Starting tomorrow, another long (and possibly draggy) Taiwanese drama will be airing on Channel 8. Named 夜市人生 or Night Market Life, it consists of all the familiar faces from the ongoing [Love] drama being broadcasted everyday at 7pm.

[Night Market Life[ will take up the weekend timeslots while [Love] continues to dominate weekdays. Either way, Singapore's premier Mandarin TV channel is still conquered by the Taiwan typhoon.

Obviously, Mediacorp is trying to satisfy die-hard [Love] fans in advance by having this new serial. Expect a backlash of comments about missing [Love] after it ends if [Night Market Life] wasn't broadcasted beforehand.

What Mediacorp should do is film something like that on its own. They had [Your Hand in Mine] (想握你的手) which began in November 2009 and lasted for a record-breaking 180 episodes but achieved terribly low ratings.

However, the reason for [Your Hand in Mine]'s poor ratings had to do with its atrocious plot and mundane characters. The bottomline is the scriptwriter's quality.

Now, with Lucas Chow (the man with a white fringe) stepping down as Mediacorp CEO on 31 July this year, the company's criteria for his successor should be one whom encourages creativity and is willing to invest heavily on it.

Only with good scripts and entertaining stories can we win over the hearts of viewers once again. Notice that I used the word "we" as the subject in the previous sentence.

Mediacorp, you don't have to look too far for talents, yuan zai tian bian, jing zai yan qian.