In an bid to capture viewers’ eyes quickly, the 50-episode Giant, which airs tomorrow, will start off with a two-hour premiere broadcast. This is a tactic sometimes employed by bigger productions who want to get a lot of story out at once to entice audiences into returning; I recall East of Eden did a similar thing, and Legend had a whole weeklong extravaganza with behind-the-scenes specials.

That means that SBS will have a particularly busy night tomorrow; in the 9pm hour, Oh! My Lady airs its penultimate episode, and Giant will occupy the 10-to-midnight hours. On Tuesday, it will air Episode 3, and will broadcast one episode each Monday and Tuesday thereafter.

A producer explained, “Currently the scripts are coming out quickly and the filming schedule has some room, so the two-hour broadcast is to attract viewers’ attention.” The historical saga is set in the urban developmental boom of the 1970s and is built upon themes of ambition and love. It stars Lee Beom-soo, Park Jin-hee, Joo Sang-wook, Park Sang-min, Hwang Jung-eum, Lee Deok-hwa, and Jung Bo-seok, although the early episodes will be spent in the main characters’ childhoods. Those portions feature rising young actors Kim Soo-hyun, Yeo Jin-gu, and Nam Ji-hyun.

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The poster and preview are out for SBS’s Giant, which stars Lee Beom-soo, Park Jin-hee, and Hwang Jung-eum and will be airing in a week’s time. The poster takes a cue stylistically from the ’60s and ’70s, which is when the drama takes place. Giant‘s main backdrop is the economic development of the ’70s, but the drama does spend a good amount of time in the main characters’ youths.

Said the drama’s PD Yoo In-shik (Robbers, Surgeon Bong Dal-hee, Lovers), “We’re giving this drama the feel of the past, so we wanted to make a different and novel poster. We met with famous illustrator Jo Sung-min and started working on it about two to three months in advance.”

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SBS’s Giant, set in the 1970s, begins airing next month, and the production has been busy filming this past month. The early portions have been filmed, which feature young actors Kim Soo-hyun and Nam Ji-hyun, notably re-teaming after playing the young lovers in Will It Snow for Christmas.

(Kim Soo-hyun doesn’t play the main character, as I’d previously thought; he’s the older brother to Kang-mo, played in childhood by Yeo Jin-gu, who is played in his adult years by series star Lee Beom-soo. Nam Ji-hyun plays Kang-mo’s love interest, whose adult counterpart will be portrayed by Park Jin-hee.)

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Park Jin-hee and Kim Hae-sook have teamed up to play a mother and daughter in the movie My Mom [친정엄마], which opens this week. This continues the trend of mom-and-daughter-themed movies that have been popping up in the past year, such as Aeja (with Choi Kang-hee and Kim Young-ae), Harmony (Kim Yun-jin and Na Mun-hee), and Wedding Dress (Song Yoon-ah, Kim Hyang-gi). And, of course, there was also Kim Hye-ja and Won Bin as mother and son in the lauded thriller Mother.

Plot-wise My Mom seems to most resemble last year’s Wedding Dress, although it doesn’t seem as blatantly tearjerking. (Wedding Dress featured Song Yoon-ah as a single mother with a young daughter who finds out she’s dying, and was marketed as a weepie.) The tone from My Mom‘s preview (watch below) mixes a healthy dose of comedy with heartfelt drama, though I’m betting that includes its share of tears. (In fact, I’m positive it will, since the trailer totally made me cry.)

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The first still is out for SBS’s Giant, which premieres in May. From left to right, pictured are Lee Beom-soo, Park Jin-hee, Hwang Jung-eum, and Joo Sang-wook. The cast, writer Jang Young-chul, and director Yoo In-shik gathered on April 2 at the SBS Ilsan Production Center for the drama’s first script reading and rehearsal.

Giant is a special production series that commemorates SBS’s 20th-year anniversary. The story begins in the 1970s and follows three siblings as they grow up, with the focus on “one man’s ambition and love.” (How many times have we heard that, eh?) Lee Beom-soo plays that lead character, Kang-mo, while Park Jin-hee portrays his love interest and Hwang Jung-eum plays Kang-mo’s younger sister who becomes a famous actress. Young actors Kim Soo-hyun and Nam Ji-hyun will be featured in the childhood portions.

The drama premieres May 10, following Jejoongwon.

(I suppose the photo is meant to convey the drama’s ’70s feel, but they really managed to take some very good-looking actors and made them look dated and dull, didn’t they?)

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