The mellifluous voiceover of Startalk still rings in our consciousness.
But with news from television, broadsheets and blogs turning out to be main sources of quasi-realtime entertainment buzzes, it was inevitable that the showbiz talk show that tended to focus on the negative had to metamorphose.
Notwithstanding experimentations to turn it into a comedy-oriented show, viewers and advertisers did not bite so the alternative had to give up entirely. But it never left us and took a different form in the lifestyle show.
In a model home setting with high-profile female entertainers as hosts talking intelligently about life issues, they often portray the ideal woman. Frequently in Taglish, they do not appeal as gossip but as talk since they come from the source.
The advantage is to combine several show genres in one program format, turning talk into girl-bonding, thus making celebrity talk more varied, valued, visceral entertainment.
It was Kris Aquino, with her Kris TV, who gave life to this idea as she brought viewers into her home and with her on outside trips to exotic or esoteric locations. Suzi Entrata and Camille Prats proved, in Mars, that a lifestyle show can be successfully scheduled on early evenings, while Regine Velasquez cocooned in the newly constructed family residence in Sarap Diva.
Variants tracked in Karla Estrada, Jolina Magdangal and Melai Cantiveros’ Magandang Buhay that has managed to be consistently interesting, and Marian Rivera appears to have received the queen title when Kris Aquino guested in her talk show, Yan Ang Morning!
Digital celebrities come to terms with aspects of personal reality so they sing, dance, cook, exercise, splurge, pamper and tittle-tattle about themselves and peers in generally positive terms, frequently in class or a humorous tone.
There is no need for some third parties that tweak personal information-sharing with the character of gossip that tend to associate the urge to chatter with the absence of intention, thus making it a frivolous activity.
But the new showbiz talk is with us in Tonight With Boy Abunda — current, informative, entertaining, fast-paced plus a credible host but minus the clutter. It is just waiting for a charismatic personality to bring the concept to a more accessible timeslot at ABS-CBN or GMA-7.
FREE WORKSHOP FROM CINEKASIMANWA. CineKasimanwa: Westerm Visayas Film Festival with filmmaker and educator Elvert Bañares as resource person kicks off the CineKasimanwa Workshops 2016 with Introduction to Short Film Appreciation and Western Visayan Films for/by Children.
For Grade 7 to Grade 12 Teachers / S.P.A. Teachers, it will be held on Aug.. 9, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., FDCP Iloilo Cinematheque.
This free workshop is exclusive to mentioned recipients and has been pre-planned with the Jaro Archdiocesan Commission on Family & Life headed by Fr. Randy Doromal. This workshop is already full.
It will also launch the Competition for Short Films For & By Children for CineKasimanwa.
The poster artwork entitled Miagao Boy Dreaming of Sea Turtles is by San Joaquin-based Ilonggo-artist Momo Dalisay.
Bañares has been teaching and giving countless summer workshops since the 1990s when he was with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts where he authored the weekly NCCA Film Club, screening films for free offering Q&As by film industry experts. He has headed the secretariat of the Cinema Program of NCCA and has been teaching film and multimedia for the past 17 years in Lyceum of the Philippines, Colegio de San Juan de Letran, Asia Pacific College, De la Salle - College of St. Benilde, FEATI University School of Fine Arts and the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila wherein he is a Special Senior Lecturer.
As adviser of many student films, he has brought first-time Gawad CCP winners to DLS-CSB, APC and PLM and has helped many of these films get programmed in international film festivals. He was the founder and festival director of eKsperim[E]nto Festival of Film, Video & New Media and the Asean Film Festival. Currently, as festival director of CineKasimanwa: Western Visayas Film Festival and Bakunawa Film Festival, he is pushing for a new wave of Ilonggo Cinema.
As filmmaker, he has directed 50+ short films; was production coordinator of NCCA TV series for IBC-13, NET 25 and then ABC 5; directed a segment for GMA-7’s Unang Hirit; and was production designer for Maalala Mo Kaya in ABS-CBN 2. His latest film Impas (Settlement) has been officially selected at the 10th Pamplona International Film Festival in Spain, the 10th Yogya-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, the 1st Ekurnulehi International Film Fest in South Africa, the TIF Video Challenge in Cyprus and was part of the 31st Clermont-Ferrand Film Market in France.
The Western Visayas Filmmakers Network also congratulates and supports all Ilonggo filmmakers and actors whose films are competing at the Ika-28 Gawad CCP para sa Alternatibong Pelikula 2016 from Aug. 6 to 9, at CCP Dream Theater, Tanghalang Manuel Conde. They are:
T.M. Malones, director of Sin-o Ang Tik-Tik? with an all-Ilonggo cast starring Gabby Padilla with Allain Hablo on Aug. 9 (Tuesday), 10 a.m., part of Shorts J;
Reymundo Salao, director of Ugayong with an all-Ilonggo cast of Drox Sanchez, Lynne Belle Tupas Salvadico, Julie Ann Jordan, Dennis Hubag on August 9, 2016 (Tuesday), 3:30 p.m., part of Shorts L;
Carlos Dala stars in Bugtaw by Noah del Rosario;
Carlos Dala stars in Friendly by Ron Acal on Aug. 6 (Saturday), 10 a.m., part of Shorts A;
Rowen Paul Dala stars in Super Kid by Ron Acal on Aug. 9 (Tuesday), 10 a.m., part of Shorts J;
And Carlos Dala, director of Chizmiss with Rowena Dala on Aug. 6 (Saturday), 9 p.m,, part of Shorts C. Padayon kita tanan, mga kasimanwa!
LEAD MOMENTS. Here are the prime times in Philippine entertainment for the week: Kuya’s cliffhanger power is back in Pinoy Big Brother’s Macoy-Elisse-Jerome’s love triangle!
The George Canseco tribute at Sunday’s ASAP was a well-produced feature.
Star Magic 24th anniversary celebration at ASAP highlighted by the appearances of Rayver Cruz, Jayr Siaboc, Kiray Solis, Jonalyn Viray, and Daniel Matsunaga, Matteo Guidicelli, Arjo Atayde. Vin Abrenica, Jimboy Martin and Zaijan Jaranilla.
Mutya ng Pilipinas is the only national beauty pageant that awards cash prizes to winners.
Luis Manzano’s conquer of the 5 p.m. timeslot with Minute to Win It daily and Family Feud every weekend.
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The lifestyle show, the new guilt-free star talk
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