7 Times GMA Ruined Their Own Creation

Change is constant, sometimes it's for the better but sometimes it's for the worse, but for GMA Network at times it's something they thought it's for the better only to end up ruining what is great. When people know what they're doing it's better to just leave them alone, however GMA is notorious for messing up with what their viewers enjoy, cause they believe they know better. You would think they're always trying to blow themselves up on purpose, like someone in there saying "Let's see how bad we can mess this up." Here are 7 Times GMA Ruined Their Own Creation".

7. Studio 7
Studio7 was GMA's first musical variety show in three years after the concept was retired from its programming in 2015. With Christian Bautista and Julie Anne San Jose as the lead hosts and performers, along with the influx of new talents from The Clash season 1 and acclaimed concert director Paolo Valenciano as head of the creatives, it's a fresh new start that got the fans hyped, it's roadshow titled MusiKalye was also well received both by the live crowd and TV audience. However, while it took 3 years for GMA to create a new musical variety show, they only needed eight months to ruined it. Paolo Valenciano was silently removed from the creative helm and with Julie Anne San Jose being chosen as the new host of The Clash and Christian Bautista as its judge, GMA management decided to pull them off from the show because they thought it's overexposure. GMA makes up for it by replacing them with Betong impersonating internet meme Dante Gulapa, and Paolo Contis becoming a talk show moderator. Musical prod was turned into an intermission number and mere filler to unfunny and un-family friendly comedy, naming the segment "Count To Ten" was complete and utter bullshit. It's only a matter of time before the audience completely turned away from the show that deserved to be axed. They just moved the show to Sunday noon and change its title to AllOutSundays, this time a bigger and grander show where Paolo Contis and Betong continue their same comedy bullshit.

6. Bitoy's Funniest Videos
Just To give credit where it's due Bitoy's Funniest Videos was not all GMA's creation as some of its elements were the brainchild of Bitoy himself Michael V. The program was simply a clip show from America's Funniest Home Videos but what makes it a hit among viewers was its practical joke segment "Yari Ka!" though there had been other practical joke shows that came before, Yari Ka! was different because its Michael V himself who was wearing the disguises and pulling the pranks. The show enjoyed great success in the ratings, but for some reason it gradually changed into a magic and acrobatic talent show, this of course done to compete with TV5's Talentandong Pinoy and ABSCBN's Got Talent franchise. No more Bitoy disguising to prank people, he's just dressed as a jester moderating a weird circus and not even a comedy genius could pull off the stupidity. Thankfully the concept failed miserably and Michael V got the freedom to create his sitcom Pepito Manaloto which is still the best GMA program to date.

5. Kakabakaba
Horror anthology was once part of GMA's tradition since Gabi Ng Lagim back in the 80s to Lihim Ng Gabi and Walang Kukurap in the 90s. But in the turn of the millennium they would move away from the traditional scary horror genre and tried merging it's element with comedy, came Kakabakaba. The show's comic humor combined with over the top horror silliness was a hit, it captured the imaginations of both kids and adult audience, it even made a popular character Chaka Doll, a demonically possessed doll that appeared in several episodes and became iconic spite just being a rip-off of Chucky the killer doll from Hollywood's Child's Play movie franchise. But despite its success, GMA would reformat the show as Kakabakaba Adventures turning it into a youth-oriented Mystery-Adventure series, with a regular cast. The show was like a cross between Scooby-Doo and X-Men as there was a group of teens traveling in a van solving mysteries they encounter and they also to have mutant superpowers as well, which made it even more cringy that you just wanted the whole thing to end, and that exactly what happened as it's ratings dwindled. A few years later GMA revived the original concept of the show through its spin-off Kakaba Ka-Boo with its iconic character Chaka Doll serving as host-storyteller, the show was good overall but unfortunately, it failed to capture the same success of the original and quickly got cancelled. GMA put one last ditch effort to keep it's horror anthology tradition with shows like Wag Kukurap and Spooky Nights but the interests of the viewers just dried out at that point.

4. SOP
It seems GMA has history when it comes to ruining musical shows as it dated back way before Studio7. SOP was the replacement for the German Moreno's Sunday noontime variety show GMA Supershow that was simply dying of old age and to compete with ABS-CBN's ASAP. SOP had a bumpy start though and only started to gain an edge when they got Regine Velasquez, Lani Misalucha, Ogie Alcasid, and Janno Gibbs as their big 4 hosts, with Louie Ignacio taking the directorial job, the show adopted the concert tv concept and finally got ahead of ASAP in the early years of the 2000s. But it wouldn't last long as GMA decided to put more star power on the show putting almost everyone in GMA on the program regardless of musical talent, like when Richard Gomez signed with GMA and just for no reason singing on their opening numbers. This was also the time when they modified the show's title into SOP Rules and later SOP Fully Charge but the only thing that was changing about the show was its getting worse, and GMA's remedy was to put comic reliefs such as Rufa Mae Quinto and the OJ segment of Ogie and Janno where they sing a rib on each other and even taking shots at ASAP which of course stupid considering it constantly whooping their ass. It came to a point when it's even hard to keep track of whatever happening on the show as there were more people on their stage than in-home watching. Hardly anything going right about the show GMA realized it's time to do a new show. Leads us to. . .

3. Party Pilipinas
Party Pilipinas might've had Rachelle Ann Go and Mark Bautista as new mainstays but it's still basically the same show as SOP, they just changed its title, same cast, same director, same creatives, and same embarrassing viewership. The only real change came when Louie Ignacio was finally relieved from his directorial duties and was replaced by Rico Gutierrez and Mark Reyes who alternately led the show's creatives. They made a shift to a modern production set while still retaining the concert feel of production numbers, and they also started the themed episodes that set it apart from SOP and ASAP. Kyla rejuvenated, Rachelle Ann Go finally breaking away from Sarah G's shadow and the rise of Julie Anne San Jose were just some of the high points of the show and they finally narrowed the margin against ASAP. But GMA was bound to repeat the same mistake in SOP and just about two years the show was once again a place for GMA talents they have nothing better to with, this saw the likes of Kylie Padilla, Janine Gutierrez, Derrick Monasterio, Bea Binene among other tween stars singing on the show spite not having any business doing so, while Lovi Poe and Rocco Nacino trying to make out during their dance prod only put the show in hot water with MTRCB. Perhaps the reason for the show being such a mess was the members of production, especially in the creative team who expressed their sentiments of being underpaid while their job was getting more demanding which made some of them to get fired or resign including the director Rico Gutierrez who also returned later on anyways. But regardless the show was already walking on thin ice and was finally taken off the air in 2012 because the new GMA SVP for Entertainment Lilybeth Rasonable had a new groundbreaking idea which she even claimed would be more exciting and thrilling that viewers will surely watch out for, well of course it failed. The thing is Party Pilipinas could've been saved if she just removed some of her talentless stars from the show and instead gave their talent fees to the creatives.

Encantadia
No need to explain Encantadia is the best telefantasya ever, It's a cult phenomenon that turned into a pop-culture classic, its story and characters are well-loved, it's no wonder that since the conclusion of its original run fans had been clamoring for a sequel, and after teasing it for years GMA finally gave it in 2016. Known as a ReQuel because they don't want to call it a reboot that it was anyway. It's a remake with some changes and new additional story elements to prevent it from being predictable, however, those changes didn't sit well with the fans that loved the original story, like the Anthony character being reduced into a filler instead of Lira's love interest and Alena and Ybarro not ending up together only for the Diwata Ng Tubig marry a hairy guy played by nobody knows, this aside from the fact the cast had been criticized even before the series began like Amihan can't act like the original Amihan and Alena can't sing like the original Alena. While some of the added elements didn't even make sense at all, like spending too much time building up Adhara as a major antagonist only to die very early and the introduction of the Fifth Brilyante that never really added any game-changing powers other than being stolen regularly. And to make matters worst the entire script has to be re-written again due to the Amihan actress'unplanned pregnancy. This resulted in killing the main character halfway through the series and improvised with only three Sanggres, of course, this didn't work well with the story as the Brilyante Ng Hangin became irrelevant without anybody possessing it, they tried to fix this up by adding more young stars but it even made it more ridiculous as the series looked like a talent search, to make it more terrible they made all the protagonists incredibly dumb, frequently losing and falling for the enemies trap too easily just to extend the story. While GMA claimed the series was a success, its rating says otherwise in fact it never got ahead of the immortal Coco Martin, which is pale in comparison to the original that once was the highest rating primetime show. The original Encantadia was created to distance from traditional soap operas however the reboot is just a soap opera that got slapped with Encantadia on to it to get ratings and to push young stars GMA was desperately trying to push.

1. Starstruck
GMA struck gold with Starstruck, pioneering reality talent search in the Philippines. Its first season is no doubt phenomenal, it's untouchable in the ratings, its roadshows would shut down venues with its legions of wild fans. Who would've thought in that time the most popular stars were just stars in training. Its finals night held in Araneta Coliseum was a testament to it's massive popularity, with thousands of fans going nuts as Jennylyn Mercado and Mark Herras got crowned as its first-ever winners it created one of the greatest moments in TV history. This inspired GMA to try to continue its success producing a kids edition the next year which however failed to be as popular as the original version, so they brought a second teens edition but once again it failed to have the same red hot reception of the first season, so they did another season after another as it became a yearly obsession to replicate the phenomenon but the only thing it got is a declining rating. From being special, the show had been somewhat watered down into an ordinary youth variety show. It didn't help matters that GMA put publicity gimmicks from hiring director Louie Ignacio to be a rude judge that was an obvious copycat of Simon Cowell to having a lesbian contestant that just made the show into a complete joke, at that point, GMA was just desperately trying to bring the ratings up by increasing the number of hosts to put more star power and even changing some of the rules such as a wildcard, having final 5 or 6 instead of just four and even naming four winners in season 4. But what ruined the show and its credibility was GMA's inability to create stars out of it which is the entire purpose of a talent show anyway, aside from Jennylyn Mercado non of its winners became top stars, in fact almost all of them are not even in GMA anymore making the show pointless. GMA put Starstruck to rest after five seasons in 2010 only to revive it for its sixth season in 2015 and the seventh in 2019, but it was reduced to a weekend show while its finals were held inside GMA Studio on a regular episode, not in a big venue and as a huge tv special like it used to be, further proof of how far the show had fallen and GMA finally accepting its not as phenomenal as it used to be.