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Mui Siu-ching

Hong Kong television producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 10, 2023
Entity authorityQ6933103
Source-derived summary

Mui Siu-ching (Chinese: 梅小青, born September 27, 1953) is a Hong Kong television producer for a long time associated with television station TVB, beginning her career as a producer with rival broadcaster ATV she moved to TVB in 1987 and has since then been responsible for numerous series including well received series such as The Breaking Point, The Legendary Ranger, Where the Legend Begins, Family Man, Shine on You, the Forensic Heroes franchise, Beyond the Realm of Conscience & Deep in the Realm of Conscience. Believing that popular television can touch and influence the populace in Hong Kong, her series revolve around the themes of good and evil.

Her younger sister is the TVB actress and television host Cutie Mui, and her husband is fellow TVB producer Lau Kar-ho. In March 2012, she ended her 25-year association with TVB when both she and her husband signed to rival station Now TV. In 2016, she returned to TVB with her husband. In February 2020, she announced her retirement.

Work as a producer

Rediffusion Television series

1980s

Asia Television Limited series

1980s

TVB series

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Awards

2010 Ming Pao outstanding crew award for Can't Buy Me Love

References

The content of this article is based on that from the corresponding article on the Chinese Wikipedia.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mui Siu-ching” as hong Kong television producer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 1987, 2012, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958-09-27. The account is most persuasive where Siu-ching, Hong and Kong can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as hong Kong television producer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 10, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q6933103. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953, 1987, 2012 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from Mui Siu-ching” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.