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"Pandamen" sets record low in Mainland China, Jay Chou's losing his touch?

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29 Jan 2010

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Source: NOWnews

Jay Chou's music is invincible, he's even known as "the golden boy of music". But stepping outside the music circle, this name of Jay Chou's seems to lose its touch, the movie "The Treasure Hunter" starring him and Lin Chi Ling has been voted as the worst movie in 2009 by PTT users, the TV series he directed "Pandamen" was shown on Mainland China Guangzhou TV, the ratings set a record low, this has thrown Jay Chou's calculations completely off!

According to reports, Jay Chou's TV series "Pandamen" was shown on Mainland China Guangzhou TV for 3 days, on the 27th the ratings were announced, the ratings on the 3rd day were only 0.06, equivalent to just 5000 viewers, it has set a record low. Due to the fact the series got a lot of guest stars, plus it has Jay Chou's name stamped on it, it made Guangzhou TV buy into it heavily, who could have thought the ratings would be so bad, a lot of people have been surprised.

To the record low ratings, Guangzhou TV thinks there are two main reasons, one is the retarded plot, two is there are too many commercial placements. Also, last year in October, Guangzhou TV spent 18 million to acquire the rights to "Pandamen", originally they thought they could get Jay Chou to help promote it, unfortunately Jay Chou wasn't willing.
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According to reports, Jay Chou's schedule is hard to work with, he only has time to come back to Taiwan for promotion in March, by then the series is already half way through, promotion will be too late then. But, CTS are still confident in "Pandamen", they think the series has been limited by Mainland China's TV restrictions, the important gun fight scene was cut leaving audiences confused, but the one shown in Taiwan will be uncut, the series is exciting and won't disappoint viewers.

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