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''118'' is the latest half-hour long-running drama series produced by MediaCorp Channel 8. It stars Chew Chor Meng, Chen Tianwen, Pan Lingling, Liu Lingling, Xu Bin, Chen Hanwei, Dennis Chew, Ya Hui, Shelia Sim and Cavin Soh as the main characters of the series, written by Ang Eng Tee and executive produced by Paul Yuen and Chong Liung Man. Set against the backdrop of a coffee shop in Tiong Bahru, the drama offers a light-hearted social commentary on current topics with relatable characters and incidents. Filming started in September 2014 and these episodes will have a short turnaround time so as to showcase the most recent topics, the first for the channel. Viewers will also be able to submit incidents around them as story ideas to be incorporated in the show. Viewers may call 63503118 to submit their ideas. The show replaced the second half of the 7.00 pm drama timeslot, airing weekdays from October 20, 2014, 7.30 pm to 8.00 pm, premiering together with news-current affairs programme ''Hello Singapore''. The series is also partly sponsored by the Media Development Authority of Singapore. On 7 February 2015, in the Love 97.2FM CNY Reunion Dinner 2015 event, it was announced that the series was picked up for an additional 80 episodes, from the initial 190 episodes, for a total of 270 episodes. It was confirmed that the series would be picked up for an additional 65 episodes for a total of 255 episodes. No new episodes were aired between 23 to 27 March 2015 during the period of National Mourning. The show is pre-empted to air the 'live' political forum ''Singapore Votes 2015 - Your Vote Matters'' on 1 September 2015; in return, 2 episodes were aired back-to-back on 11 September 2015. ==Plot== Hong Daming (Chew Chor Meng) is a positive and generous man. As his coffee shop and house number are both "118", the people around him gave him the nickname of "118" (or 要要发), much to his delight. Together with his wife, Liu Meimei (Pan Lingling), he makes a living by running the coffee-shop, and are well known in Tiong Bahru. Whenever someone is in need, they would always seek out Daming for help. His family lives in a 3-room flat, which was built in pre-war years, above the coffee shop. He has 4 children – 2 of his own, and 2 of his deceased buddy. The children are named Wang Shunfeng (Dennis Chew), Hong Shunshui (Xu Bin), Hong Jinzhi (Ya Hui) and Wang Yuye (Somaline Ang) （顺风，顺水，金枝，玉叶）- Shunshui and Jinzhi are his own children, while Shunfeng and Yuye are the children of his deceased buddy. Having 6 people living in a 3-room flat is cramped-up enough, yet he also rents out a room to "Ah Niang", a middle-aged man whose original name is Li Weiliang (Chen Hanwei). Weiliang studied fashion design in France, but circumstances led him to simply run a stall in 118’s coffee-shop, selling dumplings with the recipe that his mother left for him. Weiliang was not the only addition to the cramped flat. Later, Meimei’s elder sister – Liu Jiejie (Liu Lingling) – and her family also came to live with 118 when her husband’s business failed. Daming’s own younger sister, Hong Shanshan (Sheila Sim), and her daughter also came to live with him "temporarily" when her husband disappeared mysteriously. Kind-hearted by nature, Daming felt that they must have come to him because they were at their wit’s end. He would rather make room for them by having his own sons sleep in the living room, than to chase them away heartlessly. As such, the story unfolds with this myriad of personalities living under the same roof and hanging around the 118 coffee-shop, where many dramatic yet comedic events took place… "118" presents the positive side of a Singaporean – passionate, practical, caring, resilient, faithful, tolerant and forward-looking – while also touching on the lesser side of our personalities. Through the dramatic play of events, we are able to see ourselves in the many characters, who are in fact a mirror of the good and bad sides of all of us. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「118 (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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