PANGAKO SA YO/THE PROMISE/LA PROMESA now showing in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania & Peru

The 2016 teleserye Pangako Sa Yo/ The Promise/ La Promesa is currently being shown in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Uganda & Tanzania @ Startimes Novela E1 & opens tomorrow, Thursday, in Peru in South America.

 It has already been shown in Kazakhstan, even when it hasn't completed its first-run showing in Manila early this year, where the Kathniel loveteam was voted in an online poll as the best-loved teleserial couple in that country.

"PANGAKO SA YO" IN PERU: "La Promesa" soon on Panamericana TV

After Puentes de Amor, the next teleserye to invade Peru is Pangako Sa Yo (given the title La Promesa in its Spanish version), also currently taking  Africa & Kazakhstan  simultaneously by storm. The country's top young loveteam Kathniel invades the Spanish-speaking world.

READ ABOUT THE SABOTAGE ON KATHNIEL & other Pinoy stars:

 1. LA PROMESA" in PERU: KATHNIEL is coming to Peru & the "Popular Kunwari" are at War

2. SABOTAGE OF PINOY TELESERYES IN PERU: Now we know why they are bitter & cruel (as if they weren't used to the lowest ratings. VERY "POPULAR KUNWARI" INDEED!!!)

3. ONLINE POLL IN KAZAKHSTAN: KATHNIEL is the Most Loved Teleserial Pair

TV Teaser | 'The Achy Breaky Hearts' | Ian Veneracion, Richard Yap, and Jodi Sta. Maria

I once wrote I was a belated Jodian. I was just planning to check the teleserye Pangako Sa Yo as part of my research for the blog, but I ended up watching the first 10 episodes for 5 hours straight.  A melodrama at that- a first! Well, they have a new film. Comedy. Let's see if I could find the time & the right circumstances to watch it in the cinema (I tried to watch Coleen Garcia's Love Me Tomorrow but I got so pissed off with the traffic I just turned back to join my friends in another gimmick. I'll just catch the DVD).

I only saw the first episode of their teleserye so I still have to see how the chemistry of Jodi & Richard plays up. The come-on of the movie is how they will jam it up with Jodian.

I long realized I was mostly a fan of younger Pinoy  stars but sometimes, the senior ones just had to have their way...

Belated Jodian

Last Sunday, I did what was then unthinkable. The first time I watched a teleserye continuously up to  the 10th episode. 5 hours, in one sitting.  I clicked the first episode then I lost track of the time. That confirmed  a lot: in  the previous teleseryes that I tried to watch, I mostly got stuck at the pilot or second episode.

I was talking of the recently-concluded teleserye Pangako Sa Yo.

Anyway, this post is about the Ian Veneracion & Jodi Santamaria team-up. I wasn't a fan of Jodi before after I have seen only her carelessly prepared publicity photos which shouldn't have been released in the first place because they were really unflattering. With Ian, it turned out we have a leading man who can give any of the Latin American telenovela actors a run for their money. It's unfortunate their blossoming team had to be lumped with declining cast members in  a lackluster smorgasbord film in the last Metro Manila Film Fest  (including a budding loveteam in a cast with stars who had recent histories of box-office disasters & bad ratings  was really unfortunate). Hopefully, that fiasco won't dim the lights of the team.

I think they still have the magic to have suckered me to watch them that long. A melodrama at that (Another first). Incredible!

Tight script in the first 10 episodes, nice production values, fantastic score btw...

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With all the noise generated by the young stars, you would believe there were less than 4 Pinoy teleseryes being shown in Kazakhstan. Slow down, there is a fourth one, and it started last August 5 yet ... and there are actually 3 fan clubs. The first two have more than a thousand members each and the third has a "lucky 13" members (at the time of writing). Not comparable to the hundreds of thousands of the Pinoy young stars but ... I'll continue down below:

                                      1. -❤Жүрегім сізге аманат❤ - 1,325

   

2.  Жүрегім сізге Аманат | Be careful with my heart - 1,102

   

3. Жүрегім сізге аманат/Be Careful With My Heart - 13

Be Careful With My Heart and Dream Dad were supposedly big hits in the Philippines.  They barely registered there. When we read a teleserye is sold in a particular country, how many had the same fate as the  two teleseryes?

They have a nice system at Kazakhstan TV. You can watch online the Kazakh-dubbed, Russian-subtitled teleserye, just click here. Not my type of story, I just watched the first episode,  but it turned out Jodi Santamaria is cuter than what  her publicity photographs suggested. That's why ABS-CBN should look closely on the imagemaking management done on its stars, many of their Googable photographs are not exactly flattering. The Ugandan who criticized that the stars of this series are not as pretty as the other Filipino serials must be talking of the other stars. It may not be classically pretty but Jodi's facial antics fit the usual Sandra Bullock pa-cute expressions (I can't say how it would fare in a drama, I haven't watched any of the Pangako Sa Yo episodes yet).

"PANGAKO SA YO" Pilot Episode