Pinoy Dream Academy
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Pinoy Dream Academy is the Philippine version of Endemol
Endemol
Endemol is an international television production and distribution company based in the Netherlands, with subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Poland,...
's Operación Triunfo
Operación Triunfo
Operación Triunfo is a reality-show talent contest which first aired on Spain's TVE network in 2001. A kind of cross between Pop Idol, Voces en Función, Star Search, and Big Brother, the show aimed to find the country's next solo singing sensation, putting a selection of hopefuls through their...
(Operation Triumph). The format is similar to Big Brother
Big Brother (TV series)
Big Brother is a television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash...
, where a set number of finalists (billed as "scholars" throughout the series) would live inside the Academy for four months and will be trained by guest teachers to be multimedia performers. Activities in the Academy are being monitored 24/7
24/7
24/7 is an abbreviation which stands for "24 hours a day, 7 days a week", usually referring to a business or service available at all times without interruption...
by the headmaster. It uses the tagline Ang drama sa likod ng pangarap (The drama behind the dream). The program is aired through ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN
ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...
.
ABS-CBN affiliate Studio 23
Studio 23
Studio 23 is a Filipino television network owned by the ABS-CBN Corporation. The network is named for its flagship station in Metro Manila, DWAC-TV, which is carried on UHF channel 23...
airs a companion program under the same title. It is a separate show from the flagship station that will feature scenes that were not shown on the main program and has different hosts.
Awit ng Pangarap ("Song of the Dream"), made during the show's first season run by contestants Yeng Constantino, Yvan Lambatan, and Kristoff Abrenica, is the main theme song of the show, although "We're All In This Together
We're All In This Together
We're All in This Together may refer to:* "We're All in This Together", a song and dance routine from 2006 American television film High School Musical* "We're All in This Together", a Ben Lee song from the album Awake Is the New Sleep...
" was used earlier in the pre-season specials as the unofficial theme song of the first season. Awit ng Pangarap was officially sung by the first season's scholars (billed as the PDA All-Stars) and was used starting in the middle of the first season. A version by Constantino alone is being used for the second season.
Academy
Pinoy Big Brother
Pinoy Big Brother is the Philippine version of the reality television show Big Brother . It follows the same premise as its many foreign counterparts around the world: twelve Philippine residents are forced to live with each other inside a house for about 3 months or at least 100 days...
House, the Academy is found facing the ABS-CBN studios in Quezon City. Although it seemed that the Academy building is erected right next to the House, in reality, both the House and the Academy are actually one multi-room studio, with its interior renovated alternately according to the program.
Rooms in the Academy included the administration rooms, dance studio, and, piano room and classroom, as well as the living quarters and kitchen, all of which used to be the original area of the Pinoy Big Brother House. The entire Academy area was re-renovated as the House area for the run of the said program's second season
Pinoy Big Brother (season 2)
Pinoy Big Brother: Season 2 was the second official season of Pinoy Big Brother and aired on ABS-CBN's primetime block. As with the show's previous full and special seasons, it also aired a companion program on Studio 23. It began with a live party on February 25, 2007. It ran for 126 days until...
and its succeeding editions; the Academy's rooms make a return in the second season, albeit with a different layout.
Next to the House is a large auditorium called the PDA Concert Hall where the Gala Nights are held. It is otherwise known as the PBB Eviction Hall because eviction ceremonies for Pinoy Big Brother (season 2) and Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 2
Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 2
Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 2 was the second celebrity edition of the Pinoy Big Brother franchise. It started on October 14, 2007 and ended twelve weeks later on January 5, 2008 at the Araneta Coliseum...
also took place there.
Faculty
The faculty of the Academy is composed of at least four persons specialized in music, performance arts and humanistic arts, and the media. It is led by the Headmaster, who oversees the activities inside the Academy and also teaches and guides the scholars in their grown as performers. Season 1's Headmaster was APO Hiking Society's Jim Paredes. Season 2's Headmaster was Maestro Ryan Cayabyab a.k.a. Mr. C.Life in the Academy and Gala Nights
The contestants' life inside the Academy is chronicled on the nightly episodes from Monday to Friday. This includes the classes the students have to take and their domestic time outside of these classes.The episodes shown on Saturday (sometimes known as the Gala Nights) showcase the talents of the contestants, and exemplifies the progress of each of them in regards to their education in the Academy. In these nights, they mostly show singing performances, although in some cases, there are also dance numbers prepared by the scholars themselves.
Every Sunday, the contestants are assessed by the jury from the performance night. The probationary students and the Star Scholar was determined in this episode. The probationary students are the four scholars who obtained the lowest scores in the performance night while Star Scholar is the one who gets the highest. In the first season, if a scholar obtains the highest score from the judges for two consecutive weeks, that scholar will only get the title of Star Scholar in the first week; the title then has to be passed to the second highest pointing scholar in the second week. However, this ruling was changed in the second season, allowing a scholar to be the Star Scholar of the week for several consecutive weeks.
Season I
The first season was announced as early as finale of Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition 1, initially hiring only 16 scholars. During the month of August 2006, profiles of the potential scholars from all over the Philippines and several cities around the world were aired. The final 16 were chosen on August 27, 2006 in front of the CebuCebu
Cebu is a province in the Philippines, consisting of Cebu Island and 167 surrounding islands. It is located to the east of Negros, to the west of Leyte and Bohol islands...
Provincial Capitol Grounds. Four more were added the next night after some reconsideration as part of a surprise twist.
Nikki Gil
Nikki Gil
Monica Pauline "Nikki" Gil is a Filipino singer, actress, host, model and myx VJ.-Biography:Monica Pauline Gil was born in Manila to Dino and Julie Gil. She is of Filipino, Spanish and German descent...
was the main host of the weekday and Sunday primetime shows in this season, narrating the events inside the Academy. Gil was then joined by Bianca Gonzalez
Bianca Gonzalez
Bianca Gonzalez is a Filipina TV host and model.-Education:Bianca Monica Malasmas Gonzalez graduated from high school at the De La Salle Santiago Zobel School and graduated with a degree of AB Communication Arts with a minor in Philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila University.-Writer:Her first job in...
, Roxanne Barcelo
Roxanne Barcelo
Anne Roxanne "Roxie" Jordan Barcelo is a Filipino-American actress, model and singer.In 2006, she became one of the 14 housemates of ABS-CBN's Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition...
, and Toni Gonzaga
Toni Gonzaga
Celestine Cruz Gonzaga , better known as Toni Gonzaga, is a Filipino singer, television host and actress. She started her career with GMA Network, then later moved to ABS-CBN Network...
during the Saturday Gala Nights. Sam Milby
Sam Milby
Samuel Lloyd "Sam" Lacia Milby , is a Filipino-American who joined Pinoy Big Brother as a housemate...
was also part of the Saturday shows, but had stopped appearing mid-season. Barcelo also hosted the UpLate edition of the show.
The faculty was headed by Jim Paredes of the Apo Hiking Society
APO Hiking Society
The Apolinario Mabini Hiking Society, later popularly known as Apo Hiking Society or, simply, Apo, was a Filipino musical group. The group had its fledgling beginnings in 1969 at the Ateneo de Manila high school, with thirteen members: Lito de Joya, Sonny Santiago, Gus Cosio, Renato Garcia, Chito...
, and initially had Maribeth Bichara as dance teacher, Moy Ortiz as voice teacher, and Gretchen Malalad
Gretchen Malalad
Gretchen Malalad is a Filipina 2005 Southeast Asian Games karate gold medalist and a former beauty pageant contestant in Binibining Pilipinas 2002 where she emerged Ms. Talent and Ms. Red Bull Supreme. She was also a housemate in Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition...
as fitness instructor. Later additions to the Academy's faculty included the rest of Ortiz's group The CompanY, movie director Jose Javier Reyes, comedienne Malou de Guzman, Sandwich
Sandwich (band)
Sandwich is a Filipino rock band that was formed in 1995 by Raimund Marasigan and Diego Castillo for the purpose of fulfilling their mutual desire to work together. Castillo recruited former band mates from The Aga Muhlach Experience Mike Dizon to play drums and Myrene Academia to handle bass...
front man Raimund Marasigan
Raimund Marasigan
Raimund Emmanuel Parcon Marasigan, or simply known as Raimund Marasigan, is a ballad musician and record producer in the Philippines. Oftentimes, his first name is misspelled as Raymond, Raymund, Raimond and other variants. The breadth of his projects has made him one of the most well-respected...
, and actress Boots Anson Roa.
The first season took 16 weeks, culminating in the finale, dubbed as the "Grand Dream Night" at the Araneta Coliseum
Araneta Coliseum
The Smart Araneta Coliseum, known as The Big Dome is an indoor multi-purpose sports arena located in the Cubao area of Quezon City, Philippines...
on December 16, 2006 with six scholars remaining. From these six, the top three, Yeng Constantino
Yeng Constantino
Josephine "Yeng" Constantino, born on December 4, 1988, is a Filipina singer and host. She won as "Grand Star Dreamer" of Pinoy Dream Academy, the Philippine edition of Endemol's reality TV show Star Academy...
, Jay-R Siaboc
Jay-R Siaboc
Jay-R Siaboc , is a Filipino TV actor and singer. He started as a student of Pinoy Dream Academy and became a first runner-up next to the grand star dreamer Yeng Constantino....
and Ronnie Liang
Ronnie Liang
Ronnie Liang is a Filipino singer. He is the former finalist of the popular reality-talent search franchise in the Philippines, Pinoy Dream Academy. He was the second runner-up next to Jay-R Siaboc, who is one of his closest friends from the said contest, and grand star dreamer Yeng Constantino...
, moved further into the final showdown, each having solo performances. Constantino emerged as the show's "Grand Star Dreamer," garnering 697,648 votes or 37.32% of the almost three million votes cast since December 2 of that year.
Season II
Auditions for the second season began as early as November 2007 in several key cities in the Philippines as well as the cities of DubaiDubai
Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...
, Milan
Milan
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, and Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
. These auditions were also held at the same time as those for Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition 2 (later to be called Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition Plus
Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition Plus
Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition Plus was the second edition of Pinoy Big Brother for adolescents 16 to 19 years. It premiered on Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008, and ran for eleven weeks, ending on June 7 of the same year....
) and the third season of Pinoy Big Brother.
Meanwhile, after the announcement of the moving of the Philippine Idol franchise
Idol series
The British talent search television series Pop Idol has spawned spin-offs in 42 territories, in what is now referred to as the "Idols" format, as described by FremantleMedia...
(titled Philippine Idol
Philippine Idol
Philippine Idol was the first franchise of Idol series in the Philippines, the 35th country in the world to air a national Idol franchise and the sixth in Asia. The franchise was first awarded by FremantleMedia, 19 Entertainment and CKX, Inc. to Associated Broadcasting Company in 2006 and then to...
) from ABC
Associated Broadcasting Company
The Associated Broadcasting Company, Inc is a television network in the Philippines, with main broadcast facilities and transmitter located at 762 Quirino Highway, San Bartolome, Novaliches, Quezon City. The network was previously known as the , Associated Broadcasting Company remains the legal...
to ABS-CBN's main rival GMA Network
GMA Network
GMA Network is a major commercial television & radio network in the Philippines. GMA Network is owned by GMA Network, Inc. a publicly listed company...
(there renamed as Pinoy Idol
Pinoy Idol
Pinoy Idol was a Philippine interactive reality-based singing competition created and developed by FremantleMedia and 19 Entertainment which aired on GMA Network...
), there were already reports that because of their connections with ABS-CBN, Philippine Idol judge Ryan Cayabyab
Ryan Cayabyab
Ryan Cayabyab is a Filipino musician and was the Executive and Artistic Director of the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts...
and host Ryan Agoncillo
Ryan Agoncillo
Kristoffer Lou Ryan Agoncillo , popularly known as Ryan Agoncillo, is a Filipino Film and Television actor, model, singer, photographer, and TV host.-Early life:Agoncillo was born on April 10, 1978...
will join the Academy instead of reprising their roles in Pinoy Idol. Eventually, Cayabyab was named the Academy's new Headmaster, but Agoncillo was shut out of the hosting plum. Instead, Billy Crawford
Billy Crawford
Billy Joe Crawford is a Filipino-American recording artist, singer-songwriter and philanthropist.Crawford is a Bilingual Filipino Singer. His second language is English and he is conversational in French. Crawford not only lived in New York City, USA, but also in Paris for five years and for one...
was chosen as a new host for the show, heading the late afternoon show Pinoy Dream Academy Über-ture (which has a format similar to Pinoy Big Brother Über). Toni Gonzaga
Toni Gonzaga
Celestine Cruz Gonzaga , better known as Toni Gonzaga, is a Filipino singer, television host and actress. She started her career with GMA Network, then later moved to ABS-CBN Network...
and Nikki Gil
Nikki Gil
Monica Pauline "Nikki" Gil is a Filipino singer, actress, host, model and myx VJ.-Biography:Monica Pauline Gil was born in Manila to Dino and Julie Gil. She is of Filipino, Spanish and German descent...
also alternate as main host for the second season.
Joining Cayabyab in the Academy's new faculty are Jose Javier Reyes (reprising his role as the Media Performance teacher) and Kitchie Molina and Monet Silvestre (voice teachers).
For nine Saturdays during the run of Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition Plus, a primer segment was aired detailing the thirty-two potential scholars and their backgrounds. From these 32, the final roster of scholars would be chosen, to be aired in a series of episodes called The Dream BIGins starting June 9, 2008.
The Academy had its second grand opening night (and therefore its formal premiere) on June 14, 2008. One unique feature is the division of the scholars into two "organizations." The process of probation has also been modified, allowing those within the Academy to save their choices first before the public voting. After the first probation, the process of saving a co-scholar has been modified, the scholars will then now choose who they would want to see stay as a probationary student and be subjected to viewers' votes.
The second season took 13 weeks, culminating in the two-day finale, dubbed as the "Grand Dream Nights" at the Cuneta Astrodome
Cuneta Astrodome
Cuneta Astrodome is an indoor sporting arena located in Pasay, Philippines. It is better known as the home of the Philippine Basketball Association from 1993, when it left the PhilSports Arena, then known as the ULTRA, until 1998...
on September 13 and 14, 2008 with six scholars remaining. After the six had their final performances on the first night, the top three, Bugoy Drilon (real name Jay Bogayan), Laarni Lozada (real surname Losala), and Philippine Idol finalist Miguel Mendoza were immediately declared the next night. Lozada emerged as the show's second "Grand Star Dreamer."
Little Dreamers
The "Little Dreamers" competition was also launched on July 6, 2008, concurrently during the second season. It features twelve children aged six to ten with good singing talent.Talent piracy controversy
Philippine IdolPhilippine Idol
Philippine Idol was the first franchise of Idol series in the Philippines, the 35th country in the world to air a national Idol franchise and the sixth in Asia. The franchise was first awarded by FremantleMedia, 19 Entertainment and CKX, Inc. to Associated Broadcasting Company in 2006 and then to...
, Associated Broadcasting Company
Associated Broadcasting Company
The Associated Broadcasting Company, Inc is a television network in the Philippines, with main broadcast facilities and transmitter located at 762 Quirino Highway, San Bartolome, Novaliches, Quezon City. The network was previously known as the , Associated Broadcasting Company remains the legal...
's (ABC) franchise of American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
, alleged Pinoy Dream Academy conducted contestant piracy, with ABS-CBN employees even apporoaching a judge to “just let [some of] the contestants go.” This came after ABC turned down ABS-CBN's offer to co-produce Philippine Idol
Philippine Idol
Philippine Idol was the first franchise of Idol series in the Philippines, the 35th country in the world to air a national Idol franchise and the sixth in Asia. The franchise was first awarded by FremantleMedia, 19 Entertainment and CKX, Inc. to Associated Broadcasting Company in 2006 and then to...
ABS-CBN denied talent piracy in a letter sent to the Philippine Daily Inquirer
Philippine Daily Inquirer
The Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as the Inquirer, is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, with a daily circulation of 260,000 copies. It is one of the Philippines' newspapers of record...
, saying that they successfully staged competitions without poaching contestants from other contests and would fully respect a contestant's choice in which competition one would join.
ABC sent a formal letter of complaint to ABS-CBN, alleging that three Gold Passers of Philippine Idol became contestants of rival Pinoy Dream Academy. ABS-CBN did not comment on the letter, as none of the three talents questioned became a finalist of that show.
See also
- Pinoy Big BrotherPinoy Big BrotherPinoy Big Brother is the Philippine version of the reality television show Big Brother . It follows the same premise as its many foreign counterparts around the world: twelve Philippine residents are forced to live with each other inside a house for about 3 months or at least 100 days...
, ABS-CBN's reality show franchise from Endemol. - Pinoy Fear FactorPinoy Fear FactorPinoy Fear Factor is a franchise reality show on ABS-CBN that started airing on November 10, 2008. It ran for 15 weeks, ending on February 20, 2009. The show is based on the Dutch reality game show Now or Neverland and is produced by Endemol. It is hosted by Filipino actor-host Ryan Agoncillo...
, ABS-CBN's reality game show franchise from Endemol. - Kapamilya, Deal or No DealKapamilya, Deal or No DealKapamilya, Deal or No Deal is the Philippine franchise of Deal or No Deal, hosted by Filipino actress, TV & game show host, Kris Aquino, which premiered on June 5, 2006 on ABS-CBN....
, ABS-CBN's game show franchise from Endemol. - 1 vs. 1001 vs. 100 (Philippine game show)The Philippine version of 1 vs. 100 was first aired on ABS-CBN on August 25, 2007. It is hosted by veteran Filipino quiz host Edu Manzano, from Pilipinas, Game KNB?, and Weakest Link. A single player goes up against 100 other contestants...
, ABS-CBN's game show franchise from Endemol. - Games Uplate LiveGames Uplate LiveGames UpLate Live is a late night game show and the final program of ABS-CBN co-produced with Endemol, which airs Monday to Saturday after Current Affairs programs and before sign-off. It was the predecessor of Pinoy Big Brother UpLate...
, ABS-CBN's late-night game show from Endemol.