Snackmasters is a new cooking competition show that will premiere on Monday, November 29, 2021 on Channel 9 at 7:30pm. It was supposed to premiere a week earlier but a last-minute move was made by the channel to delay the premiere by a week in order to avoid crashing with the finale of Celebrity MasterChef Australia on Channel 10, which in turns moved the finale a day later from Sunday November 21, 2021 to Monday, November 22, 2021 last week. Ahhh, another day, another cat-and-mouse scheduling of TV shows in Australia, LOL…
The Memory Garden 如果花知道 is a new 40-episode Taiwanese TV series that will premiere on December 20, 2021. The two male leads in this new series are Ray Chang 張睿家 and Shih Chih-Tian 石知田 who were both in the WBL series from earlier this year. The theme song has just been released so here it is…
Baker Boys รักของผม…ขนมของคุณ (Thai name translated literally as My Love…Your Snacks) is a new 12-episode Thai series that will premiere on November 24, 2021. It is based on the Japanese manga series Antique Bakery 西洋骨董洋菓子店 by Yoshinaga Fumi よしなが ふみ. The manga has already been adapted into a live-action Japanese TV series in 2001 and also an Japanese anime series in 2008. A Korean film adaptation, Antique 서양골동양과자점 앤티크 was also released in 2008. This is not a BL series but it does have a gay character as a main protagonist.
Gold Leaf 茶金 is a new 12-episode Taiwanese drama series that premiered on November 13, 2021. It is the story of the tea industry in Taiwan in the 1950s. It’s a mutli-dialect/multi-language drama and also the first Taiwanese drama to use Hailu Hakka 海陸腔客語 dialect as the main dialogue, while Mandarin, Hokkien, English, Japanese, and Shanghainese are also being used in the drama.
Very surprised to find this! This is the Thai cover of the hit Mandarin song from 2019 originally sang by en which I posted previously. This Thai version has just been released in Taiwan and I’m not sure if it has already been released in Thailand or if it has an official Thai MV for the song as I could not find any information for that.
WBL Boys’ Vacation is an 8-episode reality TV show featuring the 6 actors from the two seasons of the WBL TV series from earlier this year. It premiered on November 12, 2021 and will continue airing new episode every Friday night. Very interesting with the play on words with the WBL name in Chinese 微波爐 which means microwave oven, so in Chinese the title translated as Microwave Oven Boys’ Vacation, LOL… Well, it is because the pinyin of 微波爐 is wei bo lu which abbreviated as wbl, very clever, LOL… It also has the connotation that they are the generation who only know how to use microwave oven and don’t know how to cook, and now they have to go camping without any microwave oven! Anyway the audio theme song has just been released and it is performed by the 6 actors. The official MV of the song will premiere on November 19, 2021.
My Beautiful Man 美しい彼 (Utsukushii Kare 美麗的他) is a new 10-episode (Update December 24, 2021: Just watched episode 6 and it was the final episode! Oh well, never mind, the next Japanese BL-ish series is not too far away, Kei x Yaku will premiere on January 13, 2022…) Japanese BL series that will premiere on November 18, 2021. The series is adapted from the BL novel series of the same name by Nagira Yuu 凪良ゆう. Three volumes of the novel series have been published so far, and the first volume published in 2014 won first place in the Best Novel category at the 6th Chill-Chill BL Awards in 2015.
The preview of the opening and closing credits songs have been released, about 30 seconds each. I’ll add the official MVs here if and when they are available…
Caramel カラメル (opening song preview) – Mosawo もさを。
Follow (closing song preview) – Rosu ロス
Update November 21, 2021: Opening song, Caramel カラメル, 30 seconds opening sequence preview… MV will premiere tomorrow, November 22, 2021!
MV for the closing song, Follow, will also premiere on November 22, 2021…
Update December 6, 2021: Another MV for Caramel, this time it is the drama version…
Caramel カラメル (drama version) – Mosawo もさを。
Update December 20, 2021: Drama version MV of the closing theme song…
Not to be confused with the 2019’s Thai BL TV series, Until We Meet Again, this is a new Taiwanese movie called Till We Meet Again 月老 that premiered at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea on July 8, 2021, but will have its general cinema release in Taiwan on November 24, 2021. However it had its advance screening for Taiwanese students just a couple of days ago on November 6, 2021, and apparently got quite good feedbacks. The movie is based on the very popular novel of the same name published in 2002 written by Giddens Ko 九把刀 (under the pseudonym of “Nine Knives”), who also wrote the screenplay and directed the movie. This novel has been the most anticipated of all Giddens’ novels to be turned into a film version by fans… You may remember Giddens Ko as the director of the 2011’s box office hit You Are the Apple of My Eye 那些年，我們一起追的女孩, based on his semi-autobiographical novel of the same name.
Corner Café 