Stuff To Watch This Week (Feb 14-20, 2022)
Singapore Budget 2022
Finance Minister Lawrence Wong will deliver this year’s Budget Statement, which is expected to include the highly-anticipated GST hike — when will it take place and what impact it will have on Singapore households and businesses?
Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel 5, Fri, 3.30pm
Photo: Ministry of Finance/Instagram
Genie In A Cup
Tasha Low stars as an online shopping addict who stumbles upon a smart juice cup that houses the spirit of a recently departed e-commerce magnate (Chen Hanwei). (Wait, is this vessel this inspired by PM Lee’s ‘magic’ cup?) The 20-part drama also stars Xu Bin as the dead tycoon’s son.
Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel 8, Fri, 9pm
I Want To Be A Towkay
Latest seniors-targeted dialect drama — a collab between Mediacorp and the Ministry of Communications and Information — about four retirees (Chen Chucheng, Li Nanxing, Aileen Tan, Hong Huifang) starting a café business. The 20-part drama also stars Romeo Tan, Denise Camillia Tan and Herman Keh.
Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel 8, Fri, 11.30am
Vadi Ready Vedi, Season 2
Season 2 of the Indian sketch show sees Kumar teaming up with resident host Vadi PVSS to bring down the house with parodies of Tamil movie scenes. The duo will also hit the streets to engage folks in assorted challenges.
Watch it on: meWATCH & Vasantham, Sat, 9pm; Vasantham's Instagram & Facebook; YouTube Entertainment Channel
River Hongbao 2022 - Singapore Talent Night
Catch highlights from the stage shows — featuring Mediacorp artists and getai veterans — held recently at the Chinese New Year festival at Gardens by the Bay.
Watch it on: meWATCH & Channel 8, Tue, 8pm
Kung Fu
Gender flip reboot of the 1970s David Carradine-starring TV series, with Olivia Liang as a Chinese-American college dropout who becomes a badass martial artist after a life-changing trip to a monastery in China. Tzi Ma and Tan Kheng Hua play her parents.
Watch it on: WarnerTV (Singtel TV Ch 306, StarHub Ch 515), 10.40pm, Mon-Thu
Photo: WarnerTV
Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
To be streamed over three weeks, this seven-hour “intimating and revealing” tracks the career of Kanye West (now known as Ye) over the last two decades. Ye apparently clashed with the directors over final cut last month but has since kept quiet about it. For now, at least.
Watch it on: Netflix, Wed
Photo: Netflix
Peacemaker
Season finale! Can Peacemaker and the rest of the ARGUS squad stop Goff aka The Queen Butterfly and her army from invading Earth? But first, they have to destroy the Cow, the beasts that the alien bugs have been feeding on for nourishment. Will Eagly get his own spin-off?
Watch it on: HBO Go, Thur
Photo: TPG News/Click Photos
Space Force, Season 2
The Steve Carell-led workplace comedy returns! Season 2 picks up four months after Season 1, with General Naird (Carell) and his team facing an inquiry for ignoring an order to attack the Chinese on the moon.
Watch it on: Netflix, Fri
Photo: Netflix
