After just eight months, veteran star and TVB's deputy general manager Eric Tsang has been promoted to general manager of TVB’s content operations.

According to a media release issued yesterday (Sep 27), the 68-year-old’s responsibilities will include creating various types of content including non-drama, co-produced drama, music and the acquisition and curation of programmes. The new role will take immediate effect.

He's proven he deserves to be up there

Eric joined TVB in 1992 and started out as a host before becoming an actor. He was appointed deputy general manager and special adviser to the administrative committee in January.

Since then, he has “successfully reinvigorated [TVB’s] non-drama programmes by broadening content diversity and re-establishing links and cooperation with Hongkong's entertainment industry”, said the media release.

Under his leadership, the station has produced a number of "hit shows" like reality game shows Dub-Of-War and Stars Academy, which captured the "hearts and minds" of audiences.

And thanks to him inviting Jacky Cheung to perform at the recent Miss Hong Kong 2021 finals, the pageant drew approximately 1.8 million viewers.

The broadcaster believes that with his wealth of experience, Eric will continue to strengthen TVB's core competency in content creation.

Perhaps he can turn things around in the drama department

While TVB seems to have scored some success with its variety shows, ratings are still lacklustre in the drama department.

One of its newer dramas, Murder Diary, is now the lowest-rated TVB drama of all time.

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80s and 90s have lots of lengthy dramas with complicated inter personal relationship as plot devices. They tried it again with Gem of Life in late 2000s and hit very low rating. From that point onward they already decided such approach is no longer viable. It costs a lot of money to produce long TV series and if it hits bad rating then it is very bad news for them.