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Tomorrow night starts THE GREAT GLOBE ADVENTURE. This is what I've been working on for the past weeks with Argem. The "great dreams(G)" tv plug has been airing for a week. A Creative Director from another agency texted our bosses to say that it was a "great commercial". Which we should consider a really great compliment considering it was done using the TV (betacam) equipment and not with film.

The shoot started at 8am on a bridge somewhere in Balara, where we had to stop traffic for over an hour to shoot the the opening running scene that actually just appears for two seconds. Our day ended at 3am at GMA studios, shooting the "team" in their living room.

The show itself looks exciting. I guess you can call it the Pinoy version of AMAZING RACE. The pilot episode will have celebrity contestants (a usual ploy to make people watch). Succeeding episodes will have "regular" people. But from what I've heard, these "regular" contestants are tri-atheletes and swimmers and very pretty gym instructors. So, it should prove very interesting!

Catch it every Sunday, 8:30pm on GMA.

Play the Trivia Game and win great (ahem) prizes! :)
Text GREAT to 2255 to start playing.

(Hmmm... lately, I've been using "great" in a lot of my sentences. That's just great. *doh!*)

I now wonder what the comptetion will do.

After we came out with the game show TXTRS5, they came out with SMART K N B?
Maybe they'll produce the SIMPLY AMAZING RACE? he he he ... I'm sure you saw that coming.

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