WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE

FORMAT: GAME SHOW
Aired on IBC Ch. 13
SHOW DESCRIPTION:
Viva TV revolutionized the local viewing habits when it aired the local version of the world’s most popular tv quiz show, WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONARIE with the same top quality production value as the original UK show.

Hosted by award-winning actor, CHRISTOPHER DE LEON, the show dominated various tv rating and surveys. The space-age set, thrilling music and the classic “lifelines” bestowed on each lucky contestants

namely:50:50, phone-a-friend and ask the audience were attributed to the show’s phenomenal success and prompting other networks to release their own game show. True? Of course! And that’s our final answer!

THE WEAKEST LINK

FORMAT: GAME SHOW
Aired over IBC Ch.13
SHOW DESCRIPTION:
After the hugely successful Who Wants To Be A Millionaire,Viva TV produced an all Filipino version of “THE WEAKEST LINK”, also a Celador, UK original.

Hosted by seasoned tv-host and comedy actor,EDU MANZANO, this quiz show, which is actually a surreal and humiliating blend of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire and Survivor, pits eight contestants against each other as they answer seven rounds of

questions. Money is added to the pot for every correct answer but sinks back to zero for a wrong answer. After each round, the players vote off their “weakest link”. The booted our player then does the famous “Walk of Shame”as we hear his voice echoed disgust…shame and regret. The last two contestants battle it out in the “face-off round” and whoever gets the most number of correct answers takes all the prize money.

STAR FOR A NIGHT

FORMAT:TALENT SEARCH
IBC Ch.13
SHOW DESCRIPTION:
STAR FOR A NIGHT is pioneered the primetime talent search in the country. Hosted by no less than the Asia’s songbird and concert diva, MS. REGINE VELASQUEZ, the show serves as a lunching pad for fresh and new stars in the making.

Auditions are done nationwide and after which, in moments of high emotion, our cameras surprise the lucky few who get through--- at home, school or work--- as the segment host,

offers them to be in the spotlight. In the studio, four contestants face the music industry professionals who tell them if they have what it takes to be a STAR FOR A NIGHT.

Aired over IBC Channel 13 every Saturday at 8-9pm, Viva Television produces this all-Filipino version of STAR FOR A NIGHT but with the same top quality production values of the original high-rating UK show.
Star for a Night Grand Champion: Sarah Geronimo.


SEARCH FOR A STAR

FORMAT:Talent Search
FREQUENCY: One hour,Weekly/ Every Saturday on GMA 7
SHOW DESCRIPTION:

The Show is a nationwide talent search that aimed to serve as a launching pad for the country’s future major POP STAR--- not just singer who can copy famous names or pop icon but new star in the making.

Hosted by Ms. Regine Velasquez,a product of a inging contest herself, the show offered more than the just the

singing contest herself, the show offered more than the just the competition itself--- the real treat lies actually on how innovative the show would go about.

The contestants ( three each week) were housed in hotel so that they could form a major bonding and were treated like a star doing make-overs, fittings, have voice coaching & image building…

Contestants competed for the weekly,semis and grand finals round.
The Search for a Star Grand Champion,RACHELLE ANNE GO walked away with 1 Million Pesos, a brand new house and lot and a recording contract under Viva Records.


KAGAT NG DILIM

FORMAT/GENRE: HORROR-SUSPENSE SERIES
IBC Ch. 13
SHOW DESCRIPTION:
Out in the dark lurks the strange…the scary,,, the sinister.. the supernatural experiences…

This series ventures to give scientific explanation as well as supernatural reason for the unexplained daily occurrences or events happening around us. KAGAT NG DILIM makes use of the rich collection of the Phillipine folklore to explain sickness,

death…disappearances, suicdes, psycholical changes, etc.

This is the first “reality –tv” horror format that landed in the local television and has been consistent top rater on IBC 13.


SUBIC BAY

IBC Ch. 13
SHOW DECRIPTION:

An explosive tv series that featured the hottest sex sirens of movidome.

The show revolved around the stories of three hot and sexy ladies each having their own unique personality. ANDIE (JOYCE JIMENEZ) was the hopeless romantic,Fil-AM girl who worked as a lifeguard in a beach-resort in Subic called PARAISO.
The resort was managed by KRISSY (PRISCILLA ALMEDA), a strong woman and controlled

woman at the outside but very vulnerable inside. PAMELA ( RUFFA MAE QUINTO), on the other hand played as the gullible, ambitious dive-master of the beach-resort.

Each episode has taken the viewers into an emotional roller-coaster ride as the our ladies quest for love, happiness and successful careers.


H2K

SHOW DESCRIPTION:
A youth –oriented TV series with a brat pack cast, H2K o HATI-HATING KAPATID revolved around an ever growing family in a contemporary setting.

It tells how a liberated single parent, MABEL RAMIREZ (ELIZABETH OROPESA) raises her four daughters—RICA PERALLEJO, AIZA MARQUEZ, ANNE CURTIZ and MUMAY SANTIAGO by four different men, in a unique but otherwise practical set-up

When her eldest daughter, RICA PERALLEJO started looking for a father figure, MABEL deemed it necessary to send her daughters to their father on weekends.

How their lives intertwined as they spent weekdays with their mother and weekends with their respective fathers was the story’s interesting hook.


DEAR HEART

SHOW DESCRIPTION:
The show hallmarked teenage real-life romance stories and adventures ---success, failures, heartaches and heartwarming victories.

Each week, a lucky letter sender’s story is featured where his/her favorite artists
portrayed major roles.

ANTOINETTE TAUS played as host of the show who gave a few thoughts on the sender’s problem.

The show was for the young and the young at heart to enjoy! The mood was light, sometimes comical but something that would always touch our dear heart.


MAY BUKAS PA

SHOW DESCRIPTION:
Sofia’s husband Rico, was a drunk and a bum and didn’t work to support the family. This is why Sofia had to work in place of her husband just to make ends meet. In spite of this, Sofia’s husband was able to accuse her of adultery and took off with their only daughter, Milagros. Sofia then, went after her husband but before being able to confront him, the husband was run over by a bus.

Not to be dismayed, Sofia went off to Manila in search for her

lost child. Little did she know that her daughter was adopted by a famous actress named Divina Miguel whose motives for the child was a political move to increase hype for her new movie.

Sofia, having been gifted with a angelic voice, was discovered by a talent manager and eventually became a famous singer-actress. The point came where Sofia’s popularity overshadowed Divina’s and to make things worst, Ramon, Divina’s love team, tied the knot with Sofia and left Divina. This made Divina Miguel furious and from then on considered Sofia as her mortal enemy.

Dreading Sofia for taking away everything from her, Divina directed her anger towards her poor adopted child Bea (Milagros).

At times, Divina would think about her child that she gave away for her career. Divina was disowned by her aunt Donya Felisa when she became pregnant. What Divina doesn’t know is that the child she gave away fell under the care of Delia (the maid of Donya Felisa). This child is Chari. Divina was maltreating Chari as she’s just a maid’s daughter, not knowing that it was her own child.

However, when Donya Felisa died, Divina would plot to acquire her aunt’s wealth against Irene who is her aunt’s adopted child and happen’s to be Sofia’s long lost sister.

Where the desperate and dramatic search for one another prospers will serve as the gage for conclusion of this heart-warming and soul-touching telenovela.

 
Viva Television Corporation (VTV) - To push its software across another medium, Viva ventured into television production in 1986 thru local filmdom’s hottest property - Ms. Sharon Cuneta (the Mega Star). Her big screen success easily fueled her musical variety TV show to the top of the ratings where it stayed until mid-1997 (when she semi-retired).