Gimik
Title card
Genre	Teen drama
Written by	John D. Lazatin Keiko Aquino Galvez Marcia de Jesus
Directed by	Laurenti Dyogi
Starring	Judy Ann Santos Rico Yan Diether Ocampo G. Toengi Mylene Dizon Jolina Magdangal Marvin Agustin Bojo Molina Patrick Garcia Kaye Abad Kristopher Peralta Diego Castro Andrea Blaesi Dominic Ochoa Kristine Hermosa Paula Peralejo John Lloyd Cruz Cheska Garcia Carlos Agassi Baron Geisler Laura James Desiree del Valle
Opening theme	"Gimik" by Jao Mapa (1996–97)
Country of origin	Philippines
Original language	Filipino
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	134
Production
Executive producers	Ethel Espiritu Judith Bauer
Running time	90 minutes
Production company	ABS-CBN Entertainment
Original release
Network	ABS-CBN
Release	June 15, 1996 (1996-06-15) – February 6, 1999 (1999-02-06)
Related
Gimik 2010

Gimik is a Philippine youth-oriented television series produced and broadcast by ABS-CBN. The show ran from June 15, 1996 to February 6, 1999, replacing Game Na Game Na! and was replaced by G-mik every Saturday for 90 minutes and was shown internationally through TFC.

The series is streaming on Jeepney TV YouTube channel.

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 (Judy Ann Santos), is an only child of a very modern couple, a young socialite. Ricky (Rico Yan), 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 (G. Toengi), is the older sister of Carlo (Patrick Garcia) the best friend of Toffee (Kristopher Peralta). Gina is a Textiling Major. Their parents are in the States and they live with their grandmother. Joey (Marvin Agustin), tactless and as such is suffering from the Middle Child Syndrome. He is a Computer Science Major. Jigs (Diego Castro), an asthmatic teenager with an over-protective mother. Gary (Diether Ocampo), dropped out from school because he enjoys working, he is a product of a broken family. Melanie (Mylene Dizon), 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 (Kaye Abad) house. She and Andi (Andrea Blaesi) are inseparable and are in the age of experimenting. Ese (Jolina Magdangal), a fine arts student, bubbly and the colorful one and Brian (Bojo Molina), 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 (now ABS-CBN's Star Magic). It became the launching pad for the careers of the most successful young stars of their generation in the 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.^[1][2]

Additional cast

Several Talent Center artists joined the show when the original cast members (Judy Ann Santos, Rico Yan, Diether Ocampo, Jolina Magdangal, Patrick Garcia and Marvin Agustin)^[3] 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 Growing Up, nonetheless Cheska Garcia, Carlos Agassi, Laura James, Rica Peralejo (from rival show T.G.I.S.), Baron Geisler, Paula Peralejo, John Lloyd Cruz and Desiree del Valle joined the show.

Gimik cast

Cast and characters

GIMIK: The Reunion

Motion picture release Gimik: The Reunion^[4] was later made and was released on April 28, 1999, after the series ended in February 2 months later 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.^[5] Kristine Hermosa and Dominic Ochoa, a regular cast since 1997, made cameo appearances in the movie with different roles.

Cast

Soundtrack

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.^[6]

Adapted from the GIMIK: The Reunion Original Motion Picture Soundtrack liner notes.^[7]

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.

See also

• List of programs broadcast by ABS-CBN

References

External links

• Gimik at IMDb
• Telebisyon