Gimik


Gimik is a Philippine youth-oriented television series produced and broadcast by ABS-CBN. The show ran from June 15, 1996 until February 13, 1999 every Saturday for 1 hour and 30 minutes and was shown international through TFC.

Premise

Gimik circles throughout the lives of 12 juveniles. It tackles the fun, experiences and the problems that the youth encounter. Pre-marital sex, unwanted pregnancy, insecurities of a middle child, sibling rivalry, broken families, parent-child conflict, jealousy, animosity, sexual preference, aids awareness, love relationships and student life.

Plot

Dianne, is an only child of a very modern couple, a young socialite. Ricky, a son of rich doctors, the boy-next-door and is the object of Dianne's fancy. He was a medical student but changed his course to Business Administration afterwards. Gina, is the older sister of Carlo the bestfriend of Toffee. Gina is a Textiling Major. Their parents are in the States and they live with their grandmother. Joey, tactless and as such is suffering from the Middle Child Syndrome. He is a Computer Science Major. Jigs, an asthmatic teener with an over-protective mother. Gary, dropped out from school because he enjoys working, he is a product of a broken family. Melanie, a working student in a video shop. She moved from the province to study Nursing through a scholarship. She is a boarder in Kakai's house. She and Andi are inseparable and are in the age of experimenting. Ese, a fine arts student, bubbly and the colorful one and Brian, a medical student whose mother has animosity to Melanie as his girlfriend. Dianne and Gina are best friends as well as Ricky and Gary whose love stories are intertwined. Ese and Joey's love hate relationship, Melanie and Brian's thorny relationship add spices in the entire series.

Development

The teen-oriented show consisted mostly Talent Center artists. It became the launching pad for the careers of the most successful young stars of their generation in mid 1990s including Judy Ann Santos, Rico Yan, Jolina Magdangal, Diether Ocampo, Marvin Agustin, Patrick Garcia, Mylene Dizon, Kaye Abad and G Toengi. The series was originally created as part of ABS-CBN Corporation's 50th anniversary.

Additional cast

Several Talent Center artists joined the show when the original cast members became successful in their separate careers, making it hard for them to appear regularly, nevertheless LJ Moreno, Kristine Hermosa and Dominic Ochoa were added. In 1997, Judy Ann Santos left the show to focus on Esperanza, Andrea Blaesi's character vanished in 1996 and Diego Castro later left the show and moved to rival show TGIS, nonetheless Rica Peralejo, Jodi Sta. Maria, Baron Geisler, Paula Peralejo, Carlos Agassi, Laura James, John Lloyd Cruz and Cheska Garcia joined the show.

Cast and characters

Main cast

Motion picture release Gimik: The Reunion was later made, retaining all the main characters. Ricky, Ese, Joey, Gina, Gary, Melanie and Bryan look forward to love, marriage and career. Judy Ann Santos made a special appearance as her character Dianne in the latter part of the film. Kristine Hermosa and Dominic Ochoa, a regular cast since 1997, made cameo appearances in the movie with different roles.

Cast

Main cast

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the film was released on March 30, 1999, two months before the release of the film. With its carrier single "Mahal Mo Ba Ako" by Jolina Magdangal, the soundtrack earned a Gold Record Certification from the Philippine Association of the Record Industry on May 7, 1999.
Adapted from the GIMIK: The Reunion Original Motion Picture Soundtrack liner notes.

Gimik 2010

In the same network's 2010 Trade Launch, the station announced that the show will return on television as part of Your Song with the title of Gimik 2010.