Daily Tribune (Philippines)

ABS-CBN online shows have 30 million views Sheep’s Facebook page and YouTube channel, on iWant TFC and on cable via Cinema One. During the show’s entire run, it consistent­ly became the No. 1 trending Twitter topic in the Philippine­s. It has also crossed

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ABS-CBN Films remains active online with two variety shows, an innovative visual podcast and the most-watched digital series with a combined 30 million views.

Enjoying 10.1 million views is the one-hour talk-variety-musical show I Feel U hosted by Toni Gonzaga. The program features reunions of famous TV show cast members, mini-concerts, contests and tributes to heroes in the pandemic.

The show is live-streamed Sundays at 9:30 a.m. with a replay at 5 p.m. on the Facebook pages of Star Cinema, Black Sheep, TFC, ABS-CBN Entertainm­ent, Star Music, One Music, Jeepney TV, MyChos, as well as the YouTube pages of Star Cinema and Jeepney TV.

It is also available on the Star Cinema and oks.abs-cbn.com websites and the newly merged iWant TFC. On cable, viewers can catch it on Cinema One, Jeepney TV and Myx while catch-up viewing is on the Kapamilya Online Live via the ABS-CBN Entertainm­ent Facebook page.

After a successful first run that premiered in May, the show is now on its second season.

The pandemic did not stop ABS-CBN Films from discoverin­g and introducin­g new artists. Via its new management team, Rise Artists Studio, the company has produced a twin set of shows with 16 young faces.

We Rise Together is a youth-oriented variety show that features the Rise Artists Studio talents in lively chat sessions and games. It livestream­s Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 12 p.m. on Rise Artists Studio’s Facebook and YouTube accounts, oks.abs-cbn.

com, iWant TFC and Kumu and has replays on the same platforms in the evening.

Giving the show’s fans a chance to get closer to their Rise Artists Studio idols is Rise Here, Right Now, an Instagram live spinoff that is now on Kumu every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

It is the only Filipino series to have been invited to the ImageOut Film Festival in New York.

ABS-CBN Films has also given Filipinos an innovative new kind of entertainm­ent format with the visual podcast series Listen to Love. Its first book, titled Four Bad Boys and Me, is

hosted by Maymay Entrata and features Kaori Oinuma, Rhys Miguel, Jeremiah Lisbo, Karina Bautista, Aljon Mendoza, with Chie Filomeno.

Listen to Love can be enjoyed in a variety of ways. To catch it, fans can go to the Facebook pages of Star Cinema, Black Sheep, Rise, MyChos, ABS-CBN Entertainm­ent, Star Magic, Star Hunt, TFC and Star Cinema’s YouTube channel.

The show is also on the music streaming app Spotify and podcast apps from Apple, Pocket Cast, Google and Overcast as well as the Star Cinema and oks.

abs-cbn.com websites, Jeepney TV and iWant TFC.

Launched in August, the visual podcast already has a combined total of 4.6 million views.

ABS-CBN Films has likewise produced the phenomenal digital series Hello Stranger. Belonging to the now popular boys love or BL genre, Hello Stranger gave Filipinos a chance to fall in love with the pairing of a nerdy college student and a school jock, played by JC Alcantara and Tony Labrusca, respective­ly.

The show has recently ended but can still be viewed on Black series’ stars in a finale fan conference and advanced finale screening, drawing viewers from across the globe including Jakarta, Bangkok, Taipei, Doha, Paris, Chicago, London, Vancouver, San Diego, Dublin, Melbourne, Toronto, Seattle, Calgary, Riyadh, Kiel, Barcelona, Sharjah, Kuwait, Houston, Rio de Janeiro, Al Kobar, Bethlehem and Copenhagen.

With close to 14 million views, it is now the most viewed digital series in the Philippine­s. Fans hoping to see the stars together again won’t have to wait long as the show will soon have a movie spin-off.

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