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C.L.I.F. 5
''C.L.I.F. 5'' (Chinese: 警徽天职之海岸卫队 is a Singapore police procedural series produced and telecast on Mediacorp Channel 8 in collaboration with the Singapore Police Force. This is the fifth installment to ''C.L.I.F.'' in 2011, and this 20-episode series was first telecast from 23 September to 18 October 2019 on free-to-air TV in Singapore. The series centers on events happening in the Police Coast Guard and stars Rebecca Lim, Pierre Png, Shane Pow, Nick Teo & He Ying Ying as the main casts of the Reboot (fiction), reboot installment. This series is co-sponsored by Sheng Siong Supermarkets and Daikin and the Singapore Police Force. Synopsis Wang Man Ting is an officer with the Police Coast Guard (PCG). Le Xiao Tian, CEO of an electronic company is arranging an illegal immigration. In order to create confusion for the police, he orders Guo Tai, the boss of a fish farm to kill his enemy Lucas. In order to find the killer, Man Ting arrives at Guo Tai's fish farm and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Procedural
The police show, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the protagonist(s), as contrasted with other genres that focus on either a private detective, an amateur investigator or the characters who are the targets of investigations. While many police procedurals conceal the criminal's identity until the crime is solved in the narrative climax (the so-called whodunit), others reveal the perpetrator's identity to the audience early in the narrative, making it an inverted detective story. Whatever the plot style, the defining element of a police procedural is the attempt to accurately depict the profession of law enforcement, including such police-related topics as forensic science, autopsies, gathering evidence, search warrants, interrogation and adherence to legal restrictions and procedure. Early history The roots of the police procedural have been traced to at l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guo Liang (actor)
Guo Liang (born 11 November 1970) is a Chinese nationality law, Chinese-born Singaporeans, Singaporean actor and television host. Career Guo graduated from the Shanghai Drama Institute and moved to Singapore during the 1990s to join the Television Corporation of Singapore (predecessor of MediaCorp). He joined TCS in 1994. He joined SPH MediaWorks in late 2000 but returned to MediaCorp in 2005 when the two companies merged. Although trained as an actor, he is mostly known in Singapore as a presenter of MediaCorp Channel 8 current affairs programme ''Hello Singapore'' (狮城有约) but he stop as a presenter as he will return to MediaCorp as a full-time artiste and host of the Star Awards. In 2019, Guo undertakes as a host for a new dating variety show - The Destined One. Personal life Guo married Jade Shen Jie, a Chinese citizen, in 1994 and has a son, Marcus. He took up Singaporean citizenship in 2001 and his wife took up Singaporean citizenship in 2015. In 2010, Guo and Elvin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Awards For Best Drama Serial
The Star Awards for Best Drama Serial is an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994. The category was only introduced in 1996, at the 3rd Star Awards ceremony; ''Tofu Street'' received the award and it is given in honour of a Mediacorp drama serial which has delivered an outstanding overall performance. The nominees are determined by a team of judges employed by Mediacorp; winners are selected by a majority vote from the entire judging panel. Since its inception, the award has been given to 25 drama serials. ''My Star Bride'' was the most recent winner in this category. ''My Star Bride'' was the most recent winner in this category. Since the ceremony held in 2016, ''The Dream Makers'' is also the only drama serial to win in this category twice. In addition, ''C.L.I.F. ''C.L.I.F.'' (''Courage, Loyalty, Integrity, Fairness'', or 警徽天职, commonly pronounced as cliff) is a police procedural series produced by Mediacorp Singapore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Awards For Best Supporting Actor
The Star Awards for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994. The category was introduced in 1995, at the 2nd Star Awards ceremony; Xie Shaoguang received the award for his role in ''Larceny of Love'' and it is given in honour of a Mediacorp actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role. The nominees are determined by a team of judges employed by Mediacorp; winners are selected by a majority vote from the entire judging panel. Since its inception, the award has been given to 19 actors. Jeffrey Xu is the most recent winner in this category for his role in ''The Takedown''. Since the ceremony held in 2006, Huang Yiliang remains as the only actor to win in this category thrice, surpassing Chen Guohua, Chen Hanwei, Chen Shucheng, Tay Ping Hui, and Xie who have two wins each. Chen Shucheng has also been nominated on 11 occasions, more than any other actor. Zheng Geping Edmund Tay Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Awards For Best Supporting Actress
The Star Awards for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994. The category was introduced in 1995, at the 2nd Star Awards ceremony; Zhu Xiufeng received the award for her role in ''Chronicle of Life'' and it is given in honour of a Mediacorp actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role. The nominees are determined by a team of judges employed by Mediacorp; winners are selected by a majority vote from the entire judging panel. Since its inception, the award has been given to 20 actresses. Lin Meijiao is the most recent winner in this category for her role in ''My Star Bride''. Since the ceremony held in 2009, Xiang Yun remains as the only actress to win in this category four times, surpassing Lin who has three wins. In addition, Lin and Xiang Yun have been nominated on 11 occasions, more than any other actress. Lin also holds the record for the most nominations without a win, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Awards 2021
Star Awards 2021 (Chinese: 红星大奖2021) is a television award ceremony held in Singapore on 18 April 2021, to honour the best Singaporean television, released between January 2019 and December 2020. The ceremony was delayed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic The Star Awards 2021 is in its 26th edition, with the theme ''connect'' 星起点, showing the role that the media companies and other industry partners are playing in engaging television audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore during the previous year. Period drama ''A Quest to Heal'' won five awards including Best Drama Serial, Best Lead and Supporting Actors, Best Theme Song, and Best Director, the last of which was awarded in an unaired Backstage Achievement Award. Other winners include Zoe Tay of ''My Guardian Angels'' and Kym Ng of ''Daybreak'', who won Best Lead and Supporting Actresses respectively, the former breaking a winning record of four wins. The drama with the most nominations, ''A Jung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eelyn Kok
Eelyn Kok Hui Wen () is a Singaporean actress. She was prominently a full-time MediaCorp artist from 2001 to 2013, but continues to film on an ad hoc basis. Career Kok was first spotted in SPH MediaWorks's talent show ''Route to Glamour'' in 2001 and was a contestant alongside Jeanette Aw and Adam Chen. Although she did not win, she was offered a contract with MediaWorks and later joined MediaCorp in 2005 when the two companies merged. Kok started her acting career playing supporting roles in her starting years, frequently portraying villainous characters such as in ''The Little Nyonya''. She was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress category in 2009 but lost to winners Xiang Yun and Ng Hui. In August 2009, Kok starred in '' My Buddy'' as the first female lead, alongside established actors Christopher Lee and Aileen Tan. In the same year, she played ''Huang Jinhao'' in the Channel 8 blockbuster drama, ''Together''. The role of Jinhao was originally intended for Fiona Xie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Tianwen
Chen Tianwen (born 28 March 1963) is a Singaporean actor. Career Chen was educated at the now-defunct Serangoon Garden Secondary Technical School. He joined the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (now Mediacorp) after completing the 5th artiste drama training class and made his debut in 1984. He is contracted to Mediacorp, starring in many Chinese-language Singaporean dramas shown on MediaCorp Channel 8 since the 1990s. He has also starred in Singaporean movies including ''Ah Boys to Men 2'', '' Ah Boys to Men 3: Frogmen'' and '' The Lion Men: Ultimate Showdown''. Chen holds a black belt in taekwondo and his martial arts background led to him being cast in many ''Wuxia'' dramas in the 1990s and as characters with fight scenes in other drama series. He is also a member of the Singapore Celebrity Soccer Team. ''The Straits Times'' remarked that Chen's "much-praised understated turn" in the Cannes Film Festival award-winning film ''Ilo Ilo'' put him in the spotlight once again. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Koh
Cynthia Koh (born 25 March 1974), also known as Xu Mei Zhen 许美珍, is a Singaporean actress. She is best known for acting in many television dramas produced by MediaCorp Channel 8. Early life Koh has one younger sister. Her father works in the Singapore Civil Defence Force while her mother is a housewife. Koh received her education at Saint Anthony's Canossian Secondary School. Career While still enrolled in Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's (now MediaCorp) 10th Drama Artiste Course, Koh started acting at the TV station at the age of 18 in May 1992. Having acted in almost 46 dramas to date, Koh made her debut on stage in the critically acclaimed ''Men at Forty-Eight'' in 1997. Later, she won the Best Actress Award in Star Awards 1999 with her breakthrough performance in '' Stepping Out'', in which she played a long-suffering woman fighting against her fate. This role earned her a nomination in the same category at the Asian Television Awards. Koh was also part of the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan Lingling
Phua Leng Leng (born 25 June 1970), better known as Pan Lingling, is a Singaporean actress. Career Pan entered the entertainment industry in 1988 after graduating from the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's 8th Drama Artiste Training Course. Her classmates in the training course include award-winning actress Huang Biren, Madeline Chu and Sean Say. She made her TV debut with the series, ''Mystery'', ''Golden Quest'', ''Ups and Downs''. She also starred in ''Strange Encounters II'' in the same year. Pan has acted in numerous television series produced by MediaCorp Channel 8 and its predecessors. She also played a supporting role as a psychologist in Jackie Chan's '' Crime Story''. After some twenty years in the entertainment industry, she won her first accolade at the Star Awards 2011 Star Awards 2011 (Chinese: 红星大奖 2011) was a double television award ceremony held in Singapore. It is part of the annual ''Star Awards'' organised by MediaCorp for the two free-to-air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Wu
Allan Wu (, born on June 11, 1972) is a Singapore-based Chinese-American actor, host, VJ and former model. He is perhaps best known for being the host of 3 different editions of the popular reality game show, ''The Amazing Race''. He was the host of 5 seasons of AXN Asia's ''The Amazing Race Asia'', 3 seasons of International Channel Shanghai's '' The Amazing Race: China Rush'' and 4 seasons of Shenzhen Media Group's Chinese edition of ''The Amazing Race''. Wu decided to change his Chinese name because it was similar to Hong Kong film star Francis Ng (). Early life and education Wu was born in Los Angeles, California, United States to Chinese immigrant parents from Shenyang, Liaoning, China. His first language was Mandarin as his parents spoke it at home. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and worked in the biotechnology industry for several years. He eventually discovered his desire to become an actor after an accident made him rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Chen
Adam Chen (born 24 June 1976) is a Singaporean television and film actor. Early life Chen was educated at The Chinese High School and Hwa Chong Junior College. Whilst a civil engineering student at the National University of Singapore he did some modelling and joined ''Route to Glamour'', a talent show organised by SPH MediaWorks. He was offered a contract and joined MediaWorks after graduating. Acting career Before going into acting, Chen worked as a model for numerous print and television commercials in Singapore. In 2001, Chen participated in the Chinese talent competition, ''Route to Glamour'', by SPH MediaWorks' Channel U. He was then signed by SPH Mediaworks to be an artiste for Channel U. In 2003, Chen extended his contract with SPH Mediaworks for one year and then in 2004, extended for another three years. He earned himself a role in the Singapore-Hong Kong co-produced TV series ''Yummy Yummy'' in 2005, before proceeding to work together with other famous actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |