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To say The Little Nyonya is amongst the most worthwhile native dramas of our time is an understatement. Mediacorp’s 2008 decades-spanning epic a pair of Peranakan family was a smash hit not merely in Singapore nonetheless all through Asia.
Who can neglect Jeanette Aw’s flip as a result of the long-suffering Yue Niang? Or Joanne Peh‘s award-winning effectivity as a result of the tragic Yuzhu? Not us for sure.
Now it’s time for followers of this iconic drama to rejoice.
Mediacorp launched on Tuesday (Jan 30) {{that a}} new drama Emerald Hill, which is part of the The Little Nyonya franchise as a result of it choices characters from the distinctive sequence, is within the works.
It is slated to air within the first half of 2025.
Emerald Hill will equally comply with the story of an infinite Peranakan family, and ensures to be “as enchanting and emotionally charged as its predecessor”, in accordance with a Mediacorp spokesperson.
Tasha Low, 30, is able to play the model new ‘Little Nyonya’, Zhang Xin Niang.
Xin Niang begins out as a homeless teenager who fends for herself on the streets alongside with her foster mother, carried out by Chen Liping.
She later finds out she is the long-lost daughter of the wealthy Zhang family, and reunites alongside with her supply mother, who’s carried out by Jesseca Liu.
After all, plenty of drama will ensue.
The massive harmful of the drama is Chantalle Ng, 28. She performs Anna, Xin Niang’s artful and vindictive cousin, who tries to sabotage Xin Niang at every flip. Enjoyable actuality: Chantalle’s mum, Lin Meijiao, moreover carried out a villain within the OG drama. One can say she’s carrying on her mum’s legacy.
Ferlyn G stars as Zhang Anya, the Zhang’s family’s precise long-lost granddaughter. So certain, which suggests Xin Niang is… not a Zhang.
Ah Jie Zoe Tay performs the Zhang’s family matriarch, Liu Xiu Niang. Her eldest son, carried out by Shaun Chen, is married to Jojo Goh’s character. The couple have a son, carried out by Nick Teo.
Wait a minute… Will Zoe, who seems to be like nowhere near the right age to have a son Shaun Chen’s age, be decked out in outdated lady make-up for the entire drama? We’ll must attend and see.
Jesseca Liu’s character is married to Zoe Tay’s second son, nonetheless as of press time, the actor collaborating in that place has however to be launched.
Romeo Tan performs Ah Jie’s third son, whereas Sheila Sim performs her youngest daughter.
The star-studded strong moreover consists of Tyler Ten and Zhang Zetong, every of whom will romance Tasha, along with Daybreak Yeoh, Desmond Ng, Zhang Yaodong, Herman Keh, Zhai Siming, and Sure 933 DJ Zhu Zeliang.
Oh certain, Jeanette Aw shall be reprising her place as Yue Niang – who’s the mum of Zetong’s character – though we’ll have to take a look at it to see how rather a lot she actually appears.
If that’s all an extreme quantity of to digest for now, do not fret, you have obtained larger than enough time to familiarise your self with the family tree.
Within the meantime, you presumably can rewatch The Little Nyonya on mewatch.
This story was initially published in 8Days.