Rui En has good reason to smile this year – three of the shows she acted in “With You”, “Unriddle” and “Happy Family” placed among the Top 5 most popular drama serials of 2010.
By Han Wei Chou
SINGAPORE: Singapore broadcaster MediaCorp released a list of the Top 10 most highly-rated dramas for the year along with the ratings for television programmes which aired on its channels in 2010 on Thursday.
Channel 8 drama “With You”, a family drama with a supernatural twist, took home the top honour of being the most-watched Mandarin drama serial in Singapore last year, with an average of 969,000 viewers tuning in for each episode.
“New Beginnings” trailed close behind, attracting 937,000 viewers per episode with its heartwarming storyline of love and loss while third-placed Taiwan marathon drama “Love” drew 897,000 viewers.
Despite being the designated blockbuster drama of the year for Channel 8, “Breakout” only managed to take the ninth spot, attracting an average of 866,000 viewers each episode and nudging “Mrs P.I.” – which garnered 830,000 viewers per episode – to tenth place.
“Breakout” may not have placed well in terms of television ratings, but the recently aired series, which featured a cast of A-listers like Jeanette Aw, Christopher Lee and Dai Yang Tian, was the most popular show on MediaCorp video portal site xinmsn.com’s Catch-up TV service in December last year.
It was also the third most popular show in 2010 – behind action drama “Unriddle” (number 5 in television ratings) and “With You” – on the service, which allows xinmsn.com visitors to watch previously broadcasted local (and some selected foreign) television programmes online for free.
However, despite diversifying their subject material, none of the locally produced drama-serials managed to average more than one million viewers per episode.
Viewership for last year’s local dramas generally hovered around 800,000 and 900,000 compared to 2009’s crop of family dramas, which saw three productions breaking the one million-viewer barrier.
The full list of the Top 10 most popular dramas is presented below:
Top 10 most popular drama serials in Singapore
1 With You 969,000
2 New Beginnings 937,000
3 Love 897,000
4 Happy Family 896,000
5 Unriddle 891,000
6 Precious Babes 889,000
7 Priceless Wonder 875,000
8 The Best Things In Life 874,000
9 Breakout* 866,000
10 Mrs P.I. 830,000
*Calculated based on all episodes of the drama, which ended on January 7.
Source: Channelnewsasia.com
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