Dramatology

Filipino people are know for their amazing hospitality and the valued that we exhibit to our family, friends, relatives and even to other people but apart from all that we also known for our being so fanatic to a drama genre programming. Philippines drama is classified to different form and genre and more often we called them teleserye or teledrama   which basically rooted to 2 different word "tele" which means television as it was often shown on television and "serye" or series because it was a form of melodramatic serialize fiction about a person which we call the "bida" and it's antagonist which is the "konrabida". We Filipino has tendency to attached our self to the characters to the point that some of us hated or love the actors who playing the characters. Teleserye in the Philippines were produce, made and brainstorm by the 2 of biggest television network that is Channel 2 or the "KAPAMILYA" and the Channel 7 or  "KAPUSO".  

Back in 2000 ABS-CBN or the kapamilya channel officially launched its teleserye through the very successful Pangako Syo who starred by Kristine Hermosa and Jericho Rosales. The soap ran for 2 years which from 200 to 2002 that has 480 episodes. This soup opera popularize the characters like Amor Power who played by veteran actress Eula Valdez and Claudia Buenavista played by Jean Garcia. The teleserye even shown abroad to 14 countries and was even more successful in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Namibia and Singapore. 2010 Teledrama was born and was popularize by the kapuso channel. 

Teleserye or Teledrama whatever you called it still offer it's wide Filipino audiences different kind of programming that we enjoyed. Teleserye was basically consist of the Storyline. This will give you information of what will be the themed of the series, whether it was about a poor girl who were being suffered a lot by its antagonist and eventually became rich and will give her revenge and get to those people who make her life miserable or it is about the lovers from a different kind of family with different status in life that were being separated by  the other rich family, in short the story line tells you where the series will revolve. We also have the so called Twist which make the series more exciting and unfortunately much longer, specially when the series was a total hit you can expect that the series will ran for a very long time. we also have the Villains of the series which add more spices and flavor to the series and lastly the Ending where each and every one us normally asked how will our favorite drama end.

Nowadays, at the advent of the Mexican telenovela like La tridora, Marimar, Maria La Del Bario, Rosalinda among others, and now the Korean novella like, the very successful and trend setter Meteor garden, coffee prince, full house, boys over flowers among others give most of the Filipino a different kind of programming that was dubbed to Filipino language so that majority of us can understand, this different kind of programming that is somehow still close to our heart because it still showcase the drama genre that most of us really love from time immemorial but with totally different actors who played the role and different themed which one way or the other we learned to love. I guess, what I have to say is that regardless of what countries, language, belief the drama genre is a very passionate and romantic language that we understand and loved. Happy watching everyone!