Next TV Awards 2007

Hong Kong's entertainment magazine Next Media held a press conference/award presentation last week to honour the artistes who were receiving awards. As a matter of fact, all the top ten happened to be artistes from TVB. After a month of viewer voting, this was the result outcome.

01. Charmaine Sheh
02. Jessica Hsuan
03. Myolie Wu
04. Kevin Cheng
05. Louisa So
06. Bosco Wong
07. Roger Kwok
08. Bernice Liu
09. Moses Chan
10. Shirley Yeung

It was kind of obvious that Charmaine would take the number one spot after taking both of the awards during last year's anniversary. Jessica always has a bunch of loyal fans supporting her, so her placing second is not a surprise. Let's just say that she was TVB's former number one sister. Although "To Grow with Love" bombed in ratings and feedback, Myolie is no doubt the next to rise. Also, no surprise that skilled actress Louisa So would place in top ten, but what really surprised me is that she place number five overall. Did she place because of her wonderful performance in last year's "Bar Bender" and "Men in Pain", or was it because of her superb cooking skills on the hit variety show "Beautiful Cooking" that crowned her 'Beautiful Cooking Goddess'?

The whole list seems kind of fixed to me. How is it possible that Shirley, Bosco, Kevin Cheng, Bernice, and Moses make it and artistes such as Bobby, Sheren, Liza, Michael Tse, Michael Miu, Ron, Raymond, Melissa, and Kenny Wong not make it? Back then, the top ten lists were definitely the most popular TV artistes/characters for that particular year. Also, how is it that "The Dance of Passion" and "To Grow with Love" make it on to the most popular top ten series/shows when the ratings were neither high nor received good positive feedback, while series such as "Forensic Heroes", "Safe Guards", and "Love Guaranteed" did not place?

I bet no one is ever going to break Flora's record of placing at number one for three consecutive years (1998 to 2000). I'm not even sure if anyone can match Michael Tao's two consecutive years at number one (1995 and 1996).

Seriously, voted by viewers? This has got to be a joke and I'm not laughing!