Nowadays it is easy for white-collar office workers who usually work overtime to miss the daily serialized TV dramas. But they don't care much because most intrigue-filled historical dramas, romances and family dramas no longer interest them after a hard day at the office.

This may well change with a lively 100-episode TV sitcom "I Love My Job" - more like a Chinese counterpart to the popular British sitcom "The Office."

The daily comedy series by veteran mainland director Shang Jing has just finished filming in the city of Shanghai and is likely to be aired by the end of this year; the station has not been decided.

And there's also "Nine to None," another daily comedy-drama, which has completed filming and will air by the end of the year on Dragon TV.

"I Love My Job" is set in the lively and chaotic editorial office of a weekly magazine. It follows the lives of five young white-collar workers with distinctive personalities and their tough female editor.

"I don't want to compare this comic TV sitcom to a sumptuous dinner," director Shang says. "It is more like 'chicken soup,' a refreshing drink for today's fatigued office workers."
 
(Shanghai Daily August 21, 2007)