Fairy of the Chalice is a television series broadcast on MediaCorp TV Channel 8 in 2006. The story begins with the Goddess Nuwa subduing and imprisoning an evil Centipede spirit. The Chalice fairy tasked to guard the centipede spirit however, was careless, the centipede spirit escaped. As punishment, the Chalice spirit was banished to the mortal realm where she will have to grant three wishes to any mortal who puts water into her chalice for a thousand times.
Game Plan is a Singaporean Chinese drama which debuted on 9 October 2012. This series was produced by Wawa Pictures. The original title was "Tricked", but was changed later on. The Chinese title is an idiom which is literally translated as "thousand ways, hundred plans", and means to use every method available in order to achieve one's goal, which loosely implies "by hook or by crook".
Qian Renjie and Luo Shuping decide to sell their HDB flat and upgrade into a condominium. However, the upgrade comes with a hefty price, leaving the couple with no savings. Renjie’s sister, Qian Meiling, loves to purchase things on instalments. Her husband, Wu Guolun, is a spendthrift who is burdened with expensive car instalments. At work, Renjie is being oppressed by his superior and he resigns in a huff. Meanwhile, Shuping’s tactless nature gets the better of her and she soon finds herself under-performing at work. Guolun decides to pursue his dreams as a lyricist and quits his job. He spends a lot of effort on his songwriting but the response is underwhelming. To fulfil his dream, Guolun sells off his house for cash to start a music studio. Unfortunately, his partner fled with the money. Meiling hears that she has a relative who owns a bungalow, a senile old man named Qian Laoshi.
Yun Ze is a successor of a medical group. To secure the inheritance and to save his life, his father Zhao Hua deceived Xiu Huan and coaxes his illegitimate son Yun Cong into donating his bone-marrow and organs to sustain the life of Yun Ze. When Shi Yuan came into the life of the two brothers, Yun Ze gradually falls in love with her, not knowing that Yun Cong has discovered Shi Yuan likes Yun Cong.
Ying Jun is born deaf and suffered the tragic loss of his father in an accident while his mother abandoned him from young. His grandmother took care of him, working as a waitress selling beer to raise him. He works in a restaurant with the Chef promising to mentor him, until he falls in love with the Chef’s daughter, and now faces his wrath.
Yao Fei rises to the hopes and dreams of his parents, becoming a successful medical specialist with a loving girlfriend, Zi Yang. But behind the façade is a man suffering from depression, and his condition takes a turn for the worse after Zi Yang leaves him when she is unable to handle his breakdowns.
Facing the discrimination of a society that focuses on success and perfection and amid the mounting challenges, for the sake of true love, will they persevere and courageously pursue it?
This story follows the life of a group of nurses as they take on their challenging routines with professionalism and pride. Wang Ruojun is an experienced nurse who saved Liu You Le from an accident. You Le is grateful towards Ruojun and this incident inspires her to be a nurse. Though successful in her career, Ruojun faced marital woes. Her husband of many years cheated on her and even has a love child outside. Fu Jiazi is originally a software engineer; he lost a friend during a car accident and blames himself for not being able to save his friend. This incident makes him decide to quit his job as a software engineer and become a nurse. Guan Xinni suspects that Xie Yaozong is the man who molested her when she was a child. Because of this misunderstanding, she puts herself in many funny and embarrassing situations. The nurses not only face challenges in their job but also in love as well. Will they be able to resolve their problems in love, career and family?
The story revolves around three brothers who grew up in a male-dominant family and all inherited a chauvinistic streak from their father. Eldest brother Zhang Nai Ping aspires to be his own boss but he suffers many setbacks in his career and his marriage. His wife Zhou Hui Min cannot tolerate his chauvinism, they eventually divorced. In a twist of event, Nai Ping chanced upon a business opportunity in confinement food catering. Second brother Zhang Nai Liang suffers from ear disease which leads to migraine and had to give up his passion in ballet. He conducts ballet classes for children instead, but a parent accused him of behaving inappropriately towards her daughter - The youngest brother Zhang Nai Yi graduates from the arts school specializing in fashion design. However, his lack of social skills and introvert nature hinders his chances at job interviews.
He Feng, an ex-cop with late-stage cancer, and Yue Xin, a dispirited widow, use their newfound ability to see into the past and future to solve cases as they vie for the PI agency. Qiu, head of an American gang, tasks Hanzo to steal their powers, drawing the duo into a deadly conspiracy that threatens to tear them apart and get them killed after having braved countless trials.
Night Market Life is a Taiwanese-language television drama that began airing on Formosa TV in Taiwan on 22 December 2009. This is also known as the first HD drama ever broadcast on Formosa TV.
It stars Chen Meifeng, Morning Chang, Peng Chia-chia, Jimmy Ni, Wang Shixian, Daisy Fong, Mike Lee and Chiang Tsu-ping among others.
Very little of the show is actually set in a night market. Rather, the show is centered on several vendors at a night market whose children befriend each other and go their separate paths upon reaching adulthood. As the series' popularity grew, the story was expanded to span two generations of characters; the children of the first part are grown up in the second part, which began on 7 April 2010 and the theme song was changed to dialect version.
Ma Dabao, a seemingly wise and kind e-commerce tycoon, plagiarized his son, Deming’s concept of a Smart Juice Cup (AI Cup) at a press conference in order to defeat him. When he finds out his brother Ma Xiaobao colluded with Guo Jiacheng, a logistics company owner to sell fake products for personal profit, he insists on punishing Xiaobao according to the law relentlessly, but never did he expect this to land himself as an unjustly ghost living in the AI Cup. She Xiaoqian, is a loyal user of the online shopping platform, Wa Dao Bao, and more so, a number 1 fan of Dabao!
Holland V is a 2003 Singaporean drama series produced by MediaCorp. It was the third long-running drama in Singaporean television history, and was modelled on the long running Hong Kong drama A Kindred Spirit. Like A Kindred Spirit, the main family in the series, the Mo family, operates a small restaurant in Holland Village.
Originally intended to be 115 episodes long, the series was extended to 125 episodes after performing strongly in ratings.
Centenarian Home is a nursing home and elderly day care centre managed by Aunty Shan (Sze Kei Lee). The residents come from all walks of life, each with their own stories to tell. What secrets does the model resident of the nursing home hide? Why is a cheeky grandfather with many grandchildren staying in the nursing home? What does a long lost son hope to gain from a father suffering from dementia? Why does an old architect with a seemingly good life keep telling lies? When Aunty Shan was diagnosed with a terminal illness, she decides to pass the management of her beloved nursing home to a newly recruited nurse Xin Xin (Rui En). Without much experience coupled with her own set of personal problems, can Xin Xin rise to the occasion and hold the fort until Aunty Shan is back?
My Mighty-in-Laws is a Singaporean Chinese drama which was telecasted on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. This drama serial consists of 20 episodes. It made its debut on 17 November 2004 and ended its run on 14 December 2004.
A shining star in the court of volleyball, Cai Yanfang (Jesseca Liu) is unfortunately self-centred and critical. She falls out with her teammates and dragged her best friend Rainie (Joanne Peh) along to switch to beach volleyball. All is not smooth-sailing as Rainie is immensely jealous of Yanfang's talent, and they eventually break up over Ma Tianwu (Christopher Lee), a beach bar owner. Rainie forms a new team to compete, while Yanfang discovers a hidden talent in Sixing (Dawn Yeoh), a nerdy Maths student. But Yanfang's selfishness and critical nature surface and it threatens to break the partnership. Sixing also gets distracted with the good-looking Tianwu. On the eve of a major competition, a madly jealous Rainie sends thugs to beat Sixing up, but Yanfang gets injured while trying to save the latter. An injured Yanfang is determined to compete, but her injury worsens at the crucial moment, will this be the end of her championship dreams?
Romantic Delicacies is a Chinese drama, which was the 13th co-production of MediaCorp TV and ntv7. This drama serial consists of 25 episodes. In Singapore, it was telecasted on the free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. It was screened from 31 August 2009 to 2 October 2009, on every weekday night at 7:00 pm.
A murderer Yan Zhenbang leads a group of ex-convicts and Li Zicheng, the son of a hotpot restaurant owner, to work together as they transform a hopeless hotpot restaurant into a heartwarming place that satisfies their diners’ desire for good food while healing themselves and finding their purpose in life.