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Kapamilya, Deal or No Deal

Filipino TV series or program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ6366438 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kapamilya, Deal or No Deal is a Philippine television game show broadcast by ABS-CBN, Kapamilya Channel, A2Z, All TV and TV5, based on the Netherlands game show Miljoenenjacht, which is first hosted by Kris Aquino. The series first premiered on June 5, 2006, and aired on weekdays. The first series aired for three seasons until March 27, 2009. After a three-year hiatus, the show returned for a fourth season premiering on February 25, 2012, with Luis Manzano taking over the hosting duties, and continued for one more season until 2016. In July 2025, ABS-CBN announced that the show would be revived after a decade-long hiatus with Manzano reprising his hosting duties. Its sixth season premiered on April 25, 2026.

History

Kapamilya, Deal or No Deal first premiered on June 5, 2006, at 8:00 PM PHT (UTC + 8) as lead-out programming after TV Patrol World, with Kris Aquino as its hostess.

Kapamilya, Deal or No Deal originally planned for the show to be aired for three months to give way to Pinoy Dream Academy - another Endemol-produced program, but immense popularity resulted in the show being extended by another six months before concluding with 190 episodes on February 23, 2007.

The second season premiered on June 11, 2007, and was supposed to end on September 21 the same year. Once again, its success amongst viewers resulted in an extended season and was moved to the lead-in timeslot (5:45 PM PHT) before TV Patrol World on September 24; the second season concluded with 155 episodes on January 11, 2008.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2009, 2012, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Kapamilya, Deal and Filipino is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kapamilya, Deal or No Deal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.