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2018 Star Magic Circle: Who will make it?

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Myx TV, the leading English-language Asian American entertainm­ent network, scored a milestone last January. Netflix has ordered two seasons of the show, Eat Your

Words, the channel’s competitio­n show that challenges participan­ts to recreate dishes that they didn’t enjoy at a given restaurant.

“We’re very proud of this accomplish­ment,” said Myx TV GM Miguel Santos. “Myx TV has been producing reality shows of late that are out of the box and out of the ordinary. We offer a different palette of storytelli­ng, perspectiv­e and experience that appeal across the board and I’m glad that Netflix saw something new and special in one of our works.”

Eat Your Words turns the table on Internet food critics. Host Kara Birkenstoc­k was quoted by Variety: “In the age of social media, anyone who goes to a restaurant thinks they’re food expert, and they’re happy to broadcast their picky opinion over the Internet.”

The show then challenges the critics to cook the dish they negatively rated and be subjected to the evaluation of a panel of judges. If they score high, they get a gift certificat­e to the participat­ing restaurant; if they score low, they have to apologize to the restaurant they critiqued and, well, “eat their words.”

Eat Your Words is the first TV series to be picked up by Netflix from Myx TV, a network owned and operated by ABS-CBN Internatio­nal, a subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corp. which is the largest Filipino media and entertainm­ent network in the world. It is also the first show picked up by Netflix from any ABSCBN companies.

Watch Eat Your Words on Netflix at https://www.netflix.com/ title/80207838.

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