IBC-13 wants to get more primetime drama with ‘Maghihintay Sa'yo’

March 14, 2015

The sequestered network remains a strong No.3 in viewership has renovated its horizontal primetime, starting the first soap opera such as teleserye Esperanza, 5 Girls and Daddy, Safe in the Arms of Love, To Love Again, Your Heart, My Love and Catch Me Fall in Love. True is that, the Kapinoy network continues to filled its primetime line-up with the heavy dramas and fantasy-themed series.

Last July 2014, IBC-13 had already premiered its feel-good light fantaserye Janella: A Teen Princess, starring Be Careful With My Heart star and Kapamilya teen actress Janella Salvador in the lead role and known for the honorific title The Asia's Teen Sweetheart. Then on August, starting another fantaserye and actionserye turned into mix as the superserye called Voltron Man, starring the primetime comeback AJ Muhlach as the action star in the title role, showing that Pinoy audience still do their viewing habit who will still watching teleseryes. The two fantasy series competes with the teleseryes of ABS-CBN and GMA.

Now, IBC-13 is expanding its horizontal programming with your own drama line-up in primetime with the launch of Maghihintay Sa'yo, a romantic heavy drama to be topbilled by the one and only Optimum Teleserye Queen Claudine Barretto. As she marks the second teleerye of the Queen of Pinoy Soap Opera on IBC-13 after the critically-acclaimed and long-running Your Heart, My love which is aired its final episode last Friday (March 13).

Joining Ms. Barretto as the soap opera icon are the newest Kapinoy primetime actor Albert Martinez and Claudine's long-time partner Diether Ocampo. This is also the fourth teleserye of the veteran actress Gloria Romero, and reigning the powerhouse cast.

The series is slated to premiere on March 16, 2015, at 8:30PM after Voltron Man on IBC's Kapinoy Primetime.

Author’s Note: IBC-13 is said to be preparing for another series featuring Claudine Baretto, probably to be aired on primetime to further expand the network’s drama line-up.