Graft fight a winner with China’s TV audience
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A tv series based on a novel about China’s anti-corruption drive is winning widespread acclaim.
Its star, Lu Yi, who now has 25 million followers on Weibo, received 33,500 “likes” for a message he sent that promoted the show’s premiere on March 28.
“In the Name of People,” a 55-episode show that debuted on Hunan Satellite TV, focuses on the work of the Party’s disciplinary investigators whose job is to bring down corrupt officials.
The plot follows a senior official hiding his illegal gains with a bed made of banknotes worth 230 million yuan (US$33.4 million), and is similar to an actual corruption case, though the real life amount, taken by a former vice-mayor, was 644 million yuan.
One comment on WeChat said the drama was the most exciting in years.
“The play also has a warning effect, showing the determination to hunt down all corrupt officials,” it added.
A Weibo comment described it as “phenomenal.”
The 120 million yuan production was bankrolled by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate.
Top TV and film watchdogs usually take months to approve material on corruption, but the show was approved just 10 days after its submission to the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, according to Zhou Meisen, author of the original novel.
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