Television network TV5 suspended the brothers of Philippine Daily Inquirer Ramon Tulfo after they threatened on their program a celebrity couple who figured in a brawl with their eldest brother Sunday, May 6.
After 30 years of blockbuster movies, chart-topping albums, sold-out concerts and TV shows, Sharon Cuneta embarks on a new journey as she starts her first project for her new home, TV5, the daily talk show, “Sharon, Kasama Mo, Kapatid,” which begins airing on May 14.
Sharon Cuneta’s decision to jump ship and sign a five-year contract with TV 5 last November created a storm of criticism, with some people calling her an ingrate for turning her back on ABS-CBN, her home network for 23 years.
MEDIA mogul Manuel V. Pangilinan, chairman of the telecommunications conglomerate PLDT/Smart/Sun, wants to acquire control of television network GMA 7. A formal price offer still has to be worked out to bridge a P15-billion gap to swing the deal, but all major industry indicators—dropping profits, shifting consumer markets, rising costs, expensive new technology and cut-throat [...]
There have been reports in the tabloids that TV5’s “Paparazzi” is folding up. There’s no truth to that at all. On the contrary, we just celebrated our second anniversary last week.
Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman has called on scriptwriters and producers of soap operas to portray the adoption of children in a more positive light.
TV5 scored a casting coup when it got popular young American singer David Archuleta to star in the local teleserye, “Nandito Ako,” along with Jasmine Curtis and Eula Caballero. We had hoped that the relatively untested singer-actor would surprise viewers with a fresh, vital and felt portrayal, and affirm his evolving versatility as an all-around talent. Alas, that exciting epiphany hasn’t happened.
Sharon Cuneta is leaving her longtime home studio, ABS-CBN, after 23 years to transfer to the aggressive and revitalized TV5. The singer/actress/TV host, known as the Megastar, whose contract as a Kapamilya talent expires this year, will officially move to the Kapatid network in January 2012, according to highly placed sources. On November 5, she [...]
There is room for three. This was affirmed on Friday by the top executives of the country’s three rival television networks in a historic encounter at the 22nd Philippine Ad Congress, the biennial gathering of advertisers that this year has chosen the theme “Changing the Game.”
A TV5 executive confirmed reports that the network wooed actor John Lloyd Cruz with a lucrative offer, but refused to divulge the amount offered to the ABS-CBN star. Talk went around that the Kapatid network offered Cruz a whopping P1 billion, three-year contract. “Napakalaki naman no’n,” said Perci Intalan, TV5 Creative and Entertainment production head. [...]
Network giant ABS-CBN has added another case to its legal tiff with its erstwhile millionaire host.
“May himala! (It’s a miracle!)” Yes, there are miracles, it turns out. One materialized on Tuesday at Ninoy Aquino International Airport after a series of false alarms and dashed hopes, and walked straight into a jostling throng of emotional devotees. Nora Aunor, “Superstar,” do you think you’re what they say you are? Not all the [...]
