Variety Big Brother
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Variety Big Brother also known as Big Brother's Return, was a television show hosted by Chang Fei, a.k.a. Fei Ge, which screens on Taiwan
ese channel China Television
on Saturdays morning and Singapore MediaCorp Channel U on Sundays nighttime.
In 2007 the show was nominated for Best Entertainment Variety Programme at the 42nd Golden Bell Awards
.
Host Chang Fei is reportedly retiring as a host but would still be involved with the show. One of the co-hosts, Kang Kang, left the show in 2004. The current co-hosts are 黃品源 and 洪都拉斯. The show ended its run on September 24, 2011.
-variety show
s, with amateur performances and a vast number of Taiwanese celebrities. Every week the show has celebrity guests and performers from Taiwan and/or abroad. It is split into two separate types of performances. The first segment uses singing performances and the second segment uses magic performances. Earlier episodes typically have comedy sketches with the main cast. The series has slowly progressed into a celebrity-studded show.
Like most Taiwanese variety shows, there are frequent on-screen displays (if freudian slips or puns occurred), stock sound effects and a laugh track (despite being taped in front of a fairly small audience).
Chang's brother, Fei Yu Ching
, a well-known classical singer, is a frequent guest and a co-host. Co-host Ni Min Jan
failed to appear in several shows, and it was later revealed he had committed suicide after he was suspected of having an affair.
on the San Francisco Bay Area
-based television station KTSF
, which shows much Chinese-language programming for the area, under the English translation Big Brother of Entertainment, the literal translation of the Chinese title.
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
ese channel China Television
China Television
China Television Company, Ltd. was established on September 3, 1968 by the then-ruling Nationalist Party of the Republic of China . The party owned the majority stake of the network...
on Saturdays morning and Singapore MediaCorp Channel U on Sundays nighttime.
In 2007 the show was nominated for Best Entertainment Variety Programme at the 42nd Golden Bell Awards
Golden Bell Awards
The Golden Bell Awards is an annual Taiwanese television production award, founded in 1965, presented by Government Information Office, Republic of China . It is usually presented in October or November each year. It is the first television production award in Chinese circulation and Taiwan's...
.
Host Chang Fei is reportedly retiring as a host but would still be involved with the show. One of the co-hosts, Kang Kang, left the show in 2004. The current co-hosts are 黃品源 and 洪都拉斯. The show ended its run on September 24, 2011.
Format
The program representative of the format and style common to Taiwanese comedyComedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
-variety show
Variety show
A variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and sketch comedy, and normally introduced by a compère or host. Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling...
s, with amateur performances and a vast number of Taiwanese celebrities. Every week the show has celebrity guests and performers from Taiwan and/or abroad. It is split into two separate types of performances. The first segment uses singing performances and the second segment uses magic performances. Earlier episodes typically have comedy sketches with the main cast. The series has slowly progressed into a celebrity-studded show.
Like most Taiwanese variety shows, there are frequent on-screen displays (if freudian slips or puns occurred), stock sound effects and a laugh track (despite being taped in front of a fairly small audience).
Chang's brother, Fei Yu Ching
Fei Yu Ching
Chang Yen-ting was born on 17 July 17 1955, better known as Fei Yu-ching . He is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter and the younger brother of television personality Chang Fei.-Biography:...
, a well-known classical singer, is a frequent guest and a co-host. Co-host Ni Min Jan
Ni Min Jan
Ni Min-jan was a popular Taiwanese comedian and actor. His alleged affair with Xia Yi was the apparent cause of his suicide in April 2005, and after many newspapers and news channels reported the suicide with great coverage, the suicide rate grew higher. Ni Min-jan was friends with Chang Fei and...
failed to appear in several shows, and it was later revealed he had committed suicide after he was suspected of having an affair.
International broadcast
It is shown in the United StatesUnited States
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on the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
-based television station KTSF
KTSF
KTSF is an independent television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Although licensed to San Francisco, the station's studio building is located in south suburban Brisbane, California. It is owned by Lincoln Broadcasting Company, and broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 27 from a...
, which shows much Chinese-language programming for the area, under the English translation Big Brother of Entertainment, the literal translation of the Chinese title.