Suphapburut Juthathep

Suphapburut Juthathep (Thai: สุภาพบุรุษจุฑาเทพ, romanized: Suphapburut Juthathep, lit. 'Gentlemen of Juthathep') is Thai lakorn series consists of 5 dramas, Khun Chai Taratorn, Khun Chai Pawornruj, Khun Chai Puttipat, Khun Chai Rachanon and Khun Chai Ronapee. The television series based on the novel series of the same name and the series were made to celebrate ThaiTV3's 43rd anniversary.^[1][2]

The series was produced by 5 different companies, producers and directors. It was first aired on every Friday–Sunday, 20.15 to 22.45 (TST) since June 15 until July 7, 2013. Later, it was rerunned two times on March 6 – August 20, 2015^[3] and on January 31 – July 14, 2017, respectively.

The series received the huge response, propelled the lead casts to the stardom and being popular, because the mostly of lead casts are the newcomer of television drama. In June 2013, it was reported the statistic that over a thousand parents, within a few months, named their children with the name of the characters.^[4]

In 2015, the publisher and the writers of Suphapburut Juthathep's novels, announced to publish its sequel called Duangjai Dhevaprom. The sequels are the stories of the five Mom Rajawongse's children but having the Dewaprom's descendants as the main characters and using their names as the books' titles.^[5][6]

In 2020, It was confirmed by Channel 3 that they are going to make Duangjai Thewaprom as a series, produced by the same production company and producers with Suphapburut Juthathep, and was reported that they already started casting the main characters.^{[7][8][9][10][11]}