The Philippine version of The Singing Bee from April 21, 2008 to February 6, 2010 on ABS-CBN. A combinination of karaoke singing and a spelling bee-style competition, this show features contestants trying to remember the lyrics to popular songs.
In each episode, six contestants will be selected from the audience to play a series of games that test their knowledge of song lyrics. If a contestant makes an error, he or she will forfeit her chance to get into the "musical chairs". If a contestant is not in a musical chair when the round is over, he or she is eliminated. The grand prize is P1,000,000. It is hosted by Cesar Montano. The house band, Bandble Bee, is led by Mel Villena, with several house singers. Dancing to the band are the house dancers, The Honeybees.
On the August 22 episode, the show was supposed to end their first season but it was announced that the show was given an extended run due to insistent public demand.
The show's first season finale was aired last September 5, 2008, and was replaced by I
Balitang K is a defunct news and current affairs magazine show in the Philippines, hosted by Korina Sanchez. It aired weekdays on ABS-CBN from 1996 to 2001. This was her show after Magandang Umaga Po ended.
The program is an off-shoot of the Balitang K segment of TV Patrol before its reformat in 1996. TV Patrol was reformated in 1996 because of the success of Mexican telenovela, MariMar. To beef up the ratings of ABS-CBN, Balitang K was launched as a pre-program to TV Patrol. Balitang K aired after the public service program, Hoy Gising!
In 2001, TV Patrol anchor Noli De Castro ran for a senate seat, leaving his anchor's chair vacant. Korina was promoted as Chief Correspondent, and became the anchor of TV Patrol. Kris Aquino took over Korina's hosting job in the reformatted spin-off, Balitang Kris. However, this new program was cancelled due to poor ratings. Kris would resume hosting duties in another reformatted talk show, Kris and Tell.
The concept of Balitang K was reused for another incarnation, Rated K, als
Balita Ngayon is the former flagship national news broadcast of ABS-CBN in the Philippines. It aired on ABS Channel 3 from 1969–1972 and from 1986-1987 after the resumption of operations as a single network following the People Power Revolution. It became the first newscast to use Filipino, predating GMA Balita for 17 years and TV Patrol by 18 years.
It is also the title of ABS-CBN's Mega Manila AM radio station DZMM's hourly newscasts.
ABS-CBN News Advisory is a now defunct hourly news update of ABS-CBN, This is aired from March 1987 until 2004. The language of the Newscast is English and Filipino. The English broadcast ran from 1987 to 1997, while the Filipino ran from 1997 to 2004. This is replaced by News Patrol.
Games UpLate Live is a late night game show and the final program of ABS-CBN co-produced with Endemol, which airs Monday to Saturday after Current Affairs programs and before sign-off. It was the predecessor of Pinoy Big Brother UpLate. The show was hosted by Jaymee Joaquin for the first 5 seasons then taken over by DJ Laila in its last 2 seasons; it showcases various interactive games such as word games, anagrams, puzzles as well as math problems contestants must solve in order to win. It also features live chat services. Contestants are picked from the audience who downloaded products from ABS-CBN Interactive.
Utoy is an upcoming ABS-CBN fantasy drama series featuring Makisig Morales and Philippines' King of Comedy, Dolphy. The series is inspired by the children's tale Pinocchio.
Sabado Barkada is a musical variety show in the Philippines. It airs every Saturdays before "Game KNB?" over ABS-CBN TV 4 in Bacolod. It also airs in neighboring cities such as Iloilo and the whole of Western Visayas. The show takes its inspiration from talent search and discovery program formats. It gives the floor to aspiring, talented Ilonggo youngsters who act as guest hosts and performers. One of its noted segments are "Matilaw Ka: Reloaded" in English "Will you try:Reloaded". In here a group of contestants undergo a certain task and the winner comes home with a cash prize and others with consolation prizes. In coordination with the 101.5 MOR is their music segment entitled "Top picks of the week", top three most requested songs are featured in this segment. Everyweek local band plays in the studio bringing live music to the show.
Probe Profiles was a Philippine public affairs program being aired on ABS-CBN and on its sister cable channel, the ANC. It is hosted by Cheche Lazaro and is produced by Probe Productions Inc., under a joint co-production agreement with ABS-CBN.
The show, considered as the pioneer television news-magazine in the Philippines, started airing in 1987 on ABS-CBN, with Lazaro, Maria Ressa, and Luchi Cruz-Valdez at the helm. After nine months, it moved to GMA Network as a blocktimer. It was in GMA where The Probe Team had its longest run in its history. The show recently ended on June 30, 2010.
Kapamilya, Deal or No Deal is the Philippine franchise of Deal or No Deal, hosted by Kris Aquino, which premiered on June 5, 2006 on ABS-CBN.
The smallest prize has always been ₱1, but the grand prize has always varied, from ₱2,000,000, to ₱4,000,000 for a short period, to ₱3,000,000 for the second season, and back to P2,000,000 for the third season. The game show's tagline is "Ang Kapalaran mo, Desisyon Mo" which in turn translates in English as "Your Fate, [is] Your Decision." At the time of its premiere, this was the first weekday primetime game show in the Philippines since the so-called primetime game show craze died down in late 2002, with Pilipinas, Game KNB?, the last remaining show among the weekday primetime game shows, reformatted into a daytime one after a relatively brief hiatus.
The first season of the show was supposed to run until August 25, 2006, to give way to another Endemol-produced program Pinoy Dream Academy, but its run was expanded twice, first until September 8 in
Kulilits was a weekly program shown in ABS-CBN for children. It features teaching children moral and values to singing new songs to dances and to mathematics. The show is hosted by Chacha Cañete, Bugoy Cariño along with Izzy Canillo.
Super Inggo at ang Super Tropa is the first 100% Pinoy Filipino animated TV series aired on ABS-CBN. The first season of Super Inggo at ang Super Tropa, which was composed of 14 episodes, ended on February 21, 2010 and returned on May 3, 2010. It is a spin-off of the television series Super Inggo.
M.R.S. is a variety talk show that premiered on ABS-CBN in February 2005. The show premieres after Home Boy in the morning block. However, the show didn't last long due to low ratings so it aired its final episode sometime in June of the same year.
Sports Unlimited is a sports program of ABS-CBN in the Philippines. It features different kinds of sports, as well as ordinary and prominent sports figures. It was originally hosted by Dyan Castillejo and Vince Hizon but the latter was replaced by Marc Nelson. It became a longgest-running sports program in the Philippines and on Asia. It airs every Saturday after The Bottomline on ABS-CBN, with replays on Sundays at 11:30 PM on ABS-CBN News Channel, also airs worldwide through The Filipino Channel.
Nginiig was a weekly horror television program in the Philippines aired by ABS-CBN. It started in 2004 and wass hosted first by Raymond Bagatsing, then by Jericho Rosales and finally, Hero Angeles. The show sometimes airs on the Kapamilya Channel
The show features real horror and paranormal stories through re-enactments based on the victims' account of the horrifying events. The victims are interviewed about the events that took place in the haunted venues and actors and actresses play them in the reconstructions.
The series ended in 2006 after the director, Luis Luigi Santiago, died in 2005. Santiago, who has just completed a feature film version of the show, was passing by a bar in Makati City when a drunk male patron suddenly brandished a firearm and shot several people, including the director.
Nginiig is in Southeast Asia and dictated by Aldoxia Inggtoy.
Art Jam is an educational art-chored program of ABS-CBN in the Philippines. It teaches the viewers, especially children because they are their target audience how to make simple, unique yet environment-friendly artworks.
The program is hosted by the son of the King of Comedy, Epy Quizon, the comedian Tado & Nina Torres. The program gives children some ideas to make artwork.
Art Jam was aired every Saturday on ABS-CBN Channel 2 and ended in mid-2005.
George and Cecil is a romantic-comedy weekly primetime series starring newlyweds Judy Ann Santos and Ryan Agoncillo written and directed by Jose Javier Reyes on the ABS-CBN.