An endless parade of Caparas TV hits

It was Carlo J. Caparas, the Komiks King no less, who kicked off the current trend of movies-adapted-for TV.

The endless parade of Caparas TV hits goes on — with more coming!

The good thing about Carlo (who has been awarded for enhancing the National Language) is that he — and his wife Donna Villa — have kept themselves above the never-ending network war. Thus, Carlo happily crosses boarders while maintaining his “neutral” stance and identifying himself neither a Kapamilya nor a Kapuso. As they would say, trabaho lang, walang personalan.

The trend started a few years ago with the FPJ classic Ang Panday which Carlo entrusted to the Kapamilya. Jericho Rosales was, well, good enough in his performance even if he suffered from comparison to Da King. Currently on the Kapamilya mid-afternoon slot is Pieta, with Ryan Agoncillo not quite measuring up to the unforgettable performance as a bad boy of the late Ace Vergel.

On the Kapuso station, Carlo’s Totoy Bato (with Robin Padilla giving the FPJ original a refreshing new touch) continues to rule the ratings just as his previous works did, including Kamandag (with Richard Gutierrez), Joaquin Bordado (Robin Padilla; former Sen. Ramon Revilla was the original), Bakekang (Sunshine Dizon, after Nora Aunor) and Ang Babaeng Hinugot sa Aking Tadyang (with Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera, ending in two weeks time).

Coming soon: Valora, Gabriel, Elias Paniki, Tuklaw (the man with a snake twin played by Richard Gomez in the movie), To Have and To Hold, Kahit Ako’y Lupa and Somewhere (the memorable romance-drama movie starring Lorna Tolentino and Rudy Fernandez).

Funfare learned that ABS-CBN execs had a meeting with Carlo and Donna over the weekend. It’s not known which of the above-mentioned obra-maestra ABS-CBN is interested in.

The mark of the man is indicated in the way the movies-turned-TV-series are advertised/publicized — always with the words Carlo J. Caparas’ before the title, just like they do it with the works of Stephen King, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and a few others.

After the parade of movie/TV hits, what next for the Komiks King?

Could it be true that some political parties are wooing him into running for...congressman or senator?

Abangan ang susunod na kabanata.

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Correction, please!

In the caption for the Leyte Idol story yesterday, Remedios Petilla was wrongly identified as the wife of Leyte Gov. Jericho “Icot” Petilla who organized the singing contest three years ago. Actually, Remedios is Icot’s mother who served as governor of Leyte (1995-2004) and representative of the first district of Leyte (2004-2007).

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