Assuring great quality for their dramas, competitive new television station, CTI HKTV revealed that they will be filming a real surgery in one of their debut dramas, "The Three-Faced Doctors".
According to Jayne Stars website, the production crew behind "The Three-Faced Doctors", a drama about a group of plastic surgeons, revealed that for the first time in Hong Kong television history, they have hired real models to undergo actual cosmetic surgeries and film inside an operating room to witness a double-eyelid surgery.
Former TVB actor, Frankie Lam, who had to film the double-eyelid procedure that day, revealed, "On the day of filming, all of the cast and crew had to get disinfected before we could enter the operation room. The surgery typically took three hours, but with the nature of filming, we had to stay in the room for over ten hours!"
The "Witness to a Prosecution" actor also disclosed that his plastic surgeon role is one of his most difficult roles to portray, but at the same time, he is very satisfied working with HKTV.
Frankie stated, "I have enough time to rest. The time I get to prepare for my role is also much more than what TVB gave me. Before filming, I had to take some classes with a professional doctor. I needed to learn how to give injections and learn the proper way to hold surgical instruments. We spent a lot of time to prepare for this drama. I still get to earn more when working in mainland China, but HKTV's price is close and it allows me to spend more time with my family."
Investing more than HKD 1 million per episode for their dramas, CTI HKTV aims to produce the best quality television, a challenge to its biggest rival, TVB, that has been constantly criticised for its lacklustre and poor production.
source