2012's most-watched: Star Awards, heartland dramas, and superheroes
Chinese Celebrities-Chinese Supermodel Chiling Lin
- Occupation: actress, model
- Income: 58.3 million yuan (US$9.2 million)
- Wealth ranking: 21
- Media Exposure Ranking (Internet): 23
- Media Exposure Ranking (Newspapers): 30
- Media Exposure Ranking (Magazine & TV): 19
Chiling Lin is regarded by the media as The First Face of Taiwan. Lin’s popularity started in 2004 and initiated a Taiwanese craze for supermodels. Afterwards her popularity spread to Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland. Due to her warm smile and perfect measurements, she starred in numerous big commercials, including ones for LG, Longines, China Airline and Pantene. She also starred in many popular movies such as “Red Cliff,” “Love on Credit” and “Welcome to Sha Ma Town”. In 2011, her income reached 200 million Taiwan New Dollars (US$6.8 million), allowing her to take the driver’s seat of Taiwan’s richest model for the 8th consecutive year.
Chi-ling Lin
2012's most-watched: Star Awards, heartland dramas, and superheroes
What do shows like Don't Stop Believin', the National Day Parade and Iron Man have in common? They all scored number one spots in MediaCorp's top programmes of the year
Don't Stop Believin' topped Ch8's list of 9pm dramas with a staggering 918,000-strong average viewership. The series' popularity can easily be attributed to its line-up (hot favourites like Felicia Chin, Elvin Ng, and Romeo Tan, as well as fresh faces like Edwin Goh, Kimberly Chia, Xu Bin and Phua Yida) and its relatable scenarios and characters.
Trailing behind at an extremely close second was similarly star-studded blockbuster It Takes Two with 912,000 views, followed by the period series Joys of Life with 875,000 views.
Despite bagging numerous Star Awards nominations, Unriddle 2, Poetic Justice and Pillow Talk only managed average views of less than 820,000, earning the 8th, 9th and 10th spots respectively.
The crown for Ch8's most popular variety series once again goes to Food Source, which clinched the number one spot in 2011. The infotainment programme, hosted by the vibrant Pornsak, took its 831,000-an-episode viewers on adventures to various countries to learn about the origins of everyday culinary ingredients.
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Chinese Celebrities-Singer and Actor Nicholas Tse
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Occupation: actor, singer
- Income: 39.4 million yuan (US$6.2 million)
- Wealth ranking: 36
- Media Exposure Ranking (Internet): 14
- Media Exposure Ranking (Newspapers): 3
- Media Exposure Ranking (Magazine & TV): 11
As his parents are a famous Hong Kong acting couple, Nicholas Tse received great attention when he entered into the entertainment industry. However, his success is based on his own hard work. In recent years, he has chosen to focus on TV series and movies, and starred in a lot of popular and critically acclcaimed ones, including “The Stool Pigeon,” “Shaolin,” “Treasure Inn” and “The Viral Factor”. He won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor thanks to his brilliant performance in “The Stool Pigeon”.
Nicholas Tse
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