| Native Name: | 金牌冰人 |
| Genre: | Ancient costume, Romance, Comedy |
| Creator: | Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited |
| Starring: | Steven Ma Maggie Cheung Ho-yee Moses Chan Joyce Koi |
| Opentheme: | "美麗緣份" (Beautiful Fate) by Steven Ma |
| Composer: | Joseph Koo |
| Country: | Hong Kong |
| Language: | Cantonese |
| Num Episodes: | 20 |
| Producer: | Mui Siu-ching |
| Camera: | Multi camera |
| Runtime: | 45 minutes (20 episodes) |
| Channel: | TVB Jade |
Better Halves (金牌冰人) is a TVB costume television series, premiered in 2003. Theme song "Beautiful Fate" (美麗緣份) composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, sung by Steven Ma.
Chuen Ka Fok (Steven Ma), Lien Bak Hap (Maggie Cheung Ho-yee) and Ling Wu Hei (Joyce Koi) are matchmakers in ancient China. Ka Fok and Bak Hap acting in a private capacity and Wu Hei in an official government capacity. In the course of their business Ka Fok and Bak Hap come into conflict, before deciding that they can maximize profits by working together. Despite finding matches for others Ka Fok and Bak Hap find it impossible to find a spouse for themselves, until they discover that their parents had already long ago arranged a betrothal between the two.
Ling Wu Hei is a woman who has to pretend to be a male in order to fulfill her family's hereditary office of court match maker, this leads to difficulties when she falls in love with Ko Fei (Moses Chan) in a society intolerant of homosexuals.[1] [2]
| Timeslot (HKT) | Week | Episode(s) | Average points | Peaking points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon – Fri 20:00 | 30 June - 4 July 2003 | 1 — 5 | 28 | -- | |
| 2 | 07- 11 July 2003 | 6 — 10 | 30 | -- | ||
| 3 | 14–18 July 2003 | 11 — 15 | 29 | 37 | ||
| 4 | 21–25 July 2003 | 16 — 20 | 33 | 41 | ||
| Total average | 30 | |||||