After Hours (TV drama)

Infobox Television
show_name = After Hours
format = Dramedy
runtime = 22 min (per episode)
creator = Unknown
starring = Linda Liao" "
Utt Panichkul " "
Max Loong" "
Joanne Peh"
country = Singapore
network = MediaCorp TV Channel 5
first_aired = March 26, 2007
last_aired = June 25, 2007
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 13
picture_format = 480i (SDTV),
1080i (HDTV)

"After Hours" is a Singaporean drama produced by local TV station Mediacorp. It was broadcast on Mondays at 11pm.

Cute screen couple Utt and Linda Liao reprise their roles in Chase to reunite on the small screen for "After Hours". Joined by Joanne Peh and Max Loong, the four are best friends who tackle love, friendships and relationships in every direction in this wistful new situational dramedy.

"After Hours" picks up six months after Chase ends, where Gabriel and Ellie go on holiday together.

April and Ellie are former classmates, now friends. Danny is an old friend of Gabriel’s as well, but they lost contact for a while. Danny spent some time in the US, but is now back for good. The four of them have become good friends and hang out together regularly.The situational romantic dramedy about how four friends approach love, friendships and relationships will throw up some thought-provoking questions for viewers too.

Cast

*Linda Liao as Ellie Chua
*Utt Panichkul as Gabriel Peh
*Max Loong as Danny Mereles
*Joanne Peh as April Tay

ynopsis

At the end of Chase, Gabriel and Ellie went off on a holiday together. They came back and have been together ever since. Gabriel worked on a huge Breast Cancer Awareness campaign that Lauren Lee (his boss from Mad About Ads) managed to land just as the ad agency was on the brink of closing down.

After the campaign, Lauren finally decided to voluntarily close Mad About Ads. She went to work for the Singapore Breast Cancer Foundation as its head of publicity. David (Gabriel’s best friend from Chase) landed a hot advertising job in Sydney, and became based there. Dora, Gabriel’s mother, gave birth and decided to settle down with her pilot husband Uncle John (they married at the end of Chase) in his hometown in Kuala Lumpur. Occasionally, she traveled with him on his overseas flights.

Uncle Rob retires to Bintan, selling his house in the process. Ellie is now staying at one of Uncle Rob’s many investments – an apartment downtown.Gabriel starts his own ad agency, Angel Advertising. Essentially the agency is just Gabriel and Danny, the Creative Director. They don’t have an office – Gabriel works from home and a variety of Starbucks, Coffee Beans and the NLB – wherever he can get internet access. Danny doesn’t do a whole lot, but he knows a lot of people, and that means potential clients for Gabriel. Plus Gabriel keeps him around because he’s (a) cheap; and (b) he gets around. By the start of Season 2, Gabriel has a small but loyal group of clients.

The last we left Ellie, she had been forced to close down the vet clinic after a takeover by one of Uncle Rob’s friends. When she returned from the vacation with Gabriel, she tried to start up a pet food store. The store ran for about six months, and then closed down when the capital ran out.Now, Ellie is a writer for a pet magazine, MyPet Monthly. She is like an Aunt Aggie for pet owners, helping them out with their pet problems. What she hopes to do is slowly amass some savings, and then open her own pet store chain.

April works as a personal trainer, so often Ellie and April meet at the gym. Danny tries to bum free gym session off April so he can meet chicks.

Episodes

External links

* [http://ch5.mediacorptv.com/shows/drama/view/1433/1/.html Official Channel 5 Website]
* [http://www.mobtv.sg/Media/MediaDetails.aspx?mediaid=MDC070306-0000005&menuid=68&episodeid=MDC070403-0000022 MOBTV Website]