Besides China, the countries with the most movies and TV shows in Asia are South Korea, Japan and Thailand! Although Singapore is one of the most developed cities in Asian countries, it is not a big country in film and television itself, and there are not many TV dramas or movies released every year.
In the face of the powerful film and television China, this insignificant number of film and television works is really not worth importing, and the local themes are different from the interests of domestic consumers, resulting in almost no Singaporean-related film and television works at this stage.
In the later period, we introduced more and more Singapore TV dramas, even not only urban dramas but also martial arts films and costume films. What supports Singapore TV institutions to shoot more and more films must be because it made money from the films made in the earlier period. This economic snowball can grow bigger and bigger, and it can only continue shooting if it has income.
The development of Singapore TV series
Singapore TV series is somewhat similar to the combined version of Taiwan TV series and Hong Kong TV series. Because of its unique geographical advantages, commercial war drama is also one of its killers. Singaporeans' personalities are often vividly portrayed in commercial war dramas.
Another specialty of Singapore TV series is the big family TV series. Different from the ethical struggle of Taiwan Province family TV series, the Singaporean Bi Yuanting drama focuses on showing the trivial things in the lives of small people, which seems dull but not boring.
As early as 1963, before Singapore's independence, Singapore had its own TV, broadcasting TV programs through "Channel 5" and "Channel 8". 1965, after the separation of Singapore and Malaysia, Radio and Television Singapore under the Ministry of Culture was formally established. By the end of 1976, the programs on channels 5 and 8 were completely broadcast in color. By 1980, Singapore Broadcasting Bureau was established to replace RTS.
The name "Xinguang" is very familiar to us. In the early 1980s, in order to cooperate with the "Speak Chinese" campaign, Xinguang began to dub TV series (mostly Hong Kong dramas) purchased overseas in Chinese.