Child actors Louise Abuel, Micko Laurente, Jon Michael, Raikko Mateo and Karla Cruz are starring in ABS-CBN’s new afternoon series titled Walang Iwanan.
The show follows the story of Jose (played by Abuel who played the young Jake Cuenca in Ikaw Lamang), the son of Anita (Roxanne Guinoo).
Kamlon(Jhong Hilario), his stepfather who married her mother after his biological father left her out in the cold, can’t seem to have any affection for Jose as he isn’t his own son.
Laurente plays Boy, the first-born of Anita and Kamlon. He makes life hard for Jose to be in good terms with his other siblings. His three other siblings are Criscencio (played by Jon Michael), Maribel (Cruz) and Michael (Mateo).
While his stepfather doesn’t recognize him, and his step-brothers and sister alienate him the two women he knew as his grandmothers – Ina and Ebe – and with whom Jose grew up shower him with the love that he’s missing out on, especially after his mother lived with Kamlon and their own children.
Their love prepared Jose to be strong enough to be part of a true family. He grows up to be a fine-mannered boy who just wants a family that loves one another.
Trouble happens when the kids find their parents missing one morning and had to fend for themselves. Jose and Boy try to mend their differences for the sake of their siblings as they hope to find out what happened to their parents and be together once again as a family.
Other members of the cast are John Estrada, Beauty Gonzales, and Nicco Manalo.
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ABS-CBN’s ‘Isang Bayan Para Kay Pacman’
ABS-CBN Sports, the sports arm of ABS-CBN, was recognized with the Best Sports Digital Platform award for its “Isang Bayan Para Kay Pacman” campaign in the inaugural Asia Sports Industry Awards held at the New World Hotel.
“Isang Bayan Para Kay Pacman” was a month-long campaign of the Kapamilya network in promoting the airing of the tmegafight between Filipino ring icon and People’s Champ Manny Pacquiao and flamboyant American champion, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. on ABS-CBN. The campaign involved digital interactivity through the use of the hashtag #OneForPacman where people can show their support for Pacquiao prior to his fight.
Another highlight of the campaign was the microsite the network created where people can throw their support via an interactive punching bag that one can click and “punch” showing that behind every punch of Manny is the strength of millions of Filipinos. The punch meter on the website garnered 126 million punches.
“Our win against some of the best campaigns in the region is a testament to the power of teamwork and excellence at ABS-CBN Sports. We’ve shown that we can top some of the very best Sports marketing projects around the Southeast Asian region with the work that we do,” said ABS-CBN Sports head Dino Laurena.
The Asia Sports Industry Awards recognizes and celebrates business leaders, organizations, facilities and campaigns at the forefront of the sporting industry, that have made a contribution to the growth and development of sports across South East Asia in the past eighteen months.
ABS-CBN, through ABS-CBN Sports, brings to free TV games of international and popular leagues such as the NBA, UEFA Champions League, and is the home of collegiate basketball in the country being the broadcast partner of the NCAA and UAAP. They also broadcast big fight events from the UFC aside from sports lifestyle shows such as “Upfront at the UAAP.”
GMA Network dominates across platforms in September
The Kapuso network nailed a back-to-back victory in September, asserting its leadership both on television and online.
Besides GMA’s dominant nationwide TV ratings performance, the Kapuso Network’s news and entertainment portal, GMANetwork.com, ranked as the number one local website in the country.
According to Effective Measure, GMANetwork.com bested other local websites in terms of unique browsers and pageviews with 16.9 million and 260.9 million, respectively, ahead of ABS-CBN.com, among others.
Moreover, GMANetwork’s pageviews surpassed all ABS-CBN web properties combined – including ABS-CBN News, ABS-CBN Portal, TFC.tv and MYX Philippines – driven by the increase in pageviews of GMA News Online (www.gmanews.tv).
GMA News Online and the GMA Entertainment website (www.gmanetwork.com/entertainment) also recorded more pageviews than their ABS-CBN counterparts and led in their respective categories.
Netizens also took to GMA’s websites as they sought content about AlDub, which continued to rank as the most popular content in the portal.
Meanwhile, GMA News is also the most followed news organization on Twitter, Viber’s public chat and Instagram with more than 3.3 million, 140 thousand, and 87 thousand followers, respectively. GMA News’ Instagram page includes news and weather updates, lifestyle and entertainment stories, quotable quotes from personalities, and behind-the-scenes photos and videos, among others.
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Ricky Reyes and Fil-Hair
More than three decades ago salon czar and beauty architect Ricky Reyes founded the Filipino Hairdressers Association (Fil-Hair) with the purpose of uniting salon owners, hair stylists and cosmetologists under one umbrella to prevent competition and survival of the fittest mentality.
Every Fil-Hair officer and member develop camaraderie and compassion with each other that have made the organization the oldest and foremost prime-mover in the beauty industry.
Ricky Reyes has remained the President and the rest of the officers are: Edwin Palma-Vice President, Ruby Villarama-Secretary, Raquel Pangilagan-Auditor, Lyn Yalong-Treasurer and Members of the Board-Ester Garcia, Felipe de Guzman, Atlas Leonen, Josie Gallardo and Santiago Palomares.
PTV-4 joins Koreanovela frenzy with Here Comes Mr. Oh
Here Comes Mr. Oh is a dramatic-comedy (dramedy) about an unemployed and less-educated son-in-law who has a good heart as he attempts to save his parents-in-law from the greedy first son-in-law.
This Koreanovela has first rate Korean who have a good sense of humor, but also good in drama, despite the over-all Tagalog dubbed scripted words.
Leading the cast is Oh Jar-yong (Lee jang Woo) as the gregarious and good-natured fellow who stands up to his conniving brother-in-law Jin Yong Seok (Jin Tae Hyun) in the latter’s plot to steal the estate of his wife’s family. This dramedy also essays a story of two different men who married two sisters. The twist of the plot will show how Jaryong saves his in-laws from an impending financial doom.
During its airing in South Korea, the television drama got extended for nine more episodes when the ratings went higher that the targeted 20 percent viewership share. The show’s reel sweethearts Lee Jang Woo and leading-lady Oh Yeon So denied being a real-life couple despite being seen together very often.
Here Comes Mr. Oh started airing in November 2014 and all weekdays at 5:30 p.m. thereafter on PTV-4. In its initial telecast, a hundred thousand televiewers were hooked to the screen. It has since escalated to over 600,000 and the numbers are steadily rising.
After Here Comes Mr. Oh, another Koreanovela will follow. The next featured series is entitled Legendary Doctor.
