The Journey: Our Homeland
Also known as	Our Homeland The Journey Part 3 我们的家园
信约：我们的家园
Genre	Period drama
Written by	Seah Choon Guan 谢俊源 Chen Sew Khoon 陈秀群
Directed by	Loo Yin Kam 卢燕金 Png Keh Hock 方家福 Chen Yi You 陈忆幼 Doreen Yap 叶佩娟 Gao Xiu Hui 高秀慧 霍志楷
Starring	Rui En Shane Pow Ian Fang Julie Tan Rebecca Lim Romeo Tan Zhang Zhenhuan Jeffrey Xu
Opening theme	梦里家园 by Olivia Ong
Ending theme	之间 by Shin
Country of origin	Singapore
Original language	Chinese
No. of episodes	30 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Wong Kuang Yong 黄光荣
Running time	approx. 45 minutes (exc. advertisements)
Original release
Network	Mediacorp Channel 8
Release	16 July (2015-07-16) – 26 August 2015 (2015-08-26)
Related
The Journey: A Voyage (2013) The Journey: Tumultuous Times (2014)

The Journey: Our Homeland (Chinese: 信约：我们的家园, also known as Our Homeland) is the third and final season of Mediacorp Channel 8's nation-building trilogy The Journey, the previous two being The Journey: A Voyage and The Journey: Tumultuous Times. Production began in January 2015 and debut in 16 July 2015 with a total of 30 episodes. It stars third generation casts, Rui En, Shane Pow, Julie Tan, Ian Fang, Rebecca Lim, Romeo Tan, Jeffrey Xu and Zhang Zhenhuan as the main cast of the third instalment.^[1]

Cast

Trivia

• The store that the Hong family opened was a reference to The Little Nyonya.

Release

Malaysia's satellite channel Astro Shuang Xing was to air the show first in Asia, beginning from 9 July 2015, Sundays to Thursdays, as with Mind Game (aired on 30 April) and Super Senior (11 June). However, on the discretion of MediaCorp, Shuang Xing has to air the show on the same day as Singapore from 23 July 2015, Mondays to Fridays. Hence, the show was pre-empted five times there. This caused Taiwan SET's Be With You 2 episodes back-to-back telecast to be pushed forward to 5.00pm from 16 to 23 July. In fact, Astro shouldn't have aired MediaCorp dramas first before Singapore does so beginning with Mind Game, as it did not perform well in Singapore and is also nominated for only one technical award in Star Awards 2016, and that only Super Senior and The Dream Makers II were the only dramas in the planned First Global Premiere to win performance categories. The changes in schedule partially influenced Shuang Xing's timeslots of series airing later — following the end of Hong Kong's HKTV global premiere, with effect from 24 September, the channel resumed airing dramas on Mondays to Fridays, and back-to-back encores on Saturdays and Sundays, with the first series to use the new timeslots being Chinese series Best Get Going and MediaCorp's Hand In Hand. Other dramas, such as Youth Power, K Song Lover and My Husband is a Cartoonist, changed their schedules as well, with the exception of same-day telecast as Taiwan series Love Cuisine.

The series repeat its telecast on Channel 8 from 4:30pm to 6:30pm on weekends succeeding The Journey: Tumultuous Times.

Other media

This series was adapted as a comic and has been selling at Popular Bookstores since November 2015, targeting at upper primary and secondary students. The comic showcases the best of the series, and is promoted by the Committee to Promote Chinese Language.^[2]

Soundtrack

Accolades

Our Homeland has the next-to-most number of nominations for Star Awards 2016, with 16 nominations - 7 technical, 7 performance and 2 voting-based - in 14 award categories, down from 17 in 2015. The series has at least one nomination in every technical award for drama programmes, winning the Best Cameraman (for Drama Programmes) award. It won one award out of 14 awards.

Jeanette Aw won six voting-based awards in Star Awards 2015 Show 1, including three Most Popular Regional Artiste Awards, Social Media Award and Favourite Female Character award for her role in The Journey: Tumultuous Times. Aw expressed her wish to withdraw from voting-based award categories in the future. Speaking to the media after the ceremony, Aw said that the move is due to her concern about rabid fans who left messages online saying that they would harm themselves if she did not win enough awards.^[3] However, it can be seen that voting for Star Awards 2016 Favourite Female Character for both this series and The Dream Makers II did not remove her from the voting list. Mediacorp quotes that as these awards are determined by online voting, she still had to participate in these awards.^[4] She went on to win the Favourite Female Character and Favourite Onscreen Couple (Drama) with Qi Yuwu for The Dream Makers II in 2016, which was the last time the Favourite categories were held.

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