House of Joy

Infobox Television
show_name = House of Joy
(欢乐满屋)


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genre = Modern Drama
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runtime = approx. 45 minutes per episode
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starring = Ivy Lee
Chen Hanwei
Cynthia Koh
Edmund Chen
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country = SIN
language = Chinese
network = MediaCorp TV Channel 8
first_aired = 6 November 2006
last_aired = 1 December 2006
num_episodes = 20
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House of Joy (zh-s|s=欢乐满屋) is a Singaporean Chinese Drama produced by Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp TV Channel 8. The show made its debut on 6 November 2006 and is telecast every weekday night at 9pm. The show has a total of 20 episodes.

On the first few days of the show's running, many Singaporeans talked about how they felt about this show to MediaCorp. What most people said was why the show was named House of Joy when there were so many crying scenes for Ivy Lee in the show. MediaCorp replied that the word Joy - Huan Le in Chinese is a combination of the name of the 2 lead characters - Yihuan and Letian.

The story encourages those who are debt-ridden due to overspending sing credit card to strive on to overcome their financial and social problems. The lead actor, Chen Hanwei as Huang Le Tian - a "commoner lawyer" who also volunteered in Credit Counselling won many hearts with his sincere kindness and cute sense of humour.

ynopsis

Zheng Yihuan (Ivy Lee) is at the prime of her life at 33, she has a loving husband called Zhi Guo (Edmund Chen) and enjoys a harmonious family life. To add to her blissfulness, she is expecting her first child, a long awaited piece of good news.

As the credit manager of a bank, Yihuan has seen how debts incurred from overspending have broken many families up. Hence she is cautious with spending and offers the same advice to her family. But tragedy struck when she discovered that her husband has turned to gambling and incurred large amounts of debts, and he even ran away after embezzling company funds. To add to her woes, her mother and two siblings also fell into debt.

With a new born child in tow and insurmountable debts, how will she cope? Always the pillar of strength of her family, can she now face up to reality and continue with life bravely?

Cast

Main Cast

*Ivy Lee as Zheng Yi Huan
*Chen Hanwei as Huang Le Tian
*Cynthia Koh as Zheng Shuang Xi
*Edmund Chen as Zhi Guo

upporting Cast

*Allan Wu
*May Phua
*Adam Chen
*Hong Huifang
*Jin Yinji
*Ling Lee
*Huang Shinan

ee also

*List of Channel 8 programmes
*List of MediaCorp Chinese series (2006)

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8l7_RyZpSw House of Joy Theme Song]
* [http://ch8.mediacorptv.com/shows/drama/view/788/1/.html Official Website (contains more information about the synopsis)]