[2026.01.06] AFTER TRYING TO RESIGN 5 TIMES, ERIC TSANG PLANS TO RETURN TO THE FILM INDUSTRY

With his impending resignation, Eric Tsang is already in vacation mode

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Bob Lam carries the broken award, with which other artists have fought to take photos with
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Eric Tsang is very moved to see his colleagues stand up in the audience when he receives the "Honorary Legend" award

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The award Bob Lam smashed is a replica, later he would receive the golden trophy with his name etched on it

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TVB's annual event "TV Awards Presentation 2025" was held in Macau the night before. Bosco Wong Chung Chak and Charmaine Sheh Sze Man (Ah Sheh) won the "Best Actor and Actress" and the "Greater Bay Area's Favorite TVB Actor and Actress", becoming a double Best Actor and Actress. Eric Tsang Chi Wai received the newly added "Honorary Legend" award. He received the award from his friend Alan Tam and immediately announced his resignation as the general manager of TVB. He will serve as the convener of the advisory committee in the future to continue to contribute to TVB. Chi Wai admitted that he has been thinking about resigning as the general manager of TVB for a long time, and he even needed to resign five times before succeeding. He will return to contribute to the film industry in the future.

Chi Wai was very grateful to see all of the colleagues standing up in the audience when he accepted the award, as he was very touched to be respected. He also was very grateful to his friend Alan Tam Wing Lun for presenting him with the award, which also proved that his efforts in the past 5 years have been recognized by everyone. It was also what he wanted the most when he first joined TVB as an executive. He was able to do what he wanted to do and considered the job done.

When asked Chi Wai how he would grade himself as a general manager, and he smiled and said, "50 something points, iffy. Because I don't do a good job in administration, I don't know how to manage. There are many things I want to do but haven't done. TVB is a very big cruise ship, ultimately it is running on gas and can't become electric all at once. The greatest success is that many people praise the TVB program for being very entertaining, and the advertisers have come back. Actually I am just the prodigal son, responsible for spending money. I don't know how to make money, but I make a program for companies to buy advertising. The success of the programs can earn even more advertising. The most important is for everyone to feel that advertising on TVB has improved their businesses. At first when I didn't know anything I spent like mad, after awhile on job I have learned be thrifty!"

When asked if the company has tried to retain him, Chi Wai said, "They have tried to retain many times, but I succeeded the fifth time. I was told not to even think about it and kept getting kicked out of the door before. This time I said with a lot of certainty, the main reason why I decided to resign this time is that my children want me to rest more. I have already cultivated a great group of people to succeed me. I also wanted to help the company with some new developments, so I would not sever ties with the company completely." As for the selection of the general manager's successor, Chi Wai said that the decision would be up to TVB Chairman Hui To. He have made suggestions but did not give any clear choice. When asked about the members of the new advisory committee, Chi Wai said that he would announce it when he found suitable candidates, emphasizing that he would not pry people away from the company and would look for more different talents to participate in the creation. He would continue to share his philosophy of making TV.

Chi Wai said that the 5 years of working at TVB has been neither long nor short, and he felt that the most suitable time to announce the news of the change was at the award ceremony. "I came back mainly to share my experience, and my colleagues have understood what I wanted to share. I think it is time to retire, actually I have started to take a vacation over a month ago. I only return to the company once a week for a meeting until the middle of the month, 5 years ago I started on January 21st, and this year on January 21st I will officially leave. I promised that the company that as a consultant I might come back for meetings every month, because I still have some future developments I want to do with TVB."

Although Chi Wai denied that he was unwell and had to resign, he stated that he was not used to the normal business hours. He said, "The only thing I am not used to being a general manager is to have meetings on time. In addition making TV is different from making movies. You can rest after finishing one (movie), but you can't with television. The job is basically endless. General manager has to be at meetings all the time and can't be late. I am not used to starting meetings on time, I have to sit at the company at 9:30 AM and has many meetings to host. I don't get to be late, which to me is the roughest thing. Sometimes meetings are even rougher than coming up with ideas. I also have to handle administrative work, have a sense of responsibility, none of which are things I like." He felt that only by resigning would he have more opportunities to meet with viewers, with the general manager job he could not perform many onscreen work. "Being a general manager has a huge problem, which is whatever I do seems to represent TVB, so I can't speak casually. I like to talk, talk irresponsibly and joke around. TVB is a publicly traded company and could not speak casually. Then I might as well return to be a free person, for me there is no restriction. Instead I can bring even more joy to the audience."

Chi Wai said that he also has planned to return to the film industry after stepping down. Ultimately he started in the film industry. Seeing that the film market has been sluggish, he really wanted to contribute more. "I haven't paid attention to movies for 5 years, so I feel I am a little out of touch. Actually film is the place I have learned the most and have the most interest in when he entered show business. I want to return to make movies. I haven't worked with many directors, I want to make some Hong Kong movies and reconnect with the Hong Kong audience. I haven always liked acting, it is an interest and an enjoyment. As for directing and producing I do them out of a sense of duty and responsibility to the business. Cultivating new directors, making new subjects are also what I like to do the most."