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This podcast/audio drama from the mid-2000s-early-2010s is based on the adventures of Feedback, a superhero with video game powers, portrayed by Matthew Atherton.

You could listen to it here in its original publishing site: https://brokensea.com/feedback/

Or you could listen to its first season in the Internet Archive: Feedback: A Hero's Calling Season 1 : Matthew Atherton : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Or YT: (13) Feedback: A Hero's Calling Season 1 - YouTube

This is based on the Minoan Snake Goddess figurine found in Crete!

Image 1: An ad for Balangay, as found in Weekly Shounen Jump magazine, September 2023

Image #2: The Balangay logo, depicting Bolinao's Sarimanok on a boat with colorful sails

"Welcome Aboard Balangay! A Boatload of Kilig, Tears, Adventures, Laughter, Games and Music All You Want!"

Balangay is a free video on-demand platform launched on June 2, 2003 under the name BoliNow!, but around 2014, it changed its name to Balangay. Balangay's content consists of a catalog of Bolinao-owned films and television series, original content, online games, and livestreams of Bolinao-owned channels such as MYX, Chick-iting, the Knowledge Channel, Sarimanok News, and Cinema Uno, and Bolinao's in-house internet radio, BoliPod.

Episodes of traditional television series and television movies owned by Bolinao are released a day after their release, while traditional films are released into the platform a month after release. Original Balangay series follow a weekly schedule instead of a binge format, similar to traditional series.

The livestreams and radio service may be accessed without an account, but users may create accounts to access the streaming service and games. A one-time premium subscription referred to as the "Peck Out Ads!!" tier could be brought for $20.00, as the free tier contains ads by default.

Genres: Urban Fantasy, Crime Drama, Mystery

Trese: The Animated Series is an American animated television series adapted from the original graphic novel series written by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldissmo.

It premiered in the United States on the Bolinao Channel on October 13, 2018 as part of the Primetime Bida programming block. It ran for seven seasons, ending on April 8, 2022 with the release of Trese: The Movie.

It stars the voices of Liza Soberano as Alex Trese, Jaime Fabregas as Captain Guerrero, Carlos Bustamante as the Kambal, and Norris Wakamoto as Mr. Nuno.

The series has spawned several specials, such as a Batman crossover episode in collaboration with DC and a live action crossover episode with Blood Brothers. The series has one spinoff, Young Trese: The Animated Series, aimed towards YA viewers, with another planned spinoff, a chibi style sitcom called Balete High Private Eye, which is to be targeted for all-ages audiences. It also has spawned an interactive LARPing experience, Manila @ Nite and a series of tabletop ans card games.

It is also available on Balangay, Bolinao's free streaming platform.

I don't know what year this came from, but it probably came from the late 00s or early 10s

"You are watching Bolinao, the American East's Largest Network!"

Bolinao Communications was founded by James DeWitt (OTL James Lindenberg) and Ofelia Lopez (OTL Geny Lopez Sr.) (alias Ate Felya) in 1946 in the city of Makati, shortly after Luzon's admittion into the Union. It opened its television division on October 1949, with its first broadcast at a garden party in Senator Elpidio Quirino's house. Throughout the decade, Bolinao would expand to more locations throughout the American East region, followed by the West Coast, making it a popular household name.

It would acquire and merge with the struggling Dumont network in the mid 1950s, but by the very early 1960s, it would introduce color programming and its iconic Sarimanok mascot, which would serve as the logo for the network.

In the late 1970s, Ofelia Lopez stepped down from her position as CEO, passing the title to Carlos Momoru-Lopez, her cousin once removed. She would then die a decade afterwards.

Nowadays, Bolinao is the American East's largest media coglomorate, owning beloved properties such as the Trese franchise (books, animated series and related spinoffs such as Young Trese, a franchise aimed towards YA audiences), Blood Brothers (OTL Ang Probinsyano), and the all-ages Magic Temple Saga. Its mascot is Sarah Manok, a hen with a fish in her mouth.

Bolinao's subsidaries include but are not limited to:

-BoliBooks Publishers (its publishing arm which publishes magazines and books, including the Magic Temple Saga book adaptations and the youth oriented K-Zone magazines)

-Papanok Films (OTL Star Cinema) (its theatrical film studio)

-Sarimanok News

-Sisiw Games and Animation (for the production of tabletop games, video games, and animated films and series)

-Bolinao en Español (provides Spanish language programming to the American East)

Pictures:

1. The current logo of Bolinao. It was designed in the mid 1980s and is still put to use up to this day

2. "Three Birds": An animated segment depicting three different birds: a dove, a peacock, and a chicken (Bolinao's Sarimanok). Each of these birds represent the three largest networks in the American East. This would play in some Bolinao stations during signoffs and signons prior to the national anthem

3. A station ID card depicting a sarimanok forming the number 2. This was aired from the late 60s-early 80s

4. A female model holding the old Bolinao logo

5. A picture of Ofelia Lopez as a young woman in the late 1920s-early 1930s in formalwear

Here's mine!

This uses a 1990s era menu from Chili's

Did Captain Man hire new sidekicks?! You don't say

Originally, there was a storyboard where Delia and Otho discover Adam floating in the bathtub, but it didn't make it to the final cut. But what if it did?

In the late 60s-early 70s, Cat (Yusuf) Stevens had plans for a musical inspired by the Russian Revolution, but due to a sudden illness, he wasn't able to finish it. The musical would've included the song "Father and Son" which tells the story of a young man who runs away from home to join the communists despite his father's pleads for him to stay. Another song, "The Day They Make Me Tsar", is told through the point of view of Tsarevich Alexei.

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But what if CS didn't get ill, and was able to complete his musical project, Revolussia?

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In 1971, 54 years after the Russian Revolution, the musical Revolussia was released in London's West End, starring Nigel Hawthorne to mass acclaim, but a few years later, it would make its way to Broadway. The play would then tour around the world, being translated into other languages. The musical would deal with the Russian Revolution through various viewpoints.

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There had been talks about adapting Revolussia into a film throughout the decades, but none of them would materialize until the 2010s, when during the earlier to middle part of the decade, it was announced that there would be a film adaptation of the play. Shooting would commence around 2015-early 2016 throughout various Central and Eastern European countries such as Hungary, Germany, Romania, and Switzerland, but the film wouldn't be released until November 7, 2017, the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. The film opened to mainly average-to-positive reviews and spawned a massive fanbase.

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The first image is a promotional poster for the film depicting Jace Norman as Tsarevich/Grand Duke Alexei, but to do that, blue contact lenses were applied to his eyes to make him resemble the original Grand Duke, despite his natural eye color being brown. The second image is a poster for the musical created for its original run in His Majesty's Theatre.