The history of the Phoenix Restaurant is closely intertwined with the stories of four women of different generations. It portrays the commonest marital problems and various kinds of stress suffered by women over the centuries.
Social & External
The people behind it
Charmaine Sheh Sze-Man
Ngai Yu-Fung / Wang Chi-Kwun / Bak Wai-Jan / Dai Sze-Ka
Joe Ma Tak-Chung
Yu Chi / Li Kat-Cheung / Dai Lap-Yan / Fong Ka-On
Sammul Chan
Wang Yuk-Leun / Sheung Yat-Kat
Kiki Sheung
Tung Dai-Hei
Elaine Yiu
Cheung Lei
Woo Fung
Wang Sin-Kei
Joel Chan
Bat Ha-Kau (Henry)
Apoy Sa Dagat is a 2013 Philippine television drama that aired on ABS-CBN from February 11, 2013 to July 5, 2013. It is topbilled by Piolo Pascual, Diether Ocampo, and Angelica Panganiban in her first dual role.
Haru Satonaka is the captain of an ice-hockey team, a star athlete who stakes everything on hockey but can only consider love as a game. Aki Murase is a woman who has been waiting for her lover who went abroad two years ago. These two persons start a relationship while frankly admitting to each other that it is only a love game. …The result is the unfolding of a drama of people with their respective pasts and with their pride as individuals.
Shimul, a city-bred girl, tries to blend into her husband’s joint family after marriage. Her journey is supported by her new neighbours with whom she forms an unbreakable friendship.
A female coroner and royal detective solve a decades-old mystery in Tang Dynasty China, risking all to expose dangerous secrets.
Recuerdo de Amor is a Philippine afternoon drama series which aired on ABS-CBN in 2001-2003. It starred Carmina Villaroel and Diether Ocampo in successful roles. The TV Series was delayed on May 14 to May 15,2001 and ended on its original end date Worldwide on TFC series also nominated Isabel Rivas for Best Actress in a Drama Series by the PMPC in 2002 alongside Seasoned Actress Pinky De Leon who was also part of the series was also known to use fast paced TV Filmography in its 45 Min Premiere of its Pilot Episode the series was also known for getting outstanding reviews throughout its run to Filipino Customers who had The Filipino Channel Internationally because of its memorable storyline and breathtaking Visual Effects similar to a U.S Soap Opera. The series was also Pinky De Leons last TV Series as she decided to retire from TV and Film Work. The Afternoon Series was also competing with Dramas such as Pangako Sa ’Yo and GMA-7s Rival Soap Kung Mawawala Ka.
El amor no es como lo pintan is a Mexican telenovela produced by Juan David Burns and Elisa Salinas for TV Azteca. It was broadcast on Azteca 13 from November 6, 2000 to April 27, 2001 for 165 episodes.
After losing her boyfriend Qi Lei in a suspicious accident, aspiring designer Yi En builds a thriving fashion brand on her own. But Qi Lei, secretly alive and seeking revenge, returns under a new identity.
Alice, a woman who seem to be strong confident with sharp-mouth, must make money to support her family. Meanwhile, Mes, the former engineer who has designed a building which later had become collapsed. His life has been fallen since then. Alice and Mes have started their work for the bank. Two of them need to work under pressure from both national finance situation and their workmate who is ready to play a dirty trick for achievement.
Touya Fujii is a twenty-year-old college student dating a rising singer named Yuki Morikawa. Along the way, they are faced with numerous challenges throughout the course of events at Fuji’s college. Be prepared for an exciting journey!
The story revolves around Kira and Rei, two high school students. Kira is an extremely introverted artist, and Rei is an outgoing playboy with a frightening violent side. The two start a friendship and eventually a romance after Rei sees a drawing that Kira drew on the back of a map she gave him. However, both Kira and Rei are hiding troubled pasts, and through their relationship they confront their past demons. Masao, a student at Kira and Rei's school, has a connection to Rei's violent past. He enters Kira and Rei's lives to try to force Rei to return to the person he used to be.
Eight years ago, the hero Gu Chi's mother and the heroine Jiang Lan's father died in a car accident. Seeing Gu Chi who was still young and suffering a sudden misfortune as her, Jiang Lan sympathized with him and took him in. Now that Gu Chi is a new model and Jiang Lan is already a super model, their feelings for each other are changing.
After Mito loses her parents and is fired from her job, she must fend for herself on the streets disguised as a boy. She comes across a stranger named Ruka and learns his dark secret—he's a vampire! Ruka invites Mito, still in disguise, to live in an all-boys dorm. Mito exchanges her blood for a place to stay, but a budding romance and her true identity threaten all that hangs in the balance.
David McCallum stars as the rebellious Alan Breck Stewart, and this ambitious serial (a co-production between HTV and Germany's Tele-Munchen) also features a host of British character actors, including Bill Simpson, Patrick Allen, Andrew Keir, Patrick Magee and Frank Windsor. When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck Stewart, who is on the run after Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat at Culloden. When a ship's captain tries to kill Breck for his money, the two manage to get to land and set out for Edinburgh, dodging the ruthless Redcoats along the way.
A couple navigates the traditional expectations attached to marriage — that it extends beyond one’s partner, and includes their friends and family, too.
The Strauss Family is a British seven-part miniseries produced by Associated Television about 19th century Vienna's Strauss family: Johann I and his sons Johann II, Eduard, and Josef.
Bukas Na Lang Kita Mamahalin is a Philippine television drama broadcasting on ABS-CBN and worldwide on The Filipino Channel. The series premiered on September 2, 2013 on ABS-CBN's Primetime Bida block, starring Dawn Zulueta and Gerald Anderson. It centers around the life of lawyers, politicians, jail breakers and how much mothers are willing to do to protect their sons.
Stories about how sweet and bitter love can be.
High school freshman Hotaru Hinase has a vibrant life full of family and friendship, but not much luck in romance. That all changes when she makes a warm gesture to her handsome and heartbroken classmate, Hananoi, leading to him asking her out and her becoming flustered. Witness a girl who grapples with the enigma of love and a boy who is heavy handed with it.
This series traces the rise of a famous Naxi Chieftain and his beloved wife in 16th century southwest China. The highlight of this drama is the battle between hate and love. In sum, this is a classic Cinderella story mixed with Romeo and Juliet elements, except with some very different outcomes. Set in the Ming Dynasty, the Mu clan is the administrative and governing authority of Lijiang Prefecture. Its family members used blood and violence to reach the pinnacle of power. A casualty of this bloodshed was a young girl by the named of Aleqiu who was ingrained from childhood to exact revenge against the Mu clan for the extermination of her own family.
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.
A multigenerational family saga centered around one woman who, having recently relocated and intent on revitalizing her marriage, finds herself going head to head with some of the most powerful and deceitful players in the city.
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to eldest daughter Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with second-eldest Elizabeth.
Dublin, 1868. The Guinness family patriarch is dead, and his four children — each with dark secrets to hide — hold the brewery's fate in their hands.
An exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to overthink and fly off into fantasy.
The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman, Abbott, Baldwin and Winters families.
Belgravia, 1871. When Lord Frederick Trenchard meets Clara Dunn, their courtship is full of passion. But after they marry, the scandalous world of high society and a long-buried family secret threaten to unravel their happiness.
The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.
Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Count Alexander Rostov finds himself going from riches to rags following the Russian revolution. A Soviet tribunal banishes him to the attic room of an opulent hotel, where, oblivious to the world outside, he discovers the true value of friendship, family and love.
An unconventional relationship in a world on the cusp of change; a star newsreader and an ambitious bisexual reporter join forces in a ruthless 1986 newsroom, as events unfold that will change their lives.
Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with the second-eldest Bennet daughter, Elizabeth.
Margaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of purpose and passion are a match for her own pride and willfulness. When the workers of Milton call a strike, Margaret takes their side, and the two are brought into deeper conflict. As events spiral out of control, Margaret - to her surprise - begins to fall in love with Thornton...
A group of fun-loving American girls burst onto the scene in tightly corseted 1870s London, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash. Sent to secure husbands and status, the buccaneers' hearts are set on much more than that.
Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.