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Under One Roof has multiple meanings:


Under One Roof is a 1917 novel by Mary Cholmondeley.


Under One Roof (Chinese: 同一屋簷下) is a television programme in Singapore.

First aired in 1994, Under One Roof was the first locally-produced English sitcom in Singapore. A critical and popular success, the show won the Best Comedy Programme or Series Award at the Asian Television Awards in both 1996 and 1997, and paved the way for future sitcoms like Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd, Mr. Kiasu, and Living with Lydia.

Under One Roof has been exported to Australia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Canada.

Because of its use of Singlish, a disfavoured English dialect in Singapore, Under One Roof has come under pressure by the Singaporean government to use only "proper" English.


Under One Roof (Japanese: ひとつ屋根の下 "Hitotsu Yane no Shita"; Chinese: 同一屋檐下) was a popular television series In Japan. First aired in 1993, the show is also exported to other regions in East Asia, including Hong Kong.

The Chinese name for the show, 同一屋檐下, has the same name, meaning and pronounciation as a different show with the same name from Singapore, with only the fourth character being different.


Under One Roof was a short-lived 2002 U.S. reality show on the UPN network. Hosted by Rob Nelson, the show's premise was to pit five families against each other to win a Fijian beachfront house.

UPN has been criticized for having canceled the show, not once, but twice. After the first two episodes, aired in March and April, fared poorly in the ratings, the show was cancelled, then brought back again in July as a summer replacement, only to be pulled from the air again after airing one more episode.

Because of the cancellation, the winning family of the house was never publicly revealed.