By Clifford Coonan in Beijing
Published: 07 February 2007
They are six Chinese twentysomethings, friends who live together after they were tricked into buying the same apartment. The day-to-day adventures of the characters - the Soul Partners - have a lot in common with those of Monica, Joey, Rachel, Phoebe and Chandler on the US sitcom Friends.
But, in a Big Brother-style twist, rather than rely on scriptwriters to decide the course of the show - now into the fourth of a planned 20 episodes - the writers listen to viewers before working on next week's plot.
And, as the show is featured on a video-sharing website called Mofile rather than television channels, it is an indication of how rapidly China is changing, socially and technologically.
Independent
