Who will be the PDA2 Grand Star Dreamer? Pinoy Dream Academy Season 2 is gearing up for its Grand Finale Night and the eventual winner dubbed as The Grand Star Dreamer. Voting is ongoing since a week ago and PDA 2 host Toni Gonzaga has revealed the partial percentage of votes as of 9:27pm, September 6, Saturday. The names behind the partial percentage of votes though were not released so as not affect the total outcome of votes and to prevent trending. Leading the pack is Scholar B who got 38.98% of the total votes cast, Scholar A got 20.27%, Scholar D received 20.18% while Scholar C got 11.28%, Scholar F got 6.15% Scholar E only got a measly 3.15%. The PDA 2 Grand Performance Night will be on September 13 and the PDA 2 Final Results Night will be on September 14 where the PDA 2 Grand Star Dreamer will win a recording contract, P1 million in cash, a condo unit, a business franchise, among others..

Since the scholar’s behind those monikers of scholars A-F have been made a secret, you’ll never know who’s leading or not. You can totally change still the outcome of the votes! Vote for your favorite scholar by texting in PDA (name of scholar) to 2331 for Globe, Touch Mobile, and Sun Cellular subscribers and 231 for Smart, Talk ‘N Text, and Addict Mobile subscribers.

The finale week of Pinoy Idol topped the ratings last weekend. Eat Bulaga! despite the seeming domination of Wowowee in the internet forums, topped the ratings game in the weekdays and weekend ratings. Surprisingly, ABS-CBN’s ASAP ‘08 topped the daytime weekend race for two weeks in a row now, a rare occurrence.

Here are the comparative TV ratings of ABS-CBN and GMA-7 shows from August 15 to 19 based on the overnight ratings conducted by AGB Nielsen Philippines among Mega Manila households:

August 15 (Friday)

Non-Primetime:

SiS (GMA-7) 11.1%; Boy & Kris (ABS-CBN) 8.3%

Marimar (GMA-7) 18.6%; Pilipinas, Game KNB? (ABS-CBN) 15.3%

Eat Bulaga! (GMA-7) 24.2%; Wowowee (ABS-CBN) 18.6%

Daisy Siete (GMA-7) 18.3%; Magdusa Ka (GMA-7) 24.7%; Ligaw Na Bulaklak (ABS-CBN) 14.5%

Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan (GMA-7) 23.7%; El Cuerpo del Deseo (ABS-CBN) 17%

Primetime:

Gobingo (GMA-7) 16.1%; Kapamilya Deal Or No Deal (ABS-CBN) 15.7%

24 Oras (GMA-7) 29.3%; TV Patrol World (ABS-CBN) 21.5%

Codename: Asero (GMA-7) 33.3%; The Singing Bee (ABS-CBN) 25.7%

Dyesebel (GMA-7) 38.8%; Dyosa (ABS-CBN) 23.9%; Iisa Pa Lamang (ABS-CBN) 23.5%

Ako Si Kim Samsoon (GMA-7) 29.3%; My Girl (ABS-CBN) 26.8%

Dalja’s Spring (GMA-7) 22.6%; Pinoy Dream Academy (ABS-CBN) 21%

Bubble Gang (GMA-7) 18.3%; Daboy Sa ABS-CBN (ABS-CBN) 7%

Saksi (GMA-7) 7.4%; Bandila (ABS-CBN) 3.3%

August 16 (Saturday)

Non-Primetime:

Pilipinas, Game KNB? (ABS-CBN) 11%; Takeshi’s Castle (GMA-7) 14.2%

Eat Bulaga! (GMA-7) 22.3%; Wowowee (ABS-CBN) 17.8%

Startalk (GMA-7) 16.2%; Entertainment Live (ABS-CBN) 10.9%

Wish Ko Lang (GMA-7) 19.7%; Cinema FPJ (ABS-CBN) 16.4%

Pinoy Records (GMA-7) 19.4%; That’s My Doc (ABS-CBN) 16.9%

Primetime:

Pinoy Idol (GMA-7) 29.9%; Varga (ABS-CBN) 23.3%

Bitoy’s Funniest Videos (GMA-7) 29.7%; Pinoy Dream Academy (ABS-CBN) 27.2%

Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (GMA-7) 29.9%; Maalaala Mo Kaya (ABS-CBN) 20.8%

Imbestigador (GMA-7) 20.9%; XXX (ABS-CBN) 12.2%

Nuts Entertainment (GMA-7) 10%; TV Patrol World (ABS-CBN) 6.3%

Sine Totoo (GMA-7) 5.9%; Sports Unlimited (ABS-CBN) 3.4%; Walang Tulugan With Master Showman (GMA-7) 2.5%

August 17 (Sunday)

Non-Primetime:

Matanglawain (ABS-CBN) 10.5%; Loving You: The Making (GMA-7) 11.4%;

SOP (GMA-7) 14.4%; ASAP ‘08 (ABS-CBN) 18%

Dear Friend (gma-7) 11.8%; Your Song (ABS-CBN) 11.1%

Showbiz Central (GMA-7) 11.1%; The Buzz (ABS-CBN) 12.7%

Primetime:

Kap’s Amazing Stories (GMA-7) 19.2%; Rated K (ABS-CBN) 15.4%

Pinoy Idol (GMA-7) 28%; Goin’ Bulilit (ABS-CBN) 16.6%

Mel & Joey (GMA-7) 22.4%; Pinoy Dream Academy: Little Dreamers (ABS-CBN) 21.3%

All Star K (GMA-7) 18.6%; Sharon (ABS-CBN) 19.8%

Ful Haus (GMA-7) 13.6%; TV Patrol World (ABS-CBN) 14%; Sunday’s Best: The Making of Cinderella (ABS-CBN) 8.1%

SNBO: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (GMA-7) 13.4%; Sunday’s Best: Martin Nievera XXV (ABS-CBN) 4.5%

August 18 (Monday)

Non-Primetime:

SiS (GMA-7) 10.9%; Boy & Kris (ABS-CBN) 8.6%

Marimar (GMA-7) 18.6%; Pilipinas, Game KNB? (ABS-CBN) 18%

Eat Bulaga! (GMA-7) 22.7%; Wowowee (ABS-CBN) 18.3%

Daisy Siete (GMA-7) 18%; Magdusa Ka (GMA-7) 21.8%; Ligaw Na Bulaklak (ABS-CBN) 14.8%
Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan (GMA-7) 20.3%; El Cuerpo del Deseo (ABS-CBN) 17.4%; Las Tontas (ABS-CBN) 9.7%

Primetime:

Gobingo (GMA-7) 12.5%; Kapamilya Deal Or No Deal (ABS-CBN) 16.8%

24 Oras (GMA-7) 28.5%; TV Patrol World (ABS-CBN) 23.3%

Codename: Asero (GMA-7) 32.6%; The Singing Bee (ABS-CBN) 25.4%

Dyesebel (GMA-7) 38.1%; Dyosa (ABS-CBN) 24.7%; Iisa Pa Lamang (ABS-CBN) 24%

Ako Si Kim Samsoon (GMA-7) 26.9%; My Girl (ABS-CBN) 22.6%

Dalja’s Spring (GMA-7) 17.8%; Pinoy Dream Academy (ABS-CBN) 18.5%

Ripley’s Believe It Or Not (GMA-7) 17.7%; Bandila (ABS-CBN) 8.6%; Saksi (GMA-7) 10.4%

August 19 (Tuesday)

Non-Primetime:

SiS (GMA-7) 9.3%; Boy & Kris (ABS-CBN) 7%

Marimar (GMA-7) 16.8%; Pilipinas, Game KNB? (ABS-CBN) 14.4%

Eat Bulaga! (GMA-7) 21.3%; Wowowee (ABS-CBN) 17.2%

Daisy Siete (GMA-7) 19.7%; Ligaw Na Bulaklak (ABS-CBN) 12.1%
Magdusa Ka (GMA-7) 20%; El Cuerpo del Deseo (ABS-CBN) 15.9%

Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan (GMA-7) 20.8%; Las Tontas (ABS-CBN) 9.4%

Primetime:

Gobingo (GMA-7) 13.6%; Kapamilya Deal Or No Deal (ABS-CBN) 16.1%

24 Oras (GMA-7) 32.3%; TV Patrol World (ABS-CBN) 23.4%

Codename: Asero (GMA-7) 35.6%; The Singing Bee (ABS-CBN) 25.3%

Dyesebel (GMA-7) 41.3%; Dyosa (ABS-CBN) 25.9%; Iisa Pa Lamang (ABS-CBN) 24.8%

Ako Si Kim Samsoon (GMA-7) 30%; My Girl (ABS-CBN) 23.6%

Dalja’s Spring (GMA-7) 21.7%; Pinoy Dream Academy (ABS-CBN) 18.6%

World Records (GMA-7) 16.6%; Bandila (ABS-CBN) 8.8%; Saksi (GMA-7) 8.6%

Source: AGB Nielsen Philippines via PEP

Kapamilya Deal Or No Deal (which obviously airs on ABS-CBN) is a television game show format owned by Dutch-based production
company Endernol, known for being the brains behind other worldwide TV phenomenons like Big Brother, na syempre was also renamed as Pinoy Big Brother and Star Academy, which of course is Pinoy Dream Academy, among others..

It features 26 attractive women who each has the briefcase to fortune, aptly named by host Kris Aquino as “26K Girls“. Some of whom are familiar now to the general public and has gained some admirers for their beauty.

The girl most known of is Charmel, of whom almost always ends up the 2 million briefcase which spells doom.