Be Home for Dinner
Be Home for Dinner (Traditional Chinese: (誰家灶頭無煙火) is an TVB modern sitcom series.
Be Home for Dinner 誰家灶頭無煙火 | |
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Be Home for Dinner official poster | |
Genre | Modern Sitcom |
Starring | Elliot Ngok Jason Chan Kristal Tin Stephen Au Yvonne Lam Helen Ma Queenie Chu Océane Zhu Becky Lee Matt Yeung Dickson Lee Katy Kung |
Original language(s) | Cantonese |
No. of episodes | 158 |
Production | |
Production location(s) | Hong Kong |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 22 minutes (approx.) |
Production company(s) | TVB |
Release | |
Original network | TVB Jade |
Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Original release | 21 March – 30 October 2011 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Show Me the Happy |
Followed by | Til Love Do Us Lie |
External links | |
Website |
Synopsis
Chung Kwok-Chu (Elliot Ngok) is a renowned food critic and an assistant editor-in-chief of a newspaper, Ko Jim Daily. When his son, Si-Hon (Jason Chan) returns from Canada, Chu is disappointed to find that Si Hon intends to become a chef rather than taking up a professional career. His attempts to guide his son away are thwarted when Shum Bui-yee (Kristal Tin), a well-known and respected chef, reluctantly accepts Si-Hon as her assistant.
At the Chung household, Chu has to face his bickering younger brother Kwok-Tung (Stephen Au) and Si-Hon's aunt, Suen Ma-lei (Yvonne Lam), his second wife Bo Kwai Sum (Helena Ma) who worries that she is not doing enough as a stepmother, and how children, half-siblings Si-Hon and Si-Na (Katy Kung) do not understand fine foods as he does. As members of his family manage to find a way to get along, Chu and his family find that friends and co-workers changing their family dynamic again.
Cast
- Elliot Ngok as Chung Kwok-chu, Sam's father, a magazine editor-in-chief
- Jason Chan as Si Hon "Sam" Chung, an aspiring pastry chef
- Kristal Tin as Carmen Sum (Sum Bui-yee), Sam's master
- Stephen Au as Chung Kwok-tung, Kwok-chu's younger brother
- Seth Leslie as Joe Smith, Sam's best friend from Canada
- Yvonne Lam as Mari Suen, Kwok-chu's sister-in-law from his first marriage, Sam's maternal aunt
- Helen Ma as Dau Kwai-lam, Chu's second wife and Si-Na's mother, Sam's stepmother
- Katy Kung as Si Na "Julia" Chung, Sam's younger half-sister
- Queenie Chu as Jackie Yeung
- Océane Zhu as Susan Nin
- Becky Lee as Tong Jing-jing (Sum Hoi-yee), a freelance writer, revealed to be Carmen's estranged younger sister
- Dickson Lee as Chin Dai-kwan
- Mat Yeung as Tin Hoi
- Lily Ho as Tseun Ding-kei, a dedicated writer
Awards and nominations
45th TVB Anniversary Awards 2011
- Nominated: Best Drama
- Nominated: Best Actor (Stephen Au)
- Nominated: Best Actress (Kristal Tin)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actor (Matt Yeung)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actress (Yvonne Lam)
- Nominated: My Favourite Male Character (Stephen Au)
- Nominated: My Favourite Male Character (Jason Chan)
- Nominated: My Favourite Female Character (Kristal Tin)
- Nominated: Most Improved Male Artiste (Jason Chan)
- Nominated: Most Improved Male Artiste (Matt Yeung)
- Nominated: Most Improved Female Artiste (Katy Kung)
Viewership ratings
Week | Episodes | Average Points | Peaking Points | References | |
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March 21–25, 2011 | [1] | ||||
March 28–31, 2011 | [2] | ||||
April 4–8, 2011 | [3] | ||||
April 11–15, 2011 | [4] | ||||
April 18–22, 2011 | [5] | ||||
April 25–28, 2011 | [6] | ||||
May 2–6, 2011 | [7] | ||||
May 9–13, 2011 | [8] | ||||
May 16–20, 2011 | [9] | ||||
May 23–27, 2011 | [10] | ||||
May 30 - June 3, 2011 | [11] | ||||
June 6–10, 2011 | [12] | ||||
June 13–17, 2011 | [13] | ||||
June 20–24, 2011 | [14] | ||||
June 27 - July 1, 2011 | [15] | ||||
July 4–8, 2011 | [16] | ||||
July 11–15, 2011 | [17] | ||||
July 18–22, 2011 | [18] | ||||
July 25–29, 2011 | [19] | ||||
August 1–5, 2011 | [20] | ||||
August 8–12, 2011 | [21] | ||||
August 15–19, 2011 | [22] | ||||
August 22–26, 2011 | [23] | ||||
August 29 - September 2, 2011 | [24] | ||||
September 5–9, 2011 | [25] | ||||
September 12–16, 2011 | [26] | ||||
September 19–23, 2011 | [27] | ||||
September 26–30, 2011 | [28] | ||||
October 4–7, 2011 | [29] | ||||
October 10–14, 2011 | [30] | ||||
October 17–21, 2011 | [31] | ||||
October 24–28, 2011 | [32] | ||||
October 30, 2011 | [33] |
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