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That's it. We're packing our bags and moving to Hunan. Not content with having the best TV station, a decent claim to the best food, and some pretty stunning scenery, the south-eastern province also has a pretty cool party official. Well, relatively cool we mean.

If you're a fan of The Amazing Race and you've got a month to kill in Shanghai, why not try out for ICS' upcoming reality show: Shanghai Rush

Four men were arrested yesterday for allegedly kidnapping a real estate mogul and taking a 5.8 million yuan ransom for his release. The four said they had gotten the idea for their scheme from a television drama.

From Inaction Hero: "China's 'S&M' Enterprises Seek Innovation"

Youku Buzz draws our attention to this shameless copy of Transformers inspired new TV series called “Hyperwiz” (百变机兽), coming soon to a gogglebox near you. The logo of the show is made to resemble the traditional Chinese character for car, “車”.

Video: polskipekin follows three groups of artists around Beijing and asks them for their take on what it means to be painting in a rapidly evolving China [h/t Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei]

Taiwan-based Israeli blogger Filination records several instances of China-bashing by Israeli TV personalities which he says are signs of a widespread Sinophobia that is "now all over Israeli media". The first instance is a long anti-China tirade by Keren Noybah of Channel 1’s News Today in which she describes the Chinese government as a "dictatorship in the worst possible form" and accuses all who watch the Olympic opening ceremony of "participating in an act of deception". The second instance is a dialogue that involves Avri Gilad (from the same morning show) who had this to say before the Olympics opened:"I wish they would cancel it. I wish no country would participate. It’s outragous for anybody to go to China. It’s the worst scandal possible." The last instance involves TV commentator Oren Nehari who during Channel 1's live telecast of the Olympic opening ceremony noted how the movements of the thousands of performers in the taichi segment of the show reminded him of the Nazis. His comment provoked a stinging rebuke from Professor Wang Yu (王宇), lecturer of Israeli history and culture at the Peking University. While she was right that Oren Nehari made a remark that was uncalled for, we found all her reason lost in the emotionally-charged email and her threats to blow up the matter in the Chinese media if the broadcaster did not make an apology soon.

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With 2008 marking fifty years of television drama on CCTV, Danwei shares with us an article from Oriental Outlook on the censoring process that determines just which dramas will be allowed to air on the television network. Danwei points out that "it seems like SARFT is to blame whenever people are upset with film and TV censorship... [but] television stations are ultimately responsible for what they broadcast, so they too employ censors to eliminate objectionable content." CCTV has especially rigorous standards: submitted series must pass an initial screening by the director and executive editor of the Film and TV Department, followed by a detailed review by the Inspection Group. If the series is to be broadcast during prime time, then it needs to be reviewed again following any revisions. While the whole article itself is worth a read, some highlights found by Danwei:
• A ribald folk tune had to be removed from a period piece;
• The mother of a Japanese soldier in a war drama expected him to fight to his death in China, implying that the Japanese people fully supported the war;
• None of the four main characters in a drama about car racing was motivated by the love of the race

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So that live fish key chain souvenir didn't turn out to be very official, but this latest Olympic cheer, "Go Olympics! Go China!" (奥运加油！中国加油！) definitely is, as it comes with the stamp of approval of the Party Office of Spiritual Civilization Development and Guidance (GODPP), the Ministry of Education, BOCOG, and CCTV. There are four highly complex moves to the cheer, but don't worry because Danwei has this step-by-step pictorial guide to help you along. Expect to see lots of this on telly in the 64 days left between now and the Olympics. No excuses now — you have more than ample time to master the moves.

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Kristen Schaal unveils the new Chinese Olympic mascots on The Daily Show. We thought some bits of the clip were kinda lame, but it still made us laugh, and it's a great time-waster for those of you bored in the office right now.

We found on the Foreign Ministry website a question that was posed to Jiang Yu regarding Jack Cafferty's China remarks at a Tuesday press briefing and her response:

Q: In covering the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in San Francisco recently, CNN's commentator Jack Cafferty attacked China, saying that Imported Chinese products are "junk", Chinese people are "basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years." How do you comment on that?

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Looks like the life of that satellite dish you have covertly installed on your patio may be coming to a premature end if the Shanghai government has its way.

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Judging from our observations of our friends, we would say that if formal education fails, watching Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Korean, and Japanese TV shows, along with a healthy dose of Cantopop at the karaoke joint ought to get you started on traditional characters. Most PRC Chinese can read, if not write, traditional characters, but we suppose that's not the same as being formally educated in the subject. Anyhow, we think that, if it happens, it'd be a step in the right direction. Not as big a step as say democracy and free elections, but we're really into keeping our expectations low.

Well, it's all over the news. Hunan TV is going to do a Chinese version of the hit US TV show Ugly Betty. According to a report from the BBC, the lead character—the Chinese Betty—has already been chosen. A Chinese article that we read, dated March 7, says that Hunan TV wants to hold nation-wide auditions to find the ugliest girl possible. So we're not sure what the case is, but in any case, whoever is chosen will soon have their identity known to the world, because the show is supposed to start shooting in April. The plans are to stretch the show out over ten seasons, with about 40 episodes each, for a total of 400 episodes. However, unlike in the US, there aren't going to be longish breaks between seasons (and presumably, no writers' strikes either).

Shanghaiist wishes all female readers a happy International Women's Day (三八妇女节快乐)! Ladies, sit back, relax and watch this video specially made for you by the wonderful guys from SexyBeijing TV:

International Women's Day is this Saturday, March 8 so we're posting this video to celebrate two of the badass women we admire in Beijing's rock scene. Atom is the drummer for Hedgehog and Li Qing is the drummer for Carsick Cars and guitarist for Snapline.

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Chinese television actually isn't as bad as most of us are inclined to think, we've chanced upon informative talkshows and documentaries on interesting subjects sometimes. But the rest of the time, horrendous TV commercials are on hand to remind us why we're better off watching bootleg DVDs or Project Runway on Tudou.com.

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We were hoping that they were going to do one of those double episode things and release episodes 11 and 12 of Prison Break at the same time. We had just finished watching episode 11 on a video site and were looking for episode 12, and found this site, which said it had it .

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We've all been hearing reports about the nightmare caused by the snow, or what Xinhua calls "China's war on snow havoc", which isn't quite as felicitous a phrase as the "US War on Terror", but hey, at least it's more real! The New York Times, among other media outlets, talks about the sense of anger and resentment that people are feeling about what some consider as a lack of preparation on the government's part.

What do you do when your well-inebriated friends ring at 1am asking you to join them for an impromptu snow fight? Life's decisions have never been tougher - toasty comfort of your living room sofa or sub-zero temperatures with the promise of snow angels thrown in for good measure? You hop into a cab, of course.

Meet Harbinite tattooist Zhuo Danting through Ukachi Arinzeh's amazing piece of work on Current TV. We've long known about Zhuo on her website, but this is the first time we get to see her in action. Definitely one of Shanghai's coolest tattoo artists!

William Feng is the host of ICS Shanghai's travel show Getaway. New shows go out on Thursdays and are repeated across the week.