The In Laws (TV series)

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Country of origin Singapore No. of episodes 35		Original language(s) Chinese
Starring Louise Lee Rui En Pierre Png Cynthia Koh Darren Lim Belinda Lee Jin Yin Ji Opening theme 最简单的温柔 (The Simplest Touch) by 吴惠冰 Wu Hui Bing Ending theme 路过 (Just Passing) by Cavin Soh

The In-Laws (simplified Chinese: 麻婆斗妇) is a Singaporean Chinese drama which was telecasted on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. It made its debut on 12 April 2011 and has ended on 30 May 2011. This drama serial consists of 35 episodes, and was screened on every weekday night at 9.00 pm.

It stars the award-winning veteran Hong Kong actress Louise Lee who also acted in the locally produced Portrait of Home back in 2005.

The series title 麻婆斗妇 (ma po dou fu, literally translates as "old lady fights daughter-in-law") is a play on a spicy tofu and beef dish from Sichuan called "Pockmarked Lady's Beancurd" (麻婆豆腐).

Show 1

Chen Sew Khoon and Lau Chin Poon clinched the Best Screenplay award in episode 11, together with Ang Eng Tee in On the Fringe.

Chen Jiagu was nominated for the Best Drama Set Design award nominee, but he clinched the award for Bountiful Blessings's (He also did the Set Design).

Rui En and Pierre Png were nominated for the Favourite On-screen Couple award, but Rui En's fans much liked her pairing up with Elvin Ng more. Hence the awards go to Rui En and Elvin Ng in Code of Honour.

Note: There are no nominations for this drama in Show 2.

References

The In-Laws (TV series) Wikipedia

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