BUZZ OVERLOAD

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.

GMA 7 bought the rights for the Philippine remake of Korea’s TV Hit Full House. The original version was aired in the Philippines on 2005 (also in GMA) and it became a huge hit, being the highest-rated Koreanovela with a peak of 52 % and an average of 42.3% during its entire run.

There have been a lot of petitions running in the net for who should portray the lead roles in this Pinoy remake and some of the names that came up for the male lead are Chris Tiu, Richard Gutierrez & Billy Crawford and Sheena Halili, Heart Evangelista & Marian Rivera for the female