RPN launches new shows

November 15, 2013

The Kasama Network RPN challenges broadcast competition with a variety of programs launched this month, and more interesting locally produced shows to kick off this November.

Topping the list is the singing sensation BOSES Tinig P-Noy, which premiering the new season on November 16, Saturday at 9:30 p.m. and Sunday at 9 p.m. Hosted by the sinegrs are Aileen Papin and Anthony Castelo with the judges are German Moreno, Pilita Corales and John Nite.

Competing quarterfinalists under the Duet in Acappella category are Coleen Mangabat and Mhelrose Uy of Batac National High School, Batac City; Jasmine Santos and Alex Soller of Paoay National High School, Paoay Ilocos Norte; and Christopher Mendoza and Ian Mendoza of Badoc, Ilocos Norte.

For the Trio in Acappella category, the quarterfinalists are the groups of Johanna Miranda, Jasper Arizabal and Phoebe Faye de Guzman, all choir members of Alpha and Omega International Christian Ministries Inc. Ilocos Norte chapter; and the group of Gina Ventura, Christian Paul Torqueza and Erickson Paulo of Laoag City.

Another first is RPN's franchise of Endemol to producing the game show The Million Peso Money Drop, the local version of the worldwide game phenomenon, airing on Saturdays at 6 p.m., where contestants can win or lose, life-changing amounts of money in front of a audience.

The transfer of their bundles of money to the trap door entails only one minute or they can use the one-time quick change within the game. Quick change gives contestants a chance to change their answer for another 30 seconds. They can use the quick change only once for questions one to seven. The final question will give them the chance to take home whatever money they have left in the game.

Hosted by Rafael Rosell, with the million pesos right before the contestants’ eyes at the start of the show. The money is theirs. Naturally, all contestants aspire to win and bring home the cash. But first, they must answer the multiple choice questions and bet their money will call lucky home viewers and the winner of P1 million peso cash prize. They can risk the cash in the trap door which they feel contains the correct answer. They can stop the clock in case there’s still time left and they already finished answering the question. Then they can advance to the next question and get much closer to winning whatever is left of their one million pesos.

On public service, hard-hittin broadcast journalist Ramon Tulfo provides the action in Isumbong Mo Kay Tulfo (Fridays at 11:30 p.m.) as the public service program. On the other hand, Tado Jimenez and RJ Ledesma will host two outrageously radical TV treats: Toda Mo TV (Monda at 11:30 p.m.), a hilarious satire on serious political and social evewnt in an irreverent and post-modern pseudo-investigative news program.

Adding to that line up are the new seasons of US shows launched this month on RPN: Chef Gordon Ramsay's new season of reality cooking competition Hell's Kitchen (weekdays at 5 p.m.), followed at 5:45 p.m.: NCIS (Monday), The Vampire Diaries (Tuesday), the latest season of 24 (Wednesday), the new episodes of Ally McBeal (Thursday) and the reality show Survivor: Blood vs. Water (Friday).