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That's not because he considers himself too big or too good for the soap opera genre. Like the saying goes, there are no small roles, only small actors. It's just that, says Aga, he cannot manage the punishing taping schedule of a soap. "I cannot act in a TV drama because I can't take the schedule, where they shoot one sequence after another every day, four to five times a week, from 5pm to 5am the following day," explains Aga.
Aga also finds it difficult on the emotions. "I can't handle what they [teleserye actors] do, where one minute, they're crying, then the next minute they're happy, and after that, they cry again," he says.
What Aga has become known for on television are his sitcoms. He has done several, on ABS-CBN alone. There was Oki Doki Dok, where he played a veterinarian, and Da Body and Da Guard and Pilya and Da Pilot opposite Joyce Jimenez. His most recent one was Ok, Fine Whatever with Edu Manzano and Bayani Agbayani, which ran for four years.
Now, Aga is making a television comeback, still on ABS-CBN, of course, and in the very familiar role of a doctor. The sitcom is titled That's My Doc, but this time, he's playing not a veterinarian, but a pediatrician who goes to the US to work as a nurse, but ends up suffering from homesickness. He decides to come home to the Philippines to live with his aunt, played by veteran comedienne Nova Villa.
This is Aga's first sitcom in a year. It took a while to bring to the screen, reveals Business Unit head Alou Almaden. "We took our time with this because we didn't want a half-baked programme. We wanted something that we could really be proud of," she says.
But why another sitcom in which Aga plays a doctor, albeit this time, a doctor of humans and not animals? "Yes, he's still playing a doctor, because we found out that up to now, people still call him Dok Aga," she says of her star. "But we changed the character to a paediatrician, so the image would be closer to kids."
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