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)
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.
Maghihintay Pa Rin or Bitter Sweet Life is a Filipino drama television series created by Dode Cruz, developed by Kit Villanueva-Langit and produced by GMA Network. It premiered on June 10, 2013 on the network's coveted Afternoon Prime block, replacing Bukod Kang Pinagpala, and on June 12, 2013 worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV. The series headlines Bianca King, Rafael Rosell and Dion Ignacio playing the three main characters. It executive produced by Darling Pulido-Torres and directed by Don Michael Perez. The series concluded its sixteen-week run on September 27, 2013, comprising seventy nine episodes, and replaced by Magkano Ba ang Pag-ibig? on its timeslot. The forty-five minute scripted drama narrates the story of ill-fated lovers Kiko Sebastian and Geneva de Villa and the odds that they try to beat, including social status and their conflicting families.
Bani – Ishq Da Kalma is an Indian television drama series, which premiered on March 18, 2013 on Colors. The series was originally titled Gurbani, which means the composition of the Sikh Gurus. The title of the series was changed after several concerns reported by Sikh organizations, including Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. The team completed 100 episodes on 2 August 2013. The story is set against the background of Punjab, and revolves round Bani, a young woman whose life is ruled by her mother's ambitions. The mother, Desho, dreams of getting Bani married to an expatriate or Non Resident Indian man. For twenty two years there has been a division in Bani's family—between her father Sarabjit and his brother Nirvail. Despite this, Bani and Nirvail's daughter Rajji are the best of friends. Bani, though she respects Desho's wishes, is not too keen to marry an NRI. Rajji is aware of this.
Libre para amarte is a Mexican telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa. It is based on Colombian telenovela Los canarios. Gabriel Soto, Eduardo Santamarina star as the protagonists, with the stellar performance of the singer and actress Gloria Trevi for first occasion in a soup opera as Aurora Valencia, while Harry Geithner, Jacqueline Andere and Luz Elena González star as the antagonists.
Secretos de Familia is a Mexican telenovela, remake of Brothers & Sisters by Azteca in 2013. As of January 2013, confirmed cast includes Sergio Basañez and Anette Michel as the protagonists. As of May 13, 2013, Azteca 13 is broadcasting Secretos de Familia, replacing La Otra Cara del Alma.
A gorgeous Yankee litigator and a charming southern attorney must hide their intense mutual attraction as a police sex scandal threatens to tear the city of Charleston, S.C. apart.
A small-town boxing champ determined to better his village heads to Bangkok for university, where he falls for a police general’s daughter, befriends a hidden prince, and gets swept into a wild fight against powerful criminals—all while trying to prove that love, courage, and goodness can change both hearts and society.
Lu Chenyuan, a rising star, surprises the entire capital by proposing to marry Jiang Yurou, the notorious daughter of the valiant general. Determined to make him regret his decision, Jiang Yurou tries every trick to break the engagement. However, Lu Chenyuan counters her every move and remains steadfast by her side. Eventually, his unwavering devotion wins her over, and they end up together as a loving couple.
Once bullied for her looks, Jugyeong transforms herself using the art of makeup. When she joins a new school with a True Beauty goddess competition, offering winners the chance of recruitment by entertainment agencies, she instantly becomes a top candidate! But her new identity is at stake when heartthrob Suho Lee accidentally sees her bare face. Will her elite status be short-lived?
A heartbroken woman escapes into a virtual reality world of perfect men, only to uncover a sinister secret that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality.
Vaat Vaat Ma is a romantic tragedy where lovebirds Pahel and Swayam want to get divorced as soon as possible and they hire a divorce lawyer. The story takes a twist when the lawyer comes to the couple's place to get the signatures and then a nationwide lock down is announced.
Bothered to realize they are next-door neighbors and share a psychiatrist, a man and a woman find it's impossible to stay out of each other's way.
18-year-old Lin Mo travels to the eleventh year after her death. She discovers that her world is a novel, and she and her three younger brothers are merely tools in the story. In order to save herself and her brothers from a tragic fate, Lin Mo begins to resist. Along the way, she suddenly realizes that the domineering CEO who has always silently accompanied her is actually the biggest variable in the novel world.
To reclaim her company, Shen Qing Ci enters a flash marriage with the notorious Beijing heir Xi Xing Ye. On the very first day after obtaining their marriage certificate, Xi Xing Ye lays out three strict rules for her. No one expected that a year later, the once-playboy young master would be wearing Shen Qing Ci’s favorite suit, holding her in his arms and pleading, “Wife, I want a cuddle… even just for one minute.” Through their chaotic yet tender daily interactions, the two gradually break down their barriers and grow from a contractual couple into genuine lovers.
After dying in an earthquake, Jiang Songchu is sent back four years, a year into her sudden marriage to the stoic Professor Zhou Qian. Given a second chance, she breaks free from past mistakes and discovers his long-hidden love, determined to seize fate and win his heart.
Shen Yan, who was deeply in love, went to meet Fu Feng's parents. She was humiliated by Fu Qing Zhou and then had a car accident. When she woke up, it was five years later. She had become Fu Qing Zhou's wife and had a son. While exploring the truth, she had constant disputes with Fu Feng and others.
College dropout Li Mochuan can foresee danger, but he only wants a quiet life with his sister. Instead, escalating threats close in on them. His world shifts when he meets Liu Xixi, the enigmatic owner of a mysterious logistics company who claims to be from 100 years in the future—and reveals that Li Mochuan is fated to become humanity’s greatest enemy.
Maging Sino Ka Man was a critically acclaimed Filipino primetime drama series that premiered on ABS-CBN on October 9, 2006. Book 1 ended on May 25, 2007. Due to its success, a sequel was aired on December 10. The same year, the drama series ended.
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.
Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
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 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.
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.
An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the pasts that follow them there. A love story, mystery, and social comedy all in one.
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.
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.
The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
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.
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.
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.
Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham—in half-hour episodes, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity Shop sits next door to The Three Cripples Pub, while Fagin’s Den is hidden down a murky alley off a bustling Victorian street.
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.
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.
The story deals with several separate yet intertwining story lines, revolving around the protagonists Kiu Fung, Duen Yu and Hui Juk.
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.
The epic tale of a proud and passionate family, secret loves, and bloody revolution. The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that hurls the proud, tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter towards opposite sides of the fence.