Devotion (Chinese: 阿娣) is a Singaporean
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drama which was telecasted on
Singapore
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's free-to-air channel,
MediaCorp Channel 8
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. It stars
Zoe Tay
Zoe Tay (; born 10 January 1968) is a Singaporean actress and former model. She has been referred to as the "Queen of Caldecott Hill" and "Ah Jie" (Top Actress) by the local media since the rise of her popularity in the 1990s. She is one of th ...
,
Chen Hanwei
Tan Hung Wee (born 29 August 1969), better known by his Chinese stage name Chen Han Wei (), is a Malaysian actor based in Singapore.
Early life
Chen Han Wei grew up in Kampung Ungku Mohsin, Johor Bahru
Johor Bahru (), colloquially re ...
,
Zhou Ying, Cynthia Wang,
Zhang Zhenhuan,
Kate Pang
Kate Pang (, born 11 March 1983) is a Singaporean and Taiwanese former actress and television host. She was a full-time Mediacorp artist till 31 October 2017 but continues to film on an ad hoc basis.
Acting career
Pang was a model in Taiwan befor ...
& Adeline Lim as the casts of the series. It made its debut on 28 June 2011 and ended its run on 1 August 2011. This drama serial consists of 25 episodes, and was screened on every weekday night at 9.00 pm.
The storyline spans 40 years, and is also dubbed the mid-year blockbuster-cum-47th anniversary drama.
Synopsis
Liu Zhao Di (Zoe Tay), better known as Ah Di, is born in the 60s amidst sand quarries during the heyday of sand quarrying. Zhao Di, the fourth daughter in the family and whose name means "brings a younger brother", is given away to an uncle after her mother finally gives birth to a boy. He mistreats Ah Di like a maid. When she was little, Ah Di falls into a quarry pond and was saved by Huang Dake (Chen Hanwei). Love blossoms between them after they are reunited in adulthood but Ah Di is forced by her foster father, Liu Huoyan (Ye Shipin) to marry Xu Zhongzheng (Huang Wenyong), the boss of a garment factory.
Ah Di was also kidnapped trying to save three girls, Yuanfang (Zhou Ying), Shanshan (Chloe Wang) and Siwen (Kate Pang). They were later saved.
Not long after Ah Di marries Zhongzheng, he was manslaughtered by two subordinates, (Brandon Wong and Lin Meijiao). After Zhongzheng died, Ah Di works in a soy sauce factory. She becomes the object of love of Hong Keqin (San Yow), the boss of a soy sauce factory. However, she rejects his overtures because of her deep love for Dake whom she thinks is dead.
A sequence of events lead to Ah Di adopting five children from different families - Wang Yuanfang, Fu Shuangjie (Zhang Zhenhuan), Xu Siwen, Lin Shanshan and Wu Feng (Adeline Lim) and raising them while working at Keqin's factory, "Home Flavour". Raising five children has been a bittersweet experience for Ah Di who never once entertained the thought of giving them up even in life's most difficult moments...
Cast
Trivia
*This drama is one of three drama blockbusters in 2011, the other two being
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as well as
A Song to Remember.
*This drama marks
Zoe Tay
Zoe Tay (; born 10 January 1968) is a Singaporean actress and former model. She has been referred to as the "Queen of Caldecott Hill" and "Ah Jie" (Top Actress) by the local media since the rise of her popularity in the 1990s. She is one of th ...
's return after
The Ultimatum
The Ultimatum (simplified Chinese: 双子星) is a Singaporean Chinese drama which was telecasted on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. It made its debut on 27 May 2009 and ended on the date 7 July 2009. This drama serial c ...
in 2009.
*The drama coincidentally stars all three of the
Star Search
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1988 contestants still in the entertainment industry:
Zoe Tay
Zoe Tay (; born 10 January 1968) is a Singaporean actress and former model. She has been referred to as the "Queen of Caldecott Hill" and "Ah Jie" (Top Actress) by the local media since the rise of her popularity in the 1990s. She is one of th ...
,
Chen Hanwei
Tan Hung Wee (born 29 August 1969), better known by his Chinese stage name Chen Han Wei (), is a Malaysian actor based in Singapore.
Early life
Chen Han Wei grew up in Kampung Ungku Mohsin, Johor Bahru
Johor Bahru (), colloquially re ...
and
Aileen Tan
Aileen Tan (born 18 October 1966) is a Singaporean actress.
Life and career
She was educated at the now defunct Willow Secondary School.
Tan was often cast in leading roles in the first 15 years of her acting career, but has since played supp ...
.
*Dai Yang Tian was offered the role ''Fu Shuangjie'', but he turned down the role. The role was played by Zhang Zhenhuan instead.
*This drama marks Taiwan star Chloe Wang's first Singaporean drama.
*This drama also marks Star Search 2010 artistes Adeline Lim, Jeffery Xu and Darryl Yong's first drama production.
*Cynthia Wang's role Lin Shanshan's surname was originally named Zhang.
*This drama encored from 13 June 2012 to 17 July 2012 at 5.30pm.
Unriddle 2 was supposed to make a quick encore the weekday after
The Oath The Oath may refer to:
Books
* ''The Oath'' (Wiesel novel), a 1973 novel by Elie Wiesel
* ''The Oath'' (Peretti novel), a 1995 novel by Frank E. Peretti
* '' The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court'', a 2012 book by Jeffrey Toobin ...
's encore finale, which is on the timespan stated and also planned to end a week earlier, but the channel wanted to encore this drama due to strong rating symbol guide in Singapore media.
Accolades
''Devotion'' won a string of nominations at the awards ceremony, including a record three for the Young Talent Award and two for the Best Newcomer Award.The other dramas are nominated for Best Theme songs are Secrets for Sale,
A Song to Remember, Kampong Ties & The Oath.
See also
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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.
Current programmi ...
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List of Devotion episodes
References
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Singapore Chinese dramas
2011 Singaporean television series debuts
2011 Singaporean television series endings
Channel 8 (Singapore) original programming