"Kwarta o Kahon" vs. Wowowin vs. Game ng Bayan the game show 'war' starts March 7

Saturday, March 05, 2016 Posted by Admin

MANILA, Philippines - IBC 13 is set to launch it newest game show Kwarta o Kahon that will be pitted against GMA-7's Wowowin and ABS-CBN's new game show Game ng Bayan starting Monday, March 7.

Robin Padilla (Game ng Bayan) vs. Willie Revillame (Wowowin) vs. Enchong Dee (Kwarta o Kahon)

It didn't take long for the Kapinoy Network to come up with a game show to compete with Willie Revillame's Wowowin, which was moved to daily timeslot for GMA Telebabad block last February and Robin Padilla's Game ny Bayan which is premiered on the same date for ABS-CBN Kapamilya Gold block.

Based on AGB Nielsen's data, the Kapuso show is the leader in its timeslot. Kantar Media on the other hand says ABS-CBN's pre-primetime shows Pasion de Amor and new teleserye titled We Will Survive, and IBC-13's pre-primetime series Glory Jane got more viewers nationwide compared to Wowowin.

The TV ratings and game show "war" is expected to heat up as the new Kapinoy show will premiere on Monday.

Kwarta o Kahon will replace the timeslot of TreseBella's A Woman of Steel, which was aired its finale episode last March 4.

Hosted by the Chinito heartthrob Enchong Dee, with the Chinita girl Ingrid dela Paz, the new IBC game show involved the game portions and the original kwarta o kahon game.

There are the show’s many parlor game segments, which doubled as unabashed venues for product placement. Another best-remembered segment is Mahiwagang Tunog, where the contestants would hear an audio clip and guess what the sound was (e.g., a telephone ringing, a fridge being opened).

There were wacky races, too, where the non-descript adults and teens had to run backwards while sporting a tire or rush-stack sardine cans among softdrink cases.

Enchong would also often rib the starting competitors by saying, “Ready… get set… goto goto goto,” and then “Ready… set… Gorio, binabati ko nga pala si Gorio!” (“I wish to greet Gorio!”)

Of course, the mother of all those madcap matches was the show’s eponymous, high-stakes game, where a contestant was made to choose between prize money that Enchong made temptingly larger and larger versus a potentially bigger prize hidden in a small box — which, many times, yielded not, say, the keys to a car but a used bottle cap or a wilted vegetable.

Kwarta o Kahon is an original concept by IBC-13. Which game show will you watch - Robin Padilla's Game ng Bayan, Willie Revillame's Wowowin or Enchong Dee's Kwarta o Kahon?