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The live-action television adaptation of the Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel “The Three-Body Problem” by Liu Cixin has received critical acclaim following its release Sunday night. Titled “Three-Body,” the drama opened at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday on both CCTV-8, the TV drama channel of China’s national broadcaster CCTV, and the online platform Tencent Video. The show made immediate headlines on Chinese social media platforms, generating 340 million reads as of 6 p.m. Many web posts expressed viewers’ satisfaction with the long-awaited show, at least based on the already aired episodes, commending its great job in restoring details of the original novel. The “Three-Body” TV drama broke Tencent Video records in terms of the popularity generated by a drama on its debut day, according to the platform, which is also a co-producer of the show.