The role of Ara Mina was originally offered to then-GMA star Rica Peralejo, but she left the network in favor of rival network ABS-CBN.
The last Philippine airing was on 6 June 2003.
Lorna Tolentino was initially tapped to play an important role in this project, but she backed out at the last minute--a day before shooting started--because of a problem with her contract with ABS-CBN, the rival network of the producing GMA7.