Tahanang Pinakamasaya
Title card since 2024
GenreVariety show
Written by
  • Erin de Jesus
  • Patricia Arroyo
  • Ron Comon
Directed byMoty Apostol
Creative directorRenato Aure Jr.
Presented by
Narrated byShow Suzuki
Opening theme"Tahanang Pinakamasaya!"
Country of originPhilippines
Original languageTagalog
No. of episodes11 (as of January 18, 2024)
Production
Executive producers
  • Helen Atienza-Dela Cruz
  • Maricel Carampatana-Vinarao
  • Michael Dio
Producers
Production locationsAPT Studios, Cainta, Rizal, Philippines
Camera setupMultiple-camera setup
Running time150–180 minutes
Production companyTAPE Inc.
Original release
NetworkGMA Network
ReleaseJanuary 6, 2024 (2024-01-06) –
present
Related
Eat Bulaga!

Tahanang Pinakamasaya! (transl. Happiest Home!) is a 2024 Philippine television variety show broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Moty Apostol, it is hosted by Alexa Miro, Arra San Agustin, Betong Sumaya, Buboy Villar, Cassy Legaspi, Chariz Solomon, Dasuri Choi, Glaiza de Castro, Isko Moreno, Kimpoy Feliciano, Kokoy de Santos, Mavy Legaspi, Michael Sager, Paolo Contis, Winwyn Marquez, and Yasser Marta, with the participation of Music Hero Band and BPop Idols. It premiered on January 6, 2024 on the network's afternoon line up.

Overview

The formation of Tahanang Pinakamasaya! dated back from an internal dispute between TAPE Inc.'s new management (following the forced retirement of TAPE CEO Antonio Tuviera, with a member of the Jalosjos family taking over the position) and the group of long-time hosts from Eat Bulaga! led by Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto and Joey de Leon. As a result of the said dispute, Eat Bulaga! suspended its production after the hosts and production members filed their resignation on May 31, 2023. GMA Network, which was EB's television partner from 1995 until TVJ's resignation, aired replay episodes of Eat Bulaga! in its place under TAPE's instructions from May 31 to June 3, 2023. This resulted in the copyright infringement and unfair competition filed by TVJ at the Marikina City Regional Trial Court on June 30, 2023.[1]

On June 5, the show resumed original programming, with Paolo Contis, Alexa Miro, Betong Sumaya, Buboy Villar, Cassy Legaspi and Mavy Legaspi joining as the new hosts of the show.[2] In the same month, Isko Moreno, Kimpoy Feliciano, and South Korean dancer Dasuri Choi also joined the show.[3][4] During this time, TAPE Inc. continues to claim that they are still the owners of Eat Bulaga! trademark, justifying their claim that they remain as the same variety show created in 1979; however, the court ruled that they did not originate the term Eat Bulaga!, and they registered its trademark in bad faith because the copyright is with Joey de Leon as he originally conceived the said term.[5][6]

On December 4, 2023, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) released a decision granting the petition of De Leon and the Sotto brothers to cancel TAPE Inc.'s trademark registration of Eat Bulaga!. The IPOPHL decision held that De Leon and the Sotto brothers proved that they are the original owners of the name and thus have the absolute and exclusive right to its registration.[7] TAPE Inc. continued to use the name anyway, with host Paolo Contis expressing defiance and insisting that the IPOPHL decision had not attained finality.[8]

In a decision dated December 22, 2023 by the Marikina City Regional Trial Court Branch 273, Judge Romeo Dizon Tagra directed the defendants, TAPE Inc., to pay P2 million in temperate damages, P500,000 in exemplary damages, and P500,000 in attorney's fees to plaintiffs Tito and Vic Sotto and Joey de Leon (TVJ) and their creative partner, Jenny Ferre, for committing unfair competition and copyright infringement. Tagra issued a permanent injunction against TAPE Inc. and GMA Network, prohibiting the use of Eat Bulaga!’s trademarks, including logos, songs, promos, and all episodes recorded before May 31, for its current programming. The decision implied that TAPE's use of Eat Bulaga! upon resuming original production was illegal, and that it produced what was seen by many as a very new variety show different from Eat Bulaga! itself. On January 5, 2024, the decision was served upon the lawyers of De Leon and the Sotto brothers and was announced to the public.

On January 6, 2024, TAPE Inc. followed the subsequent court decision and permanently changed the name of their noontime show into Tahanang Pinakamasaya![5] On the same day, TV5's variety show by TVJ Productions has dropped its placeholder title, E.A.T., and began to use the original Eat Bulaga! title for the first time in almost seven months.[9]

Cast

Current hosts
Isko Moreno
Buboy Villar
Betong Sumaya
Glaiza de Castro

References

  1. ↑ "Paolo Ballesteros, Maine Mendoza, other 'Eat Bulaga' co-hosts leave TAPE". Rappler. June 1, 2023. Archived from the original on June 2, 2023. Retrieved June 2, 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "What did netizens say about revamped 'Eat Bulaga!' and its hosts?". PEP.ph. Archived from the original on June 5, 2023. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Kimpoy Feliciano, Dasuri Choi, kasama sa mga bagong nagpasaya sa 'Eat Bulaga'". June 8, 2023. Archived from the original on June 8, 2023. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
  4. 1 2 Anne Pasajol. "Isko Moreno joins new 'Eat Bulaga' as host". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Archived from the original on June 10, 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  5. 1 2 Cariaso, Bella (January 6, 2024). "Court orders TAPE, GMA to stop using 'Eat Bulaga". The Philippine Star. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  6. ↑ Joey de Leon (June 7, 2009). "An Oscar award for Tito, Vic & Joey". The Philippine Star. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
  7. ↑ Lyka Nicart, Jose Rafael Ballecer (December 6, 2023). "TVJ Original Owners Of 'Eat Bulaga' Trademark, IPOPHL Rules". OneNews.ph. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
  8. ↑ Kathleen A. Llemit (December 7, 2023). "TAPE host Paolo Contis: 'Mahaba pa po ang laban'". OneNews.ph. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
  9. ↑ De Castro Jr., Isagani (January 6, 2024). "TAPE stops using Eat Bulaga! as Tito, Vic, Joey start using it for noon show". Rappler. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "'Eat Bulaga!' tuloy ang 44th anniversary celebration sa gitna ng mga batikos". PEP. July 28, 2023. Retrieved July 29, 2023.
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