“The best in Filipino series in facing reality”—that is how Kapamilya network ABS-CBN 2 described the new set of “realeseryes” that are bound to hit the local television screens very soon. Following the the successful adaptations of the foreign reality shows like the Pinoy Fear Factor, Pinoy Dream Academy, and Pinoy Big Brother, another fresh roster of Kapamilya reality shows are bound to hit the Philippine television screens this time via The Biggest Loser: Pinoy Edition, I Dare You: The Kapamilya Exchange, and Junior Master Chef.
The Biggest Loser: Pinoy Edition is an adaptation of the famous reality show, The Biggest Loser by Endemol which is also a hit in the United States, United Kingdom, Asia, Middle East, Australia, South Africa, Israel, and Mexico to name a few. Each country has its own adaptation of the program depending on the country’s respective culture. The one thing that remains unchanged is the goal to lose the biggest amount of weight among all the other contestants before the show ends.
In The Biggest Loser: Pinoy Edition, the plus-size contestants will go head-to-head with each other by going through strict physical training that will challenge their body limits. Add a strict diet, not to mention the contestants’ constant battle to resist temptations of eating their favorite foods just to be helmed the ultimate “Biggest Loser” and the “biggest winner” of a grand cash and prize package also adds to the pressure.
The “Megastar” Sharon Cuneta, who recently celebrated her 45th birthday January 6 will be hosting The Biggest Loser: Pinoy Edition. As the show’s host, the Megastar told the showbiz portal PEP that she also has been going through rigorous physical trainings and a healthy diet. She will also be the one to observe the contestants as they perform activities that will help them lose weight. The megastar will guide the contestants adopt a healthy eating habit and go deeper into the lives of the latter for the viewers to get to know them better.
Expected to air this January, The Biggest Loser: Pinoy Edition will be a reality show that will not only teach the big ones how to discipline themselves through proper exercise and eating the right food, but will also give the viewers a chance to look behind some of the stories of overweight people and the strife that they have to go through in life just to be accepted in the society.
From the “big” ones, the Kapamilya network shifts to the little ones in Junior Master Chef, a franchise reality show of the same program name in Australia. The Junior Master Chef is a competitive cooking reality show that features young contestants ranging from 8 to 13 years old. The first season of the show was aired in Australia July 2010. Out of the 5,000 who auditioned, only 12 got in according to the Junior Chef Master’s site.
Many who missed Judy Ann Santos—who recently gave birth to a baby boy, will be happy to see her again host her first reality show, which involves young cooks tasked to invent and come up with delectable meals that will be scored by selective points according to the judges’ discretion.
Aside from being a mom, Judy Ann also took lessons in culinary arts and is very well known to be fond of children.
Meanwhile, I Dare You: the Kapamilya Exchange, is a reality show adaptation of AXN channel’s I Dare You: The Ultimate Challenge, in which daredevils perform death-defying stunts no one’s ever thought possible.
While Pinoy celebrities will less likely be put to do dangerous stunts, in I Dare You: The Kapamilya Exchange, extraordinary tasks will be given to them, that includes ‘exchanging’ their well-off living to experience the challenges of doing what underprivileged do like living in a shanty, wearing simple clothes, fishing, and even collecting garbage.
The show will be hosted by Jericho Rosales, who comes back to the doing a new television program after taking a break for a long time; Iya Villania, who recently signed a three-year contract with ABS-CBN; and Pinoy Big Brother Double Up grand winner Melissa Cantiveros.
Aside from the realiseryes, new original shows are also expected to be shown by ABS-CBN with the promise to showcase the best of Filipino talents as well as the latter’s courage in facing real-life challenges.
(www.asianjournal.com)
(OCIE Jan 7-13, 2010 Red Carpet pg.2)
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