TVB Anniversary Awards 2024, honouring the best of TVB series and programmes released in 2024, took place yesterday (19th January 2025) at Macau. The awards ceremony which commenced at 8pm overran by a huge amount of time and only concluded when it was almost 12am. The entire ceremony took nearly 4 hours with a lot of time unnecessarily spent on constant advertisements, repetitive acceptance speeches (thanking the same group of people over and over again), and some awkward interactions among the award presenters.
TVB managed to invite a lot of heavyweight celebrities this year to present awards such as Donnie Yen, Gallen Lo, Simon Yam, etc. I’m afraid this is the only compliment I have for the ceremony this year. The important role of the ceremony host is taken up by a junior female artiste and her shrieking voice is almost unbearable to me. Giving opportunity to juniors is good but it shall start with smaller programs for them to learn and improve rather than immediately start with huge show like this. She is too inexperienced or young for this.
The result? I’m terribly upset and shocked. The result made me felt that the awards are possibly rigged or altered! It was obvious that TVB wanted to desperately acknowledge those younger or loyal actors/actresses who have not win before and remain close to the station despite them not giving the best performances last year. David Chiang who is earlier a hot favourite for best supporting actor ended up not even being shortlisted into the top 5. What a joke! King Lam who had a very plain and unpopular role in ‘No Room For Crime’ is my last pick of the top 5. He ended up winning. Huh! Even he himself was surprised when his name is called out.
Best lead actress goes to Katy Kung for her performance in ‘Big Biz Duel’. My goodness. The ladies who gave out the best performances last year are Tavia Yeung and Rosina Lam from ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’. No question about that. Even Yoyo Mung gave a better performance. Katy needed a few more years and a few more good roles to be truly deserving of this prestigious award. Rosina Lam went to the ceremony with extravagant dress and with huge hype and support behind her, but ended up returning home empty handed. She must be very disappointed. Tavia, on the other hand, at least won an award for the evening which is the Most Favourite Lead Actress from Greater Bay region.
Owen Cheung took best actor from his performance in ‘No Room For Crime’. Another disappointing outcome. He is nowhere near my mind for the recipient of this award as his performance in that drama was just average. This drama also won Best TV Series, the final award of the evening. It was one of my top 5 series last year but certainly not the best. My pick remains to be ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’. ‘No Room For Crime’ was the biggest winner surprisingly after taking home many top awards. It doesn’t deserve that many. On the other hand, the race for best supporting actress was very competitive. My own preferences were Griselda Yeung or Priscilla Wong and they were both earlier considered hot favourites too. Surprise again!; Kelly Fu ended up taking the supporting actress.
The only outcome that I’m truly happy for was seeing Nicholas Yuen taking home the ‘Most Improved TV Male Artiste’ of which he truly deserves it after all the hard work and excellent performances he delivered last year (especially from his role in ‘Call Of Destiny’). In short, terrible result this year. Many disagreed with most of the result of the ceremony and left negative comments in TVB’s social media posts in regards to the awards. I shared similar sentiment with majority of them. You can see most of the general public disagreed and TVB still have the face to inform that the result is transparent and fair. To be honest, this was one of the shittiest results ever. That’s the remark I can give to you, TVB.
Here is the list of the awards handed out yesterday’s evening (I only shared the ones that are series-related) for your information and comment if any;
My Favourite TVB Series (Greater Bay Area): Dark Side Of The Moon
My Favourite TVB Lead Actor (Greater Bay Area): Kenneth Ma (The Airport Diary)
My Favourite TVB Lead Actress (Greater Bay Area): Tavia Yeung (Dark Side Of The Moon)
Most Improved TV Male Artiste: Nicholas Yuen
Most Improved TV Female Artiste: Hera Chan
Best Supporting Actress: Kelly Fu (No Room For Crime)
Best Supporting Actor: King Lam (No Room For Crime)
Most Popular Drama Theme Song: ‘This Home’ by Chantel Yiu for ‘Come Home Love: Lo And Behold’
My Favourite TVB Series (Malaysia): Big Biz Duel
My Favourite TVB Lead Actor (Malaysia): Owen Cheung (No Room For Crime)
My Favourite TVB Lead Actress (Malaysia): Kelly Cheung (Big Biz Duel)
Best Lead Actor: Owen Cheung (No Room For Crime)
Best Lead Actress: Katy Kung (Big Biz Duel)
Best TVB Series: No Room For Crime
(Images in this post are from various online sources)