well, a month or so ago, cctv finally revealed the tv programs of 2007, and Da Tang Fu Rong Yuan is one of them.
there were news a couple monthes ago about this policy coming from the top which will impose a limit on the production of period series, and cctv being a govt agency will certainly reduce the # of period series thay buy and broadcast in the coming days ...
remember Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor? this series was purchased by TVB and CTV and broadcasted in HK and TW respectively like ... 3 yrs ago, but it has been on CCTV's waiting list since it was done in 2001, there was saying about political incorrectness and historical inaccuracy that' been holding this series back, so finally finally the director re-edited the series, and it was shceduled to be air this month but at the last min, cctv pulled back this series again, claiming the intimate scenes are too sexy for tv standard, blah blah blah, so this series, invested and produced by cctv themselves in 2001, was aired in HK and TW and was released in dics ioverseas is still on the waiting list ... i don't know what to say, either the director of this series has a real bad "connection" in cctv or cctv is just doing their job, following the rules ...