''Mom's House'' is a

Taiwanese Hokkien Taiwanese Hokkien ( , ), or simply Taiwanese, also known as Taigi ( zh, c=臺語, tl=Tâi-gí), Taiwanese Southern Min ( zh, c=臺灣閩南語, tl=Tâi-uân Bân-lâm-gí), Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively ...

television drama In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional te ...

that began airing on

Formosa Television Formosa Television () is a television station based in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Established on March 27, 1996, FTV began broadcasting on June 11, 1997 as the first free-to-air television station established without direct relationship to a p ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

. This is also known as the first HD drama ever broadcast on

. During the last week of the drama's run, where the final two episode were broadcast, Formosa Television received the highest rating ever recorded in their 8 o'clock slot, which was 9.78 million. On average, the show received 7.97 million viewers.

Plot

Retired principal, Lin Shishi, marries off his three daughters one by one. But even as his daughters venture into their brand new lives, Lin and his wife continue to give them their non-wavering support whenever they encounter obstacles in their marriages.

Cast

*Shi Ying as Lin Shishi *Tang Meiyen as Wu Baozhu *Lei Hong as Peng Dahai * as Peng Jianhong * Fon Cin as Lin Liyun

Accolades

International broadcast

Malaysia

The drama was broadcast on

Astro Hua Hee Dai Astro Hua Hee Dai (; also known as Astro HHD) is a 24-hour in-house Hokkien-generic TV channel in Malaysia. It is the fourth in-house Chinese channel provided by pay TV provider Astro, after Astro Wah Lai Toi, Astro AEC and Astro Shuang Xi ...

, weekdays at 8:30-9:30pm, starting on November 17, 2008 and concluding on July 8, 2012. Another Astro channel,

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, broadcast the show in its original Taiwan episode length daily at 7pm starting on January 4, 2010 and ending on September 27, 2011. The drama was also broadcast on 8TV under the English title ''Mother's House'' for two episodes with one hour each from Monday to Friday, at 11:30 MST and 13:00 MST with a 30 minutes break of its Midday Mandarin News at 12:30 MST. The drama was broadcast on 8TV starting on January 2, 2013 and ending on October 21, 2014.

Gala Television

Gala Television Gala Television Corporation () is a nationwide cable TV network in Taiwan that is operated by the Gala Television Corporation, established on June 13, 1997. GTV channels GTV currently operates four commercial cable and satellite television chann ...

another broadcaster in Taiwan, showed the drama Monday - Friday in the timeslot of 5-7pm, each day showing 2 one-hour format episodes on GTV One. The broadcast started on May 3, 2010 and concluded on October 14, 2011.

Indonesia

Indosiar PT Indosiar Visual Mandiri, commonly known as Indosiar, is an Indonesian over-the-air television broadcaster, established on 19 July 1991, with test broadcasts commencing on 18 December 1994, and officially launching on 11 January 1995. It ha ...

broadcast the drama daily, 7-10pm, starting on May 9, 2011

Singapore

The drama was first broadcast on

VV Drama Hub VV Drama (formerly known as VarietyVision, officially launched on 13 May 1992 and officially dissolved on 31 May 1995) is a cable television StarHub TV on Channel 855. Its programming consists solely of drama series from Hong Kong, China, Sout ...

at 19:00–20:00 from Monday to Friday Premiere (+3) at 22:00–23:00. It was also broadcast in the morning from 1:14–2:04 am and 9:00–9:50 am. It was also broadcast in the afternoon from 2:00–2:50 pm. The broadcast started on December 5, 2009. The series was also broadcast in Singapore Channel,

Mediacorp Channel 8 Channel 8 ( zh, 8頻道) is a Singaporean Mandarin-language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate Mediacorp. The channel broadcasts general entertainment and news programming in the Manda ...

on weekdays from 4:30 to 5:30 pm. It is the fifth Taiwan drama to broadcast the show in

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

but due to local broadcast laws prohibiting radio or television broadcasts in Chinese dialects, the show was dubbed into

Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...

when it aired on Singapore's

MediaCorp Channel 8 Channel 8 ( zh, 8頻道) is a Singaporean Mandarin-language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate Mediacorp. The channel broadcasts general entertainment and news programming in the Manda ...

, thus making it the first channel to broadcast the show in Mandarin. The show began on 13 March 2015 and has a total of 937 episodes and ended its run in 2018.

Repeat Telecast (2017)

The series is repeating its broadcast from 4–6:00 am and ended its repeat telecast in 2019.

Macau

TDM Ou Mun TDM Ou Mun (), formerly known as TDM Chinese (), owned by TDM - Teledifusão de Macau, S. A., is the first broadcasting channel in Macau. It is free-to-air, and in the Cantonese language. It is mainly focused on local news and informative program ...

broadcast the drama on the weekdays, showing two episodes. One at 11:30-12:30pm and one at 1:00pm–2:00pm. Broadcast started on December 5, 2011.

References

External links

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