How did we miss this?! China's Got Talent finally began auditions for its second season yesterday, and they started with Shanghai! Reports about the number of registrants who showed up in Zhabei district yesterday vary - Sina says around 9,000, which is three to four times the number of participants last year. more ›

Congratulations to Liu Wei, an armless pianist who is now China's Most Talented Person. Besides being able to play Mariage D'amour with his toes, we also learned that he could probably school us in swimming and Chinese calligraphy. That makes him almost TOO talented, if you ask me. more ›

Unfortunately, I don't have a TV, so I totally missed the premier of on Shanghai's Dragon TV channel. But now the videos are up on Youtube, and I've gotten a chance to pick out highlights. And boy are there some highlights. more ›

In case you didn't think you were getting enough information about the Expo spoon fed to you already, organizers are planning to bring an Expo TV channel to the city's airwaves in March. The channel would present "all-around programming about the international fair, including news reports, films and TV serials, dramas and cartoons," according to Shanghai Daily. Because only national authorities are allowed to open a new TV channel, local officials will have to convert a current station - either ICS or Dragon TV - into the new Expo-only one. more ›

China Hush has published its translation of a Netease interview with Lou Jing (娄婧), the half-black Oriental Angel contestant who was the subject of a lot of online netizen character attacks, most of them extremely bigoted. more ›

The controversy surrounding Lou Jing, the half-black Shanghainese girl who recently appeared on DragonTV's reality show "Let's Go! Oriental Angel" made actually curious about the show. We mean, we were curious about the show before, when we first stumbled upon its auditions at the Channel One mall, but now we actually wanted to check it out. more ›

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Derby fever strikes the city once again tonight when Shanghai Shenhua cross the Huangpu to take on Pudong’s Shanghai United in the CSL, with both teams looking to get one over their local rivals to make up for disappointing seasons so far. more ›

The show, broadcast live on Dragon TV until August, is like a male beauty contest that began on May 21. We read the rules of the competition, and it seems they aim to select charming men with both ability and moral integrity, to make them the new image of the young generation. We suppose it helps if the guy is hot, too, although that clearly was not the case for Super Voice Girls. more ›

As if you needed us to tell you, it's Oscar night morning. We have one eye on the TV right now -- Dragon TV, and at least one other local network -- are showing a "live"[1] feed of the red carpet coverage from E! (with Chinese commentary). Why not watch on our satellite? Because it never freakin' works. CCTV usually replays the Oscars Monday evening, although we haven't found confirmation of that online yet (anyone out there got the details?). In past years CCTV's coverage has been in English with Chinese subtitles. more ›

Most people climb the Great Wall. Some run up it. A few strange souls ride their unicycles on it. And 1000 saxophonists are planning to gather on it to play their instruments in unison (if you've scheduled an outing to Badaling that day, we strongly suggest a stroll around the Summer Palace instead). more ›