Hong Jiantao, one of the country's most popular smallscreen comedians¹, is busy making another sitcom². This time, he's playing for laughs as a stingy building manager.

Hong Jiantao, one of the country's most popular smallscreen comedians, is busy making another sitcom.

Hong Jiantao is having a love affair with the situation comedy. And this time, his former classmate from actors school, Ding Xiaohan, is directing. That gives him supreme³ confidence in the collaboration⁴.

Midway in production, Hong is relishing⁵ his role in "My Home Land."

Another familiar face in the production is Gao Yalin, who played the daddy in the smash-hit sitcom "Children of the House." This time he plays a clerk at a property management company. In a remarkable⁶ coincidence, Gao Yalin is also an alumni of that same acting⁷ school.

Midway in production, Hong is relishing his role in "My Home Land."

Hong said, "Gao Yalin is a former schoolmate of both of us. We lived in the same dorm room in college. He's younger, like a little brother. So there's no competition between us. I'm the better one, at least in terms of age."