After four years, Sunday variety show Sunday PinaSaya is going to be taken off the air soon.
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This news was confirmed by the producer of the noontime show, APT Entertainment, in an interview with PEP.ph.
According to Michael “Mike” Tuviera, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of APT Entertainment, they had gathered all the hosts, cast, and crew of the show to tell them the announcement personally.
“Yung iba naman po ay nalaman na nila beforehand pero naging mandate ni Tatay [Antonio P. Tuviera] na puntahan po talaga sila after our show,” he explained. “Kasi naging rule po talaga namin yun na if you have to announce to everyone na, ‘Hanggang dito na lang po tayo, hanggang dito na lang po ang plano.’ So pumunta po talaga siya, kumpleto po kami, yung mga producers at management, tapos po kami po ang kumausap, lahat po, hindi lang po sa mga hosts, pati mga crew, staff, lahat po.”
(“The others found out already beforehand but it was the mandate of my father [Antonio P. Tuviera] to approach them after our show,” he explained. “Because it really did become a rule when you had to announce to everyone that, ‘We are ending it here, we plan to end it here.’ So he really went, we were complete, all the producers and management, and we all told them, all of them, not just the hosts but also the crew, staff, everyone.”)
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But how did the cast and crew react to the news?
According to Jerald Napoles, tears were shed that day.
“We weren’t told why, exactly. And we couldn’t bring ourselves to ask, because some of us just fell silent, trying to process the news. Lovely [Abella] started crying,” the actor told Inquirer.
It was most upsetting, he shared, knowing that the show had been doing well ratings-wise. “May hinayang (We feel dismayed) because we didn’t have problems with ratings. We became No. 1. In a way, that made us feel confident that the show would stay for a while,” he added.
Despite this, he said that he along with everyone on Sunday PinaSaya will just “do our best” in the last couple of episodes that are left for the show.
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Sunday PinaSaya will be ending on December 22, 2019. It premiered on August 9, 2015 on GMA Network and is hosted by Ai-Ai de las Alas, Marian Rivera, Wally Bayola, and Jose Manalo.
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