We all know that there is a TVB station in Hong Kong. Hong Kong TVB has filmed N popular TV dramas and has won countless big-name stars, such as the "Wireless Five Tigers" that we know well.
And many of the stars of Hong Kong Wireless come from a well-known place, the Hong Kong Wireless Artist Training Course. This training class began to recruit students in the 1970s. From Chow Yun-fat to Stephen Chow, many Hong Kong film and television superstars have embarked on a glorious road from here.
In fact, Hong Kong has a TVB rival that has always existed, Asia Television. This TV station has been renamed many times in history, such as Lai TV. Although it is not as famous as Hong Kong Radio, ATV has also produced quite a few hit dramas, such as "Qin Shi Huang".
On the other hand, ATV also has its own ATV artist training course, which starts even earlier than the wireless artist training course. Although ATV has been suppressed by wireless, but realistically speaking, the ATV Artist Training Course has really cultivated many film and television stars. If you don’t believe it, please see:
ATV Artist Training Course is divided into three stages, namely Li’s Yingsheng and Li TV and Asian TV.
1. Li's Yingsheng Period
In 1967, Li's Yingsheng opened the first artist training course, which was five years earlier than the wireless artist training course. Wang Mingquan and Xi Xiulan walked out of the first phase of
Li's sound artist training course.
Wang Mingquan joined Li's Yingsheng training class at the age of 20. After graduation, she signed a contract. After the two-year contract expired, she went to Japan to study. After returning to Hong Kong, she joined TVB. Later, she became a multi-star star such as a TV and song host. In 1985, she also appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage. ATV is tantamount to cultivating a superstar for Wireless, and they will not do less in the future.
Xi Xiulan joined the training class at the age of 17, and later became a famous singer. She was famous for "Green Island Serenade". In 1984, she was invited to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and sang three songs, one of which was particularly famous that year, "Alishan" Girl".
This issue of 1968 came out of Li Siqi. After she graduated, she switched jobs back and forth between Wireless and ATV, but almost all of her representative works were filmed during the wireless period, such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in the 1980s and earlier. "Storm of Hearts of Heart" and so on.
This training class in 1971 came out of a Hong Kong film and television superstar, Liu Songren. He was admitted to the training class at the age of 22, joined Li's TV after graduation, and moved to TVB after five years. Liu Songren made many martial arts dramas and major productions for ATV in the 1980s, such as "Qin Shi Huang" and "Ping Zong Xia Ying Lu".
2. Li's TV period
ATV's name was Li's TV from 1975 to 1981, so the training course at this time was also renamed Li's TV Artist Training Course.
In this training class in 1976, a big star came out, Wan Ziliang. His original surname was Hu. He was admitted to Li's TV training class at the age of 19 and signed a contract after graduation. His first work "Sword of the Three Young Masters" became famous. However, he later switched to wireless. Wan Ziliang's play is quite wide, even Lu Xiaofeng can perform, but the most impressive thing is "Rogue Tycoon".
A Lin Guoxiong came out of the 1977 training class. He is most familiar with the police chief who played in "Police Story", but his other role is obviously better, that is, the Hong Kong version of Jigong.
Ruan Peizhen made her debut from the training class in 1978. After she graduated, she was praised by Li's TV. For mainland audiences, one of the more familiar characters is He Xiangu in "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" and the other in "Four Famous Catch" Ji Yaohua. However, Ruan Peizhen gradually died after getting married in the late 1980s.
In 1981, Li's TV training class produced two stars, one is Tieguai Li Zengweiquan in "The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", and the other is "Zhan Zhao" He Jiajin. He Jiajin played football, graduated in advertising design, was admitted to the training class at the age of 22 and became famous in one fell swoop, but then he moved to the China Television Company in Taiwan Province, where he appeared in "Chinese Hero" and other dramasOf course, it was Bao Qingtian that made him popular.
3. ATV era
The 1980s was a golden age for ATV. They produced many large-scale film and television dramas, such as "Wu Zetian" and "Qin Shihuang". During this period, the Asian TV Artist Training Course also trained a group of stars, but most of them quickly changed jobs.
The 1982 Asian Television Artists Training Course was the first after the name change. Three celebrities emerged: Wu Yi, who is good at villains, Huang Qiusheng, who is good at villain, and "Pomegranate Sister" Yuan Qiongdan.
Wu Yi graduated at the age of 15, and switched to wireless at the age of 19, and then became popular in wireless, but the villains and evil characters he is good at made him far less famous than acting.
Huang Qiusheng joined the training class at the age of 21, debuted at the age of 22, joined the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts at the age of 24, and switched to wireless at the age of 25. In his early years, he was famous for playing evolution and erotic films. After his middle age, he became popular as a positive role. The "Infernal Affairs" series and "Initial D" made him a leading male star in Hong Kong.
When Yuan Qiongdan joined the training class at the age of 19, she could only be described as misplay and collision. Her purpose was to find a job, but she did not expect to act for decades in one breath, creating a lot of interesting roles. Of course, She is the "Pomegranate Sister" forever. However, it should be noted that she was not ugly when she was young, and she can even be described as beautiful. Yuan Qiongdan can also be regarded as a representative who dedicated his image to art.
In 1986, 1987 and 1988, Asia Television was very popular in this period, and their training courses also ushered in four future top superstars.
Jiang Hua, only joined the training class at the age of 24. After graduation, he signed with ATV. In 1996, he switched to wireless and appeared in several hit dramas. The Tang Seng in "Journey to the West" made him a smash hit. The two consecutive traversing dramas "Xun Qin Ji" and "Nine-Five Supreme" have brought his fame to the next level. After the age of fifty, Jiang Hua was tired of the film and television industry and switched to selling insurance.
and Jianghua’s same issue is Liming. At that time, he had not formally entered the singing circle. He had studied in the Asian Television Artists Training Class for more than half a year. He was dismissed in the third exam and was immediately dismissed in the Rookie Singing Contest. Officially debuted.
When Liming became the Queen of the Four Heavens, he revealed in an interview that the reason why he was "expelled" from the ATV training class was that on the one hand, he didn't like it very much, but the important reason was that he would not swear by teachers. Caused (shine shoes for the teacher).
Zhang Min, who used to study in the training class with Liming, was lucky. After graduation, she temporarily served as the salesman for the beauty pageant of the Asian sister. When she distributed flyers on the street, she was favored by the proprietress of Yongsheng Movies, and she has since joined Yongsheng Movies. Praised.
In 1988, 21-year-old Zhang Jiahui joined the ATV artist training class. After graduation, he signed with ATV and played the villain in some film and television dramas. At the age of 28, he also switched to wireless, and then played a series of supporting roles until he became popular around the age of forty. Now it has become the famous slag slag Hui.
After Zhang Jiahui, it is difficult for the Asian TV artist training class to produce famous movie stars. Except for Wen Songxian in 1993, most of the other artists have mediocre reputation and acting skills. This is also related to the decline of Asia Television in these years.
After 1995, the ATV Artist Training Class stopped enrolling students. It was not until 2002 that enrollment was resumed, but there was no match, and it would be difficult to reproduce the glory of the 1970s and 1980s.
As can be seen from the above list, ATV is not unable to train celebrities, but because of various reasons, they can't keep them all. It has really become "making clothes for others."
