Subscribe RSSBEIJING, April 19 (Xinhua) -- TV dramas with time travel themes are attracting groups of stable audience, while at the same time incurring criticism from China's movie critics and ordinary viewers.
Rao Shuguang, deputy leader of China Film Archive (China Film Art Research Center), told Xinhua on Tuesday that some time travel stories that are excessively unearthly might have a bad effect on children.
"It is necessary to stop such a trend," Rao said, expressing regret for the shoddy quality of new productions.
He urged TV producers to make improvements to time travel dramas by omitting outrageous plots.
"In fact, time travel-themed dramas, with characters wayfaring back or forward in time, could also be meaningful and produced from good perspective rather than only for novelty," he said.
Rao's remarks came after the State Administering of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), the country's film and TV watchdog, discouraged in a circular last month the development of some time travel dramas that "are ambiguous in moral lessons and lack positive ideological significance."
