{"id":62596,"date":"2015-10-07T23:17:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=62596"},"modified":"2015-10-07T23:17:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:17:54","slug":"mtrcb-summons-its-showtime-execs-over-pastillas-girl-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/07\/mtrcb-summons-its-showtime-execs-over-pastillas-girl-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"MTRCB summons \u2018It\u2019s Showtime\u2019 execs over \u2018Pastillas Girl\u2019 segment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62597\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/3-Mr-Pastillas-serenade-Pastillas-Girl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62597\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/3-Mr-Pastillas-serenade-Pastillas-Girl.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Pastillas aspirants serenading Ms. Pastillas Girl (Photo from ABS-CBN's website)\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Pastillas aspirants serenading Ms. Pastillas Girl (Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.abs-cbn.com\/tv\/shows\/itsshowtime\/main\" target=\"_blank\">ABS-CBN&#8217;s website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) scheduled a dialogue with ABS-CBN\u2019s daily noontime show \u201cIt\u2019s Showtime\u201d executives on October 13 to discuss about \u2018gender sensitivity concerns\u2019 raised against the show\u2019s \u201c<em>Nasaan Ka, Mr. Pastillas<\/em>\u201d (Where Are You, Mr. Pastillas) segment.<\/p>\n<p>In the noontime variety show\u2019s segment, Pastillas Girl (Angelica Jane Yap) has been in pursuit of Mr. Pastillas \u2013 a potential boyfriend. This segment similar to reality dating shows has drawn negative feedback from women\u2019s group \u201cGabriella\u201d and the public alike.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving an official complaint from Gabriella, the MTRCB then summoned It\u2019s Showtime executives, including director Norbert Vidanes, business unit head Reily Santiago, and executive producer Mark Rejano, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther to the Memorandum of Understanding dated 28 March 2012 by and between our Agency and various television networks and entities, including ABS-CBN Corporation, as well as the official letter we received last week from the party-list alliance Gabriela, not to mention some feedback from the general public, we are impelled to invite your authorized representatives for the program \u2018It\u2019s Showtime\u2019 to a dialogue with the Special Sub-Committee of our Gender And Development (GAD) Committee on 13 October 2015, at 10:00 a.m., at our ground floor conference room,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n<p>The regulatory body also reminded all television networks to aim for a \u2018positive and non-derogatory portrayal of women in television, in support of Magna Carta of Women 2009.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It can be recalled that It\u2019s Showtime was also summoned by the MRTCB last year over mainstay host Vice Ganda\u2019s \u2018armpit humor.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) scheduled a dialogue with ABS-CBN\u2019s daily noontime show \u201cIt\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-62596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}