Is this for real, brothers falling for the same woman? Perhaps it is, otherwise ABS-CBN won’t even think of producing a drama series revolving around two brothers competing for the attention of one woman.
That’s what Bridges of Love is all about. Says the writers of the series, “It is an intense love story involving brothers, who will be separated by hatred and guilt, and their common love for a woman who will bridge them together.”
by Jericho Rosales and Paulo Avelino in love
with the same woman, Maja Salvador, premieres
on ABS-CBN this month. The series also features
Edu Manzano and Carmina Villarroel
They call it a “story like no other.” Or, how many times did networks call their other series a story like no other?
Anyway Bridges of Love is about Gael (Jericho Rosales) and Carlos (Paulo Avelino). They are separated by an unfortunate tragedy, despite their vow to be of by each other side, come what may.
Separated by guilt and hatred, Gael and Carlos will come around and thanks to their love for Mia (Maja Salvador), a vivacious club dancer who happens to be Gael’s greatest love and the woman who completed Carlos’ broken heart.
Will their love for Mia be the ultimate test to Gael and Carlos’ fractured brotherhood? In the end, will love bring them together, or will it create a wide gap that will make them be farther apart permanently?
Aside from Gael, Carlos, and Mia, the series also unravels the mysterious lives of the powerful businessman, Lorenzo Antonio (Edu Manzano) who is the adoptive parent of Carlos, and Alexa Meyers (Carmina Villarroel), a woman driven to power, and unparalleled glamor with yearnings of being loved again.
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This marks the return of Edu Manzano to the Kapamilya lot after exploring what other networks could offer him. From ABS-CBN he moved to GMA Network where he was underutilized for the most part of his contract. Well, at that time he didn’t want to be in a daily soap opera, so the network had no other choice but give him assignment as program host first in a morning show and then a game show.
Manzano and the Kapuso seem not cut out for each other, so the former moved to the Kapatid network, and by some coincidence where Wilma Galvante was the chief content officer.
In the short run, Manzano wasn’t meant to be a Kapatid for long he left TV5 to rejoin his Kapamilya friends. This time he was willing to go back to the grind of shooting for a nightly drama series.
With him in Bridges of Love were former Kapuso talents Antoinette Taus and Lito Pimentel. He will also be working with Max Eigenmann, Maureen Mauricio, John Manalo, Janus del Prado, William Lorenzo, Joross Gamboa, and Malou de Guzman.