IBC-13 brings back sitcom with ‘Whattaboys’ premieres June 1

June 1, 2014

MANILA, Philippines — The serial comedy Whattaboys, starts airing Saturday, premieres June 1 on IBC-13. It topbills today's top stars AJ Muhlach, Aki Torio and Josh Padilla and marks the comeback of the classic sitcom which the Kapinoy Network is said to have pioneered.

Whattaboys comes on the heels of AJ’s recent primetime series 5 Girls and Daddy, and Muhlach, Torio and Padilla came from the Sunday hit teen-oriented TV series Bagets: Just Got Jucky on TV5. He expressed excitement and enthusiasm to be working with his friends Aki and Josh. In fact, Robin admitted that he specifically requested for Aki and Josh to be cast in the show. “I had my talent fee reduced just to be with him,” AJ said in jest.

AJ of course is excited to be reunited with is best friends like Aki and Josh (they were together in Bagets: Just Got Lucky from TV5, with AJ, and which paved the way to the success of Josh’s career in the showbiz industry).

AJ said of their reunion: “It’s been a long time, and we really miss working with each other. Also, doing a sitcom somehow reinvents me. I’m now so used to soap operas and variety shows and so it’s refreshing to be back in a sitcom. Kapinoy comedy will make a grand comeback via this show.”

Whattaboys is about three boys named a gwapo boy Rico Padilla (AJ Muhlach), a brother boy James Yan (Josh Padilla) and a wacky boy Zanjoe Ochoa (Aki Torio), who are the boys together with their guys and pare.

Rico meets the love interest, like an attractive and cutie high school teenage girl Jenny Ramirez (Ingrid dela Paz) who is also on the same year level as he is.

Also starring in the sitcom are Mon Castro, Cacai Bautista, Hans Mortel, Raven Villanueva, Red Sternberg, Bianca Casado, Jao Mapa, Sofia Andres, Tutti Caringal and Danielle Castaño. Whattaboys is under the business unit of Ginny Monteagudo-Ocampo, together with Jose Javier Reyes and Raymund Barcelon as writer,  executive producers Rowie Valencia and Lorna Feliciano and directed by John D-Lazatin.