Daddy Dearest (2016 TV series)

Ku Tse-keung (Johnson Lee) is an absentee father who boasts to his son, Ku Tui-nam (Marcus Lo), his busy life because of his important business meetings and huge deal making. However, Tse-keung is really just an ordinary real-estate agent who cares more about work than spending time with his son. His work is so important to him that he would rather cancel his parental visits with Tui-nam and use his personal time to socialize with his boss. Tse-keung's inability to keep promises to his son has left him in a strained relationship with his ex-wife and her fiancé who have to make excuses to spare Tui-nam from disappointment. When his ex-wife leaves Hong Kong to get married and go on a honeymoon, Tui-nam is left in Tse-keung's care for an extended period of time. Jealous that his son is growing closer to his new step-father, Tse-keung takes the task of being a responsible father seriously. However, not being used to taking care of his son has left Tse-keung often overlooking his son's needs and feelings.

After seeing his client Ophelia Chu Lei-fa (Mandy Wong), who is a teacher at a learning center, teach Tui-nam how to do homework, Tse-keung decides to enroll Tui-nam in Ophelia's learning center instead of having Tui-nam tag along with him to work. When Ophelia and her landlord find out Tse-keung had doctored their rental lease in order to complete a sale, they file a complaint against Tse-keung. Due to his underhanded actions to complete a sale Tse-keung's real-estate license is suspended for 6 months. While under suspension, Tse-keung notices Ophelia's learning center struggling because she is too nice to her students by refusing to charge extra for overtime and collect tuition when a student cannot pay. After a teaching staff quits and threatens to take the learning centre's students with her, Ophelia asks Tse-keung, who is business minded, to advise her on how to save the learning center. Tse-keung instead suggests he become a business partner at her learning center. In exchange Ophelia advises Tse-keung on how to be a caring parent to Tui-nam, who she notices is often neglected due to his independence.

Marius Seung Nim-shu (Jason Chan) is also an absentee father, but unlike Tse-keung, his long business trips take him away from his family. As an architect, his career takes him away from his family for months. However, he is always thinking of his family and can't wait to get back to them. Even though he is a loving dad to his kids, Marius's hectic work life causes him to miss out on important events in his children's life and getting both his daughter, Seung Yee, and son, Seung Yi, birthdays mixed up. After being lectured by his academic minded father, Marius becomes concerned for his son's (who is entering elementary school soon) academics. Marius requests time-off from work, but his boss depends on him and refuses to allow him any time-off, even suggesting Marius take his entire family with him on his next business trip. Feeling his son is more important, Marius quits his job and decides that for the next 6 months he will concentrate solely on finding the right school for his son.

Tse-keung and Marius first meet when the two fight for the same robotic toy for their sons. The two meet again when Marius joins Ophelia's learning center as a part-time tutor in order to help his son.

• The costume fitting ceremony was held together on August 5, 2015 at 12:30 pm Tseung Kwan O TVB City Studio One.[1]
• The blessing ceremony was held on September 22, 2015 at 2:30 pm Tseung Kwan O TVB City Studio sixteen.[2]
• Daddy Dearest was originally scheduled to premiere on March 28, 2016 to take over TVB's 8:30-9:30 pm timeslot following after Short End of the Stick. The broadcast schedule was changed two weeks before the drama was to premiere with The Last Healer In Forbidden City premiering on March 28, 2016. Daddy Dearest was then pushed back to premiere after The Last Healer In Forbidden City on April 25, 2016.
• Due to concerns with ratings, Daddy Dearest was pushed back further with My Dangerous Mafia Retirement Plan premiering on April 25, 2016 and Presumed Accidents premiering on May 30, 2016.
• In June 2016, the series was pushed back for the fourth time to air on August 1 during TVB's 2016 Amazing Summer. The Chinese title was also changed from 爸B有話兒; literally "Daddy Has Something to Say" to 超能老豆; literally "Super Daddy".[3]

• Daddy Dearest Official TVB website (in Chinese)