After Hours (Singaporean TV series)


After Hours is a Singaporean drama produced by local TV station MediaCorp. It was broadcast on Mondays at 11:00pm.
Screen couple Utt and Linda Liao reprise their roles as Gabriel and Ellie in Chase to reunite on the small screen for After Hours. Joined by Joanne Peh and Max Loong as April and Danny, the four are best friends who tackle love, friendships and relationships in every direction in After Hours. The show picks up six months after Chase ends, where Gabriel and Ellie go on holiday together.
April and Ellie are former classmates, now friends. Danny is an old friend of Gabriel's, although they lost contact previously. Danny spent some time in the US, but returns to Singapore for good. The four of them become good friends and hang out together regularly.
The situational romantic dramedy shows how four friends approach love, friendships and relationships, and it attempts to provoke the watchers with questions.

Cast

At the end of Chase, Gabriel and Ellie went off on a holiday together. They came back and have been together ever since. Gabriel worked on a huge Breast Cancer Awareness campaign that Lauren Lee managed to land just as the ad agency was on the brink of closing down.
After the campaign, Lauren finally decided to voluntarily close Mad About Ads. She went to work for the Singapore Breast Cancer Foundation as its head of publicity. David landed a hot advertising job in Sydney, and became based there. Dora, Gabriel's mother, gave birth and decided to settle down with her pilot husband Uncle John in his hometown in Kuala Lumpur. Occasionally, she traveled with him on his overseas flights.
Uncle Rob retires to Bintan, selling his house in the process. Ellie is now staying at one of Uncle Rob's many investments – an apartment downtown. Gabriel starts his own ad agency, Angel Advertising. Essentially the agency is just Gabriel and Danny, the Creative Director. They don't have an office – Gabriel works from home and a variety of Starbucks, Coffee Beans and the NLB – wherever he can get internet access. Danny doesn't do a whole lot, but he knows a lot of people, and that means potential clients for Gabriel. Plus Gabriel keeps him around because he's cheap; and he gets around. By the start of Season 2, Gabriel has a small but loyal group of clients.
The last we left Ellie, she had been forced to close down the vet clinic after a takeover by one of Uncle Rob's friends. When she returned from the vacation with Gabriel, she tried to start up a pet food store. The store ran for about six months, and then closed down when the capital ran out. Now, Ellie is a writer for a pet magazine, MyPet Monthly. She is like an Aunt Aggie for pet owners, helping them out with their pet problems. What she hopes to do is slowly amass some savings, and then open her own pet store chain.
April works as a personal trainer, so often Ellie and April meet at the gym. Danny tries to beg free gym sessions off April so he can meet chicks.

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