Philippine Showbiz Today
March 22 - April 7, 2019
Jan. 22-Feb.7, 2015
Angel still primetime
queen as General’s
Daughter; Kadenang Ginto
smashes own record
thrice in a week
“The General’s Daughter”
remained the far-and-away No.
1 program in its time slot despite
a new rival, cementing the status
of lead star Angel Locsin as the
current queen of primetime.
The Dreamscape production
scored a nationwide rating of
34% on March 18. That’s more
than double the viewership of
“Sahaya,” which debuted against
“The General’s Daughter” and
only got 15.9%.
The Monday rating of the
Kapamilya series placed it
second overall in the list of most
watched programs, according to
Kantar Media, trailing only “FPJ’s
Ang
Probinsyano,”
another
Dreamscape offering.
“The General’s Daughter,”
which has been billed as the
“biggest teleserye” of 2019, follows
Rhian Bonifacio as she navigates
a double life as a sleeper agent in
the military whose assassination
target, unknown to her, is her own
father.
Meanwhile,
“Kadenang
Ginto” is on a record-breaking
streak with its fresh season serving
one dramatic twist after another,
including the maltreated Cassie
(Francine Diaz) learning to fend
for herself in a mansion that used
to be her home.
The Dreamscape afternoon
drama set a new record viewership
thrice in a span of one week,
with its most recent highest-ever
rating reaching 24% on March 19.
That was nearly double the rating
of its rival program, “My Special
Tatay,” which registered 12.1%,
according to Kantar Media.
Previously,
“Kadenang
Ginto’s” biggest viewership was
23.5% on March 18. That audience
share toppled its last record,
which it achieved as recently as
March 14 with 21.2%.
The soaring ratings of
“Kadenang Ginto” coincide with
its newly launched second season,
where the feuding families left
behind by the deceased Robert
(Albert Martinez) continue their
tug-of-war over the Mondragon
fortune.
Daniela (Dimples Romana)
and Marga (Andrea Brillantes)
have regained control of the
mansion — the result of Romina
(Beauty Gonzalez) being framed,
and incarcerated, for the death of
Robert.
Evicted from her own
room, Cassie for a time became
a maltreated helper of the
household, until the events of this
week’s episodes where she fights
back by reporting Daniela’s abuse
to the police. ●
- ABS-CBN News
Just prior to the annulment
of her marriage with James Yap,
Kris Aquino experienced what she
now considers an omen that the
relationship could no longer be
salvaged.
Aquino, 48, recalled the
peculiar incident in her March 19
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