Hard Fate (Traditional Chinese - 翡翠戀曲) is a 30-episode series which aired on TVB in 2004.
 It stars Flora Chan 陳慧珊, Damian Lau 劉松仁, Kevin Cheng 鄭嘉穎 and Niki Chow 周麗淇.
Brian Thomas Burrell (, born March 23, 1972) is a Hong Kong American actor best known for his roles in Cantonese television productions in Hong Kong.
 Burrell is also one of the few foreign actors in Hong Kong broadcaster TVB's artiste profiles over the years.
Placebo Cure is a Hong Kong modern serial drama produced by TVB and starring Sunny Chan, Joyce Tang and Kevin Cheng.
 The drama was filmed from November 2003 to early 2004 and was first released overseas in May 2005.
 It was then aired in Hong Kong on Super Sun's TVB Drama channel from 30 May to 24 June 2005.
 It was then aired on TVB Jade from 19 October to 16 November 2006.
Kevin Cheng Ka-wing (born 15 August 1969) is a Hong Kong American actor and singer who is currently under the management of the Hong Kong television network TVB.
 Cheng rose to fame in late 2004 after playing his first lead role in the TVB drama "Hard Fate".
The Greed of Man is a Hong Kong television series first broadcast on TVB Jade in 1992.
 The story, spanning three decades from the 1970s to the 1990s in Hong Kong and Taiwan, addresses various social and financial phenomena of the times, from triad violence to corruption in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
 It featured a top roster cast, including veteran TVB actors Adam Cheng and Damian Lau and award-winning actor Sean Lau.
 The series is also well remembered for a Hong Kong stock market cultural phenomenon called the "Ting Hai effect".
Olivia Cheng (Chinese: 鄭文雅, Pinyin: Zheng Wenya), born 14 February 1960, is a Hong Kong based former actress.
 She won the 1979 Miss Hong Kong Pageant and was also elected "Miss Photogenic."
 She represented Hong Kong in Miss Universe 1979 in Perth, Western Australia, where she went unplaced but ranked a very respectable 21st place in the preliminary swimsuit competition.
 Olivia created a controversy when she joined ATV (the arch-rival of TVB, the organiser of the Miss Hong Kong pageant) immediately after crowning her successor in 1980.
 This incident embarrassed TVB so much that in 1981, TVB decided to sign 1.5-year contracts with all Miss Hong Kong winners so that they had to stay with TVB for at least 6 months after their reign was over.
Ghetto Justice II is an Hong Kong modern drama series produced by TVB.
 It is a sequel to the 2011 hit series "Ghetto Justice".
 This sequel features original cast members Kevin Cheng, Myolie Wu, Sam Lee and Alex Lam with the addition of new cast members JJ Jia, Raymond Cho, Christine Kuo, and Elena Kong.
 Joyce Tang (who played as Tai-Ng Ting) and Eddie Kwan (played as But Chik) didn't reprise their roles in the sequel and was excused off in the series.
Blue Veins (; literally "Vampire") is a 2016 Hong Kong supernatural television drama produced by Joe Chan Wai-Kun for TVB, starring Kay Tse, Kevin Cheng and Grace Chan.
 Filming took place from April to July 2015 on location in Hong Kong and the Netherlands.
 It premiered on Hong Kong's TVB Jade and Malaysia's Astro On Demand on April 11, 2016, airing Monday through Sunday during its 9:30-10:30 pm timeslot.
Ip Man is a 2013 Chinese television series romanticising the life of Ip Man (Mandarin: Ye Wen), a Chinese martial artist specialising in Wing Chun.
 Directed by Fan Xiaotian, the series starred Hong Kong actor Kevin Cheng as the title character, with Han Xue, Liu Xiaofeng, Chrissie Chau, Song Yang, Yu Rongguang, Yuen Wah and Bruce Leung as part of the supporting cast.
 Wilson Yip, the director of the films "Ip Man" and "Ip Man 2" (starring Donnie Yen), and Taiwanese producer Young Pei-pei served as the artistic consultants for the series, while Ip Man's sons, Ip Chun and Ip Ching, served as the martial arts consultants.
 The series was shot from July–November 2012 in Kunshan, Suzhou, and was first aired on Shandong TV from 24 February to 9 March 2013.
 It won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Television Series in 2012.
The Ting Hai effect, also known as the Adam Cheng effect, is a stock market phenomenon in which there is a sudden and unexplained drop in the stock market whenever a film or a television series starring Hong Kong actor Adam Cheng is released.
 It still remains as a popular topic among stock brokers, years after the television drama "The Greed of Man" was broadcast in Hong Kong in late 1992.
 The effect is named after Ting Hai, the primary antagonist in the drama, who was portrayed by Cheng.

Question: What year did the series Hard Fate starring Hong Kong American actor Kevin Cheng air on TVB?
Answer: 2004