JUST A THOUGHT: “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller.
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LEARN FROM THIS: One doesn’t have to come from a humble background to empathize with the plight of the poor.
Dingdong Dantes brings home such a point as he hosts new GMA docu-drama series, Case Solved. The new show is much in line with Dingdong’s top-rating soap, Alyas Robin Hood, where he plays a crime-buster.
The cases presented and dramatized in Case Solved that premiered February 18 concern mostly problems of the poor, the downtrodden, the aggrieved in society. The veteran actor says that should be more reason for people like him to show compassion.
Dingdong admits the cases tackled in the scripts that he has gotten a hold of recently touched him so much they bothered him. One good thing about it, he says, is that these cases have been solved by our courts. The cases featured in his weekly show have all been acted upon, unlike other programs that feature victims crying out for help.
While it’s true that many of these cases are far detached from our everyday lives, they are a representation of the state of affairs some of our countrymen are facing.
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PREVENTING CRIME: GMA calls its new program a procedural crime documentary drama.
It hopes toraise awareness on how the public can prevent crime.
Case Solved features sensational and controversial real-life cases ranging from non-aggressive to violent circumstances. These have been culled from the Philippines’ Supreme Court Reports Annotated (SCRA) handled by the National Bureau of Investigation, Philippine National Police, International Criminal Police Organization, judicial agencies like the Department of Justice, Supreme Court and Bureau of Corrections.
More than presenting how the crime is committed, it explains how the crime is solved.
Case Solved airs every Saturday after Eat Bulaga. (NESTOR CUARTERO)