Hapi ang Buhay | |
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Genre | Situational comedy |
Created by | Net 25 INCinema Productions |
Written by | Carlo Jay Ortega Cuevas Stephanie Mayo Denis Bustamante |
Directed by | Carlo Jay Ortega Cuevas |
Starring | Various |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 11 |
Production | |
Camera setup | Multi-camera setup |
Running time | 45 min. (w/o commercials) |
Original release | |
Network | Net 25 |
Release | March 5 – December 10, 2016 |
Hapi ang Buhay (lit. "life is happy") is a Philippine television sitcom. It is the first sitcom to be produced by Net 25 of the Eagle Broadcasting Corporation, in cooperation with INCinema Productions.
Hapi ang Buhay is the sequel-spinoff of Walang Take Two, which was nominated at the 2016 International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema [1] for Best Comedy. The first season premiered on March 6, 2016. [2] The second season launched on December 10, 2016.
The sitcom is directed by Carlo Jay Ortega Cuevas, who won Best Director of a Foreign Feature Film at the 2016 Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema [1] in London for Walang Take Two.
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