It's a Marian Rivera-Dingdong Dantes season these days in Pinoy showbiz. Deliberate or not, the real-life couple are lording it over the others who are sweethearts off-and on-camera and even the love teams that are just for show.

Rewind, the highest grossing Filipino film of all-time top-billed by Dantes and Rivera, has achieved another milestone as it immediately hit the No. 1 spot on Netflix's Top 10 movies in the Philippines and several Middle East countries a day after it became available on the platform.

The Metro Manila Film Festival 2023 entry, which started streaming on Netflix on 25 March, led the top 10 movies not just in the country but also in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and UAE, based on data published by streaming analytics site FlixPatrol.

Rivera is expected to make waves again, this time on free TV as the lead star of GMA-7's newest primetime series My Guardian Alien, in which she is teamed up with the enduring iconic romantic matinee idol Gabby Concepcion, who has overcome estrangement from his ex-wife Sharon Cuneta for decades.

My Guardian Alien, which premiered last Monday, 1 April, is expected to be massively viewed not only by adults but also by their children. The series also headlines the well-followed child actor Rafael Landicho as the mother-orphaned son of the couple portrayed by Rivera and Concepcion.

After Rivera's mother character dies in the story, she reappears as another character taken to be either an angel or as a benevolent alien.

At the grand media conference for the series held at Luxent Hotel in Quezon City, a stunningly lovely and warm Rivera revealed that the primary reason she accepted the series is to fulfill her desire to be involved in shows that "my children can be proud of" and can be wholesomely enjoy. 

Rivera has two kids with Dantes: Zia, 8, and Sixto Jr., 4.