Talk:Philippine television drama

message: Pinoy Big Brother a teleserye? Gimme a break lol --Howard the Duck 17:26, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, if we'd go by that billing, Wikipedia would've been ran over by fanboys. --Howard the Duck 14:28, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Accurate and useful information duplicated at telenovela. --Howard the Duck 13:28, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  untitled 

message: Due to the constant editing of this article, without pure facts to back up some information, the notable actress/actors part will be deleted as fans have been making this article subjected to biased info, usually ending up with unclear information and more of a positive article towards a particular actor. BE FACTUAL and unbiased, this is a wikipedia entry.
For example, Claudine Barretto has done 5 teleseryes vs. Judy Ann Santos who has done 7.
Darna is the telefantasya series that garnered the highest rating for a pilot episode (based on official Mega Manila ratings) not Marina. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jaxology (talk • contribs) 09:50, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some parts Better be deleted 

message: Please keep "network wars" off wikipedia. Viewing the history, it saddens me to see pro-GMA users slant the list in favor of their network and the ABS camp does the same. Can we just keep to being encyclopedic here people? Shrumster 19:41, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GMA/ABS 

message: Despite the claims in this article, there is no difference whatsoever between the Latin American telenovela and the Filipino "teleseryes", just that it is termed differently. All of the so-called differences exist in Latin American telenovelas. --Howard the Duck 03:57, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Merge to telenovela. Otherwise, the article should be retitled to "Philippine television dramas", as with "Japanese television dramas", for there was a time when encyclopedias referred to stage drama when they used that word "drama", as does the encyclopedia entry on "drama" and the redirect page "American drama". --Bagoto (talk) 21:26, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge to telenovela 

message: I'll get right down to the point.
This article hardly meets Wikipedia standards.
I mean, so many of the information posted here is redundant, most can be found or summarized in the Philippines section under the Telenovela article. I recommend a merge, and/or the deletion of this article.
If anyone believes that this article should not be deleted, then please edit it to greatly improve it. As it stands, it reads like a totally mindless piece, with concepts like "Antagonists are meant to make the Protagonist's life miserable"...uh, yeah? That's why they call them Antagonists...
Spelling and grammar need work. Also, please do cite sources for the info posted. Right now, the article has no citations whatsoever, making it more of either an advertisement or an essay.
If no citations can be provided, please cut down the fat of the article.
Because if no one will do it, I will. And I will likely remove the whole page.
ArrenRedemptio (talk) 04:07, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. --Bagoto (talk) 22:04, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge or Shape Up 

message: Telenovelas are not Soap Operas.  They are distinct genres.  IMO, Soap Operas are exercises in frustration; they never end.  Telenovelas have an ending and usually last less than a year.  The other names for series, like the Philippine, French, Canadian, etc., various names for series, need clarification.  Are they never ending Soaps or are they telenovelas?  The same people who cannot stand soap operas may love telenovelas.  These distinct genres should not be merged, but separated.(EnochBethany (talk) 13:45, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Telenovelas vs Soap Operas 

message: Teledramas are nothing more than television dramas...
...and they've been around since the very beginning of television; which, believe me, didn't happen in the Philippines.
The Philippines is but one of MANY countries, now, which have dramatic television programming (teledramas) on their respective countries' television networks and cable systems.
This article needs to be re-written to show the US history of the teledrama, and then reflect that many other countries now have them.
How this became a Philippine-specific article, in light of the true history of the teledrama, I do not know; though I suspect it was as simple as some young person from the Philippines, who doesn't have either an International perspective, or any sense of history outside his/her own country, sort of ignorantly cobbled this thing together, without stopping to think about how provincial it was.  (And, by the way, by "ignorant," I don't mean offense.  Ignorance simply means "lack of knowledge" about whatever is the subject.  It is not synoymous with "stupid" or anything which actually would be offensive.  No one knows everything, and so we're all ignorant about at least something in the world.)
I hope this page isn't just deleted.  Rather, I hope that someone will simply sit down and re-write it (pretty much completely) to reflect the true history and meaning.  Or, who knows... maybe the best way to make that happen is, in fact, to just delete it so the word "teledrama" shows-up in red throughout Wikipedia; which, in turn, may cause someone who actually knows what it is in the master scheme of things can create a whole new one.
Anyway, that's my $.02 worth.
Gregg L. DesElms (Username: Deselms) 01:21, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I fully agree. --Bagoto (talk) 02:03, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Teledrama specific to the Philippines? 

message: As per my reiterations above, I shall be moving this wiki to a page titled "Philippine television drama". Any protestations? —-- Bagoto (talk) 01:32, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to "Philippine television drama"