Throughout my fieldwork and subsequent visits to my field sites, I observed first-hand how the forces of capital and state power impacted on different producers differently. I was reminded of this again during a recent visit when I was invited to a lunch party at one of my fieldwork companies to celebrate the Lunar New Year. As I chatted with some of my informants while waiting for the feast to begin, I noticed how the producers who were in charge of variety and infotainment programmes continued typing away on their computers without participating in the festivities. After the main activity of the celebration, the lo hei, those producers collected their plates of buffet food and quietly returned to their workstations to eat while continuing their work. I stood with the majority of the other producers who ate while chatting with each other informally. When I asked one of the producers about whether the variety and infotainment department was very busy, she commented in a half-joking manner, ‘no choice, they have to earn the money to support the whole company’. I often heard comments like that – told either as a joke or a complaint – during my fieldwork. After lunch, I walked over to the desk of one of the variety producers when I noticed he had a moment of respite. He informed me that he was juggling four projects at one go and had worked throughout the Lunar New Year holidays.