Luchi Cruz-Valdes leads Dokumentado's year-end special.

With the year 2010 marking the birth of the revitalized TV5, now undeniably the country’s fastest-growing network that keeps introducing breakthrough programming trends in Philippine TV, the station gives a comprehensive yearend report that brings to light the most significant stories that have been etched in the nation’s history.

As the year 2010 projects the most extreme stories in recent memory, News5 looks back at the biggest and most controversial news that helped shape the year in “Balota, Barilan at iba pang mga Bigating Balita: Dokumentado 2010” on December 31 at 9pm.

Led by TV5 Head of News and Information Luchi Cruz-Valdes, the yearend special report provides an in-depth discussion on the biggest and most controversial news that occurred 2010. In a rare show of force, Ms. Cruz-Valdes is joined by other News5 personalities—including Paolo Bediones, Erwin Tulfo, Martin Andanar, Raffy Tulfo, Cheryl Cosim, Cheri Mercado, Chiqui Roa–Puno, Amelyn Veloso, Shawn Yao and Jove Francisco—to document the highs and lows of the year that was for the country.

“Balota, Barilan at iba pang mga Bigating Balita: Dokumentado 2010” airs on New Year’s Eve, December 31, right after LokomokoU (pre-empting Wow Meganon?! and My Driver Sweet Lover) and followed by the live news coverage and 2011 countdown of Aksyon Journalismo at 11:15pm. TV5 also airs the New Year’s Mass presided by the Mama Mary Movement (pre-empting Jojo A. All the Way) at 12:15am.