The Defected

The Defected
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Chinese	鐵探
Literal meaning	Iron Detective
Hanyu Pinyin	tié tàn
Jyutping	tit3 taam3
Genre	Crime drama Political thriller Action
Created by	Chu Kang-ki
Written by	Chu Kang-ki Lau Siu-kwan
Starring	Benjamin Yuen Kara Wai Philip Keung Sisley Choi Ben Wong Grace Wong Benz Hui Mat Yeung Gloria Tang Oscar Leung Berg Ng
Theme music composer	Alan Cheung
Opening theme	"Hardhearted" (鐵石心腸) by Fred Cheng
Ending theme	"I Finally Cried" (鋼鐵有淚) by HANA
Composer	Alan Cheung
Country of origin	Hong Kong
Original languages	Cantonese Mandarin
No. of episodes	30
Production
Producer	So Man-chung
Running time	45 minutes
Production companies	TVB Tencent Penguin Pictures
Original release
Network	TVB Jade
Release	1 April (2019-04-01) – 10 May 2019 (2019-05-10)
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The Defected (Chinese: 鐵探; Cantonese Yale: tit tam; lit. Iron Detective) is a 2019 Hong Kong television drama produced and directed by So Man-Chung, with Carmen So serving as co-director. It is a co-production between the Hong Kong broadcasting company TVB and China's Tencent Penguin Pictures, a television production unit launched by Tencent. It stars Benjamin Yuen as Inspector Sheung Sing, a policeman who becomes embroiled in a conspiracy plaguing the high-ranking officials due to an incident that slowly costed him his life.

The drama premiered on TVB Jade in Hong Kong, Macau and on Astro On Demand in Malaysia on April 1, 2019, and aired its final episode on May 10, 2019. In Mainland China, the first five episodes were released on Tencent Video on April 1, and the next five episodes were made available for VIP members. Tencent Video released five new episodes every week. "The Defected" premiered with the highest first episode ratings since 2019, with a viewership rating of 29.5 points.

On April 5, 2019 it was announced that Netflix has purchased the rights to distribute The Defected internationally, becoming the first TVB drama to be shown on Netflix.^[1]