ABC 5 launches 'Good Evening... Pls.'

Manila Standard (page 27), Monday, May 13, 1996

ABC 5 is launching two new local shows this week to further beef up its primetime programming. Starting off tonight at 6 p.m. is Good Evening...Pls. with main hosts Plinky Recto, Earl Ignacio, Dennis Padilla, Candy Pangilinan and Micki Ferriols.

Good Evening...Pls. is more then the usual Monday to Friday variety show. It offers to re-instill traditional values in today's youths through its "live" musical numbers, spiels and daily sketches.

Worth noting however, is the show's title that implies more than just a remark of courtesy. Good Evening... Pls has become more of a plea for a wacky but wholesome feel-good family entertainment program.

Regular lineup of guests include Bianca Lapuz, Cheska Garcia, Rica Peralejo, Marco McKinley of UMD, Marco Salvador, Nikko Manalo and Joey Andres of the Streetboys, Poppo Lontoc, Neil and John Seno and Cecile Cruz.

Love Bytes makes its most-awaited debut on Friday at 9 p.m. with Edu Manzano. Love Bytes is a computer dating game that features super-computer Novva, programmed to make a perfect match among the show's weekly contestants. Also included is the show's ultimate compatibility test for famous marries personalities.

Foreign shows schedules for launching are American Gothic (tonight, 9 p.m.), Hercules (May 15, 7 p.m.), Touched By An Angel (May 16, 9 p.m.), and Scarlett (May 17, 10:30 p.m.).

Meanwhile, Sunday drama continues in The Client at 7 p.m. Reggie defends an unmarried pregnant girl with a deadly secret. When the girl is shot outside her own home, Reggie is left with no choice but to unravel the mystery.

At 8 p.m., heart-pounding emergency drama escalates as ER nears season end.