John Apacible
Enrique Rustia Apacible III, popularly known as John Apacible (January 22, 1973 – March 20, 2011) was a Filipino television and movie actor who worked in Filipino productions. Early life He was born in Cainta, Rizal on January 22, 1973. Career John Apacible's showbiz career took off in 1996 when he was launched as a leading man in Joey Gosiengfiao's film ''Nights of Serafina''. Among his showbiz contemporaries also launched in the movie were Georgia Ortega (in her first title role) and Angelika dela Cruz. His hunk image enabled him to land successive leading man roles in various sexy films. Eventually he moved on to playing character roles in both TV and film. Apacible appeared in other movies such as ''Init ng Laman'' (1998) starring Sunshine Cruz, ''Bakit Pa?'' (1999) starring Jessa Zaragoza and Diether Ocampo, ''Luksong Tinik'' (1999) starring Lorna Tolentino, ''Phone Sex'' (1999) starring Ara Mina, ''Sugatang Puso'' (2000) starring Christopher de Leon and Lorna Tolenti ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cainta, Rizal
Cainta, officially the Municipality of Cainta ( fil, Bayan ng Cainta, ), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Rizal, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 376,933 people. It is one of the oldest municipalities in Luzon (founded on August 15, 1571) and has a land area of . Cainta serves as the secondary gateway to the rest of Rizal province from Metro Manila. With the continuous expansion of Metro Manila, Cainta is now part of Manila's conurbation, which reaches Cardona in its easternmost part and is therefore one of the most urbanized towns. As the country's 2nd most populous municipality after Rodriguez, Rizal, efforts are underway to convert it into a city. Its total assets amounting to (as per 2017 Commission on Audit summary) makes it the richest municipality in the country in terms of income. However, Cainta faces different challenges especially with its boundary disputes with Pasig (Greenpark Village, Karangalan Village, St. Josep ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ronnie Ricketts
Ronald Naldo Ricketts, popularly known as Ronnie Ricketts, is a Filipino actor, scriptwriter, film director, line producer, and martial artist who is the former President of the Philippine Film Actors Guild, and former Chairman of Optical Media Board (OMB), a government agency that regulates recording optical media in the Philippines. Film career Ronnie Ricketts is a martial artist and was a ramp model before he entered the movie industry in the early 1980s. He was first noticed by RVQ's ( Dolphy) film production as a potential action star. He was introduced in the Dolphy- Nida Blanca film, ''My Heart Belongs to Daddy'' (1982), where he was paired with Maricel Soriano. He was being billed as the other love interest of Soriano in the film ''I Love You, I Hate You'' (1983), together with William Martinez, and ''The Graduates'' (1986) under Regal Films starring Snooky Serna and Gabby Concepcion. He was cast in several Dolphy-Alma Moreno movies such as ''Good Morning, Profe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mga Kuwento Ni Lola Basyang (TV Series)
''Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang'' () is a 2007 Philippine television drama fantasy anthology broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Manilyn Reynes and Paul Salas, it premiered on February 4, 2007. The show concluded on August 12, 2007 with a total of 26 episodes. The series is streaming online on YouTube. Overview The show is a program designed specifically to appeal to children. It is a weekly anthology aimed at entertaining children through a retelling of Severino Reyes' classic folktales and seeks to rekindle their interest in the richness of Filipino literature. All the episodes featured live-action twist adaptations of Pinoy folktales in costume by many well-known actors, teleplays by Gina Marissa Tagasa, Agnes de Guzman, Dinno Erece and Adrian Ho, and are directed by Argel Joseph and Don Michael Perez. ''Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang'' is a series of short stories written by "Lola Basyang", pen name of Severino Reyes, founder and editor of the Tagalog magazine Liwayway. The ori ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lupin (Philippine TV Series)
''Lupin'' is a 2007 Philippine television drama action series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is loosely based on a series of French fictional crime novels featuring the Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc. Directed by Mike Tuviera and Lore Reyes, it stars Richard Gutierrez in the title role. It premiered on April 9, 2007 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on August 17, 2007 with a total of 95 episodes. The series was released in DVD by GMA Records. Overview Created by Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin first appeared in a series of short stories serialized in 1905 and published in book form as ''Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur'' in 1907Cool French Comics - "Arsène Lupin". Accessed last April 29, 2007. (translated into English as ''The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gent ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maalaala Mo Kaya
''Maalaala Mo Kaya'' (; formerly written as ''Maala-ala Mo Kaya...''; abbreviated as ''MMK''), also known as ''Memories'', is a Philippines, Philippine television drama anthology show broadcast by Kapamilya Channel under ABS-CBN Entertainment. Hosted by Charo Santos-Concio, it premiered on May 15, 1991. It has become the List of longest-running Philippine television series, longest-running drama anthology in the Philippines, reaching its 30th year in 2021. The program features weekly real-life stories or anecdotes of common people or even famous celebrities and personalities through letter sending. The series has a counterpart radio program being broadcast on DZMM-AM, DZMM called "''Maalaala Mo Kaya sa DZMM''", a paperback ("''pocketbooks''") adaptation and a comic book adaptation under Mango Comics & Sterling. The program concluded on December 10, 2022 with a total of 30 seasons and 1,344 episodes. Overview From March 14, 2020, the production of the program's new episodes were ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tayong Dalawa
''Tayong Dalawa'' (International title: ''The Two of Us'') is a Philippine primetime drama series broadcast on ABS-CBN and worldwide on TFC from January 19, 2009 to September 25, 2009, replacing ''Dyosa'' and was replaced by ''Lovers in Paris''. The story revolves around two brothers (Jake Cuenca and Gerald Anderson) who share the same name, the same aspirations, and the same lady-of-interest (Kim Chiu). The title of the series was taken from one of Rey Valera’s classic songs, in a manner similar to most Filipino soap operas. Plot summary David "JR" Garcia Jr. was born into a poor family. His father, David Sr., deserted his mother Marlene Dionisio before he was born because his wife, Ingrid Martinez is pregnant with David "Dave" Garcia Jr. When Audrey King and her family go to Tagaytay for a visit, she falls from a set of high stairs. JR saves her life and introduces himself as David Garcia Jr. after she asks for his name without seeing what he looked like. When Audrey is adm ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Darna (2009 TV Series)
''Darna'' is a Philippine television drama action fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based from Mars Ravelo's fictional Philippine superheroine of the same title. Directed by Dominic Zapata and Don Michael Perez, it stars Marian Rivera in the title role. It premiered on August 10, 2009 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing ''Zorro''. The series concluded on February 19, 2010 with a total of 140 episodes. It was replaced by ''Panday Kids'' in its timeslot. Cast and characters ;Lead cast * Marian Rivera as Narda / Darna / Evil Darna / Ex-O / Phoenix ;Supporting cast * Mark Anthony Fernandez as Eduardo / Black Rider * Dennis Trillo as Pancho * Iwa Moto as Valentina * Nadine Samonte as Roma / Babaeng Impakta * Ehra Madrigal as Armida / Babaeng Lawin * Francine Prieto as Lucifera / Babaeng Tuod * Maggie Wilson as Octavia Moran / Lutgarda Morales / Babaeng Linta * Rochelle Pangilinan as Deborah Santos * Jackie Rice as Helena / Helga * Roxanne Barcelo a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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GMA Network
GMA Network (Global Media Arts or simply GMA) is a Philippine free-to-air television and radio network. It is the flagship property of publicly traded GMA Network, Inc. Its first broadcast on television was on October 29, 1961. GMA Network (formerly known as Republic Broadcasting System, GMA Radio-Television Arts and GMA Rainbow Satellite Network) is commonly referred to as the Kapuso Network in reference to the outline of the company's logo. It is headquartered in the GMA Network Center in Quezon City and its transmitter, Tower of Power, is located at Tandang Sora Avenue, Barangay Culiat also in Quezon City with regional stations and offices strategically located in over 9 major cities across the country. The original meaning of the GMA acronym was Greater Manila Area, referring to the initial coverage area of the station. As the network expanded it changed into Global Media Arts. The flagship television station of GMA is DZBB-TV (GMA-7 Manila) which carries VHF Channel 7 (a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Obra (TV Series)
''Obra'' () is a 2008 Philippine television drama anthology broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Katrina Halili, JC de Vera, Sunshine Dizon and Iza Calzado, it premiered on August 14, 2008. The show concluded on November 27, 2008, with a total of 16 episodes. The show is streaming online on YouTube YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by .... Episodes Accolades References External links * * 2008 Philippine television series debuts 2008 Philippine television series endings Filipino-language television shows GMA Network original programming Philippine anthology television series {{Philippines-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maling Akala
Your Song is a musical anthology program broadcast by ABS-CBN in the Philippines. Year 1 Season 1 Season 2 The May 14, 2006 episode of Your Song was a special screening for ''Bituing Walang Ningning'' (see Specials below). It is therefore not listed in this table as a regular episode of this series. Season 3 Season 4 Year 2 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7 Year 3 As an opening salvo of its third year, there is a new version of Your Song, ABS-CBN's anthology show featuring stories based on chosen love songs. Each story arc will now be shown for a whole month changing parts with ''Love Spell'' that'll have a weekly episode. Season 8 Season 9 Season 10 Year 4 Season 11 Season 12 Starting season twelve, ''Your Song'' is featuring artists in several different episodes, which will feature artist acting in different characters. Therefore, each episode will have a different story each week. Each artist will have a minimum of eight episode, although with the high ratings ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN (an initialism of its two predecessors' names, Alto Broadcasting System and Chronicle Broadcasting Network) is a Television in the Philippines, Philippine Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast broadcast network, network that serves as the flagship property of ABS-CBN Corporation, a company under Lopez Holdings Corporation owned by the López family of Iloilo, López family. The network is headquartered at the ELJ Communications Center and ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in Quezon City, with additional offices and production facilities in 25 major cities including Baguio, Naga, Camarines Sur, Naga, Bacolod, Iloilo City, Iloilo, Cebu City, Cebu, Davao City, Davao, and Bulacan, where ABS-CBN's production and post-production facility in ABS-CBN Soundstage, Horizon IT Park is located. ABS-CBN is colloquially referred to as the ''Kapamilya'' Network; the branding was originally introduced in 1999 and was officially introduced in 2003 during the celebration of its 50th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Coco Martin
Rodel Pacheco Nacianceno (born November 1, 1981), known professionally by his stage name Coco Martin (), is a Filipino actor, director, and film producer. He is best known for playing the lead roles in ''Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin'', '' Walang Hanggan'', ''Ikaw Lamang'', ''Juan dela Cruz'', and ''FPJ's Ang Probinsyano''. With a career spanning two decades, Martin is regarded as the country's "''Ultimate Superstar''". He has won 2 FAMAS Awards, 2 Gawad Urian Awards and 3 Golden Screen Awards. As of 2021, Martin has grossed 2.3 billion at the box-office, making him one of the top earning actors of the last ten years. At the 34th Gawad Urian Awards, he was recognized as the "Actor of the Decade". He is also recognized as the most awarded actor of his generation, with 119 awards and recognitions and 40 nominations from various award-giving bodies since 2006. In 2017, Martin starred as the titular character in the '' Ang Panday'' reboot, while also serving as the director thus marki ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |