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The New York Times has posted a four-minute video entitled "What's on China's TV Tonight?" It's narrated by David Barboza, an NYT writer based in China, and focuses on Hunan province, which, thanks to mega-hit Super Voice Girls, is the epicenter of China's television boom. The video shows clips of SVG -- including eventual champion Li Yuchun's awful rendition of Bryan Adams' awful "Everything I Do" -- but it also mentions a couple new shows, like the Gong Show-esque Who's the Hero?, where one guy tried to undress women and serve tea to them using a forklift and another bloody-mouthed guy set some kind of record for opening bottles with his teeth, and another show that tries to find China's next young ping pong star.

Following the sensational success of Super Voice Girls (Chaoji Nu Sheng or 超级女声), Hunan Province Satellite Television Station planned to organize another American Idol-style TV program called -- surprise, surprise -- Super Voice Boys (Chaoji Nan Sheng or 超级男声), the TV station announced the news to media cheerfully in early September. However, Xinhua reports (in Chinese) the plan was called off by The Central Propaganda Department and The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. (Whew.) The official line is Super Voice Girls had a lot of "negative" inside stories involved with both the judges and the candidates when it started to become popular. Rumors of blackmail swirled while contestants were labeled concubines and, of course, lesbians (not that there's anything wrong with that).

• First Hong Kong. Next Shanghai Disneyland? Not so fast. "In order for us to even consider a park there, we need to be sure we have access to television," Disney president and future CEO Robert Iger said in the IHT. He wants a Chinese Disney Channel on the Mainland. That is not going to be easy. (Via China Herald)
• Anyone who has taught in China knows that Chinese students cheat ... a lot. Many don't try to hide it, and don't think they are doing anything wrong (or they just don't care). Well, now they could go to jail. And if that doesn't work, there is always the "anti-corruption" curriculum.
• In a move that would never happen in the US, the makers of the amazingly popular Super Voice Girls TV program are saying the show will not be aired next year. Have no fear, Super Voice Boys is on its way. (Seriously.)