http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,31365,00.html
Photo/ SEE THE SHOW, HEAR THE STAR: Besides making her debut in
Channel U's drama serial, Chan's June concert will also be covered
by the channel as its official TV media. Chan has previously
acted in TVB's Healing Hands 2 in Hongkong last year.
DRAMA DEBUT
Banking on Kit Chan with Cash
Singer Kit Chan will lead the cast in a 40-part Chinese television
drama serial by SPH MediaWorks' Channel U, titled tentatively Cash
Is King
By Samuel Lee
YOU have seen her hurrying home on a taxi to the tune of her hit
Worry while her mother busies herself cooking up a storm in the
Royal Umbrella Rice TV ad.
But soon, homegrown singer, poet and youth ambassador, Kit Chan
will star in a 40-part drama serial for SPH MediaWorks' Channel
U.
Titled tentatively Cash Is King, the serial will begin shooting
in early July, its producer Sampson Yuen revealed at a press
conference yesterday.
Cash Is King marks Chan's debut in a Singapore serial.
Previously, she had acted in TVB's Healing Hands 2 in Hongkong
last year.
Mr Man Shu Sum, Channel U's chief operating officer, hopes that
this will mark the first of many collaborations between Chan and
MediaWorks.
The latter will be the official TV media for the Kit Chan 2001
concert on June 9 and Mr Man has also asked Chan to sing on the
soundtrack of Cash.
However, her manager, Mr Collin Goh, says that details would
need to be worked out with her record label.
The plot of Cash follows the trials and tribulations in an
atypical family made up of a pretty young wife played by Chan,
a husband 20 to 30 years her senior, and his daughter who is
around her age.
Channel U is on the lookout currently for a Hongkong veteran to
play the male lead.
The other members of Cash's 10-odd cast will be scouted from
Hongkong, Taiwan and Channel U's existing pool of talent.
Mr Yuen, who is also producing Channel U's first drama serial,
Making The Headlines, says the serial is likely to cost a
whopping $5 million.
This is because it will be shot using movie techniques and will
feature movie art direction for its overall packaging.
The script is also being written by a renown Hongkonger, whose
identity is still under wraps, he says.
Mr Man is not worried about its high costs.
In fact, he has grand plans to market the serial regionally.
''TVB has already expressed interest in the show, and we are
negotiating currently,'' he says.
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