Big White Duel

Hong Kong's leading public hospital, Marshall Paxton, is being used as a trial ground for a radical reform project that could potentially change the future of Hong Kong's healthcare system. As medical practitioners at Marshall Paxton regularly face ethical dilemmas that challenge their professionalism, they are also being put in the middle of a power struggle between Deputy C.E. Dr. YT Yeung, who seeks for healthcare reform and for the spot of C.E., and the hospital's current C.E. Dr. Lui Chung-hok, who wants to keep the status quo. Fictional depictions of the Hospital Authority (known in the series as the Medical Development Authority), the Department of Health, and the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) are prominent entities that drive the plot.

It centers on Dr. YT Yeung (Roger Kwok), the Deputy Chief Executive of Marshall Paxton Hospital and his radical proposal to completely change the hospital's bureaucratic model by privatizing the public hospitals and raise capital by the means of public listing to maintain hospital operations, but is met with opposition from Dr. Tong Ming (Kenneth Ma), who was placed by the Chief Executive of Marshal Paxton to be the head of the hospital's cardiology department. Tong Ming believed that YT Yeung's proposed changes could affect the poor's accessibility to healthcare has a totally different ideology compared to YT's. He has fought alongside his apprentice Dr. Max Poon (Matthew Ho) in accordance with the life-saving principle that is to hold human life above the healthcare system, but they are instead dragged into the power struggle initiated by Dr. Lui Chung-hok, CE of Marshal Paxton. In Marshall Paxton Hospital, Tong Ming is reunited with A&E's Dr. Zoe So (Natalie Tong) who is his ex-wife.

Big White Duel was first announced in late 2017 as a new installment to Marco Law's Strongmen series, which started with the legal drama Law dis-Order in 2016. Initially produced with the working title White Giants (白色巨人), the new series would follow a similar to theme to Law dis-Order, in which career professionals engage in political games to consolidate power. Law employed the same team behind Law dis-Order for Big White Duel, including scriptwriter Wong Wai-keung.

Moses Chan and Ruco Chan were initially sought out to respectively star as Dr. YT Yeung and Dr. Tong Ming.{{cite news | work=KK News | url=https://kknews.cc/entertainment/v8oy9al.html | title=Kenneth Ma replaces Moses Chan as the star of new TVB medical drama | date=14 December 2017 | accessdate=7 March 2020 | language=Chinese}} After turning down the roles, TVB cast Roger Kwok and Kenneth Ma in December 2017. Big White Duel became Kwok's last TVB drama in his management contract. The role of Dr. Patrick Lam was first offered to Jason Chan, and then to Oscar Leung, but both turned down the role due to schedule conflicts. The role ultimately went to Stephen Wong.

In February 2018, Big White Duel held its first costume fitting press conference. Filming commenced that same month in Tuen Mun, and later in Shenzhen, China. Principal photography focused on locations in Tuen Mun's T PARK, Shenzhen's Horizontal Skyscraper, and the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneur Hub, which were used as backdrops for Marshall Paxton Hospital.{{cite news | work=Sky Post | url=https://skypost.ulifestyle.com.hk/article/2387832/%E3%80%8A%E7%99%BD%E8%89%B2%E5%BC%B7%E4%BA%BA%E3%80%8B%E4%B8%89%E5%A4%A7%E5%A0%B4%E6%99%AF%E5%A4%A7%E8%A7%A3%E6%A7%8B%20%E6%98%8E%E6%88%90%E5%8C%97%E9%86%AB%E9%99%A2%E7%8F%BE%E5%AF%A6%E5%88%B0%E5%BA%95%E5%96%BA%E9%82%8A%EF%BC%9F | title=Big White Duel's three major location spots | date=28 June 2019 | accessdate=7 March 2020 | language=Chinese}} Principal photography ended in July 2018 with a wrap-up party held on 2 July 2018.

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