I can't believe that this is the last week of 2013 already! Imagine that! 52 weeks have already passed us by! Anyhow, here are my ten favorite TV channels for 2013 -
#1 HBO - 311 pts
#2 CI - 269 pts
#3 Bio - 222 pts
#4 AXN - 216 pts
#5 beTV - 175 pts
#6 TV5 Monde - 158 pts
#7 Nat Geo -116 pts
#8 Star Sports - 107 pts
#9 Diva Universal - 100 pts
#10 GMA-7 - 92 pts
Cinema One - 73 pts
History - 69 pts
Jack City - 59 pts
PBO - 55 pts
Diva - 43 pts
TLC - 33 pts.
ABS-CBN - 27 pts
MTV Asia - 27 pts
Star World - 26 pts
ETC - 23 pts
BBC -23 pts
Solar Sports - 22 pts
Red - 20 pts
Discovery - 17 pts
Fox Channel - 16 pts
Solar News Channel - 15 pts
Fox Family Movies - 13 pts
TCM - 12 pts
Studio 23 - 10 pts
Jack TV - 10 pts
Velvet - 10 pts
GMA News TV - 10 pts
2nd Avenue - 8 pts
Universal - 8 pts
Animal Planet - 8 pts
Balls - 7 pts
CNN - 6 pts
TV Espanol - 3 pts
CNBC - 2 pts
Due to the unique confluence of events with Miss Universe 2013 happening and the terrible aftermath of the Yolanda super typhoon, ABS-CBN Channel 2 finally tops my most favorite show of the week and actually gets the top 3 spots, the first time ever a local channel has done it. I rely more on the news features of ABS-CBN than its rivals GMA7 and TV5.
Here are my ten favorite shows for the week ending November 15, 2013 -
#1 ABS-CBN - Miss Universe - Ariella Arida
#2 ABS-CBN - Rated K - Bagsik ni Yolanda
#3 ABS-CBN - Yolanda news Monday morning
#4 Fox Family Movies - Krippendorf's Tribe
#5 HBO - Clueless
#6 Bio - Ghostly Encounters - cross - children killed
#7 Bio - Ghostly Encounters - ghost shadows - old woman in son's room
#8 AXN - Amazing Race - Vienna (boys eliminated)
#9 AXN - Amazing Race - Abu Dhabi - non-elimination round
#10 HBO - Children of Men
An episode confirming the existence of the afterlife was shown in an episode of Ghostly Encounters, where the relatives of the family returned to visit the living, when they died! Intriguing episode! Scary but true! It's my most favorite TV show for this week.
I only watched a few shows this week as I was on a trip to Brunei.
Here are the shows I watched for the week ending October 18, 2013 -
#1 Bio - Ghostly Encounters - husband visits wife
#2 AXN - Amazing Race in Lisbon - NFL eliminated
#3 GMA-7 - Born to be Wild - deer in Bohol
#4 Bio - Ghostly Encounters -bones in steel door
#5 beTV - Everybody Loves Raymond
An episode of CSI NY about a girl getting killed after playing a 'game' is my favorite TV show this week.
I didn't watch much TV this week, I don't know why. Anyway, I only watched 7 shows this week. Here they are.
#1 AXN - CSI NY - game, girl killed
#2 Bio - American Greed - Financial Guru Gone Bad
#3 Nat Geo - Journey to the Center of the Universe
#4 Red - Our Town
#5 Red - Happy Triangle Land
#6 CI - On the Case - A Stranger's Knock - 2 black men kill families
#7 CI - Monstresses - Diana Haun
I was just channel surfing today when I chanced upon this fascinating TV show in National Geographic called Taboo and this week they featured a show called Private Passions and it's about these odd couples who have really strange and quirky habits which makes them look as a really odd couple. It was very fascinating and could be subject for a movie!
Here are my ten favorite shows for the week ending June 21, 2013 -
#1 NatGeo - Taboo - Private Passions
#2 MTV Asia - The LA Complex - threesome 2 girls one boy
#3 Bio - Celebrity Ghost Stories - "I'm a witch"
#4 HBO - Veep - birthday party for daughter
#5 HBO - While You Were Sleeping
#6 HBO - Super 8
#7 Diva Universal - Law and Order - kid rapes 4 kids
#8 AXN - Amazing Race 21- Indonesia
#9 Diva Universal - Law and Order - embryo stolen
#10 CI - American Greed - Suicide is Painless
I rarely watch local teleseryes but I just had to catch My Husband's Lover this week to see how it was doing. I know it's going to be tough to watch it regularly since during it's normal time slot of 9-10PM, I am still normally out of the house, so I don't think it's going to rate every week, unless I encounter a really good episode. Anyway, for this week, it's my favorite show!
Here are my ten favorite shows for the week ending June 14, 2013 -
#1 GMA-7 - My Husband's Lover pilot episode
#2 HBO - Ghost
#3 GMA-7 - My Husband's Lover Tuesday episode - Tom changes his shirt
#4 GMA-7 - My Husband's Lover Tuesday episode - basketball scene between Dennis and Tom
#5 CI - Stolen Innocence - 5 year old murdered
#6 CI - Monstresses - Elizabeth Reynolds
#7 TLC - Globe Trekker - Georgia
#8 TLC - Globe Trekker - China
#9 AXN - Amazing Race last leg - American couple wins
#10 CI - I Solved A Murder - Adam Bruckner
This week's episode of Veep is my favorite TV show this week. I haven't been watching this show for some weeks now but I should've since it's really funny! The show has improved a lot!
Here are my ten favorite TV shows this week -
#1 HBO - Veep - pinababa sa plane
#2 Bio - Celebrity Ghost Stories - babae ang medium lumalabas sa mouth niya ang voice
#3 Balls - Serena vs. Errani
#4 Balls - Azarenka vs. Sharapova
#5 AXN - The Apprentice Asia - Dusadee resigns
#6 Balls - Jankovic vs Sharapova
#7 Balls - Hampton vs. Jankovic
#8 Balls - Kuznetsova vs Kerber
#9 Balls - Robredo vs. Almagro
#10 AXN - Amazing Race - India - they dance
This week, majority of my TV time was on Balls Channel which is showing the French Open here in Manila. Unfortunately, there have not been any interesting matches but still, majority of the programs this week were tennis matches.
Here are my ten favorite TV shows for the week ending May 31, 2013 -
#1 Balls - Venus Williams vs. Urszula Radwanska
#2 Balls - Ana Ivanovic vs. Petra Martic
#3
PBO - To Love Again
#4 AXN - Amazing Race - Paraguay bottle in the head
#5 AXN - Amazing Race - Azerbaijan
#6 AXN - Amazing Race - Turin
#7 CI - Klosterman Case - Fatal Vows
#8 Balls - Li Na vs. Anabel Medina Garrigues
#9 Balls - Serena Williams vs. Caroline Garcia
#10 Balls - Gael Monfils vs. Ernests Gulbis
I discovered this complex and interesting show in MTV Asia entitled The LA Complex. It's about these young people who have decided to try their luck in LA. I love the subplots for each of the characters and I hope to be able to find the DVD of this.
Here are my ten favorite TV shows for the week ending May 10, 2013 -
#1 MTV Asia - The LA Complex
#2 AXN - Amazing Race final
#3 ETC - Project Runway 9
#4 AXN - Hannibal
#5 CI - Fatal Vows - Tracey Richter shot neighbor's son
#6 Diva Universal - Law and Order: Special Victims Unit - raped 40 years ago - French speaking old woman
#7 Diva Universal - Law and Order: Special Victims Unit - raped mother and daughter
#8 CI - Real Crime - Rolex watch
#9 Nat Geo - Nile Giant
#10 Bio - My Ghost Story - Linda's Lights
An episode of Amazing Race 22 is my favorite show this week. My favorite team Meghan and Joey were eliminated. Too bad, it would've been fun to see them in the top 3, but I think they got as far as they could!
I wasn't able to watch too much TV this week. Here are my six favorite TV shows this week
#1 AXN - Amazing Race - Meghan eliminiated
#2 Universal - Law and Order: Criminal Intent - boss na bossy na killer
#3 Fox - Castle - Jimmy Stewart remake
#4 Jack City - Arrow - bata parents pinatay
#5 Universal - Law and Order: Criminal Intent- choked death
#6 Universal - Royal Pains
Starting last September, I decided to monitor what TV shows I loved watching every week, and what TV channels I mostly watched. I ranked shows from #1 to #10 and gave 10 points to the #1 show, 9 points for the #2 show, and so on and so forth. So the number beside each channel indicates the points the channel got for each show that appeared in my weekly top 10 list.
As of December 14, 2012, here is the ranking of the channels that top my TV fare. I am not surprised that HBO tops my list since I watched a lot of HBO TV shows earlier this year.
Here are my favorite channels for the year -
#1 HBO -84
#2 Jack TV -78
#3 Crime Investigation -69
#4 Nat Geo -60
#5 Bio - 59
#6 Diva Universal - 56
#6 AXN -56
#7 Star World - 47
#8 Star Movies -31
#10 Balls - 22
#10 Lifestyle -22
Velvet -20
Universal - 16
History - 15
2nd Avenue - 15
TV5 Monde - 14
CNN - 13
BBC World - 12
TCM - 10
PBO - 9
beTV - 8
ETC - 7
Talk TV - 6
ABS-CBN -11
Discovery -4
Red - 1
Here are my favorite shows for the week ending November 23, 2012 -
#1 Diva Universal - The Trouble With Dee Dee
This feel good story about a woman-child and her father is my favorite TV show this week. I was surprised by the character and how generous and giving she was and how she sacrificed her well-being just to give to those who have nothing. And it's a comedy too!
#2 AXN - Amazing Race
I feel bad that the hippies are gone and mainly due to them foolishly losing their passports! Also, Russia is such an interesting place which the show features very well at this leg of the race.
#3 Jack TV -American Horror Story Asylum
Another freaking scary episode this week - and this time, we finally meet the people one of the sisters was feeding!
#4 History - The Fall of Penang
I thought this would be a boring show but I was very wrong. It was done in a pretty interesting manner! I hope we could have a local version of this. The Fall of Manila, perhaps?
#5 Diva Universal - Army Wives
I chanced upon this show about, well, army wives, and their episode today featured a battered army wife. The character was still young but she was tough. Domestic violence is never an easy experience.
#6 History - Mankind: The History of All of Us: Empires
A magnificent documentary! The episode I saw featured the Roman and Chinese empires.
#7 Bio - Celebrity Ghost Stories
I love this show and this week, they featured Houdini and Jonathan Scaech.
#8 Bio - Ghostly Encounters
Another show that I love watching and this week was really scary - theater ghosts!
#9 Bio - Ghostly Encounters
This episode featured a CD moving in a haunted house!
#10 Nat Geo - Is It Real: Vampires
A nice documentary featuring real vampires.
Since it's the November 1 weekend where Filipinos visit their beloved dead relatives, it's not unusual that my favorite TV show this week is a movie - a horror movie - and this one is special since it's also the first movie of one of my favorite actors - Tom Hanks!
Here are my favorite TV shows for the week ending November 2, 2012 -
#1 TCM - He Knows You're Alone
#2 Lifestyle Network - The Conversations with Amandade Cadenet
I really enjoyed this chatfest even if all the guests were women - Alicia Keys, Eva Longoria, Kelly Preston - and they talked about woman stuff. It was like they were just guests in your living room. Bravo!
#3 Nat Geo - Science of Saints
This documentary featured the lives of Saints Chrysanthus and Daria and the forensics involving proving that their bones were not fakes.
#4 Nat Geo - The Truth Behind Zombies
This interesting documentary tries to prove that zombies can actually become a reality - so there was talk about a viral pandemic, hypnotherapy and Haitian vodoo!
#5 Nat Geo - Taboo: Mating
This documentary talked about women who love men who are in jail! Very interesting stories!
#6 AXN - Amazing Race S21
It's another leg for the racers and they are still in Dhaka, Bangladesh! It's a place I want to visit even if it's really poor and crowded!
#7 Jack TV - Big Bang Theory
This episode was really funny since everyone in Sheldon's group of friends did not quite like his new 'girlfriend'
#8 HBO - 30 Minutes or Less
This movie of Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari is really funny. Loved it!
#9 Bio - Celebrity Ghost Stories
A new batch of ghost stories although this one was not very scary.
#10 Nat Geo - Hooked - Giant Devil Catfish
It was funny that I ended up watching a documentary about fish - and fish in India! You should see the catfishes - they're uber huge!
Well, it's Friday again, time to check my top ten favorite TV shows for the week ending October 26, 2012.
#1 Nat Geo - 24 Hours After Hiroshima
I was having my lunch when I saw this beautiful documentary on what happened to Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped on it. I actually cried tears when I saw what happened. It was just really heartbreaking. I really hope to visit Hiroshima one of these days.
#2 PBO: Bituing Walang Ningning
I have never actually seen this classic Sharon Cuneta movie as a whole movie. I saw it being aired at PBO channel and I was somewhere in the middle, right before Cherie Gil showed her true colors. Love the film! Really a classic!
#3 TV5 Monde - 360-Geo - Iwahig
It took a documentary in French TV for me to learn about the life of our fellow Pinoy prisoners in the Iwahig Penal Colony in Palawan. Very well made docu, I cried watching this!
#4 Lifestyle Network - What Not to Wear - firefighter
It's hard to change someone else's sense of style in dressing up but the guy and the lady here in What Not to Wear did an incredible job in changing the sense of style of this lady firefighter who was a bit tomboyish and didn't like looking too feminine.
#5 TV5Monde - Les Bleues
I love this French cop series. Lots of eye candy, not so stressful to watch! For this episode, one of the cops bust a fight club ring.
#6 AXN - Amazing Race 21
In this episode, the participants are in Dhaka, Bangladesh and the schoolteachers were eliminated because they were U-turned twice, poor guys!
#7 Jack TV - Glee 4: Britney Bitch
Well, the cast of Glee do Britney's songs again! I love how they sing '3'!
#8 Talk TV - Titans: Hugh Hefner
It was very interesting to know how Hugh Hefner started Playboy. I learned a lot of things from this guy!
#9 Crime Investigation - American Greed: The Black Widows
These two despicable grannies kill homeless men and cash in on their insurance policies! They, of course, insure the guy before they kill him! Such evil women!
#10 Nat Geo - Scam City: Buenos Aires
OMG! I don't think I'm going to Buenos Aires after seeing this show! Or I should be just aware and not look like a tourist!
