GMA claims it’s doing well with its two prime-time series, Start-Up PH and Maria Clara at Ibarra. The network cites ratings (audience viewership share per show on specific time slots) reported by survey companies it subscribes to. It likewise considered feedback from social media.
Also, GMA’s daily game show, Family Feud, hosted by Dingdong Dantes, is said to be leading its competitors.
‘START Up PH’ lead stars Alden Richards and Bea Alonzo.
It’s not only the lead stars of Start-Up PH, Bea Alonzo and Alden Richards in their first-ever team-up, that captivate viewers, but also Yasmien Kurdi, Kim Domingo and Jeffrey Gonzales.
The show is an adaptation of a top Korean series of the same title which aired a few years ago. But the Kapuso version exudes Filipino charm and complexity without diminishing the essence and flavor of the original.
Alexa Miro.
Maria Clara at Ibarra is a reimagination of Jose Rizal’s novel Noli Me Tangere — with Dennis Trillo as Crisostomo Ibarra and Julie Anne San Jose as Maria Clara.
Virtually all the novel’s major characters are in the nightly series — except for the fictional Klay, a feisty nursing student from a class discussing the incendiary book, along with its sequel, El Filibusterismo, which both roused Filipinos to rise up against colonizer Spain in Asia’s first revolution.
Klay is an interesting character Barbie Forteza plas with passion and sarcasm vis-à-vis another character, Fidel (David Licauco), Ibarra’s millionaire best friend.
Barbie is an unwitting scene stealer in the series, whose avid viewers include elementary, high school and college students.
Net25 improving
Net25 TV is improving on its programming, even its place in the ratings game is “unreported” by survey firms to which the network does not subscribe.
It recently launched new shows and revived previous ones viewed viewed not only by members of Iglesia ni Cristo that the network is associated with.
Korina Sanchez has a show on Net25 every Sunday, doing what she does best: interviewing famous and interesting people in the country and elsewhere.
At a recent media conference for her show, Korina said her contract with Net25 is non-exclusive.
Another new show is a sitcom starring Alexa Miro (rumored girlfriend of Ilocos Norte 1st District Rep. Sandro Marcos) and Empoy Marquez.
Said Alexa at the media conference: “Empoy is my best leading man, so far!”
To which Empoy retorted: “Because I look like Sandro Marcos!”
Among the shows relaunched on Net25 is Aga Muhlach’’s game show Tara, Game Agad! and news and current affairs morning program Ano sa Palagay N’yo, anchored by Ali Sotto and Pat-P Daza.