New TV series from Hong Kong’s TVB and US YouTube channel Wong Fu Productions aims to connect Asians far apart and bridge East and West
- ‘Cross My Mind’ is an English-language series about a man in Los Angeles and a woman in Hong Kong who can communicate through their connected minds
- The series touches on Cantonese and Asian-American culture, and how those identities contrast and overlap through the characters’ mentalities and environments
Picture this: it is morning in Los Angeles and you are woken up by the sound of a video playing. Annoyed, you suddenly realise there’s another voice in your head, one belonging to a female. You are confused, but chalk it up to the concussion you suffered yesterday, since there is no way that it could be real.
But the voice keeps speaking, and it turns out that it belongs to a woman on the other side of the world in Hong Kong. Soon, you and she realise that you’re able to speak to each other and have full conversations through your connected minds.
That is the premise of a new original six-part English-language TV series called Cross My Mind, an international collaboration between Hong Kong broadcaster TVB and Wong Fu Productions, a California-based filmmaking company that became a YouTube sensation for its shorts and videos starring Asian-Americans.
Available on TVB’s streaming platform MyTV Super, the transoceanic project is the broadcaster’s latest attempt to expand into the market for English content.
According to Thomas Lo, creative director of MyTV Super’s English content, this collaboration was a “great opportunity for us to find out whether there is an appetite for English content in Hong Kong”.
