‘Transformers’ plans casting call on Chinese TV
Reality television in China will help cast the next “Transformers” flick.
Reality television in China will help cast the next “Transformers” flick.
After “The Voice,” the talent tilt for singers, now comes “The Choice,” another competition on TV, this time for women who want to date any of its four male celebrity panelists.
Pop musician and actor Kevin Jonas is the latest celebrity to open his door to reality-show cameras, revealing his domestic life with wife Danielle for the E! program “Married to Jonas.”
Many TV shows have ended their run on the tube, so viewers have a lot of new programs to sample. For one thing, it’s interesting to note that quite a number of new morning shows and newscasts have started telecasting.
After months of intense training and competition, GMA 7’s “Protégé” star discovery tilt finally named its two winners last Sunday—Jeric Gonzales and Thea Tolentino. Now comes the even tougher part—to turn them into actual rather than merely promising stars who will grace the network’s TV and film productions for many productive years!
The top six finalists of TV5’s reality talent search “Artista Academy” (AA) have started spewing out the same answers.
AGAINST all odds, KZ Tandingan deservedly won the top plum on “X Factor Philippines” last Sunday, beating Gab Maturan, who had never been a bottom-dweller in terms of votes garnered throughout the tilt, and third-placer Daddy’s Home.
FANS of “X Factor Philippines” finalist Allen Sta. Maria were thrown for a loop last Sunday, when their bet was eliminated from contention, just before the Final Three title square-off tonight (with the winner being announced tomorrow). To make things worse for “girls” group mentor Charice, her other surviving bet, KZ Tandingan, shared bottom-dweller position with Allen.
JESSICA Sanchez was the best singer on “American Idol, Season 11.” When it comes to shining in press cons, however, Jessica is still a tyro. When “AI’s” Top 10 met the press at the Manila Hotel to promote their recent concert at the Araneta Coliseum, she spoke confidently for a 17-year-old, but her replies were full of generalities and motherhood statements.
LAST Sunday “voting-off” telecast of “The X-Factor Philippines” was a stunner and bamboozler in more ways than five: First off, the popular finalist, Jeric Medina, bit the dust, after weeks of good performances that had some uzis, yours truly included, predicting that he would end up among the tilt’s Final Three.
For many years, Jeff Probst hosted the hit “Survivor” reality challenge on TV. This season, he’s reinvented himself as a talk-show host, with a new self-titled weekday program, shown in the Philippines on Talk TV. We caught the show’s first telecast, so we can give you the real (as opposed to the PR) lowdown on it.
EVER since “X Factor Philippines” fielded its mixed bag of finalists a couple of months ago, the viewing public have been confused and confounded by the singing tilt’s occasionally contradictory priorities and preferences. Some good singers have been showcased in the competition, but so have some less vocally gifted bets whom we have described as more “idiosyncratic” or novelty performers.
