TVB Anniversary Awards 2022 was held yesterday to recognize the best in drama series and variety programs for year 2022 from Hong Kong’s largest television broadcasting company, TVB. I didn’t watch many TVB dramas last year as I was occupied with my working holiday and vacations in New Zealand and Australia in the second half of 2022. Anyway, I still follow closely to this annual awards and have indeed watched the presentation ceremony live on last evening.
Here below is the list of winners for TVB Anniversary Awards 2022 (excluding the categories for hosting and other type of programs) along with my comments on some of the categories;
Best Drama: Get On A Flat
Opinion: Have not watch this. Will watch this when I’m back to Malaysia after my current vacation to see how good it is.
Best Actor: Joel Chan (Barrack O’Karma 1968)
Opinion: Very happy for him to win this award. He has improved so much over the years and had been given a lot of good roles in recent years. He deserved the win although ‘Barrack O’Karma 1968’ isn’t as good as its predecessor.
Best Actress: Elena Kong (Get On A Flat)
Opinion: Happy for Elena too as she had been a solid actress for all these years in supporting roles. She finally got a leading role and won immediately. Fantastic! ‘Barrack O’Karma 1968’ isn’t doing well and hence Selena Li unfortunately misses her chance again to win best actress although she had won Most Popular TV Female Character from her role in the first series.
Most Popular TV Male Character: Kalok Chow (Your Highness)
Opinion: I felt like TVB is obviously promoting him very quickly as he has been winning many awards in recent years despite his young age. I felt this award should be given to Andrew Lam (Get On A Flat) instead.
Most Popular TV Female Character: Amy Fan (Come Home Love: Lo And Behold)
Opinion: Weak competition in this category this year. I don’t think Amy is deserving of this win. Would prefer Alice Chan (Communion) or Selena Li (Barrack O’Karma 1968) instead.
Best Supporting Actor: Eric Tang (Get On A Flat)
Best Supporting Actress: Angel Chiang (The War Of Beauties)
Most Improved TV Male Artist: Ricco Ng
Opinion: Good for Ricco. At least we got to see another new young face frequently on screen rather than the same Kalok Chow or Karl Ting everywhere.
Most Improved TV Female Artist: Rosita Kwok
Opinion: I felt she is too new and inexperienced for this award. Moon Lau is the most deserving out of the top 5 nominees.
Most Favourite TV Partnership: Kalok Chow, Jeannie Chan, Joey Wong, Brian Chu, Jonathan Cheung (Your Highness)
Most Popular TV Drama Theme Song: ‘Wish’ by Joey Wong (Big White Duel 2)
Best Variety Show: Super Trio Returns
Opinion: This show is indeed still very entertaining after all these years although most of the participating guests in this show are no longer famous celebrities.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Catherine Tsang (TVB Executive)
Best Dressed TV Artists: Joel Chan, Nancy Wu, Hera Chan
Malaysia’s Most Favourite TVB Series: I’ve Got The Power
Opinion: I will watch this series soon when I’m back to Malaysia after hearing all the good reviews for the series earlier.
Malaysia’s Most Favourite TVB Actor: Ruco Chan (I’ve Got The Power)
Opinion: This is more like a consolation for Ruco as he has been exceptional in ‘I’ve Got The Power’ too but lost in the best actor category. Ruco also has a huge fan base in Malaysia hence it is not surprising that he won this again.
Malaysia’s Most Favourite TVB Actress: Moon Lau (The War Of Beauties)
Opinion: No ‘Most Improved’ award but a much better award straight away for Moon Lau. Moon Lau should win ‘Most Improved’ and leave this award to Alice Chan (Communion) or Selena Li (Barrack O’Karma 1968) who both has not even win this Malaysia’s award before.
‘Get On A Flat’ is the biggest winner of the evening with 3 awards including the final award of the ceremony; best drama. I’m surprised that there are quite a number of heavyweight guest presenters (Simon Yam, Slyvia Chang, etc) present at this ceremony (thanks to Eric Tsang who is now the general manager of TVB and had known many heavyweight stars as his friends over the years he is in this entertainment industry).
(Images in this post are from various online sources)