''Breakout'' (simplified Chinese: 破天网) is a Singaporean
Chinese
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drama television series which was broadcast on
Singapore
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's free-to-air channel,
MediaCorp Channel 8
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. The series starred
Jeanette Aw
Jeanette Aw Ee-Ping (born 28 June 1979), better known by her stage name Ou Xuan (), is a Singaporean actress, filmmaker, businesswoman and writer. Aw was named as one of the Seven Princesses of Mediacorp in 2006, after which she achieved wider ...
,
Elvin Ng
Elvin Ng Choon Siong (; born 23 December 1980) is a Singaporean actor and former model.
Early life
Ng attended Jurong Primary School, Catholic High School and National Junior College. He graduated with an honours degree in English litera ...
,
Zhou Ying,
Christopher Lee,
Dai Xiangyu
Dai Xiangyu (), previously known as Dai Yangtian (), is a Chinese actor and model formerly based in Singapore. He was a prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 2007 to 2013.
Career
Dai was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province in 1984. He di ...
and
Guo Liang. It debuted on 6 December 2010, and ended on 7 January 2011. This drama consisted of 25 episodes, and was screened on weekday night at 9:00 pm.
It won Best Drama Serial in 2010 at
Star Awards.
Title
The drama's title translates to the
Technical Analysis
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term in financial markets, referring to super-villain Yang Tianwei's attempt to trade using that strategy so as to get rich quickly enough to seek revenge for his murdered son rather than wait for justice to be meted out.
Synopsis
On 15 June 1997, the same day when she celebrated her 12th birthday, Tang Ying (younger portrayed by Regine Lim, older portrayed by
Zhou Ying) lost her parents and older brother to a tragic road accident. Although she survived, she lapsed into a coma for 13 years. When she came out of her coma, she was stunned to realize that she was no longer a 12-year-old girl but a 25-year-old young woman. Trapped in an older body with her memory still frozen at age 12, Tang Ying struggles to cope with reality which includes the cruel truth that her family is dead.
Tang Ying suspects that there is more to the tragic road accident which claimed the lives of her entire family. As a result, Tang Ying embarks on a rigorous routine to learn and to familiarize herself with a society that has changed tremendously in the years when she was unconscious.
During this time, she befriends Zou Jieming (portrayed by
Elvin Ng
Elvin Ng Choon Siong (; born 23 December 1980) is a Singaporean actor and former model.
Early life
Ng attended Jurong Primary School, Catholic High School and National Junior College. He graduated with an honours degree in English litera ...
), an
autistic
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but highly intelligent
savant
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, and Situ Dongcheng (portrayed by
Christopher Lee), a down-and-out former lawyer who has lost everything he treasured in his life. Together, they embark on a battle against Yang Tianwei (portrayed by
Guo Liang), a cruel, ruthless and cunning man who will stop at nothing in his quest to avenge his dead son Zhenjie. Tianwei's children, Chris Yang Zhenfeng (portrayed by
Dai Xiangyu
Dai Xiangyu (), previously known as Dai Yangtian (), is a Chinese actor and model formerly based in Singapore. He was a prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 2007 to 2013.
Career
Dai was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province in 1984. He di ...
) and Nianqing (portrayed by
Jeanette Aw
Jeanette Aw Ee-Ping (born 28 June 1979), better known by her stage name Ou Xuan (), is a Singaporean actress, filmmaker, businesswoman and writer. Aw was named as one of the Seven Princesses of Mediacorp in 2006, after which she achieved wider ...
), assist him in his evil deeds. It is revealed that Yang Tianwei had planned the murder of the Tang Yaozu and his family for a past grudge using a road accident and it was not an isolated incident. Will Tang Ying, Jieming and Dongcheng be able to bring him to justice before he ruins more lives?
Cast
Yang family
Tang family
Zou Jieming's family
Other characters
Broadcast
It was the tenth Channel 8 drama to be fully filmed in
HD and the first to be filmed in
Dolby Digital.
This drama was encored from 30 November 2011 to 3 January 2012 at midnight and once more from 28 September 2022 to 25 October 2022, and was now rated as
PG for violence, similar to ''
The Ultimatum
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''. As a result, ''
The Family Court
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'' and ''
The Score'' were not being broadcast at midnight, but at 5.30pm instead.
Awards and nominations
''Breakout'' lead the nominations for, and won the most awards for acting and technical categories in the
2011 Star Awards ceremony. It also won three nominations and commendations at the 2011
Asian Television Awards
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.
Star Awards 2011
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Asian Television Awards
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Parody
During the awards ceremony,
Christopher Lee,
Huang Wenyong
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,
Ben Yeo and other actors performed a
parody
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of the series. Lee, portraying ''Breakout''
director
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Chong Liung Man, and his "camera crew" (played by Huang and Yeo) were filming a scene on the harbour. Veteran
radio deejay
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Dennis Chew
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played Yang Tianwei, ceremony co-host
Quan Yi Fong
Quan Yi Fong (, born 1 March 1974) is a Taiwanese-born Singaporean host and actress, who has since taken up Singaporean citizenship and given up her Taiwanese citizenship.
Career
Quan joined the SBC in 1992. In 1996, she was fired by TCS ov ...
played Yang Nianqing, popular television host
Lee Teng played Yang Zhenfeng, award nominee
Zhou Ying reprised her role as Tang Ying and Quan's co-host
Guo Liang played Zou Jieming.
See also
*
List of programmes broadcast by MediaCorp Channel 8
This is a list of Chinese-language television programme broadcast on Mediacorp Channel 8, a television channel in Singapore.
The years stated in the list are the years in which the programmes were first aired on the channel.
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References
External links
''Breakout''(Chinese) on MediaCorp website
{{Star Awards for Best Drama Serial
2010 Singaporean television series debuts
2011 Singaporean television series endings
Autism in television
Singapore Chinese dramas
Channel 8 (Singapore) original programming