The Return of Love Notes is IBC-13’s Answer to ABS-CBN’s Maalaala Mo Kaya and GMA’s Magpakailanman

January 23, 2014

IBC-13’s return of ‘Love Notes’, it will have been a three-way ratings race behind ‘Maalaala Mo Kaya’ and ‘Magpakailanman’.

ABS-CBN’s Maalaala Mo Kaya and GMA’s Magpakailanman now has a new rival.

Starting January 25, IBC-13 will air the drama anthology series Love Notes made a TV comeback which will air on the timeslot that will be vacated by the Viva-produced Sandy's Romance.

Like the three aspects of drama anthology are the anecdotal in MMK and the inspiring in Magpakailanman, Love Notes is hosted by the popular DJ and love adviser Joe D'Mango, featuring weekly love stories through letter senders, and will air every Saturday night.

Joe approach seems more relative to hosting a drama anthology, in contrast to the apparent calm and slow-it-down style than rivaled like Charo Santos-Concio and Mel Tiangco.

The first episode of Love Notes will be Love at First Sight, and will feature Liza Soberano and Diego Loyzaga in their first lead roles together.

Both Soberano as the grand winner and Loyzaga as the 1st runner-up are the contestants of the the reality talent search Superstar Circle, and will became the love-team of LizGo.

This first episode of Love Notes is Love at First Sight will focus on two teenagers whose in school following a classmate. Soon after, they tried to forged a romantic love.

Curiously, the FM radio station Magic 89.9 became the first home of Love Notes that started in 1988, which was initially conceptualized as a gimmick. The 15 minute counseling program became an instant hit with office workers every Friday morning. In TV series, ABC-5’s version aired as a weekly romantic drama anthology every Friday nights from 1992 to 1999 and became a movie that produced by Viva Films with the same title in 1995. It transferred to its sister station Wave 89.1 in 2001.

Going back to IBC-13’s Love Notes, the drama anthology series made the TV comeback of Joe D'Mango as host and narrator, since it will feature some of the Kapinoy network’s up and coming young stars. Love Notes' rivalry with the Kapamilya network’s longest-running and highly-rated drama anthology Maalaala Mo Kaya and the Kapuso network’s another drama anthology Magpakailanman will also be the same timeslot.

In addition, the show will go up against Maalaala Mo Kaya and Magpakailanman, which has demolished Sandy's Romance in the ratings.

Love Notes premieres this January 25, and will air every Saturday nighta at 8 p.m. after DMZ-TV.