ChermChey (2026) official poster featuring Tutor Koraphat as Intha and Yim Prarinyakorn as Akkhara — Thai BL rom-com

ChermChey

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ChermChey (เฉิ่มเชย; RTGS: Choem Choei) is a 2026 Thai boys' love romantic drama built around the neighbourhood bar that gives the series its name. Intha (Koraphat Lamnoi) is a confident bar owner. Akara (Pharinyakorn Khansawa), known as Eung, has been hurt repeatedly in love and finds it hard to believe he will meet the real thing. When the two meet, they gradually go from strangers to the most important person in each other's lives. The courtship plays out in public, in front of regulars who all have an opinion about it, with a wish made at a temple and a man who says what he feels instead of hinting at it.

Around the pair is an ensemble of regulars, staff and friends: Bomb (Phasakorn Ratnaliam), A-Ten (Chintub Duangkaew), Nok (Peerada Namwong), Aiyaret (Karn Kritsanaphan), Chennai (Thanakrit Chiamchunya), Lalit (Max Kornthas Rujeerattanavorapan), Nine (Natasit Uareksit), Tonhon (Thanaphum Sestasittikul), Chonlathee (Worapong Walor), Araya (Sorntast Buangam) and Issara (Krittapod Bunyamanee). Because the story is built around a single neighbourhood bar, the ensemble is always within earshot of the two leads.

Copy A Bangkok produced the ten-episode series with Domundi TV, and Cheewin Thanamin Wongskulphat directed. It adapts Nottakorn's Thai web novel of the same title. It premiered on TrueVisions Now on 19 May 2026 and aired on Tuesdays at 20:00 ICT, with the finale on 14 July 2026. Episodes run a little under fifty minutes, and GagaOOLala streams the series internationally. The series is rated 13+.

CONTENT DETAILS

Native Title
เฉิ่มเชย
Original Title
ChermChey
Also Known As
เฉิ่มเชย, Choem Choei, Cherm Chey, ChermChey the Series, 陈腔滥调
Adaptation
Adapted from the Thai BL web novel "Chermchey" (เฉิ่มเชย) by Nottakorn (นทกร).
Themes
Key Themes
HealingSecond ChancesHeartbreakBetrayalFateFound FamilySlow BurnEveryday LoveTrustVulnerabilityRedemptionTemple WishWorkplace Bond
Country
Language
Thai
Original Author
Nottakorn
Seasons
1
Episodes
10
Duration
48 min
Aired Start
Aired End
Release Year
Content Rating
13+
Production Co

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Where to watch ChermChey

GagaOOLala

Before You Watch

  • Ten episodes: Broadcast on TrueVisions Now on Tuesdays at 20:00 ICT, from 19 May to 14 July 2026.
  • International streaming: GagaOOLala carries the series outside Thailand.
  • Adapted from a web novel: The story is based on Nottakorn’s Thai BL web novel Chermchey.
  • The leads: Koraphat Lamnoi plays the bar owner Intha and Pharinyakorn Khansawa plays Akara, known as Eung.
  • TutorYim: The pairing’s fourth project together, after Cutie Pie, The Middleman’s Love and Bed Friend.
  • Director: Cheewin Thanamin Wongskulphat, who also directed Bed Friend.

Reviewed by Renkaze

7/10

ChermChey is a ten-episode Thai BL romance set in a neighbourhood bar, carried by the TutorYim pairing and by a large ensemble of regulars, staff and friends.

The Bar as a Stage

A single bar gives the series an unusual shape. Everyone who matters drinks, works or gossips in the same room, so the romance between Intha and Akara is conducted in front of witnesses, and the eleven named supporting characters, from Bomb and A-Ten to Nok and Lalit, act as a running chorus. Intha is the confident bar owner and Akara, known as Eung, is a man who has been hurt repeatedly in love, so the question is how a guarded person lets a very public courtship reach him.

The Release Pattern

The ten episodes ran from 19 May to 14 July 2026, and the second and third arrived together on 26 May, so a nine-week calendar delivered ten episodes. The weekly Tuesday slot at 20:00 gave the story a steady rhythm, and ten episodes leave room for the ensemble without crowding the central pair.

Who It Suits

Viewers who like warm, broad romantic comedy with a big cast and a single setting, and who enjoy a courtship that unfolds in front of an opinionated community rather than behind closed doors.

ChermChey brings the TutorYim pairing back for a fourth project, and it was the pairing that was announced before the series was.

Domundi TV named Tutor Koraphat Lamnoi and Yim Pharinyakorn Khansawa as a pair on 1 August 2025, about six months before Copy A Bangkok presented the series at its 2026 line-up event in February. They play the bar owner Intha and Akara, known as Eung. Their earlier projects together are Cutie Pie, The Middleman's Love and Bed Friend, and Cheewin Thanamin Wongskulphat, who directed Bed Friend, directs this one too.

The story is built around a single neighbourhood bar, with a large ensemble of regulars, staff and friends around the two leads. It is adapted from Nottakorn's web novel, which has its own page: Chermchey (Web Novel).

The ten episodes aired on Tuesday evenings on TrueVisions Now, so the story unfolded over two months of a viewer's calendar rather than in a single sitting.

Final Score: 7/10

The same broad comic register runs through this one.

Big reactions, sudden noises, physical comedy pitched high rather than played down. It is a deliberate style and a recognisable one, and it sets the pace of the whole thing.

Anyone who enjoys that kind of playing will get on with it.

Themes

The title is doing more work than it looks. Hanging a word that mocks sentiment over the bar, and then over the series itself, is a joke the production makes at its own expense before anyone else can, and it sets the terms for everything that follows.

Then watch what the story actually approves of. A wish made at a temple. A man who announces his feelings instead of hinting at them. A courtship conducted in the open, in front of regulars who all have an opinion about it. Every one of those is exactly the sort of move the title makes fun of, and the series keeps choosing them anyway.

Akara has been hurt in love before, and what reaches him is the unfashionable thing: a person who is plainly, unembarrassingly interested and keeps showing up. Making a punchline of its own sincerity is how the show gets to be sincere without apologising for it.

Interesting facts

On 19 May 2026, the same day as the TrueVisions Now premiere, a screening billed as the ChermChey Grand Opening was held at Lido Connect Hall 2 in Bangkok, so the first episode had a room full of people watching it together.

How it was made

Copy A Bangkok presented the series at its 2026 line-up event in February 2026.

Camera work is credited to Picharn Wimolchaiyaporn, a single cinematographer across the ten episodes.

LEAD & SIDE COUPLES

Koraphat Lamnoi official photo - Thai Domundi TV actor, singer, and DEXX member, TutorYim pair, star of Cutie Pie, Bed Friend, and ChermChey
Pharinyakorn Khansawa official photo - Thai Domundi TV actor, singer, and DEXX member, TutorYim pair, star of Cutie Pie, Bed Friend, and ChermChey
Koraphat LamnoiTutorYimPharinyakorn Khansawa
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OFFICIAL TRAILER

Episode guide: ChermChey

10 / 10 episodes aired · Completed
EP 1
19 May 2026
Aired
EP 2
26 May 2026
Aired
EP 3
26 May 2026
Aired
EP 4
02 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 5
09 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 6
16 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 7
23 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 8
30 Jun 2026
Aired
EP 9
07 Jul 2026
Aired
EP 10
14 Jul 2026
Aired

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What does the word ChermChey refer to?

เฉิ่มเชย is the name of the neighbourhood bar the series is built around. In Thai the word describes something corny or old-fashioned.

How were the ten episodes released?

On Tuesdays at 20:00 ICT, from 19 May to 14 July 2026, at roughly 45 minutes each.

Who plays Intha and Akara?

Koraphat Lamnoi plays Intha, the bar owner, and Pharinyakorn Khansawa plays Akara. Max Kornthas Rujeerattanavorapan appears as Lalit, Phasakorn Ratnaliam as Bomb and Peerada Namwong as Nok.

Is there an original novel?

Yes. The series adapts the Thai BL web novel Chermchey (เฉิ่มเชย) by Nottakorn.

Where can ChermChey be streamed?

It premiered on TrueVisions Now in Thailand, and GagaOOLala carries it internationally. Availability differs from one country to the next, so check the platform's listing for your own.

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