Philippine Asian News Today Vol 18 No 18 | Page 33

September 16 - 30, 2016

PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY

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“TILL I MET YOU” DRAWS MORE VIEWERS VERSUS
RIVAL PROGRAM IN NEW TIMESLOT
Viewers showed their love
and support for Kapamilya stars
James Reid and Nadine Lustre
as their series “Till I Met You”
consistently attracted more viewers in its new timeslot compared
to its rival program last week.
Fans were captivated by the
kilig brought by the real-life couple as the series hit an average
weekly nationwide rating of 18%

(September 19-23), much higher
compared to its rival program
“Someone to Watch Over Me,”
which only got 11.3%, according
to data from Kantar Media.
Netizens were also sent into
a frenzy as they expressed their
overflowing joy and kilig when
Iris and Basti shared a kiss last
Wednesday, sending the episode’s official hashtag #TIMY-

TheRooftopKiss to the list of
the micro-blogging site’s most
about topics. The hashtag also
garnered a total of two million
tweets.
Avid viewers were also sure
to catch up on the episodes they
missed. So far, “Till I Met You”
has hitting a total of 3.5 million
views on iWant TV since it started
airing on television last month.

Meanwhile, as the story continues, the scars of the past have
now affected their present lives
after Iris and Basti discovered
that their parents, Cassandra
(Carmina Villarroel) and Nestor
(Zoren Legaspi), were once lovers but went their separate ways
after a bad breakup. Considering
her mother’s feelings, Iris then
decided to leave Basti and forget

LOVE CALL

The male mole cricket is one of the animal kingdom’s most imaginative suitors.
He calls his mate with a chirping song made by rubbing his forewings together
— and to make sure his song is heard, he constructs his own kind of stereo amplifier. With his large, flattened fore legs he digs an underground nest with a twinhorned tunnel entrance. Then he sits at the junction of the horns and beams out
his hi-fi message for any passing female to hear.
For the Record.
At last count, there are some 1, 014 males in the world for every 1,000 females.
The country with the biggest recorded shortage of women is the United Arab
Emirates which has only about 484 for every 1, 000 males. At the male-deficit
end is Ukraine, with an estimated 1,114 females to every 1,000 men.
Males are more likely to suffer from birth defects than females

Word Watch

Tatay : frrom the Mexican tata, meaning “father.”

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the love she has for him. But he
will not give up and follow her
to the Philippines to prove he is
worthy of another chance.
Will Iris and Basti be able
to fix their relationship? How will
their friend Ali (JC Santos) help
them in mending their broken
hearts? (www.abscbnpr.com)