TV5 Quiz Show "Barangay Utakan" Now on it's Second Season

It was fun and super funny to have witnessed the first season of "Barangay Utakan", a game show designed to outwit, outsmart and outplay communities via a quiz show featuring current events and news seen on the happiest network in the country TV5. It is designed to promote community spirit, and camaraderie while they pit townships from different cities and have them battle it out on either smartness or ingenuity. 

It has been copied by other TV stations but they say, nothing really beats the original. This is also hosted by internet action superstar Ramon Bautista, the one and only machismo inlaw Jun "bayaw" Sabayton and smart guy cum Palanca Awardee Lourd De Veyra. They'll get you in on the most pressing issues this country has been going through and will also educate the general public about it. They'll also have bombshell co-hosts Bea Benedicto and Nikki Veron to give an even better impression that even the female form can do it. 

The man behind this show is RA Rivera and he says "This is designed to make communities about their innate quality of nationalism and teamwork. It is something unique and informative, and we want sports or activities to be the driving force in transforming communities."

Make sure you watch the show 9PM every Sunday on the happiest network in the country TV5!

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TV5 Hosts "PILIPinas" Presidential Debates 2016 on March 20

It's TV5's turn with Moderator Luchi Cruz-Valdes (Center), and her panelists Lourd de Veyra, Atty. Ruhpil Bañoc, Atty. Tony Abad, Ana Marie Pamintuan, Marichu Villanueva and Erwin Tulfo.

In my opinion, the last presidential debate wasn't really effective. Although they tried to pit the candidates against each others platforms, most of the time, they just agreed or praised each other which I think was a little self serving. This is just an opinion, and I think that's important to at least have an opinion, if that makes sense. This time, it's TV5 that's hosting the Cebu Presidential debates. It's going to happen this Sunday, and as I said during the last time this happened, you should drop anything that you're doing and focus on the debates because if you're seriously looking for answers to your questions on who to vote for this coming elections, you should definitely watch this.

I am looking forward to a better exchange of facts and opinions because TV5 is doing this with a stellar team. You'll get the intelligent questions from Luchi Cruz Valdez (while she's moderating at that), plus some smart panel discussions with Lourd de Veyra, Atty. Ruhpil Banoc, Atty. Tony Abad, Ana Marie Pamintuan, Marichu Villanueva and tough guy Erwin Tulfo. I am expecting sparks to fly, knives to stick to the candidates back, so I could see who wouldn't be just sitting down and taking all of it. TV5 is also announcing that this is part of their "Bilang Pilipino 2016" program. V5 President and CEO Emmanuel C. Lorenzana says "The March 20 debate is the centerpiece in our Bilang Pilipino program where we aim to provide Filipino voters and the general public the most extensive and in-depth coverage of the 2016 national elections." They will also harness the resources of PLDT, Smart, Cignal, Philippine Star, BusinessWorld, RadyoSingko, InterAksyon.com and Bloomberg TV Philippines to bring the information in your homes, your smart phones, wherever you are during the event.

This will be held at the Performing Arts Hall at the University Philippines campus in Cebu City so if you can't go there directly, watch it LIVE on the happiest network in the country, TV5!

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Meeting Lourd de Veyra

This guy right here is made of legends. i think he's also a genius, a talker, and a damn good singer. Last time I saw him was in 7107 Music Festival when he performed on stage with the whole Radio Active Sago Project. Sitting amongst the throng of media people, I could hear him discuss history and controversies about Bonifacio, Aguinaldo, Del Pilar and a couple more national heroes in the mix. There's a smart repute, a crazy fact, mostly things that were not uncovered by history books we had in school. It made me realize we were getting dumbed out by textbooks. He goes on correcting facts in his program and adds on different things that may make you doubt what is supposed to be genuine history. It makes you think, at least that part is great.

He just won Gawad Tanglaw of which he's probably one of the youngest guys who ever won it. He's also won awards for his documentaries with National Commission for Culture and Arts. Add to that Hildegarde Awards for "History with Lourd" and Adamson University's Annual Media Awards. He's got a few programs on TV5 like Aksyon sa Umaga, Aksyon, History with Lourd, Word of the Lourd, Chillax and a new one for online consumption entitled "KONTRABANDO" that will only appear in the Word of the Lourd Facebook Page. Now netizens will get more regular treats from this guy, no holds barred.

He was just in Pagasa Island the other week of which 91 people there where only 2 females were around. He also got threatened by China as he was supposedly flying over their military territory. He was offered to appear on TV initially by Patrick Paez who's now part of TV5 News. He wanted things out of the box, short videos, like Word of the Lourd. They found out later on that more people went on watching the shows on Facebook, back when it was just starting and they didn't have limitations in that channel. He's not the usual uptight coat and tie anchor, but he sure is making waves on TV like he's king. He also went to say he's committing sin right now, with a lady from Star Cinema but he's all good because that's just a take back on his Radio Active Sago Project times when he thought that he'll have tons of girls as a rock star. He said he was always "nganga" and went home not meeting her most of the time. They're still together and still happy with their dogs.

You'll hear more of his brand of news in these shows. Kontrabando will be shown online with Jun Sabayton, RA Rivera and Ramon Bautista as cast. Remember, they won't be filtered there so expect things to be crazy, like crazy serious! It's got room for improvs, taped quite raw and very silly. He puts it like "Tarant@dong News" and the best there is in the world. You just gotta see this.

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