Our good friends at Fly Films have been working on their most recent reality show, Amazing Race: China Rush, the sequel of sorts to their last project: Shanghai Rush. The show is already on their second episode (it's first elimination episode) and can be viewed every Sunday night at 8pm on ICS or 11:15pm every Saturday night on CCTV News. more ›

Ethnic Uyghur Adili Wuxor, nicknamed 'Prince of the Tightrope,' has been walking around 20km back and forth on a 120 meter long wire above the Beijing Bird's Nest stadium every day for the last two months. But that apparently was not enough to get him into the Guinness Book of World Records... because he had applied for a shanzhai world record book instead. more ›

Apparently the ambitious Pepsi Battle of the Bands is actually turning into a right old crap fest. The upcoming reality show, which was supposed to prop “underground” rock bands into the mainstream as a way of “encouraging young people's passions” has instead annoyed and alienated anyone who bothered to participate. more ›

The video on the right is SMG's report on the global tour that the Olympic torch is currently on. Things are all bright and sparkley, everything is going according to plan, and the torch will be taken to places where it's never been before, including Almaty, Kazakhstan. No mention of the challenges the Olympic torch relay has faced, no mention of the protests that has dogged the torch everywhere it has gone, and no mention of the Chinese Ambassador to the UK dropping out of the torch relay mentioned in this BBC report (embedding disallowed, unfortunately). In a separate report by AFP, Lodi Gyari, an envoy of the Dalai Lama, has urged China to drop plans to run the Olympic torch relay through Tibet in light of what has happened, but China promptly dismissed the call as another "bid to sabotage the Games". more ›