Hong Kong as the adopted child of a failed businessman.
When each discovers the other's existence, the past catches up with the brothers and plunges them into a web of pain and conflicts.
Champion
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2008
Duration: 33 x 1 hour episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Huang Chiu, Guok Sun and Ngai Ging Yat
Plot Outline: A drama inspired by China's female volleyball team in the run up to the 2008 Olympics.
Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain
Genre: Action
Year of Release: 2007
Duration: 40 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Athena Chu, Anthony Wong, Alex Fong Chung Sun, Patrick Tam, Nie Yuan
Plot Outline:
Fox Volant of The Snowy Mountain, based on the work of best-selling Chinese author Louis Cha, explores the concepts of loyalty, greed and lust for power. The story revolves around Fox Volant (also know as Hu Fei) and his guest to avenge his parents’ death 20 years prior to the beginning of the story. The circumstances of his parents’ murders gradually emerge from a series of Fox Volant’s encounters and fights against various parties of martial artists.
The excitement, intrigue and action in these incidents are well dramatized, with one event firmly intertwining with others, developing into a vendetta involving the offspring of several families. Caught in a family feud, Fox Volant has also fallen in love with the daughter of his father’s killer. The story ends with a fight between Fox Volant and his sworn enemy.
Twist Love
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2007
Duration: 20 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
William So, Liu Zi , Leo Koo, Miriam Yeung, Edmond Leung, Cheung Yau, He Jiong
Plot Outline:
The story originated from a coastal city in the southern part of China.
Su Jian Kang and Yang Si Man had a happy marriage life. However, Si
Man did not expect that a divorce case arising out of an incident of family
violence could lead to a reunion with Gu Jun Yong, whom she previously
had a short relationship with, and resulted him to re-enter her life. Si
Man's fate was destined to change from that moment. In a divorce lawsuit,
Jun Yong's client, Zheng Yuan Qiu (the defendant), was a highly
reputable figure in the commercial world. Gu hoped he could take the
opportunity to gain a strong foothold in the legal field but did not expect
the prosecutor's lawyer to be Si Man. For a moment, Jun Yong was caught
in a dilemma. Ultimately, Jun Yong decided to take on the case to prove his capability......
Beautiful Life
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2007
Duration: 37 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Yao Qian Yu, Huang Hai Po, Wang Lin
Plot Outline:
When the five-year-old Yanyang is dumped outside the welfare center by her mother, she is doomed to suffer. At the age of seven, Yanyang knows her mother has already forgotten about her existence when she remarries. This is a heavy blow which makes the little girl determine not to weep again. Her optimism with life is ignited when her mother seeks a reunion but this is soon extinguished on realizing that her mother’s true purpose is to ask her to donate one of her kidneys to her sister. Her sorrow is magnified as basic family love seems unattainable and the future looks gloomy …But, being Yanyang, a girl whose determination can be rekindled by trials. She has relied on her smiles which light up the darkness around her. Yanyang not only gives life to her dying sister, but also voluntarily helps her childhood friend, Xu Jianfeng in the affairs of the heart. Ironically, Yanyang brings bliss to the family of her mother, which is on the verge of disintegrating due to lies and the lack of forgiveness. Under Yanyang’s influence, family love and warmth are exuded. Yanyang’s love also shines on her robust and blunt husband, Yang Wenbang, who is enlightened to understand the real meaning of a woman’s tenderness and sacrifice.
Silent Tears
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2006
Duration: 34 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Tang Wei, Yao Qian Yu, Tin Hai Rong, Deng Chiu
Plot Outline:
This is a story of a woman’s struggle of legendary proportion, of overcoming hardships one after another until the final victory in her hotel business. Zijun transforms from a naïve girl to a mature woman of adversity over a span of 30 years. This story mirrors the stories of many Chinese who strived all their lives, living a whole life of hardship. Zijun succeeds in her career but loses the man she loves in the process. Looking back, she discovers she has lost a great deal for the price of success. However, ultimately, she understands what she should cherish. “Silent Tears” is about the struggles of life, intrigues of business politics, true love, and, above all, the noble soul that never yields.
Survival
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2008
Duration: 34 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Ron Wu Chek Hei, Yao Qian Yu
Plot Outline:
At the time of national calamity, all family members in Xia’s Armed Escort Company are slaughtered by the Japanese army. Xia Xiaoxue (Yao Wuyu), at the age of 18, is at a loss while facing the misfortune. At a critical moment she is saved by a mysterious woman named ”Big Sister”. While fleeing from the Japanese soldiers, she meets an aspiring young man, Tang Wensheng (Ng Cheuk-hei). Overcoming difficulties together, Xiaoxue and Wensheng feel a faint feeling of love developing between them. Yet the love bears no fruit as they are suddenly separated. The two are sent to two extremely different places: Xiaoxue goes to the headquarter of revolution with “Big Sister”. On the other hand, Wensheng, with the Three People’s Principles deep-seeded in his mind has prejudice against the Communists, and is thus led by his uncle Tang Dinggan into the military spy camp of the Nationalist Party. Mei Yan, a female student in the camp, once a prostitute, is deeply attracted by Wensheng. During a mission to crack down the traitors, Wensheng and Xiaoxue are captured by the Japanese army and risked being executed via live firing. Wensheng, at his last gasp, pushes protected Xiaoxue and got her to excape while he faces the surrounding enemies alone. Xiaoxue, believing that Wensheng has died, is overcome with grief. Mei Yan is actually rescued by his longtime admirer, from the jaws of death. Xiaoxue becomes a mature intelligence agent half a year later. When she met Wensheng unexpectedly, she is totally shocked. Having clarified all the misunderstandings, the two embrace with joy and grief. They become a couple and work against the Japanese invasion hand in hand ….
Journey to the West
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: TBC
Duration: 60 episodes x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Huang Xiaoming, Liu Yifei, Hu Jun, Fan Bingbing
Plot Outline:
"Monkey King", or known to the Chinese as "Journey to West", is one of the renowned classical Chinese novels about an allegorical rendition of the journey, mingled with Chinese fables, fairy tables, legends, superstitions, popuar beliefs, monster stories as well as whatever the author could find in the Taoist and Buddhist religions.
The Book and the Sword
Genre: Period Drama
Year of Release: 2008
Duration:40 x 45 mins episodes
Language:Cantonese / Mandarin
Main Cast:
Adam Cheng, Niki Chow, Qiao Zhenyu, Leung Ka-yan, Yuen Chow
Plot Outline:
The Fourth Brother of Red Flower Society, Wan Tailai, is caught by the imperial escort agency. To rescue Wan Tailai, the heroes of Red Flower Society ambush the escort cavalries and meet a tribe who intends to retrieve their sacred object. Chen Jialuo thus meets Huo Qingtong, a daughter of the tribe leader. The two admire each other. Overcoming the obstacles with Huo Qingtong, Chen Jialuo at last retrieves the sacred object for her.
Chen Jialuo rushes to Xijiang alone in order to send a letter and meets a girl called Prince Fragrance. Not knowing that she is the younger sister of Huo Qingtong, Chen Jialuo is attracted by her beauty, while Princess Fragrance falls in love with him at the same time. The two hurry to the tribe at the moment when the messengers of General Ding Zhao Wei, who will lead a Manchu army to crack down the west tribe, arrive to send a written challenge to war. Huo Qingtong finally directs her troops to heavily defeat the Manchu army. Princess Fragrance is caught and Qianlong wants to have her, but she refuses to give in. Princess Fragrance later discovers that Qianlong does not want to keep his own promise to overturn the Qing dynasty. She kills herself to warn Chen Jialuo.
Huo Qingtong is about to stab the emperor to death in order to avenge his father, brother, sister and the people of her tribe. At that very moment, the bodyguard of Qianlong, You De, emerges and holds a baby as the hostage. The heroes have no choice but to give up the idea of assassinating Qianlong. Instead, they break out of the palace with the illegitimate son of Qianlong, Fu Kangan, in their grasp, forcing the emperor to stop persecuting the Red Flower Society.
Eagle Shooting Heroes
Genre: Action
Year of Release: 2008
Duration: 50 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Kathy Chau
Plot Outline:
Two daggers engraved with the names “Guo Jing” and “Yang Kang”
unfolding the stories of two teenagers whose parents, before they are born, have made them sworn brothers
City In Tears
Genre: Romance
Year of Release: Late 2008
Duration: 20 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Wallace
Plot Outline:
A poor, pretty and obstinate girl and the playful son of a rich family fall in love with each other. Can their true love overcome the ups and downs of fate, poverty, sickness, death and lies?