October 10, 2005
Mobile phone soaps hit China
A Chinese company is aiming to attract more customers by offering one of the first made-for-mobile phone soap operas.
The series, a love story called "Appointment" will be broadcast in five-minute episodes. Enda Twomey reports for the BBC News in Audio and Video.
Previously:
-- China's first TV drama to be shown exclusively on mobile phones - "Appointment", China's first TV drama to be shown exclusively on mobile phones. will begin shooting on March 27
-- Mini-series for upwardly mobile Chinese - A media group in China has filmed a soap opera to be broadcast only on mobile phones.
Other mobile soaps:
-- Soapies the new mobile ring-ins - Australia's first mobile soap opera, is coming soon to a pocket near you.
-- Hollyoaks pushes mobile service with exclusive TV pics - Mersey TV, the maker of UK Channel 4's teen soap ' Hollyoaks', is hoping to cash in on the mobile text alert trend by offering subscribers unseen exerts of the show
-- Cellpop, The First Cell Phone Drama That is not for your Mama! Cellpop follows the lives of the people who make the hit music we listen to. Each day a new episode is delivered straight to your phone.
-- MMS Soap on Spanish Telefónica Móviles - Móviles has launched FanTESStic, an interactive series with real actors created exclusively for MMS
-- «The Spot» - Launched on the Internet and closed in the late nineties, the Internet's first Soap, «The Spot» is back - on (Sprint) mobile phone.
-- «InYrShoes» - The plot of a UK soap called «InYrShoes» is not decided by scriptwriters, but by viewers sending text messages at the end of each episode, featuring a cliffhanger or dilemma.
-- Jong-Zuid: First picture soap opera for mobile phones The Netherlands came up with the first Picture Soap, Jong-Zuid, starring famous soap opera actors.
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