IBC's Friends 4Ever debuts with high ratings and impressive online presence

April 6, 2014

MANILA, Philippines – IBC-13′s youth-oriented drama serial Friends 4Ever made a successful debut last March 29 this Sunday as the new weekly series posted encouraging viewership ratings and generated positive online feedback. In fact, Friends 4Ever became a trending topic on popular micro-blogging site Twitter and on Yahoo! Philippines during the time it was airing ofr hashtag #Friends4EverSummer.

The official Friends 4Ever Facebook page www.facebook.com/friends4ever, which was put up on March 29, had 2,130 likes prior to the airing of the pilot episode when it zoomed up to 3,006 likes post-pilot. To date, the page is already nearing 5,000 fans with the numbers growing every hour.

This marks the promising start of Friends 4Ever, which is bound to be a weekly habit for teens and the young at heart. Up for Friends 4Ever second episode this Sunday (April 12) is a summer of love, brewing rivalry, some beach party and islands of young love. The teens’ friendships are now tested when auditions for their school’s final activity require them to choose their performance partners.

Hiro (Aki Torio) wins the drifting challenge against Jules (Josh Padilla), thereby gaining Liezl’s (Meg Imperial) favor. Meanwhile, Gayle (Shy Carlos) continues her attempt to get closer to an uninterested JC (Rico Dela Paz), who still has sights for their sexy PE teacher Ms. Jelai (Jef Gaitan). Will they end up as partners for the mash-up? On the other hand, Tara (Eula Caballero), after being beaten by Liezl in asking Santi (Johan Lourens), sets her eyes on Ace (AJ Muhlach) who spurns George’s (Nadine Lustre) offer to do a duet. Jules takes this opportunity to make his advances known to George whom he aims to steal away from Ace out of spite.

Catch the exciting story of Friends 4Ever and find out how the characters find genuine friendship brought about by issues of love and family. Friends 4Ever airs every Saturday at 4:30 p.m. after the 2013 PLDT Home TVoluton PBA Commissioners' Cup on IBC-13.