Talk TV

TALK TV
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and the landscape of morning tv has changed!

Talk TV used to be a title of a morning talk show in abs-cbn sometime in 2001, a replaaement of kris aquino's mornning show and a counterpart of gma-7's miss d!

but today, gone were those talk shows that used to be a pre-programming for noontime shows!

from teysi ng tahanan to today with kris aquino, and katok mga misis to sis!

abs-cbn's showtime, gma-7's diz iz it! and tv5's face to face, has changed our morning viewing habit that go on to be mildly entertaining?

showtime was launched on october 2009 with vhong navarro, anne curtis, vice ganda and kuya kim atienza

it's the first daily talent show on philippine tv and a third fiddle of america's got talent shown on noontime?!  .....

vice ganda became instant sikat and his "may nag-text"! catchphrase!

the initial telecast was not impressive but it didn't suffer from disappointing ratings,

perhaps the viewers were still adjusting and familiarizing themselves in this kind of format (that was lorded by many talk shows for the longest time)

1999 | late 90's popular talk show Ms. D! (photo: GMA-7) 

2000 | Miss Dina Bonnevie host of Ms.D! (photo: GMA-7) 

2002 | the triumvirate of Pops, Zsa-Zsa and Kris of Morning Girls (photo: ABS-CBN)

Sis with Janice de Belen aand Gelli de Belen 2001 to 2004 (photo: GMA-7)

Sis with Janice, Gelli and Carmina Villaroel 2004 to 2010 (photo: GMA-7)

and not so surprising, Showtime became an all-time favorite after a week

i think its because of the audience participation

the "madalang pipol" can join in the pleasure of playing the boss! since they can vote out any host that they don't like

the judging style can be as funny, entertaining and constructive but it can also get to be over-the-top and embarrassing for the contestants

the massive popularity of the show did not only reflect in its daily ratings which have been very consistent in the first quarter of 2010

according to agb nielsen survey ..

but it also paved way for its hosts to go beyond tv

on the other side of the fence, there's diz iz it! produced by tape inc.,

that also produces the long-running noontime show eat…bulaga!

that was also preceded by sis! the longest-running tv show of gma-7 in that time slot

where it triumphed for eight years and defeated a bunch of tv shows from abs-cbn such as

talk tv,

morning girls,

morning girls with kris and korina,

good morning kris,

morning star,

most requested show,

homeboy,

boy and kris,

ruffa and ai, all of them now defunct

diz iz it remained number two in the ratings and got bumped down to number three

when the newly reformatted tv5 introduced face to face dubbed as talakserye

on 16th April, agb mega manila ratings posted that showtime got a 15.9% household share,

while face to face got 10.6% and diz iz it! had only an 8.9% rating

the format is very similar to showtime, but it slowly went beyond acting and singing to include parlor games

but it didn’t help the show at all and it suffered heavily due to many comparisons to showtime

they invite contestants who look plain and ridiculous as well as unknown and never-before-heard tv personalities?

the show itself tried hard (very hard) but failed in terms of both ratings and popularity maybe diz izn’t it

apparently, the newly reformatted tv5 is putting-up a good fight on this time slot as agb mega manila ratings on april ranked face to face next to showtime

that paved the way for primetime and sunday re-runs.. prompting this tv show to air and appear on the tube 12 times a week!

this somewhat a local adaptation of jerry springer- in female form

big mouths, sneaks and tattletales abound with gossips fueling drama and people ruining each guest’s reputation (if he/she has one to begin with)

some hilarious if not commonsense repartee is given by the rambunctious sawsaweros who also partake in the riot on-stage

and of course by ever affable and impartial host, amy perez herself

the show provokes its guests to reveal real emotions to the extent they can go physical and violent

it makes the show much stimulating and comical, sometimes sad

and embarrassing for the guests who got humiliated all at the same time again, just like its originator,

i thought this kind of classic trash tv will never land on local tubes although the objective of the show is to convince both parties for acceptance and forgiveness,

sometimes the situation puts both sides on bad (or worse) light resulting to nothingness

you don’t really have to peek through your windows, by watching this, it much resembles your neighbor’s drama in live tv! 

the show could have strengthened its deliberation by putting relevant issues but if this show transforms to that,

then we should hanker and file for a re-air of ms.d! (one of my favorite morning talk shows)