25 year-old construction worker Amanda Colley Van Cooll was hailed as the sole survivor for the second season of reality TV show Survivor Philippines. She garnered 4 votes from the jury against 3 votes received by transsexual beauty queen Justine Ferrer. 3rd placer Jef Gaitan, a 22 year-old print and commercial model, didn’t receive any votes.
For more of Survivor Philippines: Palau, please proceed here.
The supposed Philippine concert of international pop star Katy Perry this coming October 3 was postponed due to Typhoon Ondoy.
Instead of the originally set Katy concert, MTV Philippines (producer of “Katy Perry Live in Manila”) is now planning to hold a benefit concert with American Idol runner-up David Archuleta and Boys Like Girls joining Katy.
The net proceeds of the benefit concert will go to the Philippine Red Cross, in support of the Ondoy victims. There are no final confirmation as of yet,
After his July 4 concert had been canceled due to the H1N1 scare, Akon is finally having his comeback concert on October 23, 2009. Billy Crawford will be joining Akon on this one-night concert and it will be held on Araneta Coliseum on a Friday night at 8:00 PM.
The Senegalese / American singer, who brought us hits like “Don’t Matter”, “Smack That”, “I Wanna Love You”, and “Sorry, Blame It on Me”, had a successful concert here in the Philippines last November 29, 2007. On his upcoming concert, he’s also gonna perform new hits from
The second season of Survivor Philippines, premiering August 17, 2009 on GMA, will feature the beautiful island of Peleliu, Palau wherein 16 castaways are going to stay for 39 days and compete for the title “Pinoy Sole Survivor”. Besides the title, the winner of Survivor Philippines will also take home P3,000,000, the largest ever cash prize in the history of Philippine reality game shows.
Paolo Bediones returns as the host of the show.
Let’s meet the 16 castaways…
Marian Rivera’s Darna had a succesful pilot episode, garnering a 44.1 percent AGB Nielsen Mega Manila rating. Angel Locsin’s Darna in 2005 had a 47.1 percent on its pilot. Back then, Angel’s Darna was the undisputed winner in the ratings game unlike Marian’s Darna which is strongly challenged by two programs (May Bukas Pa & Tayong Dalawa) from GMA 7’s rival network, ABS-CBN.
It is expected that ratings will escalate when Marian Rivera makes her first appearance as Darna, basing from the ratings Angel’s Darna
The rivalry between GMA and ABS-CBN, 2 giant TV networks in the Philippines, has always been intense…From ratings, to their stars, movie productions (ABS’ Star Cinema vs GMA’s GMA Films) and even their respective station IDs. For this summer, the station ID war continues with ABS-CBN’s “Galaw-Galaw sa Tag-araw” performed by Kanto Boys (Vhong Navarro, Billy Crawford, Luis Manzano and John Lloyd Cruz), and GMA’s “Sabay Sabay Tayo” using a modified version of Marian Rivera’s first recorded song and latest dance craze.
Jul 31, 2010 Saturday
