The Party Pilipinas started to air on the Palm Sunday which officially replaced the now defunct SOP.

But I am still wondering… if the SOP failed to stay against the ASAP of ABS-CBN, “kaya kaya ng Party Pilipinas?“

Here’s the official statement of the ABS-CBN:

“In the interest of self-regulation, ABS-CBN has availed of the conciliation process under Section 6, Rule 7, of the MTRCB Rules of Procedures, regarding the incidents involving Mr. Willie Revillame in the program Wowowee. After having considered the facts, issues and terms of self-regulation to be imposed in the pertinent cases, the MTRCB has approved the same.

“Whereof, the ABS-CBN shall undertake to perform the following:

“1. Extend Mr. Revillame’s leave until 20 September 2009; and,
“2. Remove the present dance segment of Luningning and Saicy.

“Further, ABS-CBN reiterates that it is fully aware of its legal and moral responsibilities as a broadcaster and shall undertake to continue to uphold the values and customs of the Filipino viewing public.”

My thoughts

I was thinking recently if Willie Revillame is still needed on his popular noontime show, Wowowee. And I found out that according to research, Wowowee remains the number 1 TV show since his indefinite leave up to this time of writing this post.

In other words, Pokwang and other co-hosts of the show are now capable of maintaining the popularity of the show. So, I guess even if Willie Revillame will decide to leave the ABS-CBN after the recent decision made by the company, Wowowee will remain good noontime entertainment.

So, what will Willie Revillame do now?

Well. He’s now rich. And I think, he can still to earn millions from his business aside from hosting the Wowowee.

However, today I got the letter of the ABS-CBN management for Ms. Gozum as the response to the complaint of the MTRCB against Willie Revillame from the MB news which says:

Dear Ms. Gozum:

We write in reply to your letter dated 10 August 2009, requesting ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation to comment on the complaint of Movie and Television Review & Classification Board (MTRCB) Chairperson Ma. Consoliza P. Laguardia dated 10 August 2009, and an undated statement of Jerry Yap, President of the Alyansa ng Filipino Mamamahayag (AFIMA).

The said complaint and statement both refer to the 03 August 2009 episode of the television program Wowowee, wherein the funeral cortege of the late President Corazon C. Aquino was exhibited as an inset in portions of the said program. The MTRCB letter alleges that Mr. Revillame “appeared to arrogantly demand the removal of the inset screen showing the funeral cortege.” The Honorable MTRCB Chairperson then opined that the said act was “desecrating the dead” and, thus, “seems to be in violation of Article 20, Section 2, of the Broadcast Code of the Philippines.” On the other hand, the AFIMA statement states that “[f]or him to demand the removal of the little window screen showing the funeral march of the woman who got ABS-CBN back from Marcos is a blasphemy of democracy, an act despicable x x x.” It appears, therefore, that the complaint and statement are both based on the alleged disrespect by Mr. Revillame to the late former President Aquino.

It is ABS-CBN’s position that there was no disrespect of the dead by Mr. Revillame. When the funeral cortege of former President Aquino was shown as an inset during Wowowee, Mr. Revillame expressed his opinion of the inappropriateness of the simultaneous exhibition of both the funeral cortege and Wowowee, and his preference that only one or the other be shown.

In expressing his opinion and preference, though, Mr. Revillame did not show disrespect for former President Aquino. In fact, the contrary is true. In making his statements, Mr. Revillame wanted to give due respect to former President Aquino and her funeral cortege.

Indeed, in Filipino culture, customs, and tradition, ceremonies involving the dead are solemn and sober. Thus, the laughter, jokes, and happiness usually seen in a program like Wowowee would appear to be inappropriate when viewed together with the funeral cortege. On the one hand, the Filipino people are mourning the death of a loved and respected former President, and on the other hand, Wowowee is trying to entertain its audience.

It appears, therefore, that Mr. Revillame’s issue was with the inappropriateness of Wowowee and the funeral cortege being shown together, and not with the funeral cortege itself. While it may be argued that Mr. Revillame could have expressed his thoughts in a better way and that it would have been better to raise them privately, instead of the public manner in which he did, such was not disrespectful of the dead and does not constitute an offense under the KBP Broadcast Code of the Philippines.

We trust the foregoing comment satisfactorily establishes that there was no violation of the KBP Broadcast Code of the Philippines.

Very truly yours,
MA. SOCORRO V. VIDANES Head, Channel 2

So, it seems that ABS-CBN finally defended Willie Revillame. But when will be the return of Wille Revillame to the Wowowee?

Is Willie Revillame suspended already from the Wowowee because of what he said on Monday during the former president Cory Aquino cortege?

Actually, naaawa ako kay Willie. It might be true that Willie Revillame is arrogant. But what he did last Monday is not a show of disrespectful to Madam Cory Aquino but to the ABS-CBN management. So, if Willie would be suspended it would be because of his show of disrespectful to the management not to the cortege of former President Cory Aquino.

Pero di tayo dapat magalit ay Willie on what happened on Monday but to the management of the ABS-CBN by simultaneously showing both the Wowowee and the Cortege.

On Monday, Willie Revillame ordered the removal of the video of the former president’s cortege which was simultaneously shown with the Wowowee.

The Aquino family according to the family’s spokesperson considered it as “… regrettable and a crass attempt to desecrate the memory of the beloved Tita Cory.”

However, in my part, there’s no pambabastos in what he said. It’s of course better to stop the livestreaming of the cortege while the Wowowee show is on because the cortege and the Wowowee are directly oposite in emotion.

I understand what Willie Revillame’s thought. His intention was to show respect to the former president because for him simultaneously shown the Wowowee and the live coverage of the cortege was a show of disrespectful.

For me, it’s not Willie Revillame whom should we blame on this issue but the ABS-CBN management for allowing the Wowowee to be aired while the Filipino people are mourning. The ABS-CBN should suspend temporarily the show while the former president was not yet buried.

However, Willie had made mistakes too. Instead of ordering the removal of the livestreaming, Willie should request to the management to stop showing one of the two: Wowowee or Live coverage of Cory’sEntertainment cortege. If the ABS-CBN wanted to show the live coverage of the cortege then Wowowee should be stopped until Cory Aquino would be buried.

It was a red a box. And inside of it were three brown envolope. Two of the envelopes had a mark P750 and the other one P500. Which means that the content of the box was P2Million.

Willie was thankful to the sender but he said he did not need money any more. He also said that he consulted his lawyers and decided to share the money to different institutions: Bantay Bata with P500,000, 71 Dreams Foundation with P500,000, and the OFWs in Dubai with P500,000, P150,000 to the conjoined twins named Baby Carsiaga. One of the contestants of the “Willie of Fortune” received P50,000 also which will be used to pay the hospital bill of their baby who was still in the hospital being incubated. And the rest of the money will be given to the Wowowee foundation.

But few people whom I talked with told me that the money was his and was actually part of the gimmick of Willie Revillame especially that he’s promoting his new single, “Munting Hiling”.

But what ever is the truth, we’re thankful for the kindness of Willie Revillame.

But what I am sure is, Valerie Conception will be a lead star of the coming afternoon soap of the ABS-CBN called “Pat is Tin”. The story focused at Tin, the role that will be played by Valerie Conception, whose body will be used by the soul of Pat, which will be played by Cai Cortez.

I wonder what’s the real motive of Richard Gomez but I sensed few things:

1. Richard Gomez will run for an office in 2010 election. It might be a local office in Ormoc or any National offices.
2. Richard Gomez just wanted to promote his movie along with Senator Jinggoy Estrada.
3. Richard Gomez wanted to return to the ABS-CBN.

About the Love or Bread:

Taiwan’s favorite small screen couple, Joe Cheng and Ariel Lin of It Started With a Kiss fame pair up again in the CTV romantic comedy Love or Bread. Directed by idol drama hitmaker Lin He Long (Hot Shot, Why Why Love), Love or Bread revolves around two poor young people, and their bumbling romantic and money-making adventures as they start a new unlikely life together. This cute and hilarious love story also co-stars Golden Horse Best Newcomer winner Bryant Chang, who returns to television for his first drama since breaking through on the big screen with Eternal Summer and Summer’s Tail, plus actress Angus Chang (Toast Boy’s Kiss) and newcomer Huang Wen Xing from Super Idol singing contest.

Frank (Joe Cheng) may look and act like a young and rich prince, but in reality he’s just an average Joe putting up an affluent front. Worse, he’s an average Joe who’s lazy, irresponsible, and swimming in debt. Also in need of money, get-going gal Shan Mei (Ariel Lin) is working hard to support her family and bring the bread home. What happens when these two equally poor young people with completely different values and lifestyles end up sharing the same rundown house?

If you are interested of buying the DVD of it that contains episode 1-36 (complete) you can take it here. But it is using the Mandarin language and the subtitle is in Simplified Chinese.

During the exclusive interview by the ABS-CBN with Mrs. Irene Kho, Irene Kho revealed that the root of the troubles is Katrina Halili because Katrina Halili taught Hayden Kho to use illegal drug.

Now the PDEA issued subpoena to Katrina Halili, Hayden Kho and his mother Irene Kho.