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Hong Kong's biggest broadcaster TVB has received a flood of complaints against its new variety show for lampooning the city's leader and other prominent public figures, prompting one of the programme's stars to quit. Critics put off by the show said the troubled station should resist relying on "low comedy" in trying to win back lost viewers and advertisers. The.
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Winners and Sinners, My Lucky Stars, and Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars, a trio of lowbrow comedies with martial arts scenes, were big Hong Kong cinema hits in the early 1980s.
Directed by Sammo Hung Kam Bo, who also starred in them, the films mixed comic actors such as John Shum Kin Fun and Eric Tsang Chi Wai with martial arts stars, and gave a lot of screen time to Jackie Chan. The stories feature Hung as the leader of a gang of ex-cons working on the right side of the law, with some help from Chan, who plays a cop.