{ "id": "epd0em5w8e", "slug": "the-producer", "title": "The Producer (接招吧！制作人)", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials", "label": "International serial drama and telenovelas", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia", "label": "East Asian drama series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.hong_kong_taiwan_drama", "label": "Hong Kong and Taiwanese serial drama", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.hong_kong_taiwan_drama" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials", "label": "China · 2021 and later: International serial drama and telenovelas", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials", "path": [ { "id": "geo.chn", "label": "China", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021", "label": "China · 2021 and later", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials", "label": "International serial drama and telenovelas", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials" } ] } ], "excerpt": "The Producer (接招吧！制作人) is a 2026 Taiwanese HBO Max music-industry drama, 12 episodes, starring Yang Yu-ning and 9m88, set in the millennium-era Mandarin pop business; filmed in 2021, released 28 August 2026.", "snippet": "The Producer (接招吧！制作人) is a 2026 Taiwanese HBO Max music-industry drama, 12 episodes, starring Yang Yu-ning and 9m88, set in the millennium-era Mandarin pop business; filmed in 2021, released 28 August 2026.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.hong_kong_taiwan_drama", "markdown": "# The Producer (接招吧！制作人)\n\n**The Producer** (接招吧！制作人) is a 2026 Taiwanese music-industry drama series in which a rookie assistant and a star record producer navigate the Mandarin pop business around the year 2000, with each episode built around one newly created song. It is an [HBO Max](https://www.edgepedia.org/hbo-max) original, 12 episodes long, starring Yang Yu-ning (杨祐宁) and the singer 9m88, and it was filmed in 2021 but not released until 28 August 2026.[1](https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/drama/4002145)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Format | 12-episode music \"occupational\" (职人) drama, one representative song per episode, set around the millennium-era Mandarin pop industry[1](https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/drama/4002145) • [2](https://www.orientaldaily.com.my/news/entertainment/2021/03/24/400515) |\n| Premiere | 28 August 2026 on HBO Max, with subsequent episodes updated each Friday[1](https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/drama/4002145) |\n| Production timeline | Officially began filming on 23 March 2021 in Taipei; about five years passed from the start of shooting to broadcast[2](https://www.orientaldaily.com.my/news/entertainment/2021/03/24/400515) • [1](https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/drama/4002145) |\n| Director and music | Directed by Golden Bell Award-winning director Kao Ping-kuan (高炳权); music directed by lyricist Huang Ting (黄婷), with music collaboration with Universal Music[2](https://www.orientaldaily.com.my/news/entertainment/2021/03/24/400515) • [3](https://www.mirrormedia.mg/story/amp/20260917insight001) |\n| Lead cast | Yang Yu-ning as producer Wu Pei-tsu (吴培祖), 9m88 as assistant Liao Miao-chun (廖苗君), Ma Nien-hsien as recording engineer Yeh Cheng-tai (叶正泰), Chen Hao-sen as singer Chen Hao-tien (陈昊天)[1](https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/drama/4002145) |\n| Guest lineup | Wakin Chau (周华健), Andy Hui (许志安), Ricky Hsiao (萧煌奇), Pets Tseng (曾沛慈), Rhydian Vaughan (凤小岳), Na-dou, Wan Fang, Sunset Rollercoaster, and Trash[1](https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/drama/4002145) • [4](https://www.zaobao.com.sg/entertainment/story20220314-1252141) |\n| Music structure | 11 songs link the different stories, with music and script developed in parallel[3](https://www.mirrormedia.mg/story/amp/20260917insight001) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise and format\n\nThe story is set around the year 2000, the period the production calls the golden age of the Mandarin-language record business, when albums could still sell a million copies. Liao Miao-chun, a recent university graduate and former manager of a student band, stumbles into a job as assistant to Wu Pei-tsu, a top award-winning music producer who is talented but difficult. The veteran recording engineer Yeh Cheng-tai, Wu's longtime partner at the studio, acts as mediator between them. Each episode confronts the pair with a different star singer and a new song, and the series follows the two as their initially conflict-filled relationship turns into a working bond aimed at dominating the Taiwanese pop scene.[1](https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/drama/4002145) • [5](https://www.marieclaire.com.tw/entertainment/tvshow/95793)\n\nThe series is structured as an occupational drama about the record industry rather than a music romance, a distinction the director made explicit before filming began: through the different musical genres produced in each episode, viewers see how a hit song is made and how the Taiwanese pop industry changed over two decades.[2](https://www.orientaldaily.com.my/news/entertainment/2021/03/24/400515) The background era is one in which electronic dance music, hip-hop, and rock were rising among a new generation of acts.[4](https://www.zaobao.com.sg/entertainment/story20220314-1252141)\n\n**One song per episode.** The drama's signature device is that each episode has a representative song, and the music and the screenplay were developed simultaneously. Music director Huang Ting described the dependency directly: without the script the songs are incomplete, and without the songs the script does not stand; some stories even began from lyrics or a melody before the plot existed.[6](https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%A5%8A%E7%A5%90%E5%AF%A7%E5%8D%87%E6%A0%BC%E5%BD%B1%E9%9B%86%E7%9B%A3%E8%A3%BD-%E6%AC%BD%E9%BB%9E9m88%E6%8F%AD%E5%94%B1%E7%89%87%E5%9C%88%E7%A5%95%E8%BE%9B-060124578.html) Eleven songs in total connect the different stories.[3](https://www.mirrormedia.mg/story/amp/20260917insight001)\n\n### Cast and characters\n\nThe main trio is Yang Yu-ning as Wu Pei-tsu, 9m88 as Liao Miao-chun, and Ma Nien-hsien (马念先) as Yeh Cheng-tai. Around them, the guest cast plays singers and industry figures: Chen Hao-sen (陈昊森) as Chen Hao-tien, lead vocalist of the rock band Paper Plane; Tseng Shao-tsung (曾少宗) as the established singer Chen Yu-chieh; Shih Ming-shuai (施名帅) as record company boss Chin Ta-chung; and Li Hsing (李杏) as the agent Sister Tsai.[1](https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/drama/4002145) • [5](https://www.marieclaire.com.tw/entertainment/tvshow/95793)\n\nThe guest list mixes actors and working musicians. Wan Fang (万芳) plays a DJ and Na-dou plays a DJ and arranger; the bands Sunset Rollercoaster (落日飞车) and Trash appear, and the episode roster includes Pets Tseng, Rhydian Vaughan, Ricky Hsiao, and Andy Hui.[4](https://www.zaobao.com.sg/entertainment/story20220314-1252141) • [5](https://www.marieclaire.com.tw/entertainment/tvshow/95793) In a later episode Wakin Chau (周华健) appears with his son Hou An Chou (周厚安), their first drama appearance together; Chau also composed and sang the episode's theme song \"Jie Zhao\" with Huang Ting.[7](https://www.ydn.com.tw/tw/news/ugC_News_Detail.aspx?ID=647651) Ricky Hsiao plays a character with his own name, a singer with exacting demands about recording quality.[8](https://hkcna.hk/docDetail.jsp?channel=2812&id=101429517)\n\n## Origins and creative team\n\nThe project began when Yvonne Huang Yu-ju (黄郁茹), head of the production company Yi Yi Pictures (壹壹影业), wanted to make a story about the music industry and approached Huang Ting for field research; a month after what Huang Ting expected to be an informal conversation, the project was moving.[3](https://www.mirrormedia.mg/story/amp/20260917insight001)\n\nHuang Ting's own career supplies much of the show's material. After graduating in foreign languages from National Taiwan University she studied film in the United States, where the singer-producer Jonathan Lee (李宗盛) recruited her as his assistant; in 2004 she gave up doctoral study to return to Taiwan and work for him, and began writing lyrics. She later coordinated record production for stars including Stefanie Sun, Rene Liu, and Fish Leong, and served as the drama's music director.[3](https://www.mirrormedia.mg/story/amp/20260917insight001) • [6](https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%A5%8A%E7%A5%90%E5%AF%A7%E5%8D%87%E6%A0%BC%E5%BD%B1%E9%9B%86%E7%9B%A3%E8%A3%BD-%E6%AC%BD%E9%BB%9E9m88%E6%8F%AD%E5%94%B1%E7%89%87%E5%9C%88%E7%A5%95%E8%BE%9B-060124578.html)\n\n**Yang Yu-ning as supervisor.** The series marks Yang Yu-ning's first work as a producer-supervisor (监制) as well as its lead actor; he participated from script to production and said the subject was one Taiwanese drama had not covered before, and that he hoped the series would let audiences see the record business of that era in a digital age.[2](https://www.orientaldaily.com.my/news/entertainment/2021/03/24/400515) It was Yang who proposed 9m88 for the female lead, judging that her energy and songwriting background fit the character; for 9m88, who debuted in 2017 outside the major-label system, the role was also a chance to experience the industry's golden age she had missed.[1](https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/drama/4002145)\n\n## The five-year delay\n\nFilming wrapped in 2021, but the series did not reach viewers until late August 2026. According to reporting that aggregates industry and fan speculation, the delay involved post-production funding problems and the search for an international streaming partner, which settled on HBO; the timing then coincided with the merger of HBO's parent company [WarnerMedia](https://www.edgepedia.org/warnermedia) with Discovery and a global change of executives, during which Asian original content scheduling reportedly stalled, until the platform relaunched its Asian flagship slate in 2026.[5](https://www.marieclaire.com.tw/entertainment/tvshow/95793) A further reported factor is that reshoots took place in 2024, which required reworking the music used and renegotiating rights.[5](https://www.marieclaire.com.tw/entertainment/tvshow/95793) Yang Yu-ning, asked repeatedly by the media over the years, said only that the series was waiting on executives and platform scheduling.[5](https://www.marieclaire.com.tw/entertainment/tvshow/95793)\n\nThe delay had a visible side effect on the cast. Because the footage is from 2021, the actors appear noticeably younger; Yang Yu-ning said he had his hair whitened on set to look like a producer in his forties.[5](https://www.marieclaire.com.tw/entertainment/tvshow/95793)\n\n## Reception\n\nEarly commentary from music-industry figures praised the show's realism. The production team had deliberately reproduced the working environment and vocabulary of the era's studios and producers to avoid seeming amateurish, and the first two episodes drew unsolicited recommendations from professional musicians and entertainment veterans.[5](https://www.marieclaire.com.tw/entertainment/tvshow/95793) Reviewers highlighted the first episode's plagiarism storyline, in which the band's song \"Sunny Doll\" (〈晴天娃娃〉) is nearly stolen in a competition and then found to overlap with a melody its guitar teacher had used in an advertising jingle, as an example of presenting an industry controversy from several angles.[5](https://www.marieclaire.com.tw/entertainment/tvshow/95793)\n\nCritical views were mixed. A Straits Times review credited the first episode's clash between two generations of musicians but judged that some plot devices departed from reality and that the overall narrative did not sustain the scale of the golden age it depicted; it also found that, apart from \"Sunny Doll,\" none of the original songs invited replay.[9](https://www.zaobao.com.sg/entertainment/story20261014-9823324) Social-media sentiment tracking in Taiwan recorded 59 percent positive, 24 percent neutral, and 17 percent negative sentiment for the series over the month to 22 October 2026, with Yang Yu-ning the most frequent keyword.[10](https://dailyview.tw/top100/item/31889)\n\n## References\n\n1. [楊祐寧《接招吧！製作人》孵5年開播　釣出舒淇按讚敲碗, TVBS](https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/drama/4002145)\n2. [杨祐宁升格影集监制　《接招吧！制作人》揭唱片圈秘辛, 東方網馬來西亞東方日報](https://www.orientaldaily.com.my/news/entertainment/2021/03/24/400515)\n3. [娛樂透視／《接招吧！製作人》歌曲串連故事　沉浸領略流行音樂魔幻時刻, 鏡週刊](https://www.mirrormedia.mg/story/amp/20260917insight001)\n4. [杨祐宁首当制作人 新剧瞄上许志安, 联合早报](https://www.zaobao.com.sg/entertainment/story20220314-1252141)\n5. [《接招吧！製作人》線上看評價！殺青5年才播原因？, Marie Claire 美麗佳人](https://www.marieclaire.com.tw/entertainment/tvshow/95793)\n6. [楊祐寧升格影集監製 欽點9m88揭唱片圈祕辛, Yahoo奇摩新聞](https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%A5%8A%E7%A5%90%E5%AF%A7%E5%8D%87%E6%A0%BC%E5%BD%B1%E9%9B%86%E7%9B%A3%E8%A3%BD-%E6%AC%BD%E9%BB%9E9m88%E6%8F%AD%E5%94%B1%E7%89%87%E5%9C%88%E7%A5%95%E8%BE%9B-060124578.html)\n7. [周華健、周厚安父子《接招吧！製作人》同台飆戲, 青年日報](https://www.ydn.com.tw/tw/news/ugC_News_Detail.aspx?ID=647651)\n8. [台灣歌手蕭煌奇演出影集《接招吧！製作人》即將播出, 香港中通社](https://hkcna.hk/docDetail.jsp?channel=2812&id=101429517)\n9. [展现华语乐坛风光年代 可惜少了直击灵魂的主打歌, 联合早报](https://www.zaobao.com.sg/entertainment/story20261014-9823324)\n10. [接招吧！製作人｜台劇口碑聲量排行, 網路溫度計 DailyView](https://dailyview.tw/top100/item/31889)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › East Asian drama series › Hong Kong and Taiwanese serial drama*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/the-producer", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/the-producer.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. AI training is open to everyone. 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