Let It Shine (

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which was telecast on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp TV Channel 8. It made its debut on 16 January 2007 and ended its 20-episode run on 12 February 2007. The show achieved pretty low viewership rates for a local drama serial in Singapore. Less than 250,000 viewers tuned into the premiere episode, making it one of the more least-watched Singaporean television dramas. In fact, the figures was the lowest for all Singapore Chinese Dramas in the year of 2007. Despite this show being a teenage idol drama, 23.5% of the viewers were actually housewives, while only about 14.5% were students and teenagers.

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Cast

Felicia Chin Felicia Chin Foong Ling (born 24 October 1984) is a Singaporean actress, host and content creator who was named as one of the Seven Princesses of Mediacorp in 2006. In 2013, Chin decided to use her given Chinese name instead for her acting c ...

as Guo Yaoyao 郭瑶瑶 *

Shaun Chen Shaun Chen (born 3 November 1978) is a Malaysian actor and former national badminton player who is based in Singapore. He started as a host for the variety show ''City Beat'' alongside Sharon Au, Jeff Wang and Fiona Xie. In 2003, he made hi ...

as Ma Zikang 马子康 *

Adam Chen Adam Chen (born 24 June 1976) is a Singaporean actor, host and businessman. Early life Chen was educated at The Chinese High School and Hwa Chong Junior College. Whilst a civil engineering student at the National University of Singapore he ...

as Lin Haifeng 林海峰 *

Xiang Yun Xiang Yun (born Chen Cuichang on 27 October 1961) is a Singaporean actress and television host. She is commonly referred to as MediaCorp's first "Ah Jie" (senior actress) for being among the first locally trained artistes and has been in the ent ...

as Guo Yaoyao's Mother 郭瑶瑶母亲 *

Zhu Houren Zhu Houren (born Jack Choo Hoh Yim on 30 January 1955) is a Singaporean Singaporeans are the citizens and nationals of the sovereign island city-state of Singapore. Singapore is home to a people of a variety of ethno-racial-religiou ...

as Guo Yaoyao's Father 郭瑶瑶父亲 *

Ng Hui Ng Hui (born 22 July 1979) is a Singaporean educator, former actress and television host. She was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 2000 to 2012. Early life Ng attended Jin Shan Primary School, Raffles Girls' Secondary School and H ...

as Guan Yulin 关玉琳 *

Lin Meijiao Lin Meijiao (born Lim Mooi Keow on 24 December 1963) is a Singaporean actress. She won three Best Supporting Actress at Mediacorp's annual Star Awards. Life and career Lin was educated at Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School. Lin has acted in ma ...

as Chen Meihua 陈美花 *

Yan Bingliang Yan Bingliang (born Giam Ping Leong) is a Singaporean actor best known for acting in many Chinese-language television series produced by Mediacorp Channel 8. A veteran actor, he entered the entertainment industry in 1984 after finishing Si ...

as Wang Bingshu 王柄树 *

Patricia Mok Patricia Mok Siu Leng (born 17 October 1971) is a Singaporean comedian, host and actress, best known for her comedic roles on ''Comedy Night'' during her stint as a JTeam artist until 2012. She was a full-time Mediacorp Mediacorp Pte. Ltd. ...

as Zhao Shuliao 昭淑聊 * Huang Zhiyang 黄智阳 as Guo Baobao 郭宝宝 * Wu Sijia 吴思佳 as Liu Xishi 刘西施

Reception

After an episode depicting

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, four students who are at the primary six level in a girls school were discovered showing signs of self-harm. It was concluded that one of the girls treated it as a trendy thing to do and asked her friends to do it together. When interviewed, producer Wang You Hong regretted such an incident had happened and trying to reflect a current trend which had not been mostly discovered by parents and educators. A light touch was applied and there was no intention to popularise and encouraging the act. The show was criticized for not reflecting the current state of the education sector which Wang refuted that most of the criticism were not valid and some artistic license was taken for some parts.

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Let It Shine Theme Song
Singapore Chinese dramas 2007 Singaporean television series debuts 2007 Singaporean television series endings Channel 8 (Singapore) original programming