2014 Women's French Open Final: My Most Favorite TV Show This Week

The epic women's final in this year's French Open is my most favorite TV show this week!  T'was great to see both Maria and Simona really fight for the prize!  It has been rare to see such fights in the women's game lately, especially in the finals of the slams.

Here are my ten favorite TV shows for the week ending June 13, 2014 -

#1 Fox Sports - Sharapova vs. Halep

#2 GMA News TV - Langoy

#3 beTV - Night Shift - Nazi beard - boy with multiple personalities

#4 Cartoon Network - Open Season - bear in the wild

#5 ABS-CBN - guy with club foot

#6 Cinema One - Babaeng Hinugot Sa Aking Tadyang

#7 Fox Sports - Djokovic vs. Gulbis

#8 HBO - That's My Boy

#9 CI - Haunted Encounters

#10 Fox Sports - Djokovic vs. Nadal

Nat Geo's The Gospel of Judas: My Favorite TV Show This Week

I watched Nat Geo's The Gospel of Judas this week and it was a very interesting show!  I now understood why the Jews have been persecuted for centuries and how the gospel might be manipulated to make Judas really look bad.  It was interesting to know that  Judas was the most intelligent of all the apostles and he was also close to Jesus.  And the crux of it all is that Judas wrote a gospel!  Hence, the gospel of Judas!  However, it's not for public consumption and only those studying divinity on a master's level and higher is allowed to read it.

Anyway, here are my ten favorite TV shows for the week ending March 22, 2013 -

#1 NatGeo - The Gospel of Judas

#2 TV5 Monde - Dans Les Pas de Marie Curie

#3 HBO - Girls - Paul Walker

#4 TV5 Monde - Fais Pas Ci, Fais Pas Ca - Noel


#5 TV5 Monde - Fais Pas Ci, Fais Pa Ca

#6 HBO - Enlightened

#7 GMA7 - Eat Bulaga

#8 GMA7 - Eat Bulaga

#9 ABS-CBN - Ted Failon Ngayon

#10 GMA7 - Imbestigador

Miss Universe 2012 My Top TV Program this Week

I wasn't able to watch too much TV this week due to the busy Christmas season.  I was only able to watch five shows this week.  At the top, unsurprisingly, is the live telecast of this year's Miss Universe.  

Here are the five TV shows I watched for the week ending December 21, 2012 -

#1 Star World - Miss Universe telecast

#2 Star Movies - The Beach

#3 Star World -A Gifted Man - a baby is abandoned

#4 Star World - True Beauty

#5 ABS-CBN - Storyteller

TV Talk: A Market Our Local Networks are Not Tapping

In the recent survey by Kantar Media on what Philippine households are watching, it came out that ABS-CBN got a 48% share of the audience during the primetime slot (6PM to 12 mn).  GMA-7 is second at 28%.  The share of both TV stations is at a staggering 76%.  Well, our household does not belong to that percentage though.  

Bandila and the current affairs programs are the only things I watch in local TV.  For the past 20 years, I think it was only Marimar which caught our family's fancy, otherwise, unless it's the maids watching TV, we would normally shift to cable for our entertainment needs - which is a pity really, because there is a segment of the Filipino population that these big local networks are ignoring.  Basically, that segment is me and my friends.  

The survey said the finale of ABS-CBN's Walang Hanggan was watched by a staggering 45% audience share.  Except for one gay man I met in a bar, no one among my social set talked about that show's ending - or maybe, did not want to admit to haha!  But seriously, I don't think any of them watched it.  Walang buzz e.

But if you say, Big Bang Theory or Modern Family, they would most likely know the characters and who this is and who is that.  Pity really since those two comedy hit shows can easily be replicated here - of course, in a more Pinoy setting.  I know we have many creative minds out there who can do witty writing.  Sayang lang na our networks won't let them do their work.

I think the bottomline is, we can't relate to what they are releasing in local TV.  So we don't watch their shows.  Buti na lang their current affairs programs are more interesting!  As for their news - may choice pa ba kami, e we really have to hear the local news!  It's really infotainment, not a news program.