My Lover from the Planet Meow
My Lover from the Planet Meow is a 2016 Hong Kong television romantic-comedy with a supernatural theme television drama produced by Steven Tsui for TVB, starring almost the entire main cast from TVB's 2015 highest rated drama Ghost of Relativity. It premiered on Hong Kong's TVB Jade and Malaysia's Astro On Demand on October 17, 2016 airing Monday through Sunday during its 9:30-10:30 pm timeslot and concluding November 20, 2016 with a total of 32 episodes.
Synopsis
Head of Research and Development at HTDG hair technologies Garfield Sit, sees a Scottish Fold kitten in the window of a pet shop tangled up in toilet paper and decides to tell the pet shop keeper. Before Garfield gets a chance to give a piece of his mind to the neglectful shop keeper he gets talked into buying the kitten which he later names Miu-miu. Mistaken as a cat burglar, Garfield meets dedicated police women Cat Chiu. During the mistaken makes up and almost being arrested Cat causes Garfield to lose Miu-miu. Feeling that it was Cat's fault that Miu-miu is missing, Cat's Superior Si Sir orders Cat to help Garfield find Miu-miu. In the process of finding Miu-miu, Cat and Garfield gets to know each other personally and soon starts dating, get married and have a daughter together. One day Miu-miu faints and the veterinarian tells Garfield and Cat that due to old age Miu-miu will die. Miu-miu dies and her spirit goes into outer space. While in outer space Miu-miu still looks in on Garfield and his family. Unable to stand Garfield and his daughter being bullied by an obnoxious parent, Miu-miu heads back to earth and takes up a human form to work alongside Garfield and become his daughter's nanny due to Cat's greater passion for her career.Cast
Main cast
- Moses Chan as Garfield Sit Ding-gap
- Kristal Tin as Miu Miu-miu
- Nancy Wu as '''Cat Chiu Yiu'''
HTDG staff
- Eddie Kwan as Hill Ko Tin-san
- Vivien Yeo as Natasha Lam Dai-sa
- Anthony Ho as Phillip Fei Lap
- C-Kwan as Ivan Ngai Han
- Alan Wan as Duncan Dang Kan
- Pierre Ngo as Dylan Tsang Siu-yan
- Alycia Chan as Eliza Kam Ping-miu
- Wingto Lam as Yvonne Ko Nga-din
- Christy Chan as Elaine Yam Chow-siu
- Kong Wing-fai as Kau Gwai-kei
- Celine Ma as Tsui Sui-ching' Manager of the Human Resource Department at HTDG. Sui-ching frequently picks on the three Research and Development staff, often referring to the office policies. She always talks with a lisp, pronouncing her s's as th's.
- Osanna Chiu as
- Nicole Wan as
- Clare Chan as
- Kate Tsang as
- June Ng as
- Helen Seng as
- Terrence Huang as
- Kelvin Yuen as
- Pauline Chow as
Yau Ma Tei Police station
- Ram Chiang Si Ko-but Sir
- Max Cheung Lawrence Law Hon-zi Sir as
Extended cast
- Mimi Chu as Rose Ko Kwai
- Wai Lee as Jack Chu Sik
- Celine Yeung as Si Si
- Raymond Chiu as
- Maggie Yu as
- Sunny Tai as
Development and production
- The costume fitting ceremony was held on February 5, 2016 12:30 pm at Tseung Kwan O TVB City Studio One.
- The blessing ceremony was held on April 8, 2016 1:00 pm at Tseung Kwan O TVB City Studio twelve.
- Filming took place from February till June 2016, entirely on location in Hong Kong.
Viewership ratings
November 5, 2016: No episode broadcast.Reception
Unlike its predecessor drama Ghost of Relativity, which was the highest rated TVB drama of 2015, My Lover from the Planet Meow was not well received by viewers and currently holds the title of TVB lowest rated anniversary drama with a total average rating of 20.63 beating previous lowest rated TVB anniversary drama Beauty at War, which had an average total rating of 20.67.My Lover from the Planet Meow was criticized for its unfunny script and lead actress Krystal Tin inappropriately acting cutesy at her age. Some netizens complained that Tin was beyond her age to be playing a character who acted naive and cutesy and suggested that an younger actress should have been cast in the role of Miu Miu instead. Despite the criticism, Tin's performance garnered an award for TVB Favorite Drama Character at the 2016 TVB Star Awards Malaysia.