ABS CBN Says Show Suspension is ‘Not Fair’
Network giant ABS CBN finds suspension of its noontime show “Showtime” by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) on January 11 highly questionable.
The 20 day suspension of the show is caused by explicit and vulgar remarks of the show’s guest judge Rosanna Roces during the January 4 and 7 episode of “Showtime”. ABS CBN’s chief counsel Maximillian Uy argued that the guidelines and bases for such suspension are vague.
Roces was removed from the show the day after she uttered the remarks.
The suspension was ordered by the MTRCB after the guest judge has been removed from the show.
The network giant immediately replaced “Showtime” with “Magpasikat” the day after the suspension as been ordered. The latter show has been reformatted but the hosts were still the same. This action made MTRCB issue another order to suspend the new noontime show.
There were charges saying that ABS CBN was just trying to get out of the MTRCB order by creating another show to replace the suspended noontime show. Uy reacted to this and said “the order covered a specific program. The same hosts and concept don’t make it the same show.”
“Showtime” is now being aired on ABS CBN.
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