The No No Girl Explained

Native Name:全職沒女
Alt Name:Full-time Nowhere Woman 師奶大翻身
Genre:Modern, Romance, Comedy
Creator:Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited
Starring:Eddie Cheung
Adia Chan
Owen Cheung
Jeannie Chan
Brian Tse
Erin Wong
Helena Law
Amy Fan
Max Cheung
Eileen Yeow
Griselda Yeung
Opentheme:"That's the Way I Am" (我有我美麗) by Nancy Wu
Country:Hong Kong
Language:Cantonese
Num Episodes:20
Executive Producer:Catherine Tsang
Producer:Andy Chan
Editor:Chan Kam-ling
Location:Hong Kong
Camera:Multi camera
Runtime:45 minutes
Company:TVB
Network:Jade
T:全職沒女
L:"Full-time No Girl"
Showflag:y
Y:Chyùnjīk Muhtnéui
P:Quánzhí méinǚ
Mi:pronounced as /tɕʰwǎn.ʈʂǐ měi.nỳ/

The No No Girl (; literally "Full-time No Girl") is a 2017 Hong Kong television romantic comedy drama produced by Andy Chan for TVB, starring Eddie Cheung, Adia Chan, Owen Cheung and Jeannie Chan as the main leads, with Brian Tse, Erin Wong, Helena Law, Amy Fan, Max Cheung, Eileen Yeow and Griselda Yeung as the main cast. It premiered on Hong Kong's TVB Jade and Malaysia's Astro On Demand on April 10, 2017 airing Monday through Friday during its 8:30 to 9:30 pm timeslot and concluding May 5, 2017 with a total of 20 episodes.[1]

The No No Girl is lead actress Adia Chan's, comeback series to TVB. Chan's last series with TVB before leaving to explore opportunities in Mainland China was 2006's Trimming Success (飛短留長父子兵).[2]

Synopsis

After embarrassingly exposing her fiancée as a cheater during their wedding banquet, Law Lai-ching (Adia Chan) left the wedding. Not wanting their paid Midsummer Night's Garden Hotel suite to go to waste she stays the night with her older sister, Law Lai-chi, and friend/wedding photographer, Ko Sam. Meanwhile, Richmond Chong Fu-ho's (Eddie Cheung), head of Midsummer Night's Garden Hotel who has just won a top executive award, night is ruined when he has to deal with his good for nothing son, Wayne Chong (Owen Cheung), who has taken advantage of his father's position and has an all out drinking party in one of the hotel rooms. While carting his dead drunk son out of the hotel, Richmond finds Lai-ching's abandoned shoe stuck in the elevator. No one seems to be able to pull the shoe out except Richmond, who doesn't find anything out of the ordinary and throws the shoe away.

Three years later Lai-ching works at her almost to be mother-in-law's small bridal studio along with her sister, Lai-chi, and friend, Ko Sam. Lai-ching's almost to be mother-in-law, Dina Buffett, still holds a grudge against Lai-ching for embarrassing her son and cursed Lai-ching to be a spinster for life. During a trip to the airport to pick up her new boyfriend Titan, Lai-ching gets into a minor car accident with Richmond's chauffeured car and immediately recognizes Richmond as a man she had met seven years ago.

After a fallout between Richmond and Wayne, Wayne gets into a bar brawl which leaves him delirious drunk and beaten on the streets. Lai-ching and Ko Sam tend to Wayne but a drunken Wayne mistakes Ko Sam's macaron-shaped USB drive as an actual macaron and eats it. With precious client photos stored in the USB drive Lai-ching has no other choice but to take Wayne to her home, where Wayne pretends to have amnesia in order to stay with her. Richmond soon finds Wayne refusing to come back to the hotel and is working as a wedding videographer.

While Lai-ching books a suite at the Midsummer Night Garden Hotel to prepare for her wedding to her latest fiancée Titan, Richmond encounters a distressed man who can't decide which woman to settle for. After some words of advice from Richmond, the distressed man decides he doesn't want to get married anymore and leaves his fiancée Lai-ching on their wedding day. Blaming Richmond for her latest wedding mishap Lai-Ching seeks out Richmond for revenge only to get drunk when he finds her and then for her to blurt out that he has been the one she always wanted to marry. Richmond seeing Lai-ching is drunk thinks she is speaking nonsense.

It is soon revealed that seven years ago Lai-ching was a former staff member at Midsummer Night's Garden Hotel who highly admired Richmond for his fairness and honorable treatment of the hotel staff. The two had spent a passionate night together which Richmond doesn't seem to remember since he was very drunk.

While at the hotel to repay a bill for damages done to the suite she stayed at, Lai-ching is mistaken by a staff member to be an underprivileged person looking for a job interview the company was conducting. After hearing her sad story about her failure in romance Lai-ching gets hired at Midsummer Night's Garden Hotel. She doesn't want the job but her sister Lai-chi reminds her that they are in need of money since they just repaid a hefty bill to the hotel. Wayne is in a power struggle with his father, Richmond, and forcefully recruits Lai-ching as a staff member of the hotel to make Richmond miserable and also cure Lai-ching of her love sickness for Richmond.

Cast

Chong family

Law, Buffett, Fan household and Bridal studio staff

Lok family

Midsummer Night Garden Hotel staff

Extended Cast

Development

thumb|200px|right|The Crowne Plaza Hong Kong-Kowloon East located at Tseung Kwan O, exterior and roof top swimming pool were used in the drama to depict the fictional Midsummer Night Garden Hotel.

Awards and nominations

AssociationCategoryNomineeResult
StarHub TVB AwardsMy Favourite TVB Drama
My Favourite TVB ActressAdia Chan
My Favourite TVB ActorEddie Cheung
My Favourite TVB Supporting ActressJeannie Chan
My Favourite TVB Female TV CharactersAdia Chan
My Favourite TVB Male TV CharactersEddie Cheung
My Favourite TVB On-Screen CoupleEddie Cheung and Adia Chan
My Favourite TVB Drama Theme Song"我有我美麗" (That's the Way I Am) by Nancy Wu
TVB Star Awards MalaysiaMy Favourite TVB Drama Series
My Favourite TVB Actor in a Leading RoleEddie Cheung
My Favourite TVB Actress in a Leading RoleAdia Chan
My Favourite TVB Actress in a Supporting RoleJeannie Chan
My Favourite TVB Most Improved ActorOwen Cheung
My Favourite TVB Most Improved ActressJeannie Chan
TVB Anniversary AwardsBest Drama
Best ActorEddie Cheung
Best ActressAdia Chan
Best Supporting ActressEileen Yeow
Most Popular Male Character Eddie Cheung
Most Improved Male ArtisteOwen Cheung
Most Popular Drama Theme Song"我有我美麗" (That's the Way I Am) by Nancy Wu

Viewership Ratings

Timeslot (HKT)WeekEpisode(s)Average pointsPeaking points
1Mon – Fri
(8:30-9:30 pm)
20:30–21:30
10 – 14 Apr 20171 — 521.224.0
217 – 21 Apr 20176 — 1022.624.8
324 – 28 Apr 201711 — 1522.625.7
41 – 5 May 201716 — 202528.2
Total average 22.828.2

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: TVB新劇《全職沒女》劇情介紹(1﹣20集大結局 . ihktv.com. April 23, 2017. zh.
  2. Web site: Adia Chan, Eddie Cheung Film "Full-time Nowhere Woman" . jaynestars.com. April 23, 2017.
  3. http://hyn5-hyn5.blogspot.ca/2016/04/full-time-nothing-woman-costume-fitting.html
  4. http://www.jaynestars.com/news/adia-chan-to-make-tvb-comeback-in-april/
  5. http://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/entertainment/20160412/bkn-20160412231834753-0412_00862_001.html
  6. http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/enews/realtime/20170423/56601749