It's a Wonderful Life (simplified Chinese: 好运到) is a Singaporean Chinese New Year 2013 drama. It was telecast on

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's free-to-air channel,

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. It stars Ha Yu,

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and

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as the cast of the series. It made its debut on 21 January 2013 and consists of 20 episodes and was screened on every weekday night at 9:00 pm. It was also

's final drama.

Overview

The plot revolves around Li and Hao families and several couples and deals with family and getting along with in-laws.

Episodes

Cast

Production

Filming started on 23 Jul 2012 and is expected to end on 31 Oct 2012 possibly due to ''

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s early filming. Out-of-studio filming locations included Ang Mo Kio, Tiong Bahru, Commonwealth, Haw Par Villa, East Coast and Marina. Trailers first screened on 9 Jan 2013. The drama used a new credits roll, which will change in the next few dramas. Bloopers (without audio) are shown during the ending credits of each episode. Initially, a sequel of ''Love Thy Neighbour'' was to be filmed and aired as the Chinese special but was scrapped as Chin would not be available due to her studies. This series, however, still featured a number of artistes who appeared on ''Love Thy Neighbour'', including Ha Yu, Brandon Wong, Huang Wenyong, and Lin Meijiao, among others.

Release

Broadcast

''It's a Wonderful Life'' aired in conjunction with Chinese New Year 2013. It was the first drama to be broadcast exclusively in Malaysia after its first telecast of two weeks, it debuted on

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on 6 February and ended its run on 5 March 2013.

Talkshow

A talkshow, ''It's More Than A Wonderful Life,'' talking about Singapore's everyday lives was released. It is hosted by Guo Liang and

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with appearances from the cast of the drama (

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and Brandon Wong).

Reception

The series is one of three drama serials to tie-in for 3rd-highest-rated drama serial in 2013 (the other two are '' Break Free'' and '' The Journey: A Voyage''), with an average viewership of 835,000, breaking the record set by ''

'' (with 834,000). Despite this, it has only two nominations for

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References

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External links

''It's a Wonderful Life''
on MediaCorp website Singapore Chinese dramas 2013 Singaporean television series debuts Channel 8 (Singapore) original programming