WHEN we first watched the original American version of the “Minute to Win It” game show, we found it much too difficult and demanding for us to enjoy its challenges. For that reason, we viewed the program only occasionally. Interestingly, it was a different story when the show was “localized” for weekday viewing on [...]
Jackie Chan has come up with some “impossible” action-film stunts throughout his decades-long stellar career, but the opening sequence in his latest starrer, “Chinese Zodiac,” is still a lulu, and hard to beat.
Whenever we are invited to speak at TV conferences and public forums on the enlightened utilization of media, we are asked all sorts of questions immediately after, indicating the great significance that some people now see in what they watch— and its effect on them and their children.
Thank you, Mr. Torre, for your column, “When TV turns offensive and intrusive.” This is most refreshing, especially coming from a top media practitioner.
Ever since she became a beauty queen, Venus Raj has been trying to make it on TV as a performer-host. She’s one of the segment hosts on “Umaga Kay Ganda,” but her performance to date has been less than impressive. Part of the problem seems to be that she keeps hanging on to her [...]
After coming into their own together as TV soap stars some seasons ago, Julia Montes and Kathryn Bernardo are now separately being built up as bankable solo acts in new series—Julia in “Walang Hanggan,” and Kathryn in “Princess and I.” Naturally, their separate cadres of fans are hotly in contention—and disagreement—over who’s the bright, new star of the season.
For a long time now, Filipino filmmakers have been trying to get a local movie to qualify as one of the finalists in the Oscar or Academy Awards’ best foreign film category. Each year, a local competition is held by the Film Academy of the Philippines to choose the country’s bet, and the winner is [...]
Our TV stations pride themselves in the news and public affairs programs they produce to inform the viewing public about the “breaking news” of the day and night. With so many shows airing, local viewers would be up-to-date about events that most significantly affect their day-to-day lives, right?
In “Panday 2”, Bong Revilla makes for a physically trim but psychologically flabby Flavio, the revived film franchise’s resident hero and avenger of the oppressed populace of a fabled, mythic land that looks vaguely like our own, albeit transported to an inchoate, derivative past.
The new show, “Todo Max,” is being billed as the program that will usher in the comeback of the local TV sitcom, which has taken a back seat for some seasons now to the more popular teleseryes or extended drama series that are telecast pervasively “across the board” these days.
After its 100 titular telecasting days, “100 Days To Heaven” finally wrapped up its storytelling with a big bang in terms of guest star value — no less than Susan Roces and Vilma Santos figured in its concluding episodes. Susan’s role was better motivated as an acting showcase, because she played the mother whom Coney [...]
After 10 productive years discovering new singing stars like Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia Barrino, Jennifer Hudson, Chris Daughtry and Clay Aiken, “American Idol” (AI) rules on TV. But its reign is being challenged this season by “The X Factor USA,” (X) with “AI” veteran judge Simon Cowell as producer and head juror. Does the viewing world [...]
