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Produce Pandas, a new boy band with facial hair and broad waistlines, challenge conventions and win LGBT hearts
More wholesome, pro-Party shows needed, regulators tell TV networks
China’s sci-fi tradition is mostly in novel form, but it occasionally makes it way to screens big and small
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It’s not Saturday Night Live, it’s a beast all of its own. Censors killed it last year, but it’s back
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