A 46-part series, Nguoi Phan Xu (The Judge), portrays the lives ofyoung businesspeople who face challenges working in corporations.   

The series focuses on a group of senior managers who lose themselves in careerpromotion.  

Produced by Vietnam Television’s Film Company (VFC), the TV series captivatedviewers when it started broadcasting in March.

It has attracted some seven millions viewers on YouTube with each episoderelease.    

The series’ lead, actor Viet Anh, spent several months talking with youngentrepreneurs in different fields, listening to their stories. 

Overcoming many rivals to land the role, Anh, a native of Hanoi, said it was agreat opportunity to play the role of Phan Hai.   

Despite being experienced, he said he was still nervous because of the seriousissues that the series feature.   

"Young businesspeople play a role in the country’s economic developmentduring a time of globalisation. Their life and work are hot topics forVietnamese youth,” Anh said.

Người Phan Xu airs on Vietnam Television’s (VTV) VTV3 and is rebroadcaston provincial TV stations.

Apart from VFC’s new series, every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night onVTV1, thousands of enraptured viewers are watching a show about urban women.

The 32-part series Song Chung Voi Me Chong (Living withMother-in-Law) highlights the ambition of young women who work hard to balancetheir career and family.

The series features women and their difficulties in balancing work andmarriage.  

Directed by Vu Truong Khoa, the show is making waves with domestic audiencewith each episode attracting over ten millions of viewers on YouTube.

"My family and I like the TV series Song Chung Voi Me Chong becauseit provides us with a quality plot, interesting scenes and knowledge abouturban people’s thinking and lifestyle," said a viewer from Dong Nai province.  

Vu Thi Bich Lien, Director of Song Vang Producing and Advertising Company, saidthis year TV stations and film studios have invested in making quality shows tocapture viewers, particularly young people.  

“We plan to produce 200 episodes this year while the number was 700 in previousyears. We’ve worked carefully in choosing screenplays, directors and actors andhave paid more money to improve production quality,” she said. 

Female film producer Nguyen Thi Bich Thuy of Sena Film, a private film studioof HCM City, said: “Audiences are tired of watching game shows on television. Ithink serious films will capture their interest.”

“Through our productions, which mostly feature urban life, we want people tolearn about the difficulties in life and work that people and their familiesface every day," she said.

Thuy’s latest project, Ho So Lua (Black List), a 1,110-part series,is co-produced with Cong An TP HCM (HCM City Police) newspaper’s filmstudio Nguoi Bao Ve (Guardian).

The series is about the challenges and conflicts in work that police facedaily. It focuses on their lives and sacrifices.

Its screenplay was written by Lai Van Long, author and reporter at Cong AnTP HCM, who spent more than 25 years writing about the criminal police.  

The filming began late last year. The  first part, Mat DanhĐ9 (Code Đ9), was directed by Vo Ngoc and stars young actors Binh Minh, KhuongNgoc, Hoang Phuc and Vo Thanh Tam.
 
It aired last month on Today TV’s SCTV14 and left a very strong impression onaudiences.

The HCM City-based drama actor Cong Ninh believes urban youth and their issuesare hot topics among filmmakers.

“Quality shows in the field, Zippo, Mu Tat Và Em (Zippo, Mustard andYou) and Nang Som Mua Chieu (Sunny and Rainy), broadcast last year,attracted a number of viewers, many of them urban youth.”   

Ninh said that to lure audiences away from Korean and Indian productions, bothState-owned and private filmmakers should give priority to such new films.-VNA