TVB drama The Queen Of News marks Charmaine Sheh's long awaited return to the Hong Kong broadcaster.

Her last TVB drama was Bet Hur, all the way back in 2017.

As expected The Queen of News, which has been touted as Hong Kong's version of Jennifer Aniston's The Morning Show, is a runaway smash hit.

Since its first episode, the drama, which also stars Kenneth Ma, Selena Lee and Samantha Ko, has been rating very well and is expected to be the highest-rated TVB drama for the second half of 2023.

Charmaine, 48, plays cut-throat news anchor Man Wai Sam and she has received lots of praise from netizens for her performance.

One netizen was so impressed by Charmaine’s acting, she said even the actress’ “eyebrows were in character".

It hasn’t been all compliments though.

Former newscaster Gloria Mak, for one, has criticised the show for being "too absurd".

According to Gloria, the scene in the drama where a make-up artiste fusses over Charmaine and helps her put on her headphones in the newsroom is far from what actually happens in reality.

Also, during the scene where Charmaine had to report a piece of breaking news, it seemed illogical that the actress showed no sense of urgency and even had the luxury of time to put on make-up.

"She [also] stood up against her boss and threatened him 30 seconds before going live, that seems too much," added Gloria.

Meanwhile, fellow news anchor Everest Yiu said: "She drives a BMW [in the show]. Which TV station's news department is so rich? I only drive a Toyota Hiace."

Netizens, however, seem to think the real-life newscasters are just making a mountain out of a molehill.

After all, it's a drama and not a documentary, right?

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Its a fucking drama series, wtf the 2 newscasters complaining about?

In real life, HK always got terrorists attack ka as depicted by TVB???

LOL.. what is a drama without drama?

Maybe she confuse with documentary.

lol... this drama is more about office politics than about news casting

The news casting and journalism part might be a bit unrealistic but it’s a drama and people like such office politics stories. The real broadcasting and journalism is probably too boring but one thing they get right is how news are being manipulated

Maybe she portrayed Taiwan's newscaster

i got a feeling they going to copy the Nightcrawler movie (2014)

imagine a drama without drama and its just fully office work life, who the f*ck will go and watch?

And they plagiarized the logo of OneFM Malaysia

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TVB creativity has gone down the drain

The Office? 😝

this type of people living in a delusional world. is a drama of course they want the actress to portray as dramatic as possible event if it's a true story event also like that.
you want 100% real watch CNN / BBC / AlJazeera etc.

Boring.

See title also know boring boomer drama.

Only way TVB can redeem themself is to stream their dramas on netflix.

Errrr, it’s not really boring. In fact it’s quite fast pace compared to other TVB dramas in the past. Of course, it’s a bit unrealistic take of broadcast journalism

Did you watch?

the critics sound topkek. driving bmw also bising? normal la

lol she does look old in the drama compared to her ig filtered posts..

48 years old liao. Sure look older than the rest.

That’s how ig works for u mah puts every filtered or edit as much as she can but can’t change the fact she’s aging edi

Speaking about newscasters

It reminds me of a Maria Ozawa clip where she was playing a newscaster and she was getting rammed left and right while reading news

Lmfao , japs fantasy are really something