High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Coffee Prince is a Filipino romantic-comedy series developed by Des Garbes Severino, which premiered on GMA Network on October 8, 2012 replacing One True Love on GMA Telebabad block and October 9, 2012 worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV. The series is based on Sun-mi Lee`s novel and MBC`s 2007 hit Korean television series, The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince. It headlines Kris Bernal and Aljur Abrenica as the lead characters and under the direction of Ricky Davao.