Check out excerpts from Golden Rock’s live blogging of TVB’s broadcast of the HK Film Awards on Sunday:

9:34pm – And TVB shows the little respect they have for a show by cutting off the In Memoriam sequence for more commercials. This is low, even for TVB. Please just give the rights to a network that actually gives crap next year.

9:59 pm – TVB sucks for cutting off Siao’s classy Lifetime Achievement Award speech before it’s even over.

10:05pm – Switching over the TVB Entertainment News channel (part of their pay TV network), they’ve already revealed the winner for Best Actress. Thanks, TVB, you can’t even keep your information flow together.

10:45 pm – And TVB mercifully cuts it off for more commercial. TVB still sucks for cutting the show up to pieces though.

In the SCMP:


Hundreds of people have written to the Hong Kong Film Awards Association to complain about the broadcaster’s handling of the awards show on Sunday, with viewers faulting editing decisions and the timing of advertisements.

Some viewers complained about TVB’s decision to cancel a segment paying tribute to filmmakers who died in the past year and to show a shortened version of Josephine Siao Fong-fong’s acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award.

Viewers were also upset that the broadcaster cut short a speech by Paw Hee-ching, who won best actress, in which she thanked ATV, TVB’s competitor.

Despite cutting the segments, TVB kept a part in which best supporting actor nominee and co-host Louis Fan Siu-wong let slip a swear word while on stage.

The association did not have an exact figure for the number of complaints it received but it is understood that hundreds of members of the local film industry and public lodged complaints by calling its office, sending mobile phone text messages and ringing up organising committee members.

TVB said that the awards ceremony ran for more than three hours but it only had two hours and 45 minutes to screen the programme.

They’ve been broadcasting this for 28 years and they still don’t know how to do it.

Hongkie Town
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