Tonight with Boy Abunda

Tonight with Boy Abunda (also known as TWBA) was a Philippine late-night talk show aired by ABS-CBN, hosted by Boy Abunda. The program premiered on September 28, 2015, and airs every weeknights from 10:35 PM to 10:50 PM on the network's Primetime Bida evening block. It also airs worldwide via TFC.

It serves as a transitional show after Kris Aquino's departure from their previous show Aquino & Abunda Tonight citing schedule conflicts, political reality and health reasons.^[1][2] The show eventually did not go back on-air as Boy Abunda returned to GMA Network on December 15, 2022 and it was replaced by The World Tonight on Kapamilya Channel and Balitang A2Z on A2Z on its timeslot.^[3]

Format

Similar to its predecessor, the show gives a run-down of daily top stories with topics raging from showbiz, lifestyle, homosexuality and politics, with the promise to deliver its segments "from layman's point of view", and with perspectives on how certain issues can affect viewers' daily lives.

Final host

Boy Abunda served as the host.

• Boy Abunda

Final segments

• Life Line
• Hot Seat
• Fast Talk
• Golden Mirror
• 5 in 45
• T.M.I. The Main Issue
• The A List
• The TWBA Test: Tama o Mali
• 2 Be Honest^[4]
• Sinong Guilty?
• POPster Quiz
• Legit or Lie

Production

The show suspended the production of its new episodes and aired re-runs from March 16 to May 4, 2020, due to the Luzon enhanced community quarantine caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines until the network's shutdown due to the cease and desist order by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), following the expiration of the network's 25-year franchise granted in 1995. However, the current status of the talk show remained unknown until it was eventually cancelled after Abunda's return to GMA Network.

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