Third Rail (TV series)

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Third Rail
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GenrePsychological
Thriller
Drama
Directed byYeo Lay Har
Starring Rebecca Lim
Andie Chen
Jason Godfrey
Nurul Aini
Vanessa Vanderstraaten
Benjamin Heng
Shrey Bhargava [1]
Opening themePower by Carla D
Country of origin Singapore
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes12
Production
Executive producersPedro Tan
Jean Yeo
Geraldine Phua
Running timeapprox. 48 minutes per episode (excluding advertisements)
Original release
Network Mediacorp Channel 5
MeWATCH
Release17 October (2022-10-17) 
21 November 2022 (2022-11-21)

Third Rail is a Singaporean English-language drama produced by Ochre Pictures and distributed by Mediacorp. [2]

Contents

The first two episodes premiered on MeWATCH on 17 October 2022, with two new episodes added every Monday. The series began airing on Mediacorp's YouTube drama channel and Channel 5 on 25 and 31 October 2022, respectively. [3]

Cast

Production

The set of the series was housed inside one of Changi Exhibition Centre's hall, which featured two decommissioned Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151 MRT train carriages (Carriage no. 3095 and 1095 of 095/096) and a specially constructed railway tunnel. [4] [5] It was also one of the biggest to be built in Singapore. [6]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNominee(s)ResultRef.
2023ContentAsia AwardsBest Factual Programme made in Asia for a Single Asia MarketThird Rail – Behind The Scenes SpecialSilver [7]

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