TV Series

I am generally pleased with this years results, unlike last years I was shocked and dissatisfied overall, however there was some unexpected things in this years awards.
Firstly if anyone has read my first post you'll know my favourites for each award so I'll be referring to those quite often.
Best Actor
Firstly I think it's really good to get some people outside of TVB to present the awards to make the whole thing more interesting and Kathy Chow was definitely a good choice, however I think one year they should do something like gather all the past winners to announce the winner (hopefully something like that will happen in 2008). Well as you should know my nominations were Bobby, Ha Yu, Moses, Damian and Raymond, and expectedly all went through to the top 5. Personally I didn't think any other of the top 20 would enter if TVB was really trying to congratulate the Top 5 of the year, But I did think TVB may just sneak Roger Kwok in the Top 5. I'm slightly amazed though that they actually put Ha Yu in aswell as I thought they wouldn't do, but anyway all the better for me. Anyway I think everyone believed Moses Chan had 99% chance to get the award because (i) he is getting to that age (ii) he hasn't got Best Actor before (iii) he was very good in HOG. Anyway I thought if Raymond was nominated for HOG also he would have been in better contention that for TDOL. Bobby Au Yeung should also be praised and whilst I'm on that note I will congratulate Bosco Wong in DB because he was very good and I would have actually taken Damian out if he was nominated for DB.

Best Actress
Well the female award was easily predicted aswell I thought though it didn't suit my tastes 100%. Charmaine,Jessica, Louise, Susanna and Sheren were nominated. Generally I support Sheren to be nominated each year and maybe I think she should have won the award last year and for War & Beauty but this year I thought there were better actors than her so I was a tad dissapointed, but I expected it anyway as Michelle Yim would never have been nominated even though she performed really well (waiting for HOG II where Michelle will play a bigger part). Though I don't think the following people should be nominated I just want to congratulate them in their series, these are Tavia Yeung, Linda Chung, Sonija Kwok I thought these three were underrated this year in the awards so I had to talk about them in this post, Also I'm annoyed that Myolie had no chance of getting anything this year with her lack of series. Though it was expected that Louise would win I thought that Jessica should have won it instead but because she has changed contract TVB would never give it to her.

Best Supporting Actor
This award was always going to be difficult for me and though I thought Benz Hui was the best the other 4 I chose were also deserving. Personally I thought Evergreen Mak and Chris Lai were also good nominees but instead the stupid Wong Cho Lam was nominated, to be honest the series he was nominated for was a flop and he didn't act great in it so I am dissapointed but Ng Wai Kwok was a better choice however I didn't think he was top 5 material. Well anyway I thought Louis Yuen was a good choice to give this award to but personally I thought Benz and Paul were better than him.

Best Supporting Actress
Except for Halina Tam my top 5 were in including Fala Chen. I personally wouldn't comment on whether Fala Chen was good or bad in Steps as I haven't seen it but I don't think she deserved the award yet because firstly she is only a newcomer and secondly she needs to go through the process of most improved before she can get anywhere into the Best categories. I think Mary Hon deserves this award but for an older actor/actress to win an award they need huge backup from the audience. But I guess I guess right that Fala Chen would sneak in and steal the award because non of the ones I chose were heavily promoted by TVB.

Favourite Male Character
Personally I thought that Moses Chan shouldn't really have got this award though I thought his character was very good. The problem here is that I though Bobby deserved something this year but he wasn't as good an actor as Moses in DB, his character wasn't as favoured as Moses or Raymond and his fanbase in China isn't as large as Raymond's so I guess he couldn't have won anything but he deserves some recommendation for DB. Personally though I liked Bosco's character in DB more than Bobby so I chose Bosco to be in the top instead however it was still Bobby who got in. One thing that really annoyed me was that Wong Chi Wah was nominated for a series that not many people liked because of it's language issues so really they should have given a nomination to someone else e.g. Roger Kwok or Joe Ma but they had to give it to Wong Chi Wah. Anyway I thought Raymond should have won the award but because Raymond would win the Mainland most favourite Actor award they couldn't give him another award as it would make him look better than Moses. But I think character wise I liked Ha Yu and Raymond more than Moses.

Favourite Female Character
Personally I don't think Susanna's character was a top 5 competitor for me as her character was not as good as some others. I think Jessica, Tavia and Linda's character should have filled in the top 5 aswell because their characters were really interesting so besides Charmaine and Louise I thought the other three shouldn't have been in though I know Hong Kong really liked Gigi Lai's Character in TUCF. But Susanna's character was given this award because hk liked her here and they needed to give her something or there would be an uproar.

Most Improved Actor
Personally i thougth that Chris was deserving of this award but it is true that Amigo has been heavily supported by TVB.

Most Improved Actress
For this award i think i may should properly read it before i judge because it says most improved rather than best out of the five. If you are looking for most improved Kate is your girl because she has improved since last year whilst the other nominated girls haven't really improved and how can Fala Chen improve when she hasn't acted before.

I think the mainland awards are TVB's way of "Sharing the Pork" as the Chinese say, it is also a way to allow TVB to say who they are supporting.
On the men's side I don't know why Ron would be nominated compared to the other actors (I'm not saying he isn't good because I thought he did well in On the First Beat) as I don't think the Chinese really know him so I am quite sure that TVB put him in there.
However I amazed if what I just said was right that how come Myolie isn't in the top 5 for the female side seeing that she wasn't nominated for a thing in the award ceremony (poor Myolie). But other than Shirley you can see that the other four are favoured by TVB, it's a way for TVB to say that if we could have our way then this would be what would have happened.

On the whole I thought Dicey Business, The Brink of Law, The Drive of Life should have been congratulated more because I thought they were good series. I'm also amazed that Ten Brothers didn't get anything seeing that the series was probably the first series to rate so highly in the year (Probably because both Kenix and Frankie have left TVB). Next Year I want to see more of Myolie, Ada, Tavia, Michelle Yim.

Overall my congratulations this year go to
Male: Bobby Au Yeung, Ha Yu, Moses Chan, Michael Tao, Ron Ng, Bosco Wong, Raymond Lam, Paul Chun, Benz Hui, Evergreen Mak, Chris Lai, Louis Yuen, Michael Tse and Chris Lai.

Female: Liza Wang, Charmaine Sheh, Jessica Hsuan, Tavia Yeung, Michelle Yim, Myolie Wu, Shirley Yeung, Louise Lee, Susanna Kwan, Linda Chung, Sheren Tang, Kiki Sheung, Sonija Kwok, Christine Ng, Kate Tsui, Bernice Liu, Fala Chen, Gigi Lai, Yoyo Mung, Florence Kwok, Mary Hon, Natalie Tong, Cecilia Yip.

Series: Glittering Days, Dicey Business, The Brink of Law, Best Bet, Heart of Greed, Family Link, On the First Beat, Drive of Life.

One's not listed in the congratulations I either forgot about you or (more likely) you don't deserve to be mentioned!!!