Unang pagbibida ni Christian Bautista sa “With a Smile.” Sa huli niyang “Princess and I” sa ABS-CBN, supporting lang ang role niya. “With a Smile” is not an afternoon soap as earlier reported. It will be shown in the morning, but it’ll not compete with the hit “Be Careful with My Heart” as it’ll be shown earlier at 10:15 a.m., after Chef Boy Logro’s cooking show and before Ryzza Mae Dizon’s talk show.
True ba na inis si Mark Bautista kay Chrsistian dahil naagawan daw niya ito ng project? “With a Smile” is meant for him but Christian eventually took his place?
GMA exec Cheryl Sy says this isn’t true. “The project is really meant for Christian. Viewers are looking for something light in the morning. Dati, puro Koreanovela ang pinalalabas namin in this slot. Now that we’re having a local show, we’re hoping it’ll make its mark in our morning programming.”
Sabi naman ni Christian, wala namandaw silanggap ni Mark.
“It’s not true because we’re friends way back in ‘ASAP’ sa ABS. We’re together again in the new GMA Sunday show, ‘Sunday All Stars’, at wala kaming problema at all. I’m happy to do ‘With a Smile’ with Andrea Torres and Mikael Daez. Maganda ang samahan namin sa taping. I also get to sing the show’s theme song, ‘Ngiti’.”
“With a Smile” signals the return of Director Louie Ignacio to megging soap. He was assigned to do mostly musical variety shows and talk shows after helming “I Luv New York” several years ago.
“I want to thank AVP Lilybeth Rasonable for bringing me back to soaps. Na-miss ko rin talaga ito and I’m thankful na very professional ang stars namin in ‘With a Smile’ na sina Christian, Andrea and Mikael. Three weeks na kami into taping and they’re all very good, everything’s going on smoothly.”
