Michael Sarver was Voted out

Michael Sarver is the latest to be voted out of American Idol Season 8. Michael sang "Aint Too Proud to Beg" and the judges found it terrible

All four Idol judges were unanimous in saying that it was the most terrible performance of Michael. Paula Abdul said: "For me this was a though performance and it felt Las Vegas loungy for me. Simon said: "I could'nt wait for it to end", Randy said: "The song was a little too big for you", and Kara said: "We are looking for and artist. Next week yuou need to be an artist", sad but there will be no more next week for Sarver.

Along with Michael Sarver in the bottom 3 were Matt Giraud and Scott McIntyre

Zorro Debuts No.1 Says TNS

Richard Gutierrez' newest action series "Zorro" debuted No. 1 in the Mega Manila Household Ratings last Monday, March 23. This is Richard's seventh teleserye on GMA and his third highest debuting TV series. "Zorro" registered a whoping 38.2% rating based on Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS).

Here are the Mega Manila household result from march 20-23 base on courtesy of TNS:

March 20, Friday

Daytime

1. Eat Bulaga! (GMA-7) - 22.6%

2. Paano Ba ang Mangarap? (GMA-7) - 21.8%

3. Dapat Ka Bang Mahalin? (GMA-7) - 20.6%

4. Daisy Siete (GMA-7) - 19.1%

5. Wowowee (ABS-CBN) - 17.5%

6. Pilipinas, Game KNB? (ABS-CBN) - 13.9%

7. Slamdunk (GMA-7) - 11.7%

8. Parekoy (ABS-CBN) - 11.1%

9. Pokemon: Master Quest (GMA-7) - 10.3%

10. Lalola (GMA-7) - 10.1%



Primetime

1. Totoy Bato (GMA-7) - 31.4%

2. May Bukas Pa (ABS-CBN) - 29%

3. Tayong Dalawa (ABS-CBN) - 28.3%

4. I Love Betty La Fea (ABS-CBN) - 27.9%

5. 24 Oras (GMA-7) - 27.3%

6. All About Eve (GMA-7) - 26.3%

7. Ang Babaeng Hinugot Sa Aking Tadyang (GMA-7) - 26.1%

8. TV Patrol World (ABS-CBN) - 23.2%

9. SNN: Showbiz News Ngayon (ABS-CBN) - 20.2%

10. S.O.C.O. (ABS-CBN) - 18.6%



March 21, Saturday

Daytime

1. Eat Bulaga! (GMA-7) - 22.4%

2. Pinoy Records (GMA-7) - 17.9%

3. Wowowee (ABS-CBN) - 15.8%

4. Cinema FPJ: Da King on ABS-CBN (ABS-CBN) - 13.7%

5. Joey's Quirky World (GMA-7) - 12.8%

6. Startalk (GMA-7) - 12.6%

7. Wish Ko Lang (GMA-7) - 12.3%

8. Komiks Presents Flash Bomba (ABS-CBN) - 12.2%

9. Pilipinas, Game KNB? (ABS-CBN) - 11.6%

10. Entertainment Live (ABS-CBN) - 7.6%



Primetime

1. Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (GMA-7) - 31.8%

2. Imbestigador (GMA-7) - 27.5%

3. Bitoy's Funniest Videos (GMA-7) - 27.2%

4. Kakasa Ka Ba Sa Grade 5? (GMA-7) - 23%

5. Maalaala Mo Kaya (ABS-CBN) - 21.6%

6. XXX (ABS-CBN) - 17.8%

7. The Singing Bee (ABS-CBN) - 15.4%

8. Cool Center: Hello, It's Me! (GMA-7) - 13.2%

9. Talentadong Pinoy (TV5) - 12.7%

10. Banana Split (ABS-CBN) - 11.7%



March 22, Sunday

Daytime

1. ASAP '09 (ABS-CBN) - 15.8%

2. SOP (GMA-7) - 15.2%

3. Your Song Presents Underage (ABS-CBN) - 13.5%

4. Joey's Quirky World (GMA-7) - 12.1%

5. Dear Friend: Karibal (GMA-7) 11.3%

6. Showbiz Central (GMA-7) - 11%

7. Matanglawin (ABS-CBN) - 10.8%

8. The Buzz (ABS-CBN) - 10.2%

9. Kay Susan Tayo (GMA-7) - 9.2%

10. Donie "Ahas" Nietes vs. Erik Ramirez (ABS-CBN) - 7.3%



Primetime

1. Rated K (ABS-CBN) - 22.7%

2. Mel & Joey (GMA-7) - 22.6%

3. Sharon (ABS-CBN) - 21.2%

4. The Singing Bee (ABS-CBN) - 20.7%

5. All Star K (GMA-7) - 20.5%

6. Ful Haus (GMA-7) - 19.3%

7. Kap's Amazing Stories (GMA-7) - 18.5%

8. My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad (GMA-7) - 17.4%

9. TV Patrol World (ABS-CBN) - 16%

10. Goin' Bulilit (ABS-CBN) - 13.8%



March 23, Monday

Daytime

1. Paano Ba ang Mangarap? (GMA-7) - 23.6%

2. Eat Bulaga! (GMA-7) / Dapat Ka Bang Mahalin? (GMA-7) - 22.2%

3. Daisy Siete (GMA-7) - 21.2%

4. Wowowee (ABS-CBN) - 17.9%

5. Pilipinas, Game KNB? (ABS-CBN) - 14.8%

6. Lalola (GMA-7) - 12.4%

7. Parekoy (ABS-CBN) - 10.4%

8. Pieta (ABS-CBN) - 10.2%

9. Chil Princesses (GMA-7) / Gokusen 3 (GMA-7) - 9.2%

10. Slamdunk (GMA-7) - 9%



Primetime

1. Zorro (GMA-7) - 38.2%

2. Totoy Bato (GMA-7) - 35.3%

3. Ang Babaeng Hinugot Sa Aking Tadyang (GMA-7) - 30.6%

4. 24 Oras (GMA-7) - 28.5%

5. Tayong Dalawa (ABS-CBN) - 28.1%

6. I Love Betty La Fea (ABS-CBN) - 27.9%

7. All About Eve (GMA-7) - 27.3%

8. May Bukas Pa (ABS-CBN) - 26.8%

9. Fated To Love You (GMA-7) - 25.5%

10. TV Patrol World (ABS-CBN) - 22.8%

Source: TNS via Philippine Entertainment Portal

Sundo Hits P17 Million Mark

GMA Films' "Sundo" is not being left behind after all. Since last March 18-22 the horror film have earned P17,988,400.46.

"Sundo" is GMA Films latest horror flick top-billed by Robin Padilla, Sunshine Dizon, Rhian Ramos and Katrina Halili. It's directed by Topel Lee, the same guy that directed "Ouija". The movie has been Graded B by the Cinema Evaluation board and guarantees to put movie goers on the edge of their seat.

"Sundo" is now showing in theaters nationwide.

Pacman Remains With Solar and GMA 7

Manny Pacquiao remains under the roof of Solar Sports and GMA 7, that was the Pambansang Kamao's final decision which he relayed through a statement read by his legal councel Atty. Franklin Gacal. In connection to this, Pacman's May 2 fight against Ricky Hatton will air on GMA 7.

A couple of days ago Manny Pacquiao decided to give the airing rights of his upcoming fight to ABS-CBN and turned down his contract with Solar Sports. This was also a sign that Pacman is also dropping down his existing contract with GMA 7 which he top-bills two shows "Pinoy Records" and "Totoy Bato". Both Solar Sports and GMA 7 did'nt like his actions and decided that they will take legal actions to protect their rights. This incident also heated up the rivalry between the top 2 networks ABS-CBN and GMA 7. And there were expectations from columnists that Pacquiao intended to transfer to ABS-CBN becuse the network offered him support for his rumored candidacy for the 2010 Elections.

For days Pacman was the talk of the town because of his drastic actions, many were not in favor of what he did. So yesterday March 21, Pacquiao decided to clean up the mess he did. He relayed an official statement through his attorney saying that MP Promotions will respect the leagl and binding contract with Solar Sports and made sure that his next match on May 2 will air on GMA 7 under the supervised by Solar. At the end of his staement Pacman apologized to the fans because his actions caused confusion and said that he will forget all controversies and just focus on his training for his match against Ricky Hatton.

This was not the first time that Manny Pacquiao turned down an existing contract, if you would recall couple of years ago Pacman was involved in the same incident after he transferred from Golden Boy Promotions to Bob Arum's Top Rank Promotions. He could have thought about that doing mess would only cause him to lose his focus to his next match so he decided to fix it.

Alexis Grace is Out from American Idol Season 8

Alexis Grace from Memphis is American Idol Season 8's second casualty. The 21 year old Idol Hopefull got the lowest vote from America, along with her in the bottom 3 were Michael Sarver and Allison Iraheta.

The eleven remaining Idol Hopefulls sang country music last week and was supervised by country music icon Randy Travis. Alexis Grace sang "Jolie". And when Alexis's name was announced as the next one to be sent home, the judges revealed that they are considering of saving her(Alexis) from elimination. Alexis sang for her Idol life one more time but the judges thought that it was'nt enough to save her. So at the end of the show there were just 10 American Idol Finalists remaining and they are:

Adam Lambert

Allison Iraheta

Anoop Desai

Danny Gokey

Lil Rounds

Kris Allen

Matt Giraud

Megan Corkrey

Michael Sarver

Scott McIntyre

Sarah Geronimo Is The Box Office Queen

Sarah Geronimo is Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Awards' Box Office Queen and that's final. This award is courtesy of her launching movie "A Very Special Love" in 2008.  And her co-star in that movie John Lloyd Cruz is the Box Office King for two consecutive year.

As for this year, "You Changed My Life", the sequel for "A Very Special Love" have already earned P200 Million in the box office and Star Cinema is expecting that it will still earn upto P230 Million, "You Changed My Life" have surpassed the P197 Million of Ai Ai delas Alas' "Tanging Ina N'yong Lahat" and almost there to beating "Sukob" to become the Philippines biggest grossing film of all time. Sarah Geronimo is indeed a Superstar.

Here are the Winners of the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Awards:

Film Actor of the Year - Christopher de Leon (Magkaibigan)

Film Actress of the Year - Sharon Cuneta (Caregiver)

Prince & Princess of Philippine Movies & TV - Richard Gutierrez at KC Concepcion (For the First Time)

Male Concert Performer of the Year - Gary Valenciano (Gary Live@25)

Female Concert Performer of the Year - Sarah Geronimo (The Next One)

Male Recording Artist of the Year - Martin Nievera (Milestone)

Female Recording Artist of the Year - Sarah Geronimo (The Next One)

Most Popular Recording Group - Sponge Cola

Most Popular Novelty Singer - Moymoy Palaboy

Most Popular Loveteam of Movies & TV - Gerald Anderson at Kim Chiu

Most Promising Male Star of Movies & TV - Aljur Abrenica

Most Promising Female Star of Movies & TV - KC Concepcion

New Male Recording Artist of the Year (Most Promising Singer) - Bugoy Drilon of Pinoy Big Brother - Paano Na Kaya?

New Female Recording Artist of the Year (Promising Singer) - KC Concepcion (A.K.A. Cassandra)

Most Promising Performing Group - U Got Male

Most Popular Dance Group - EB Babes of Eat Bulaga

Most Popular Child Actor, Movies & TV - Robert “Buboy” Villar

Most Popular Child Actress, Movies & TV - Sharlene San Pedro

Most Popular Film Producer - Star Cinema

Most Popular Screenwriter - Raz Sobida dela Torre (A Very Special Love)

Most Popular Film Director - Cathy Garcia-Molina (A Very Special Love)

Most Popular Television Program - Dyesebel (nina Dingdong Dantes at Marian Rivera, GMA 7)

Most Popular TV Director - Bb. Joyce Bernal

Special Awards:

Bert Marcelo Award (for comedians) - Eugene Domingo

Comedy Box-Office King/s - Vic Sotto at Dolphy (Dobol Trobol)

Comedy Box-Office Queen - AiAi delas Alas (Tanging Ina N’yong Lahat)

Valentine Box-Office King & Queen - Richard Gutierrez at Marian Rivera (My Best Friend’s Girlfriend)

Outstanding Global Achievement by a Filipino Artist - Arnel Pineda at Charice Pempengco

Posthumous Award: Outstanding/Special Merit Award for Music - Francis Magalona

John Cena Top-bills "12 Rounds"

After the box-office success of his debut movie "The Marine", WWE Superstar John Cena is back with a new action flick "12 Rounds".

This time Cena plays Danny Fisher, a New Orleans Cop who finds his girlfriend kidnapped by a criminal seeking for revenge. But to save his girlfriend Danny(Cena) must get through 12 different trap set by his nemesis. Each of those traps keeps him guessing as he draws near to the conclusion.

"12 Rounds" is produced by the WWE Studios and Directed by Renny Harlin the director of "Die Hard 2", it opens March 25 in Philippine theaters nationwide.

Jasmine Murray and Gorge Nunez Leaves American Idol

The American Idol elimination have began last week, and two individuals was sent home and would no longer continue their dream of being the next American Idol.

Gorge Nunez and Jasmine Murray were the first casualty from the first elimination night. During the performance night, the 13 Idol finalists sang the hits of the "King Of  Pop" Michael Jackson. Jasmine sang "I'll Be There" and Jorge Nunez performed "Never Can Say Goodbye".

In that same night, a huge twist that would change the entire format of the contest was revealed. The Judges now has the power to save a contestant from elimination if  that individual could prove that he/she is deserving of another chance, they added this stipulation probably they've had enough of seeing people get eliminated because of text votes eventhough they are deserving just like what happened to Chris Daughtry.

After it was annouced that Jasmine and Gorge got the lowest votes in for that night, they were asked to sing once more and convince the judges to give them another chance but it did'nt worked. Both of them got ousted from AI Season 8 leaving 11 contestants to continue with the competition.

Watch the Top 13 Performance here

Cris Brown's Career is Slumping Down

R&B Singer Cris Brown's career is in a serious jeopardy after his alleged beating of he and his co-R&B singer and girlfriend Rihanna.

Radio stations in the U.S. have allegedly stopped playing Cris Brown's songs and his song "Forever" is no longer in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Moreover Cris Brown voluntarily gave up his nomination in the Nickolodeon Kid's Choice Award.

Right now it's not just Cris Brown whose having problems with his career, theres a big posibility that his girlfriend Rihanna could suffer the same fate too after the later reconcilled with Brown, this is because fans are dismayed about their reconcilliation knowing that the beating incident could happened again. The two R&B stars are even planning to to another duet.

Geoff Eigenman Is Back On GMA 7

After doing couple of shows in the Kapamilya Network, Geoff Eigenman is back in the Kapuso Network. Yesterday, March 11, Geoff signed a contract for GMA Network. Present in that contract signing were GMA Top Executives Atty. Felipe Gozon, Mr. Jimmy Duavit and Ms. Wilma Galvante.

Alongside with Geoff are his Manager Perry Lansigan and his Mother Ms. Gina Alajar. Geoff's first assignment as a Kapuso will be SRO Sinema Serye where he will be paired up with Maxene Magalona, this is the project that was allegedly turned down by JC de Vera.

Geoff Eigenman was first seen on GMA 7 via TAPE Inc.'s "Kirara", then he moved to ABS-CBN and did soaps such as Hiram where he was paired with Heart Evangelista, and "Lobo".

JC de Vera Remains Kapuso

After the gap between talent manager Annabelle Rama and GMA 7 have been fixed, JC de Vera can now rest assured about his career, because Annabelle Rama and GMA's Executives Atty. Felipe Gozon and Annette Gozon-Abrogar have both agreed that the young actor is staying on GMA 7's roster for good.

JC de Vera's career has been in a limbo during the last couple of weeks wondering wether he will stay as a Kapuso or will he move to the Kapamilya Station. This incident is due to the fued between his manager Annabelle Rama and GMA Senior Vice President for Entertainment Ms. Wilma Galvante, it lead to the point that the Talent Manager unloaded a threat that if JC will not have a new show, she will pull-out all of her talents from GMA which is about a dozen.

But after the meeting between the talent manager and the GMA bosses which ended in a nice manner we'll gonna see more of JC on GMA 7 because his manager agreed that JC will sign another contract and do future projects for GMA. His next show will be a Sine Novela which I think is "Ngayon At Kailanman.

Anyway JC celebrated his birthday in advance I think yesteday or the other day. And the actor says that he is glad that he is staying with the Kapuso Network and it's a nice birthday gift for him.

The Final Set

The "Final Set" Eraserheads reunion concert which was held last Saturday, March 7 at the SM Mall Of Asia Concert Ground was successful. More or less 100,00 fans attended the historic event knowing that it will be the last time that the band will be together.

Marcus Adoro, Buddy Zabala, Raymund Marasigan and Ely Buendia performed together for the last time 27 of their biggest hit and fans sang with them. The band also dedicated the concert to the late Francis Magalona who was supposed to be their guest in "The Final Set", they sang "Super Proxy", a song which was the band's colaboration with "The Master Rapper".

At the end of the night, Ely Buendia set a keyboard on fire which symbolyzes a closure for the fans, meaning that it's really the last performance of the legendary Eraserheads.

Annabelle Rama Seats Down with GMA 7 BigWigs

Guess what, the misunderstanding between Annabelle Rama and GMA 7 was finally settled. The talent manager and GMA's Senior Vice President for Entertainment Wilma Galvante is currently having a feud regarding Annabelle's talent JC de Vera. The talent manager even threatened GMA that she will do a mass pull-out of all her talents if JC will not have a follow-up project for LaLola.

But it seems Atty. Felipe Gozon and Annette Gozon-Abrogar, two top Executives of GMA would'n allow that to happen. Earlier today, the GMA Execs had a meeting with Annabelle Rama and according to some sources, that meeting ended well and both camps have agreed that every matters concerning Annabelle's talent will gonna have to go through Ms. Annette Gozon-Abrogar.

Great news, but it does'nt mean that the fued between Annabelle Rama and Ms. Wilma Galvante is not yet over. It will be better if they will be the ones to have a one on one meeting.

American Idol Season 8 Top 13

The American Idol Season 8 have officially began, and 13 people were chosen to go on to the final 13. You heard it right, Final 13 instead of the usual Final 12.

The huge twist was announced last Friday(Manila) in the wildcard results night. In that night, four people from the wildcard were chosen by the judges to be in the Final 13, they are Anoop Desai, Matt Giraud, Jasmine Murray, and Megan Corkrey.

So the American Idol Season 8 Final 13 are:

Anoop Desai
Lil Rounds
Kris Allen
Matt Giraud
Adam Lambert
Jorge Nunez
Scott MacIntyre
Danny Gokey
Alexis Grace
Michael Sarver
Allison Iraheta
Jasmine Murray
Megan Corkrey

Farewell Master Rapper

After months of excruciating and a hard fought battle against Leukemia, "The Master Rapper" Francis "kiko" Magalona lost the battle against the desease.

Francis Magalona died earlier today and his death was announced in Eat Bulaga by his co-host Voc Sotto at around 12:00 in the afternoon. "We pray for the repose of the soul of Francis. Our condolences to Pia and the family. Kiko we love you." This were the words of Vic Sotto expressing the condolences of all the Eat Bulaga hosts.

It was last August 2008 when Francis was diagnosed with Leukemia, he underwent series of chemotheraphy. And October 25 last year Francis M. performed with Ely Buendia which was his last performance.

Francis Magalona is one of the pioneer of OPM music and his contributions in the industry will be remembered forever. I as a fan also wants to condole with Francis M.'s family and may your music remains in the heart of all Filipinos forever.

David Cook and David Archuleta Live in Manila

Good news for all David Cook and David Archuleta fans, both of them are coming to Manila for a back to back concert.

Jomari Yllana's Fearless Production, the producers of the Martin Nievera and Pops Fernandez' "Missing You" concert are the ones handling the concert of the Two Davids. Jomari Yllana is planning to have a visit to the U.S to have a word with the two American Idol Finalists and their managers to discuss matters regarding the concert.

There is still no definite date and venue for the concert, let's just keep our fingers cross and stay updated about further developments.

Cris Brown and Rihanna Reconciles

Yes it's confirmed, Rihanna and Cris Brown are back together as lovers after the two had a terrible fight that lead to beat down by Cris to Rihanna.

The two R&B singers were reported to have reconcilled after a horrific incident during the Pre-Awards night of the Grammys. We would recall that Cris Brown allegedly beat Rihanna and threatened her life inside a car. Rihanna was left unconscious and suffered bruises and wounds in her face after the alleged beat down.

Chris Brown was reported to be so happy with their reconcilliation and said that he is very sorry for what had happened and that he is so glad to be with the woman he loves.

Three More American Idol Finalists Named

Kris Allen Performing "Man in The Mirror"

Three new American Idol Finalists were name last Friday(Manila Time). The three individuals making it to the Top 12 are Allison Iraheta, Kris Allen, and Adam Lambert.

Allison Iraheta performed "Alone", Kris allen with a nice rendition of Michael Jackson's hit "Man In The Mirror", and Adam Lambert performed Rolling Stones biggest hit "Satisfaction".

Next week another set of the top 36 will perform, they are: Ju’Not Joyner, Scott MacIntyre, Nathaniel Marshall, Jorge Nuñez, Von Smith,Alex Wagner-Trugman, Arianna Afsar, Felicia Barton, Kendall Beard, Kristen McNamara, Lil Rounds, Taylor Vaifanua.