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Oct 28th 2012, 02:52

Yesterday TVB's 2013 Calendar was leaked online illegally, which had greatly shocked the company. TVB immediately went to seek legal assistance, requesting websites and Weibo users to delete the photos. Each year, TVB gathers all of their popular artists to be part of the calendar and then give the copies to their clients. Earlier, the artists secretly went through the photo shoot, but yesterday morning the entire calendar was spreading around on Weibo.

Yesterday morning, a Netizen posted the entire TVB 2013 Calendar on Weibo, including the cover with the big group picture and the back page of the calendar with credits and list of production staff. The photos were marked to have been supplied by TVB. Many artists including Dodo Cheng, Tracy Ip and Samantha Ko were part of the reposting and spreading of the calendar photos. They praised the photos were beautiful, but their Weibo posts were later deleted. However, it was too late, the calendar was already madly spreading online.

TVB Deputy Director of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Tsang Sing Ming, expressed it was confirmed that the release yesterday was illegal and it was theft. The legal department is currently investigating. The outsourced company that produced the TVB 2013 Calendar wants to investigate to the source of the leakage. Mr. Tsang expressed the calendar is currently under post-production and has not reach competition of the final version yet.

Yesterday after the leakage, TVB quickly seeks legal assistance and issued letters out to Weibo and websites to delete the photos and stop spreading them. As this is illegal activity, TVB will get to the bottom of this and may seek assistance from the police.

Photoshopped Too Much & Weird Poses

The calendar is the index for favored artists, TV King and Queen hot favorites Raymond Lam and Kate Tsui took the lead, joining Bosco Wong, Aimee Chan and Linda Chung on the month of January; Myolie Wu's status was clearly implied as she was grouped with three TV Kings, Moses Chan, Wayne Lai and Kevin Cheng on November; Kate's greatest TV Queen competitor Tavia Yeung was paired with Fala Chen on February. However, the calendar appeared to have been photoshopped too much, which made the artists look somewhat "plastic" and unnatural! In addition, the artists had strange poses, like on January, Linda Chung was standing away from the group. Wonder if its because she's afraid of rumors with Raymond Lam again? Eliza Sam, Samantha Ko and Natalie Tong showed off their legs, but that did not compare to Fala Chen and Suki Tsui in the 2009 calendar, where they were dressed in bathing suits and showing off their legs.

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU Forum