Come Home Love: Dinner at 8
| Come Home Love: Dinner at 8 愛·回家之八時入席 |
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Come Home Love: Dinner at 8 official poster
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| Also known as | Seated at 8 (八時入席) |
| Genre | Modern Sitcom |
| Created by | Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited |
| Written by | Sandy Shaw (head writer) Choi Suk-yin Lau Wai-kit Cheung Wai-yin Hui Ka-yu |
| Directed by | Sin Yin-fung Chan Seung-kuen Yau Nam-lung |
| Starring | Teresa Mo Wayne Lai Power Chan Angela Tong Chung King-fai Florence Kwok Eric Li William Hu Mark Ma Veronica Shiu Ricco Ng |
| Theme music composer | Alan Cheung |
| Opening theme | Perfect Life (完美的生活) by Jinny Ng |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Original language(s) | Cantonese |
| No. of episodes | 120 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Catherine Tsang |
| Producer(s) | Law Chun-ngok |
| Production location(s) | Hong Kong |
| Editor(s) | Choi Suk-yin, Siu Lei-king, Ma Chun-ying, Sin Chui-ching |
| Camera setup | Multi camera |
| Running time | 22 minutes (without commercial) |
| Production company(s) | TVB |
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| Original network | TVB Jade |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 4 April 2016 |
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| Related shows | Come Home Love Come Home Love (series 2) |
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| Chinese | 愛·回家之八時入席 | ||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 爱·回家之八时入席 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Love Returning Home, Seated at 8" | ||||||||||||
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Come Home Love: Dinner at 8 (Chinese: 愛·回家之八時入席; Jyutping: oi3 wui4 gaa1 zi1 baat3 si4 jap6 zik6; literally "Love Returning Home, Seated at 8") is a 2016 daily half-hour Hong Kong sitcom created by TVB and produced by Law Chun-ngok who also produced the two previous Come Home Love. Filming began in March 2016 and will be filmed as it airs. The series premiered on April 4, 2016, airing every Monday to Friday on Hong Kong's TVB Jade, Malaysia's Astro On Demand and Australia's TVBJ channels during its 8:00-8:30 pm timeslot, with an expected 120 episodes.[1]
Come Home Love: Dinner at 8 is an indirect sequel to the previous two series that shares the "Come Home Love" title. Unlike the second Come Home Love which spawned off from the first series with a few returning characters from the first series to tie the two series together, Come Home Love: Dinner at 8 has no connections to the two previous series that shares part of the same title. The only returning cast member from the previous series Florence Kwok, plays a completely character in Come Home Love: Dinner at 8. The Come Home Love was added to the title of the new sitcom as TVB was bittersweet to see the long running highly rated series come to an end [2]
The series revolves around employees of a fictional Hong Kong television station and their personal family life.
Contents
Synopsis
TVI's (Television International) Senior Manager of the account department Lam Siu-siu (Teresa Mo) meets TVI's Director of the production department Koo Hiu-san (Wayne Lai), when he calls her into a meeting to explain why none of his requested work equipment has been approved for budget. Siu-siu calmly explains that due to his assistant Tong Chong-shu's (Mark Ma), multiple errors in filing the paperwork, miss of deadline to resubmit before the fiscal quarter ends and unresolved department invoices the account department will not approve any new budget request. Hiu-san, who has a reputation for being a mean boss demands to have the issue resolved right away but Siu-siu tells him to schedule another meeting with her as it is 5:45 pm and time for her to get off work. Unimpressed with her reason to end the meeting, Hiu-san mocks Siu-siu for leaving work at 5:45 pm. However Hiu-san's comments backfires when Siu-siu mocks him back by hinting that his department is unorganized and then telling him the available executive secretary position in his department has been unfilled for so long because he is difficult and no one wants to work for him.
Hiu-san finds a way for Siu-siu to voluntarily resolve his department's invoice issues when he hints that her best friend and TVI's hairstyles Chiu Lei-hung's (Angela Tong), job might be on line. Ever since then Siu-siu assumes Hiu-san is bias against her and wants to get back at her for insulting him at their earlier meeting. Lei-hung, who is an unruly worker and slacker changes her work ethics knowing that she might be out of a job soon. Seeing how Hiu-san got Lei-hung to change, Siu-siu ask him for advice to handle Lei-hung since her unemployed make-up artist uncle who lives with her Lam Yi-mak (Power Chan), has a similar personality to Lei-hung. Siu-siu learns that Hiu-san does have a softer side when she coincidentally meets his father Koo Lik-hang (Chung King-fai) after losing her cellular phone.
Siu-siu gets tricked by her co-worker to transfer out of the accounting department when she thinks someone will be fired because of company budget issues. Due to her kindness to her co-worker she volunteers to leave the accounting department and interviews for all available positions within TVI, even Hiu-san's longtime unfilled executive secretary position. During her interview Siu-siu does not expect Hiu-san to hire her because of their past clashes so she gives an honest opinion about him and his department during her interview. Siu-siu is devastated when she finds out her co-worker had played her for a fool in order to oust her from the accounting department to get promoted as the new head of the accounting department, but her day however ends on a high note when Hiu-San offers her the executive secretary position and lets her know her salary will be higher then what she is currently making in accounting.
Cast
Main cast
- Teresa Mo as Lam Siu-siu (林小小)
- Wayne Lai as Koo Hiu-san (古曉臣)
- Power Chan as Lam Yi-mak (林以默)
- Angela Tong as Chiu Lei-hung (趙麗虹)
- Chung King-fai as Koo Lik-hang (古力行)
- Florence Kwok as Wan Fei-fei (雲飛飛)
- Eric Li as Ryan Cha Wai-yan (卓威仁)
- William Hu as Ciu Wai (招偉)
- Mark Ma as Tong Chong-shu (唐中書)
- Veronica Shiu as Yan Yan (殷欣)
- Ricco Ng as Lam Wo (林禾)
Guest star
- Anthony Wong as Himself
Development
- In early February 2016, TVB announced that the highly popular Come Home Love series would be coming to an end with final episode to be broadcast April 1, 2016 and announcing Wayne Lai and Teresa Mo to be headlining the upcoming series to takeover the timeslot.[3]
- Power Chan had declined to renew his contract with TVB in October 2015 in order to explore other work option outside of TVB but decided to return to TVB when female lead Teresa Mo offered him a role in the new sitcom.[4]
Viewership Ratings
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See also
References
External links
- Official website (Chinese)
