- ‘Dragon Lady’ started to air on March 4 on GMA’s Afternoon Prime after ‘Eat Bulaga!’
- The show replaced the recently concluded ‘Asawa Ko, Karibal Ko’ series
- The pilot episode featured the tale and tradition of worshiping dragons and how it affects someone’s luck
- Ratings of ‘Dragon Lady’ on its pilot episode was far behind from the ratings of its rival show
On March 4, 2019, the GMA Afternoon Prime series ‘Dragon Lady’ aired its pilot episode. The show started with Celestina (Janine Gutierrez) and Almira (Dianna Zubiri) running and trying to escape the mob who tried to seize them.
The scene was set in the present time. Despite a little disagreement on that part, as this doesn’t happen in real life that people would mob someone due to her physical appearance, the narrative of the first episode went well as it detailed a flashback of the love story of young Almira (Bea Binene) and young Charles (Derrick Monasterio).
The conflict on the pre-arranged marriage of young Vera (Isabelle De Leon) and Charles was when he wanted to back out and break up with Vera. Plus the fact that he’s scared to introduce Almira to his family. Soon, Almira discovered in a newspaper that his boyfriend is engaged to the daughter of boss Wilson Lim (Leo Martinez).
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The tale about the tradition of worshiping dragons and other vital elements to the story was discussed, as well as how the lucky dragon statue got into the possession of Almira.
‘Dragon Lady’ airs on the first afternoon slot of GMA Network, after the longest running noontime show, ‘Eat Bulaga!,’ against the latter part of the ABS-CBN noontime show, ‘It’s Showtime.’ Just to make things clear, ‘Eat Bulaga!’ airs from 12 noon to 2:30 pm while Dragon Lady airs from 2:30 to 3:15 pm and It’s Showtime airs from 12:15 pm to 3:30 pm.
Kantar Media
Kantar Media recorded a TV rating of 9.3% for the GMA Afternoon Prime series ‘Dragon Lady’ against ABS-CBN’s ‘It’s Showtime’ with the TV rating of 18.3%.
NUTAM
The pilot episode on March 4 of the newest Kapuso drama ‘Dragon Lady’ got a 5.5% rating vs. ‘Its Showtime’s 5.8% based on NUTAM People Ratings which GMA Network is a subscriber.
