TV5’s Blog

As another school year unfolds, TV5 gives a special treat for students with the start of School Attack!, bringing its programs closer to its younger audiences by visiting public and private schools in the metro to entertain and reinforce the good learning habits of thousands of students all throughout the year.

On its first burst, School Attack! is set to visit 10 schools in Metro Manila from July 1 to August 10. Bringing the students’ favorite programs to life right in their learning playground, ANAK-TV seal awardees Barney, Sesame Street, Thomas and Friends, Bob the Builder, as well as Toogs, Lipgloss, and ANIMEGA shows will energize the event through activities such memory match games, poster-making contest, picture puzzles, and more.
Lots of fun booths and activity stalls where students can showcase their talents and skills are set-up around the school grounds or gymnasium, so students should ready their backpacks for tons of special gifts and cool prizes to be given away during the day.

The next school visit will be on July 10 at the Nangka Elementary School, followed by its visit to Elizabeth Seton Integrated School on July 17, Parang Elementary School in Marikina on July 20, Alabang Elementary School on July 24, Pedro Diaz High School on July 27, Holy Family Tondo on July 31, P. Burgos Elementary School on August 3, Almanza Elementary School on August 7, and at Nemisio L. Yabut Elementary School on August 10.

For students who would like to have their schools visited by TV5, log on to TV5 website www.tv5.com.ph and join the “School Ko Cool” promo. Send your essay entries on why you think you and your school is cool and get a chance to win a laptop and a School Attack! visit from TV5.

To all students who love watching and enjoy learning with TV5, get ready and grab those backpacks and prepare for TV5’s School Attack!

For the first time in over 10 years on the air, Joey de Leon is taking Wow Mali! LIVE this Sunday on TV5 on its special episode wherein Joey is giving away up to P100,000 on the “Mahiwagang Tunog” question and answer portion. So far, nobody has correctly answered Joey’s “mahiwagang tunog” questions and it’s about time Joey gives it away. During the show, viewers will hear the “mahiwagang tunog,” and on Joey’s instructions and cue, callers get to guess the answer. The caller who guesses the answer correctly gets to win up to P100,000!

Be the lucky winner to win big cash while laughing along with Joey on Wow Mali!, getting funnier and getting tougher on the ratings every Sunday, 6PM on TV5.

TV5 shows are rating very well as most of its weekend primetime shows hit its highest ratings last week, including Shall We Dance, hosted by Lucy Torres-Gomez, on its episode featuring Pacmom Mommy Dionisia–who really loved and enjoyed performing in the show. Shall We Dance recorded its highest audience share on its last episode, according to AGB-Nielsen.
On its next episode, fresh from the makeover of Mommy Dionisia into the newest dancing queen, Shall We Dance follows the makeover of comediennes K Brosas, Keana Reeves and Joy Viado into dancing princesses on its LIVE episode with the theme “Mga Komedyanteng Cinderella.”
Whose transformation will win the glass slipper and get to dance with Prince Charming? Find out on Shall We Dance on Sunday, 8PM on TV5.

Governed by the theory of “Equivalent Exchange,” Alchemy says that in order to gain anything, something of equal value must be given. Anime lovers all over the country will definitely exchange anything for the Philippine free TV premiere of the most anticipated anime of 2009, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, hitting ANIMEGA viewers starting May 22 on TV5.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, the second TV adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa’s dark fantasy manga, follows two brothers who try to use the power of alchemy to resurrect their deceased mother. With tragic consequences, the process fails and as a toll for using their taboo knowledge of alchemy, the older brother, Edward Elric loses his left leg while his younger brother, Alphonse Elric, loses his entire body. Now the two undertake a quest to restore their bodies by seeking the mythical Philosopher’s Stone, even if it means using Edward’s knowledge on alchemy for the military, and finding out bitter truths and tragedies along the journey.

Hailed as no. 1 most popular anime of all time in two Japan TV web polls, Fullmetal Alchemist received multiple awards and recognitions that brought the anime to its critical fame and success in Japan, North America, and across Southeast Asia. It won five awards in the American Anime Awards in 2007, and bagged the “Animation of the Year” award (for Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shambala), “Best original story” and “Best music” in the Tokyo Anime Fair.

Be one of the first to witness the debut of 2009’s biggest anime title, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, airing every Friday starting May 22 at 7:30 p.m., only on your ultimate ANIMEGA authority, TV5.

Log on to www.tv5.com.ph

Big anime titles invade the local TV scene in the coming weeks as TV5 trots out a new set of exciting anime shows on its third season, featuring the multi-awarded anime, Cowboy Bebop, Special A, Mythic Sleuth Loki, and popular live-action series Masked Rider Hibiki.

Being the only channel that airs popular anime titles on primetime free TV, TV5 rewards all its avid Animega fans with only the best anime shows such as Cowboy Bebop—a sci-fi action anime that won numerous prestigious awards and was ranked number one in the “50 best anime” in the American magazine ‘Anime Insider’ in 2007. Cowboy Bebop has also been adapted into a live-action movie coming soon in theatres, starring Keanu Reeves.

The new set also includes the classic live-action series Masked Rider Hibiki, Special A—an anime adaptation of the manga with the same title involving a group of teen-aged students of a super elite school, and Mythic Sleuth Loki–a mystery adventure anime inspired by Norse mythology.

Watch out for these new and classic anime shows in Primetime Animega with Masked Rider Hibiki at 6 p.m., Special A at 6:30 p.m., Mythic Sleuth Loki at 7 p.m. (starting March 12), and Cowboy Bebop at 7:30 p.m. (starting March 4) airing every weekdays, on TV5.