The Pinoy Tube
I’m not really a fan of Philippine TV shows. And oh, this is not a post about the feud between ABS-CBN and GMA, the two giant networks in the country. This entry’s content will center on my thoughts about the programs made by the Filipinos for the Filipinos and pirated by the Filipinos. Well, actually, I’ll be very biased in this entry because most of what I’ll write here are negative comments about the stupid and useless TV shows.
Pinoy Big Brother
I’ve mentioned in this blog numerous times how much I loath this show (I’m too lazy to look for the posts that I am referring to, just use the search box found on my sidebar). Lately I was able to catch a few episodes of this show and I have to confess that it’s somehow entertaining. Yeah, I’m contradicting my own words. But then, there is something in this show that makes me hate it. What’s the right term? Ah, sensationalizing. Everything about this show is being sensationalized… talking about making a mountain out of a mole hill. Yeah, whatever. Another thing is that even though this is a reality based show I still think that it is scripted. Just take Alex in the current teen edition as an example. I bet the production team of PBB picked him because he wasn’t circumcised yet at the time he auditioned. And so, they casted him as one of the teen housemates and planned to have him circumcised while he is in Big Brother’s house. Just two weeks ago, they successfully had the operation inside Big Brother’s house while all of the male housemates were watching the procedure. Presto! Instant high ratings. Boo. And now, what is this thing that I heard that there is still one more housemate who is still uncircumcised? Seriously, I’ll not be shocked that by the end of this season, either Toni or Mariel would reveal that all of the male housemates are still uncut. This proves what I’ve read in Carolyn Parkhurst’s Lost and Found1: “Reality is boring; no one wants to watch someone brushing their teeth or paying their phone bills. It’s all in the editing, they’ve got hundreds of hours of footage, and they’ve got to chop it down to into something worth watching. What they’re looking for is stories; you have to give them a story, or zip, they’re moving to someone else.”
MariMar
Okay, first of all, I want to tell the whole blogosphere that I’m neither a MariMar nor Marian Rivera fan. I was able to get a glimpse of this show a few times and I heard lots of negative comments about it. According to my friends who were able to watch it, the first half of it was good. They said that it gave justice to the original Mexican soap opera. And because many Filipinos loved the remake, GMA extended it. But that’s where it became hell and transformed into what Filipinos call “fantaserye”2. God, I even heard that the ending was really stupid. Angelica (the antagonist) fell from the helicopter where MariMar was in and landed in a riverbank and she was devoured by crocodiles living in the river. How possible is that, seriously?!
Pinoy Idol
What I really hate with this show is that they are advertising it as the “first” franchise of the Idol series in the country. Come on guys, don’t tell me that it’s the first one because you changed “Philippine Idol” into “Pinoy Idol.” Technically speaking, it’s the second season of the Idol series here in the Philippines. Moving on, please forgive me, but for me, the judges are less competent than the previous judges. Jolina Magdangal? Ogie Alcasid? And who is this Wyngard Tracy? Why did they not put Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes as the judges instead? Lol. If you know how, uh, shall I say incompetent, the judges during the Binibining Pilipinas 2008, I’m sure, you know what I’m talking about. And come on, Raymond Gutierrez as the host… are you kidding me?
Joaquin Bordado
Just the title of this show makes me ROFL. GMA, or rather the whole Philippines hasn’t get over with fantaseryes yet. Since the first fantaserye that aired back in early 2004, Marina (ABS-CBN) which brought Marinara (GMA) to life, a big number of fantasy dramas were aired. I wonder when ABS-CBN and GMA will stop filming and airing such stupid soaps. And please, stop using weird titles such as this, Kamandag (translation: Venom), Bakekang, and Zaido: Pulis Pangkalawakan. I know, these shows are based on graphic novels, original series and the like and it’s proper to use the real titles but they are really bizarre and they sound funny.
Wheel of Fortune
I don’t really enjoy watching this show. During the time when it was still in ABC and it was Rustom Padilla who hosted the show, I’m definitely sure that I liked it. But now, I don’t know. Is it because of Kris Aquino? Or is it because the game play is not really exciting unlike Deal or No Deal? I hate it when Kris says “Wheel of Fortune” with the matching stupid choreography. Bring back Banker, puhlease?!
Astigs
This is one of the worst TV Shows I ever heard of (I haven’t watched any of its episodes as a matter of fact). I think ABS-CBS has so many talents and they don’t know in which programs they need to put their actors and actresses especially the new ones. As a last resort, they made a TV show where they put all of their talents who don’t have any project at the moment. And I think they are trying to make experiments on new love teams out of these talents that they have. Just seeing the commercial of this show makes me want to break the screen of our TV.
Okay, I should stop now. I might get sued because of my opinions. Lol. Whatever. But only one thing is for sure, I’m not enjoying most of the Philippine TV shows. Well, what do you think is the worst Philippine TV show?
