Eat Bulaga Moves to APT Studio This Saturday

‘Eat Bulaga’ is officially on the move.

On Saturday, December 1, ‘Eat Bulaga’ announced that it will move to the new APT Studio in Cainta, Rizal next week. The first episode at the new studio will take place this Saturday, December 8.

Located at Marcos Highway in Cainta, APT Studio is a few minutes’ drive from Robinsons Metro East, Sta. Lucia East Grand Mall, SM City Masinag and Ayala Feliz Mall. The studio is beside the College of San Benildo-Rizal’s elementary and high school departments and is in front of the Town and Country Executive Village gate.

The APT Studio is a brainchild of ‘Eat Bulaga’ producer Tony Tuviera. It was built at a reported cost of over P 1.5 billion.

The studio is expected to hold a larger seating capacity compared to Broadway Centrum; the overall number of seats yet to be determined. It will also feature updated video and audio technology such as high-definition cameras.

Saturday’s episode of ‘Eat Bulaga’ at the new APT Studio will include most of the show’s current hosts. However, there is one notable mainstay that will not be a part of the festivities.

Senate President Tito Sotto, who previously announced his intent to leave ‘Eat Bulaga’ while in his current position, is not expected to attend. Still, even without one of the show’s founding fathers, expect the same old ‘isang libo’t isang tuwa’ at the new studio this Saturday.

In the meantime, ‘Eat Bulaga’ will hold five ‘taped-as-live’ episodes at Broadway Centrum from Monday up until Friday. This arrangement is made in order to allow TAPE Inc. and APT staff to smoothly move their operations to APT Studio within the next few days.

Erratum: The article “In 100 Words: Eat Bulaga Set to Move to a New Studio” erroneously stated that the APT Studio is located in Marikina, when in fact it is within the jurisdiction of Cainta, Rizal. 

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In 100 Words: Eat Bulaga Set to Move to a New Studio

The inevitable is about to happen.

‘Eat Bulaga’ announced Saturday that they are expected to move to a new studio anytime next month (dubbed ‘lipat bahay’ in the teasers). The new studio, aptly named the APT Studio (after ‘Eat Bulaga’ producer Tony Tuviera), is located at Marcos Highway in Marikina.

This will mark the fourth time that ‘Eat Bulaga’ moved to a different studio, and the first to be independently funded. The program previously occupied the following studios:

• Broadcast City Studios (1979-88; with RPN-9)
• Celebrity Sports Plaza (1988-89; with RPN-9)
• Dolphy Theater (1989-95; with ABS-CBN)
• Broadway Centrum (1995-2018; with GMA)

Broadway Centrum is expected to be demolished shortly after ‘Eat Bulaga”s move to the APT studio. It will be replaced by a high-rise condominium unit developed by Megaworld’s Empire East Holdings.

#AlDub Puts Eat Bulaga Back on Track

‘Tamang panahon’ is just what the doctor ordered for ‘Eat Bulaga’.

This past month saw AlDub take the 36-year-old variety show by storm, and viewers were gradually hooked to its spontaneous storytelling and unpredictability. Everywhere in the country, people took time off just to see the ‘Kalyeserye’ unfold and take to social media on the budding story.

The AlDub tandem, consisting of GMA hearthrob Alden Richards, and Dubsmash queen Maine Mendoza (a.k.a. Yaya Dub), were first paired on ‘Eat Bulaga”s July 16 episode. The segments involving the two eventually became an integral part of the ‘Juan for All, All for Juan’ segment, leading to the now-infamous ‘Kalyeserye’ subsegment.

It also helped ‘Eat Bulaga’ improve its already impressive ratings, and in the process, earn a younger set of viewers and a place among Twitter’s trending topics. This week alone was no exception, as two more recent episodes ‘broke the internet’ and gave ‘Eat Bulaga’ its best ratings performance of the year.

Saturday’s ‘wedding’ between Yaya Dub and Alden’s rival Frankie A. Arinoli (played by Jose Manalo, who also acts as narrator ‘Gasgas Abelgas’) ended with Maine fainting on-air (which was not part of the script) and Alden’s eventual failed attempt at locating her. It was later revealed that Maine was not feeling well in the hours leading to the skit.

Then on last Wednesday’s episode, Yaya Dub was scheduled to perform on the ‘Bulaga Pa More’ segment. It was anticipated to be the first on-air meeting between Alden and Yaya Dub, but things didn’t turn out as planned, as Yaya Dub left Broadway Centrum following her performance and Alden once again failed to locate her in time.

No one knows when Alden and Yaya Dub will finally meet in person, but as Lola Nidora (played by Wally Bayola) always says when questioning the pairing’s motives, it will eventually happen, ‘sa tamang panahon’. And all things will have to wait.

Once again, ‘Eat Bulaga’ strikes at the right time. After 36 years, this long-running variety show continues to amaze everyone, young and old, with new tricks and gimmicks to help it succeed.