FULL TELESERYE TRAILER: "Till I Met You" Starring JaDine

Greek Poetry: JADINE overlooking Athens, Greece

 Athens might not have the skyscraper walls of the Manila skyline, but somehow the height monotone gave a dramatic backdrop to one of the country's top young love teams, JaDine composed of James Reid & Nadine Lustre. They are in the Greek capital to shoot their forthcoming teleserye, Till I Met You.

TELESERYE TEASER: "Till I Met You" Starring JADINE

MOVIE TEASER: "BARCELONA: A LOVE UNTOLD" Starring KATHNIEL

US TEEN VOGUE: James Reid and Nadine Lustre Are the Filipino Love Team You Need to Know

 I rather would need to know all about the Big 4 young Pinoy loveteams (Kathniel, Lizquen, Elnella and yes, Jadine) but it's always a treat that we read about one of our big love teams celebrated in an American teen magazine. Jadine is really flying high these days. James Reid & Nadine Lustre must be so giddy by now by all the kilig washing over them.

 I specially liked the backgrounder on the dynamics of a Pinoy loveteam:

Welcome to the concept of a "love team." In the Philippines, fans aren’t squealing over boy bands or just any celebrity; they’re obsessed with this concept in entertainment that is unique to the country’s outlook on romance. A love team completely elevates the portrayal of love in movies, TV, music, and books in a way that westerners don’t even think about (or avoid altogether).

The entertainment industry in the Philippines is a little different than it is in America. There, actors must have a wide range of skills to appear on the big screen, meaning acting is actually just a small part of their jobs. Being a star includes singing, dancing, and, most importantly, getting people to ship you with your costar. Almost everyone who is cast in anything eventually gets paired with a fellow star who they’re expected to do everything with. And as a conservative, predominantly Catholic country, the concept of monogamy is heavily emphasized throughout all forms of Filipino entertainment. It's a heavy commitment that the stars take on, but similar to arranged marriages, the actors have a high chance of staying together on and off-camera. The secret is their willingness to work together — hence the term "team" — to meet the extremely high expectations of hopeless romanticism.

Though the actors are matched as a result of their natural chemistry, they're never forced to date IRL. Most of the time it just works out that way. How could you not fall for the person, who ideally resembles your soulmate and that you also spend almost every waking moment with?

Read the whole article here.

RUSSIAN SUB: Рождён для тебя / Born For You - Elmo Magalona & Janella Salvador

KYLE ECHARRI - Fall For Me (VEVO LYRIC VIDEO)

13-year old Kyle together with JK Labajo and Bailey May (the three are packaged as Voice Next Door) are the insurance that the next set of Pinoy teen stars will duplicate, or likely even surpass, the achievements of the current set of local teen idols. Cute and definitely star quality. They even have great voices. The music video hasn't arrived yet but I kinda fell for the song I just had to feature the lyric video right away. Down below is the video of Kyle's Voice Kids Philippines 2015 Blind Audition where he was first discovered.

TELESERYE TRAILER: Бақытты болғым келеді/DOLCE AMORE starts August 8 on 31Kanal Kazakhstan

So all set go, come August 8, the new teleserye of the Lizquen loveteam composed of Enrique Gil & Liza Soberano will finally be shown at 31Kanal Kazakhstan. The Kazakh fans will get to watch again  the Pinoy loveteam who took Kazakhstan by storm last year with the showing of Forevermore, their first teleserye.

KATHNIEL's new film's Final TITLE: "BARCELONA: A LOVE UNTOLD"

So, the new movie of the Kathniel loveteam of Daniel Padilla & Kathryn Bernardo has finally got a title: BARCELONA: A LOVE UNTOLD. That we can confirm is official. The poster is not though: fanmade but better than most in your favorite daily's Movie Guide. So is the teaser below.

SO HOW IS ELNELLA DOING? They just had a duet in a London Barrio Fiesta

So how is the newest of the Big 4 young love teams in the Philippines doing? They not only had topped the world Twitter count when their first teleserye came out. They also found the time to sing a duet in front of their fans in London. Now we have a loveteam where both members are actually very good singers.

New KATHNIEL film: WHEN IN BARCELONA

... and you guessed it right, it was filmed in Barcelona, Spain.

"Dolce Amore" Full Trailer: Starting February 15

Oh, my assistant told me when this trailer was released last February 2 but I decided to post it on the day just before its opening. Pinoy TV is really a happening place these days: the Pinoy young stars who created beachheads for Pinoy showbiz in many parts of the word keeps on rocking. Right on!

The Stars of "Dolce Amore": LIZQUEN Returns, with Matteo

"Dolce Amore" Trailer 1: Liza Soberano is Serena

Teleserye Teasers: DOLCE AMORE Starring LIZQUEN

"FOREVERMORE" in Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya & Zambia: From Southeast to Central Asia, Lizquen has spread its wings to Africa

Every now & then, I check the country distribution of my readers. Imagine my surprise when there were two African countries in my Top 5. Kenya was glued at Number 3 since last year (after the Marian Rivera-starrer "Carmela", the Maja Salvador teleserye "Bridges of Love" is showing there now, among others I'll mention below) but Number 4 was a new one- Nigeria, the largest country in Africa. They were clicking the Lizquen posts. I guessed right away, "Forevermore" must be showing there already. Indeed, StarTimes Nigeria is showing it at its #STNovela E1 platform Monday-Thursday at 6:50 PM local time and it's hot.

I was slow catching this one. But no problem- I kinda find it fun that the fans from a particular country would alert  me themselves when they started clicking on my blog. What's more fun was the keyword that they used in reaching this blog- it was "Lizquen". That means, Lizquen has really gone places. Needless to say,,,

 Forevermore is at StarSat Television Zambia Channel 127 Mon-Thur 19:50 local time. In Uganda: StarTimes Uganda E1 053, Mon-Thu 8 PM local time. In Kenya: StarTimes Kenya E1 053, Mon-Thu 8 PM local time. All Primetime.
Another Enrique Gil teleserye is showing at StarTimes Kenya, If Only (Mulng Buksan Ng Puso), Mon-Fri Central African Time at E1 053.

LIZQUEN 2016 Teleserye: "DOLCE AMORE"

PINOY CUTE POWER: Deep Bench of Beautiful People

I guess, we may call it force majeure. Well, I should be betting on all the horses. My hits have actually increased three times  since a few days ago when I started regularly updating my VK page where I felt the impact of the popularity of Enrique Gil & Liza Soberano on the Kazakhs. The spillover surge of hits in the blog not only came from Russia & Kazakhstan but even internationally from among the diaspora. I never suspected they were that many, it turned out these two really blew everybody away. Lizquen took 85% of our hits in the last week. The three biggest sources of readers are now Philippines, the US & Kazakhstan  (Update, August 4: Russia just became Number 3). I was only looking at the figures from South America before, but with the surge of hits elsewhere, they are now down to 7% though international hits still amount to 55%.

 We're now on our seventh month and things are evolving. Things are still entertaining in a way though.

 The success of the Pinoy young stars in the Russian Post-Soviet space must be putting the villains in a tizzy. With the overpowering emergence of the 23 year-old Enrique Gil, the clowns were busy piggybacking on the limelight by conducting their pseudo-polls pitting the ordinary-looking 30 year-old Lee Min Ho with the much  younger Enrique because they have no deep bench of marketable beautiful people to speak of, they have to continue propping up seniors in a market composed mostly of the young girl demographic. The most laughable is they would make it appear that young girls there would prefer seniors though the fan clubs of the young girls worshipping Enrique have a membership nearly ten times those of all the propaganda websites of the villains. Well, I had laughs seeing them in action in their flimsy make-believe but they have little audience anyway, let them play. Actually we don't need them because Pinoy stars are far more popular in these parts. In Tagalog, they are saling-pusa.

 But  it's still fun elsewhere. We had a secret battle in the last month because while they pose as helping the Pinoy artists, they won't let the hits of the Pinoy videos appear too popular or they would eclipse the South Koreans. I learned their tricks so a James Reid clip which I posted as a comment in their fake Pinoy page skyrocketed. Apparently that alarmed the villains because all their Pinoy videos in their fake pages had customary low hits (that at a time when the real Pinoy fan clubs already had membership into the 100,000's). VK is apparently easily hacked so the next time, all videos of James Reid outside my VK front page were suddenly sterilized and James' hits went back to the safe low levels in their fake pages. Well, now, they had a propaganda coup with the fact "that the star of Talk Back and You're Dead is a B_B_(their group) fan"; let's see now how they would deal with the Pinoy singer who made their rocker look like his houseboy in their selfie pic. They practically sabotaged him since the break-out of  Diary Ng Panget but James still look better than their stars, will they let their "cutes" look like manicurists on a stage?

 With their allergy to the looks of Enrique Gil & James Reid, they were actually pushing Daniel Padilla lately. The dark one, so probably they could return to the "Basta maputi, maganda" delusion, deluding themselves others won't see unpleasant features. Here's how it went when Crazy Beautiful You was shown in the pirate websites: (as of August 2, 2015)

 You see, the viewcounts on the front page said 12,033 , but actual views of the video were only 1,828. Very classic.

 A Russian friend opined they probably wanted to make it appear Crazy Beautiful You easily eclipsed Diary Ng Panget because Daniel was safer than James Reid. Well, the story just got more exciting because Daniel himself will have an opportunity to break-out there because Got To Believe will be shown on Kazakh national TV. How will their fake polls look this time, the 20 year old Daniel vs. the senior Lee Min Ho?

 Actually the beauty of the Philippines is we have a deep bench of beautiful people. One may fall but  there are still many in the stable. 

Asians are Cuter in the Philippines: LIZQUEN., JADINE & KATHNIEL

ABS-CBN Christmas Station ID 2015: "Thank You For The Love" Recording Music Video