BeTV is back to SONY CHANNEL!

Years ago, I attended a launch of the Sony Channel that they will be known as BeTV. The introduced shows fresh from the US which was also anticipated here in Asia. Now this 2014, they would like to reintroduce themselves as SONY CHANNEL once again along with the stream of new series yet having the same vibe with their shows that are fresh and liked by many of its loyal viewers as well as the new ones.

To start the switch, they aired the first two episode of the most anticipated legal drama of 2014, How To Get Away With Murder from Executive Producer Shonda Rhymes and from the creators of Scandal and Grey's Anatomy. Oct 15 will start a whole new TV viewing experience with their new shows as well as season enders of BeTV favorites like Nashville and Cupcake Wars.

A Stunning New Home

Sony Pictures Television Networks, the global leader in premium entertainment, brings you Sony Channel, an unprecedented viewing experience delivering the biggest and best from Hollywood.

Designed for the socially connected viewer, Sony Channel spotlights the most captivating, talked about shows on TV, airing close to the U.S. telecasts. From feel-good movies, dramas and comedies to lifestyle and reality programming, this is television that you live, breathe and crave.

Best of March: Experience a Total Transformation with beTV’s Makeover Special

This March, beTV brings you five shows that might just transform your life in just one day! Catch beTV’s March Makeover Special with reruns of The Rachel Zoe Project, Fashion Hunters, Hair Battle Spectacular, Face-off and Flipping Out every Sunday from 1:30 PM to 5:40 PM.

Step 1: Assess what you want to change or improve in your life.

Do you want to simply have a new look or are you longing for a new way of life? The Rachel Zoe Project (Season 4) offers a few ideas to get you going! Let Rachel Zoe show you how to address the simplest fashion and styling dilemmas to juggling and managing everyday life with a crazy team, a hectic business venture, demanding clients and a growing family.

Best of February: beTV serenades you with the best tunes!

Fire away as the best of TV, beTV, serves up two shows that will bring out the music lover in you! Come on, grab a microphone and hit the stage with Nashville and Platinum Hit this February!

Witness the ups and downs of glitzy stardom of the 2nd Season of Nashville! Legendary music icon Rayna Jaymes (Connie Britton) continues her struggle to stay in the spotlight as the ambitious young contender, Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere), carries on with her ascent. Viewers were left hanging last season with Rayna and  Deacon (Charles Esten) getting into a car accident after confirming that the latter is the father of Rayna’s first daughter. This season, it looks like Rayna and Juliette will have to work together. Will they ever be friends or will their battle to become THE queen of country music continue this season? Find out starting February 16 and every Sunday at 9:00 PM, first and exclusive on beTV!

Shift Your Screens to beTV this January as Teen Wolf Season 3 Returns!

It’s time to get back on track this New Year as the best of TV, beTV, brings the same-week as the US telecast of the 2nd part of Teen Wolf Season 3!

This January, the pack begins to experience strange side effects as a result of reigniting the power within Beacon Hills. Allison (Crystal Reed) is being haunted by visions of her dead aunt and Stiles (Dylan O'Brien) is seeing words slide off the page. Two of them are losing their minds while Scott (Tyler Posey) battles to find his place as an Alpha.

Best of December: Let beTV stir up both hemispheres of your brain!

According to psychologists, the left side of the brain controls logical thinking, while the right side showcases one’s creativity. One uses the left hemisphere for analyzing and the right for creative pursuits. This December, let beTV’s line up of shows work both logical and creative thinking and help viewers figure out their brain’s dominant side!

For the brain’s left hemisphere

Catch Dr. Dani Santino (Callie Thorne) as she continues to evaluate and analyze how to go about her roller coaster of a life in the 3rd season of Necessary Roughness. The series focuses on how a tough divorcee like Dr. Dani is able to get her life and career back on track when she loses her job as the psychotherapist for the New York Hawks professional football team and lands a new challenge at talent management agency V3 under the charming Connor McClane (John Stamos) who has secrets to hide. In past seasons, Dr. Dani had been underestimated at every turn, but succeeded beyond all expectations and became a sought-after therapist for her unique brand of tough love therapy, among professional athletes, musicians, politicians. All this while also raising two teenage children on her own and managing her love life. Necessary Roughness begins on December 12, 9:00 PM, Mondays to Thursdays, first and exclusive on beTV! 

Best of October: Girls Rule the World on beTV!

Let girls take over your TV screens this October! Enjoy new seasons of your favorite shows, first and exclusive on beTV!

Catch Paige Duke, the former NASCAR Sprint Cup Series ambassador from South Carolina, as she takes control of the affairs of her heart on the third season of Sweet Home Alabama. A fan favorite in the second season, Paige returns to search for her true love in an all-new, ten-episode run of Sweet Home Alabama! This time, suitors from big cities and small towns will be the one vying for her affection. More tears and more romance await you as bachelors from around the United States head to the Deep South to compete for the heart of this southern belle. Sweet Home Alabama starts on October 6, Sunday at 8:10 PM, first and exclusive on beTV!

Best of September: Eat, Prey, Love on beTV!

Relive your favorite beTV shows starting this September! Enjoy 4 hours of back-to-back reality, romance, comedy and drama from Mondays through Thursdays at 8:30 PM!

Eat. Enjoy your favorite cupcake while watching delicious battles on  Cupcake Wars! Four top cupcake makers face-off in three elimination challenges until only one remains and wins the sweet prize of $10,000 plus the yummy opportunity to showcase their cupcakes at an event!

Prey. Experience the full force of tension and anxiety as Teen Wolf (season 3) and Supernatural (season 8) quenches your thirst for forces beyond understanding.  Be taken to the edge of your seats by the fiercest battles of the paranormal kinds on beTV!

Best of August: Top 5 Lessons on Dating from Men at Work Season 2 only on beTV

The guys of Men at Work are back on the best of TV, beTV! Milo (Danny Masterson), who struggled to move on after getting dumped by his girlfriend during the show’s first season, returns with his friends: the sensitive, Neal (Adam Busch); the witty, Tyler (Michael Cassidy); and, the womanizer, Gibbs (James Lesure). With Season 2 set to air on August 29 at 8:30 PM, we have rounded up the Top 5lessons on mating, dating and relating to women from the well-intentioned men of Men at Work.

Lesson No. 1: If there’s a will, there’s a way. Do not hold back on returning to the dating scene even with disappointments and rejection scares. You never know. You might just find the girl of your dreams.

Best of July: beTV brings out different flavors of reality!

Armed with their knives plus their egos, 12 world-renowned chefs are cooking up a storm for a good cause in the 4th Season of Top Chef Masters! Catch them go against each other in this fierce culinary elimination reality competition until one winner is crowned "Top Chef Master" and wins the grand prize of $100,000 for their charity of choice. This season will be smokin’ in Las Vegas beginning July 10 at 9:20 PM and every Monday to Thursdays thereafter, only on the best of TV, beTV!

Best of June: Fashion is Passion!

On the 5th season of beTV’s The Rachel Zoe Project starting this June 11 at 6:50 PM and airing on weeknights thereafter, fashion is everything! As she manages a new office, a new styling assistant and a slew of new employees in Los Angeles and New York, Rachel Zoe also shares her fabulous life with her toddler son, Skyler and her husband/business partner Rodger. In this new season, she is set to debut her latest line, take in shows at the New York and Paris Fashion Week while styling clients for music video and photo shoots as well as manage all her other business ventures. With so much at stake for Zoe, this season proves that the fashion journey is never easy, and as she would say, “It is always maj!”

Hot New Shows and Sizzlin’ New Seasons on beTV this April!

After losing their mother 27 years ago to a mysterious and demonic force, Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) were raised by their father John (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America and how to kill them. Last season, they encountered their worst enemy yet, Leviathan, which took the form of billionaire Dick Roman plotting to devour the human race. 

The Winchesters, fallen angel Castiel (Misha Collins), and young prophet Kevin Tran (Osric Chau) defeated the all-consuming beast, but left Dean and Castiel in Purgatory, and Sam all alone. The 8th season of Supernatural begins as Dean escapes Purgatory with a mysterious comrade who is perhaps more than he bargained for, and Sam has to reconcile the life he found without Dean when he suddenly returns. As the two brothers struggle with their unexpected reunion, they make a shocking discovery that could lead them on a deeply personal mission to settle old scores. Recap the last 4 episodes of Supernatural Season 7 on April 26 from 6:00 PM. Then catch the premiere of Season 8 at 10:10 PM on the channel that serves up only the best of the TV — beTV.

Face-offs and comebacks conquer beTV this March!

It’s cupcake versus cupcake in the tastiest culinary competition yet as “Cupcake Wars” invades beTV this March! Four top cupcake makers face-off in three elimination challenges until only one remains and wins the sweet prize of $10,000 plus the opportunity to showcase their cupcakes at a winning event! Judges Candace Nelson (owner of the world’s first cupcake bakery, “Sprinkles Cupcakes”), Florian Bellanger (chef and co-owner of online macaroon company, “MadMac”) and a third rotating judge per week will determine which cupcake wins the war.  The competition heats up starting March 12, Every Mondays through Thursdays at 10:10pm on beTV.

Tim (Darren Boyd, Green Wing) has reached a crossroad—he is stuck in a dead-end job at Computer Universe and he is locked in a custody battle with ex-wife Judith (Dolly Wells) over son Marcus (Jude Wright). As he tries to win back the respect and affection of his horribly precocious nine-year old, he quits his dead-end job to prove that he is not a loser. Tim’s world is shaken, and most definitely stirred, when he is accidentally recruited as a trainee spy for MI5.  First and exclusive on beTV, “Spy” premieres on March 17, Sunday at 8:55pm and starting March 18, airs every Monday and Tuesday at 8:55pm.

Nashville takes the spotlight on beTV this February

“With an impeccable cast and tons of talents behind the camera, Nashville could be one of those huge grown-up soaps that hook viewers for years.” -Hollywoodreporter.com

If there’s one show y’all have to check out, make it Nashville. The premise of the aurally pleasing series is an uncanny reflection of the music industry – a country music legend, Rayna James (Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights), is being eased out of the charts after 20 years in the spotlight by the next big thing, Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere, Heroes). What probably rubs Rayna the wrong way, is her record label’s insistence on organizing a co-headlining tour with Juliette, to bring up her numbers; and how even Rayna’s kids themselves are bobbing to the pop-oriented songs of her young, sexy and fame-hungry rival.

Cheer for Pinoy Chef Paul Qui in Top Chef Season 9 on beTV

Get set to embark on the gruelling journey of fellow countryman, Paul Qui, to culinary excellence in America through the Emmy award-winning culinary contest reality TV series Top Chef Season 9. Follow the Manila-born, Texas, Austin-based chef through the toughest of cooking challenges against a record field of contestants and cheer him on to his glorious achievement on beTV as he does the Philippines proud!

Premiering January 21, 2013 and airing weeknights, 7:40pm on beTV, the riveting Top Chef returns for its latest, ninth season which chef Paul Qui wins! Share in his roller coaster ride through 18 episodes to beating 28 other contestants to bring home the US$125,000 cash prize as well as earn the coveted title of ‘Top Chef’. “Filipinos have a lot of heart, a lot of drive. And I definitely got that from my parents,” said Paul, who grew up in San Juan in Metro Manila. He believes these traits helped him ‘bring home the bacon’ from Top Chef.

Exude grace under pressure on beTV this January!

Dr. Dani Santino (Callie Thorne, Rescue Me) thought she had it all figured out: she had a beautiful home, a successful husband, two great teenaged kids, and a satisfying career as a psychotherapist until she caught her husband cheating on her. On the 2nd season of Necessary Roughness, Dani's perfect world begins to unravel as she is forced to find a way to keep her family, her finances, and her sanity intact following a divorce. She will be facing a whole new batch of issues to tackle, both personally and professionally as she becomes the most sought-after therapist for professional athletes and other high-profile personalities.  She also starts a new relationship with Matt (Marc Blucas, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and tries to keep her kids on track. Would she be able to hold it all together?  Find out on Necessary Roughness every Monday and Tuesday starting January 21 at 8:30pm, first and exclusive on beTV.

Thank You For Making My Christmas!

Christmas has been very great for me this year and like I said that the year 2012 was a year of great opportunities and recovery. I got of material and educational blessings as I started going back to school and hopefully graduate this 2013. 

I just have to say thank you for the people and agencies who made my Christmas with these great gifts!

First package I got this december was on 12-12-12 which I got a nice package from Lipton Tea. And yes its a box of teabags and flavors and useful items. I also shared them here with a mix I made and was promoted on the Lipton page!

Five steps to happily ever after on beTV this November!

Step 1: Matchmaking. Patti Stinger is a third generation matchmaker and founder and CEO of the Millionaire’s Club, an exclusive service designed to match successful men with their prospective wives. Helping millionaires find their true love is Patti's office team, which includes Destin, her office manager and right-hand man; Chelsea, the Vice President of Matchmaking and Alison, Millionaires Club Rep in Sales. Find out if and how Patti can help her elite pool of millionaire clients find true love based on a database of women holding some of nature's most coveted characteristics: beauty, brains, and class. Catch the Millionaire Matchmaker on November 10 and 11, at 7:20pm only on beTV.

Step 2: Dating. Is love blind? This is what Dating in the Dark, a unique alternative series on beTV will try to answer this on November 10 and 11 at 4:00pm. Looks are taken out of the equation as three men and three women, who are all looking for love, get to know each other in total darkness. And after days of dating in the “darkroom”, the participants will select the one member of the opposite sex that they want to see revealed in the light. Will there be a second date—this time, in person, in daylight? Find out on Dating in the Dark, only on beTV.

Good drama loves company this October on beTV!

Drop Dead Diva’s Jane (Brooke Elliott) is a plus-sized attorney whose body becomes home to the spirit of an aspiring model named Deb, when their souls crossed paths at death. Given a second chance at life, Deb comes to terms with her new life as Jane, and gradually learns that body size is not the only definition of beauty. The romantic comedy follows Deb as Jane struggling with her new-found intelligence and her feelings for Deb’s fiancé Grayson (Jackson Hurst, A Bird of the Air). In this 4th Season, Jane tries to put her past behind and move on with her new beau Owen (Lex Medlin, Southland), but former flame Grayson steps back into the picture. So, after three seasons of Jane running after Grayson, this time, Grayson is the one pining for Jane. How will this love triangle end? One thing’s for sure, wedding bells will ring for Jane and one lucky man by the end of Drop Dead Diva Season 4. With a new addition to the cast, the series will get even more interesting starting October 1, airing on weeknights at 8:30pm, first and exclusively on beTV. 

Meet TV’s Funniest Guys In Men At Work on beTV

There’s nothing like a good laugh to get your weeknights going and beTV is the place to be for just that. Swinging in this September are the funniest guys on television as they dish out seriously tongue-in-cheek humour, irreverent behaviour and absolute fun in the brand new US sitcom, Men At Work on beTV!

Dubbed an all-male version of Sex and the City – only that it’s funny – and reminiscent of Seinfeld, Men at Work is positively the fresh, must-catch half-hour of laughs on TV. Premiering 3 September 2012 and airing Mondays to Fridays at 8.30pm first and exclusively on beTV, Men At Work is a brash new original comedy following four hip and young professionals as they take on New York and live life "Full Steam" ahead, in the spirit of title of the magazine they work for.

Be Sherlock-ed A Second Season on beTV

Recently honoured by the Guinness World Records as the ‘Most Portrayed Literary Human Character in Film & TV, Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most famous ‘consulting detective’ has been played by more than 75 actors on screen for over 250 times. Yet, a TV adaptation has still emerged to surprise and it is none other than the groundbreaking and ingenious Sherlock.

A British contemporary update to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s adventures of the great sleuth, Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch (War Horse) as Holmes and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit) as his sidekick, Dr. John Watson and cleverly brings the duo from the 19th century to modern day London, with present day technology and forensic science complementing the amazing detective work. And Sherlock is back for a second breathtaking season on beTV!