I'LL NEVER SAY GOODBYE/MAGPAHANGGANG-WAKAS takes on Africa: ABS Uganda, KTN Kenya, MyTV Africa for the rest of Subsaharan Africa

Magpahanggang-Wakas is heaven-sent to ABS-CBN this year. Christmas is near (meaning, the year is almost through) but the supposed country's biggest TV network has only sold one 2017-produced teleserye this year. That doesn't mean however that it doesn't lord over the current teleserye domination of Africa. The continent is awash with the rerun of successful pre-2017 teleseryes from the station: hits like Dolce Amore, Doble Kara, The Promise, On The Wings of Love (this one will take over shortly  the slot of I'll Never Say Goodbye on My TV Africa), etc.

I am sure, the ABS-CBN bigwigs will be studying the success of GMA in selling more new teleseryes abroad this year. It turned out a high domestic rating is not a guarantee of international success. This teleserye is a case in point. Who would have thought that unlike the 2017 blockbusters, it would eventually be the  only one to be sold  abroad?

Meanwhile, teleserye celebrates its current reign in Africa...

Қоштасқым келмейді/MAGPAHANGGANG-WAKAS on 31Kanal Kazakhstan

Magpahanggang-Wakas might have been unceremoniously taken prematurely off the air in Indonesia but it has become the savior of ABS-CBN's puri in the light of the steady international resurgence of new GMA teleseryes from Africa to Asia to South America. This Arci Muñoz-Jericho Rosales starrer is the only 2017-produced ABS-CBN teleserye to be sold this year internationally. After its hasty disappearance from Indonesian small screens, it emerged thankfully in Africa (there is a deluge of other ABS-CBN teleseryes in Africa- in fact, Pinoy teleseryes are dominant there now-  but they are mostly reruns of older successful teleseryes like Pangako Sa Yo, Dolce Amore, Doble Kara, etc. GMA teleseryes being shown there, just like everywhere else,  are newer).

There must be a tidal wave of gasps of relief at ABS-CBN nowadays. The dominating GMA international profile must have kept them at edge through most of the year. I could imagine the gigantic whoops of joy. They were able to sell it to Kazakhstan too!

Lucky Kazakhs, they will still get to watch the formerly beautiful sexy face of Arci Muñoz. They might not recognize her the next time.

10 PM Kazakh time, Monday to Friday. 31Kanal. Dubbed in Kazakh, Subtitles in Russian.

I'LL NEVER SAY GOODBYE/MAGPAHANGGANG-WAKAS next on MyTV Africa

This time, it is the turn of ABS-CBN to jump with joy. Finally, it sold a new teleserye abroad after a relatively long-time deluge of new offerings from its local competitors, GMA & TV5!  

A close perusal of the list of new teleseryes sold in the teleserye international markets would reveal most of the new ones were almost monopolized by GMA since late last year (TV5 surprisingly maintained traction in Malaysia with titles like Glamorosa & Seduction). Last week, all the new teleseryes being shown in Africa, South America & Southeast Asia (except Burma) was a GMA teleserye. With the end of Memories of Love (Hiram na Alaala) in MyTV Africa, a ray of hope which would certainly melt ABS-CBN's heart finally dawned- it sold a new teleserye: Magpahanggang-Wakas (international title of I'LL NEVER SAY GOODBYE). It will be shown in most of Subsaharan Africa.

I'll Never Say Goodbye stars the sexy Arci Muñoz.

Triple Pinoy Treat in the Indonesian Top 20 TV Charts

When Pangako Sa 'Yo skyrocketed to Number 5 of the Indonesian charts, it was not the sole Pinoy entry into the Indonesian Top 20. The first episode of Untuk Selamanya (Magpahanggang Wakas) starring Arci Muñoz had its debut at the 14th place (nice move in resscheduling its first episode after Pangako Sa Yo, both the programs which preceded it, Ayu Anak Depok City & the one after it were taken along by the momentum of the PSY wave). Then at Number 20, a special on the songs of Jose Mari Chan was featured at station IVM, the top rater of the said station. Jose Mari Chan is one of the big Pinoy musical exports to Indonesia which included Eddie Peregrina, Victor Wood, Freddie Aguilar & Christian Bautista.

UNTUK SELAMANYA/ MAGPAHANGGANG WAKAS opens on January 15 at 8 PM primetime (20:00 WIB) on MNCTV Indonesia

Janjiku ( Pangako Sa'Yo) will end soon on MNCTV Indonesia & it will be replaced by another Pinoy teleserye, Magpahanggang Wakas, translated into Bahasa as Untuk Selamanya. It wil be the first of the 4 teleseryes recently acquired by MNCTV from ABSCBN. On the pipeline are Forevermore, Bridges of Love & Doble Kara.

4 ABSCBN Teleseryes next on MNCTV INDONESIA: Forevermore, Bridges of Love, Magpahanggang Wakas, Doble Kara

While GMA teleseryes have been very recently prominent in previously ABSCBN-dominated terrains in various parts of the world,  ABSCBN is fast developing new markets in a rather big way. 4 Abscbn teleseryes are in the pipeline for Indonesia. MNCTV, the TV station which has been airing Pangako sa yo & On The Wings of Love, has just announced it has lined-up 4 teleseryes for 2017: Bridges of Love, Magpahanggang Wakas, Doble Kara & Forevermore

The latter, Forevermore, makes the whole thing exciting. Kathniel (Daniel Padilla & Kathryn Bernardo) & Jadine (James Reid & Nadine Lustre) have already started to make their mark in Indonesia with the showing of PSY & OTWOL: let's make way for Lizquen, definitely the prettiest loveteam in Asia  right now. And they were in their prettiest in that teleserye.

MOVIE TRAILER: EXTRA SERVICE Starring ARCI MUÑOZ, JESSY MENDIOLA & COLEEN GARCIA

A sexy welcome to 2017. May there be less eyesores in 2017...

Lol!

Arci Muñoz' TELESERYE: "Magpahanggang Wakas" Starring ARCI MUÑOZ & JERICHO ROSALES

Arci Muñoz is the most clicked personality in our blog. She has come a long way from the sexy calendar girl we initially featured in the blog. Tomorrow her new primetime teleserye will begin.

TRAILER 2: "Camp Sawi"

NOTE: I am on vacation for a few days, our posting will be irregular for the meantime.

MOVIE TRAILER: "Camp Sawi" Starring ARCI MUÑOZ, et al

SEXY IS BACK! BUT BACKROW BLUES?: Coleman, Arci, Jessy @ ur "EXTRA SERVICE"

No doubt about it, Pinoy showbiz is regaining its glory days. Not only has the number of films being shot considerably increased but even the genres being offered have diversified. The backbone was the highly-successful Rom-com which understandably mostly pulled the fairer sex (and their hapless boyfriends) to flock the cinema. Now, it's the turn of the boys to be wooed by the film producers (and that means, the barkada will likely come along, and hopefully they will pull all their gf's with them).

Unfortunately, the back row of the balcony has long disappeared. Who ever thought the vaunted modern but cramped multiplexes could be so killjoy?

Re: Sex Scandal, Part 3: SO, WHERE ARE THE GIRLS?!#@!

The frustration is palpable from their comments: I know I have lots of hot-blooded real heterosexual male readers, just look at the list of our all-time most popular posts at the sidebar. But while the local headlines are full of stories of masturbation videos of male actors, there was a glaring lack of similar videos from the other gender. Were they suddenly shy?

I myself don't believe that Pinays only love amusing themselves in the kitchen. We always have had high birth rates that's why Pinoys are already 100 million strong.

Why were the girls so fun of making video of the boys but not vice versa? Somebody else not actually of the girl variety making the videos? Be that as it may, that's no reason to hide the girls.

The stuffs fantasies are made of. What if...?

Arci's First Primetime Teleserye

In a way, the news that Arci Muñoz is now starring in her first primetime teleserye really made me proud. For one, I personally benefited from the sex appeal of our new sex symbol. I can take all the vacation I want but I can rest assure I will still get clicks because our all-time most popular post on Ms. Muñoz still gets steady hits everyday. In a way, she has become the trophy Princess Sexy of this blog. And mind you, her fans are not only found in the Philippines, half of them come from all over the world. Needless to say, this blog first felt the confirmation that a new star was born.

That gives me a dilemma. I know, my biggest readers are red-blooded heterosexual males but I also have loads who crave for our young stars. In fact, the latter were our first supporters. That's the challenge, how to balance between our two seemingly opposite crowds: satisfying one shouldn't aggravate the other. I guess I'm doing fine, I take a lot of vacation but everybody are still with us.

Arci Muñoz will have Jericho Rosales & John Estrada as her co-stars in the forthcoming teleserye Never Ever Say Goodbye.

Uncensored Trailer | 'Always Be My Maybe' | Gerald Anderson, Arci Muñoz | Star Cinema

Official Trailer | 'Always Be My Maybe' | Gerald Anderson, Arci Muñoz

Nice to know, the perennial click-getter of our blog for all-time, Miss Arci Munoz, is the leading lady in a new film. I don't need to know the story & director. Star power. I will watch it because of Arci.

Of course, that goes without saying, I'm sure Arci won't have made the film if it didn't have a good story or director.

THE MOST DOWNLOADED PHOTO IN OUR BLOG: Arci Muñoz

Sizzling hot performance of Arci Munoz

AS of today, Arci Muñoz' photoshoot for a calendar became our Most Popular Post for all-time. For four months now, her photoshoot  has been steadily accumulating clicks from all over the world and it hasn't stopped.

For obvious reasons...

 Asians are sexier in the Philippines.

Sexy Arci Munoz For Ginebra Calendar 2016

Pasion de Amor: Forbidden Kiss

Arci Muñoz as 2016 Ginebra Girl, Part 2