Here I have a more detailed analysis of the current 9pm drama, The Little Nyonya, on Channel 8
I shall start by talking about the roles. Firstly, the character of 菊香 and 山本月娘. Around March or April, Mediacorp shortlised 3 potential candidates for the role. They were Fiona Xie, Jesseca Liu and Jeanette Aw, who is eventually the winner after 2 months of consideration. Much to many criticism from viewers including me, Miss Aw has proven her critics right that she is not the perfect person to take up the role. Her expressionless face while filming is her main weakness and rumour has it that the character of 菊香 who is unable to hear and talk was tailored-made to cover up the actress' flaws. Also, Xiang Yun's role was actually assigned to Huang Bi Ren but the 1.75m towering actress left Mediacorp in June due to contract matters
Next is some trivia. The Little Nyonya is indeed the costliest production of Mediacorp to date. This drama is so attractive that even Zoe Tay, queen of Caldecott, wants to have a part in it. And regarding the generosity of our local TV station to air 2 episodes on Mondays, it is actually because of over-runs. It was supposed to be 30 episodes at first but ended up with 4 extra ones. Anyway, it is the first 9pm show to have a 2 hour allocation which has 2 episodes aired in 1 day
As for the errors, impossible scenes, wrong locations, it is clear that everyone has seen it themselves on TV so there is not a need to list them out. Almost every episode has an error in it, if you would like to see one yourself, the next significant one is episode 21 where 月娘, without any money, ran all the way from Singapore back to her house in Malacca.
But the strangest thing is that despite all the negative comments about the show, it has a high viewership and as of Monday's episode, it has 26.2%. Very high already!
Notice
Event: The Little Nyonya public event
Venue: Compass Point
Date: 27-12-2008
Time: 3pm
Yes, this is the one public event of the show where you can get to see Jeanette, Qi Yi Wu, Dai Yang Tian, Eelyn Kok, Joanne Peh and many more artistes from the drama, so if you have time do drop by
P.S.: wah but Sengkang quite far from my place leh!
I shall end this post with the so called music video of the theme song
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