A Chip Off the Old Block
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Format | Serial drama |
| Created by | Poon Ka-tak |
| Written by | Chan Kam-ling |
| Starring | Ron Ng Sunny Chan Myolie Wu Shirley Yeung John Chiang Gigi Wong Nancy Wu Louis Yuen Carlo Ng |
| Theme music composer | Chow Wing Hang |
| Opening theme | "Don't Say I Didn't Mind You" (咪話唔就你) by Ron Ng and Myolie Wu |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Language(s) | Cantonese |
| No. of episodes | 21 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Poon Ka-tak |
| Location(s) | Hong Kong |
| Camera setup | Multi camera |
| Running time | 45 mins. |
| Production company(s) | TVB |
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| Original channel | TVB Jade |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original run | November 30 – December 27, 2009 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 巴不得爸爸... | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 巴不得爸爸... | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Anxious Father" | ||||||||||
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A Chip Off the Old Block (Traditional Chinese: 巴不得爸爸...) is a 2009 TVB television drama from Hong Kong produced and created by Poon Ka Tak. The original broadcast was on the TVB Jade with approximately 45-minute long episodes airing five days a week. The final two episodes were an hour and a half long each, which aired during the weekends. A Chip Off the Old Block tells the story of the articulate businessman Chor Chi, who accidentally travels back in time to the 1960s and meets his younger father, Chor Fan.
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[edit] Plot
Chor Chi (Ron Ng) and his father, Chor Fan (Sunny Chan), depend on each other for a living. After graduating from university, Chi becomes a public relations officer at a tobacco company. He completes his tasks well and gets promoted rapidly, becoming part of the young professionals group. Chi depends on the tobacco to get fame and wealth, but Fan feels that his son is promoting smoking, similar to 'helping a villain to do evil.' Chi moves out from the house so that he will not have any more conflicts with his elderly father.
Fan later contracts the Alzheimer's disease, causing Chi to move back home to take care of him. However, Fan's old style of doing things is both annoying and laughable to Chi. Chi meets a wealthy elderly businessman Cheng Kwan-min (Lo Chun Shun) from the city who tried to poach him over using a high pay and post, but unexpectedly, when he goes to the elevator, the elevator gets shocked from the lightning outside causing Chi to travel back in time to the 1960s era.
When Chi first steps into this old era, he is accidentally hurt by the younger Fan. Fan takes him home, but he comes into clashes with the landlady's daughter, Ching Lan-fun (Shirley Yeung). Seeing that he is unable to return to 2008, Chi finds a job to support himself. However, in this place, connections are needed everywhere, and Chi's education qualifications become useless. Fortunately, with Fan's help, he becomes a sales clerk at the Dor Dor department store. Chi finds out that Cheng Kwan-min is actually the manager of this departmental store, and clings onto him.
Fan accidentally discovers that Chi came from the future, and he’s his son, thus he allowed his son to control his love life. Chi witnesses his father's sacrifice for him, thus he decides to repent his ways and gives up relying on the wealthy businessman. However, the wealthy businessman unexpectedly clinched the 2008’s own historical writing award, and he devises an evil plan to buy over the landlady's building, chasing all the tenants out. He wanted to use it to develop his property kingdom. Chi is filled with regret and decides to salvage the situation. However, he accidentally returns to 2008……
Returns to 2008 and meet Fun again, Fun admitted that she was the Fun from 1960s by doing the same thing as she did on Chi's birthday (blowing the torch because of the fish's birthday).
[edit] Cast
The tenants
| Cast | Role | Description |
| Ron Ng | Chor Chi 楚慈 |
a 28-year-old well-established businessman who works for a cigarette company. His father is extremely unhappy with his "life-stealing" job and often urges him to work at a different company. Although filial to his father, Chi is annoyed with his father's old-fashioned beliefs and their relationship becomes strained. During a dangerous wet storm, Chi accidentally gets himself warped back in time to 1960s Hong Kong, where he meets his younger father. Later becomes Ching Lan-Fun's boyfriend. |
| Sunny Chan | Chor Fan 楚帆 |
Chi's altruistic and self-sacrificing father. Fan always places others benefits before his own and is known for saying the phrase, "Everyone for me, I for everyone." Fan was adopted by Ko Shan-chuen, who owns a small dumplings shop in Fung Shui Lei. Fan becomes good friends with Chi, not knowing that Chi is actually his son from forty years later. |
| Myolie Wu | So Fung-Nei 蘇鳳妮 |
a con artist Later becomes Chol Fan's girlfriend. |
| Shirley Yeung | Ching Lan-Fun 程蘭芬 |
the landlady's daughter. Go to 2006's Hong Kong at last. Later becomes Chol Chi's girlfriend. |
| John Chiang | Ko Shan-chuen 高山泉 |
Ching Lan-Fan's foster father. Later becomes Tam Lan-ching's Husband |
| Gigi Wong | Tam Lan-ching 譚蘭青 |
the landlady. Later on becomes Ko Shan-Chuen's wife |
| Louis Yuen | Ngau Ching-wing 牛正榮 |
a police officer Chiu Mau-Dan's husband Ngau Ka-Po's father |
| Carlo Ng | Shing Sap-yee 成拾義 |
the only son of the wealthy Shing family Husband of Yue Fa and Yue Yuk |
| Mandy Wong | So Fung-lin 蘇鳳蓮 |
Fung-lei's younger sister |
| Natalie Wong | Yue Fa 余花 |
Sap-yee's official wife |
| Irene Wong | Yue Yuk 余玉 |
Sap-yee's second wife and Fa's younger sister |
The Dor Dor Department Store personnel
| Cast | Role | Description |
| Nancy Wu | Leung Pin-pin 梁翩翩 |
Leung Ting-dor's only daughter Loves Chor-Fan. |
| Lo Tsan Shun | Cheng Kwan-min 鄭坤綿 |
Dor Dor's store general manager cheats the tenants |
| Chun Wong | Leung Ting-dor 梁亭多 |
Dor Dor's chairman, who used to work as a chef in Sap-yee's home |
| Lee Fung | Tse Dai-bik 謝帶壁 |
Ting-dor's wife and Pin-pin's mother |
| Li Ka Sing | Manager Lam 藍部長 |
in charge of Dor Dor's employee management. |
[edit] Viewership Ratings
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November 30 - December 3, 2009 |
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December 7–10, 2009 |
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December 14–18, 2009 |
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December 21–25, 2009 |
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| December 27, 2009 |
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[edit] Sequel
A second installment, A Chip Off the Old Block II (Chinese: 媽不得媽媽; jyutping: Ma1 Bat1 Dak1 Ma1 Ma1; literally "mom but not"), was announced in January 2010. However, official production for the sequel did not start until January 2012, with Poon Ka-tak returning to produce. In February 2012, Liza Wang, Mandy Wong, Him Law, and Gigi Wong were announced to star in the sequel.[5] In March 2012, Chung King-fai and Chin Kar-lok were confirmed to join.
[edit] Award nominations
- Nominated: Best Drama - Top 5
- Nominated: Best Actor (Ron Ng)
- Nominated: Best Actress (Myolie Wu)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actor (John Chiang)
- Nominated: My Favourite Male Character (Sunny Chan)
- Nominated: My Favourite Female Character (Myolie Wu)
[edit] References
- ^ Week 1 Ratings
- ^ Week 2 Ratings
- ^ Week 3 Ratings
- ^ a b Week 4 Ratings
- ^ "Liza Wang to star in 'A Chip Off the Old Block'" (in Chinese). Mingpao via IHKTV. 2012-02-10. http://www.ihktv.com/mingpaoweekly-2257-mandywong.html. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
[edit] External links
- TVB.com A Chip Off the Old Block - Official Website (Chinese)
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