River City is a television soap opera, first broadcast in Scotland on BBC Scotland on 24 September 2002. River City storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional district of Shieldinch in Glasgow. The series primarily centres around the residents of Shieldinch, their houses, flats and apartments and its neighbouring streets, namely Montego Street and which encompasses a pub, bistro, community centre, café and various small businesses, in addition to a subway station and basketball court.
The series was originally screened as two half-hour episodes per week. Today, one hour-long episode is broadcast each week - usually Tuesday evenings on BBC One Scotland, repeated Sunday afternoons on either BBC One Scotland or BBC Two Scotland. In Australia, River City is screened 11:00am weekdays on Seven's British-oriented multichannel 7TWO.
A former British soccer star moves to a quiet village after divorce, meeting a local doctor. Their growing love faces obstacles as two different worlds collide, while past secrets and present conflicts test their relationship.
Saila is the oldest of three children. Her father died protecting the country and her mother’s life was taken by a vicious car accident. Thus she had to drop out of college to support her siblings; Orn, Pong and Da.
Saila teaches Tae Kwon Do for her second job. Unbeknownst to her, she picked an outdoors area to train her students which was the same area that a certain Police Captain Teratorn was fighting crime. Saila gets held hostage. With her special gift that she never knew she had, she was able to get away leaving the entire police force in shock. The Captain became mighty impressed with her abilities and is totally mesmerized by her beauty. And the story continues on…
Phuwanai is a cop whose father owns a pig farm. He gets a leave from work and decides to help his father with the farm. Paipaya is a dancer who witnessed the mob killing someone, so she runs away from them and ends up hiding at Phuwanai's farm, pretending to be his nephew's tutor.
Ros na Rún is a long-running Irish soap opera produced for the Irish language television channel, TG4. It was originally broadcast on RTÉ One in the early 1990s before the existence of TG4. It now broadcasts for 35 weeks of the year, airing 2 episodes each week from September to May. The programme is set in a fictional village called Ros Na Rún, located outside Galway, and near Spiddal, and centres around the domestic and professional lives of its residents. It is modelled on an average village in the West of Ireland but with its own distinct personality – diverse population that share secrets, romances, friendships etc. While the core community has remained the same, the look and feel of Ros Na Rún has changed and evolved over the years to incorporate the changing face of rural Ireland. It has established a place not only in the hearts and minds of the Irish speaking public, but also the wider Irish audience.
Nang’ek is an out of luck, poor, orphan girl raised by her money-hungry foster mom, who has a spoiled brat daughter. Her foster mom also has a no-good boyfriend, who on occasion will try to assault nang’ek Rasa.
Nang’ek is the ultimate angel, she is a diligent worker–values education, values hard-work, kind to others, innocent, virginal, not too shabby on the eyes. Though they treat her as an ATM machine, she refuses to abandon her makeshift, foster family because she feels indebted to them. Soon after her mother passed away so did her father, her foster mother took her in when she had no one to turn to. She feels a moral obligation to her evil foster mom who on many occasions will abuse and take advantage of her.
Victoria Marquez is a beautiful, successful, sophisticated woman. Recognized in the fashion world for being the owner of a prestigious modeling agency. Victoria is about to marry Alejandro Soler, who believes he is deeply in love. Her marriage is also the consolidation of the partnership between his mother and her boyfriend, owners of advertising agency Santana & Soler, one of the most important in Latin America.
Due to a coincidence, Mariana Aragón witnesses the murder of two young journalists. This puts her in the middle of a conspiracy she never imagined. A criminal organization makes her guilty and addicted. For Mariana, fighting for her life involves facing the most powerful criminal organization: the one that works from the legal, within the State.