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This is the filmography of the South Korean girl group Apink. Apink have been in the music business since debuting in 2011 and has appeared in various entertainment show. Since before their debut, Apink has been filming their own show, Apink News. Apink News documented Apink journey from their training days until their debut. The show aired for three seasons on Cable TV TrendE. The show premiered on March 11, 2011 and ended in September 13, 2012. In 2012, they filmed an animal variety program "Birth of Family", a show where the group temporarily take care abandon Dogs before they get adopted. In 2014, Apink chosen as the star for the season 3 of MBC Every1's reality show "Showtime" where the group will show their daily life.

Apink News
A Pink News is South Korean documentary/variety/reality show that aired on the cable channel TrendE from March 11, 2011 until September 13, 2012. Apink News is a hybrid between reality, documentary and variety show.

Season 1
Prior to the group's debut, the first season of Apink News premiered on March 11, 2011. The first season aired for 12 episodes in total and chronicled Apink's debut process. The show birthed from a media leak about an upcoming girl group preparing for debut. In order to desist rumours, the company decided to publicly introduce the group and have them make their debut via their own special documentary variety-reality TV show.

The show takes the form of a half hour news broadcast parody complete with news anchors and an on-site reporter that oversee the proceedings. The news reports are centered around Apink, hence the show's title. The news anchors spend a few minutes informing the viewers of current Apink updates then proceed to keep a close eye on the Apink members through their rigorous training for their debut preparation. The news anchors change weekly with each episode and majority of them are established celebrities from Apink's parent company, Cube Entertainment. Each episode featured a different celebrity guest as its anchorman, including G.NA, Mario, MBLAQ's Seung Ho and G.O, Beast, 4minute, 2AM's Jinwoon, Secret's Sunhwa and Hyoseong. The show includes a special segment to introduce one member in each episode. The one on one segment allows the members to introduce themselves, their backgrounds and show off their talents. Hence, the members get equal exposure and viewers are given an insight on the role each is responsible for within the group. Besides Apink, the show introduces key 'behind-the-scene' personalities who trained the girls for their big day. From their company's CEO to their manager, speech trainers, ballet instructors and dance choreographers.

Season 2
Apink News Season 2 aired from November 25, 2011 until February 2012. In the second season, Apink members replace famous celebrity guests for news anchoring and reporting who did the aforementioned in the preceding season. In every episode, they are given different missions and winners are chosen as the next episode's news anchor and reporter.

In the beginning of Season 2, all members declare their goals they want to achieve and continue to fulfill them throughout the show. Apink opened a one-day charity cafe in Apgujeong-dong, Seoul, and had a meaningful time with their fans. At this one-day charity cafe, the Apink members served their fans food and drinks that they made themselves. In addition, they gave away their prized possessions for auction. All proceeds from the event were donated to charity.

Season 3
Apink News Season 3 was broadcast in June 12 to September 13, 2012. Once Apink News season 2 came to an end, Apink News' production team asked for viewers' feedback about the possibility of a new season. Due to high amount of interest, they gathered around 20,000 signatures for the petition which resulted in the production of season 3.

For the third season, Apink members were challenged to be part of the show's production team and transform into writers, camera crew, directors, etc. They were also challenged to cook, learn new languages, and develop new skills in order to show the viewers their process of becoming multi-talented entertainers. Moreover, they revealed their diet regime and bore the responsibility of directing and filming a music video for their track "Cat", from Apink's 1st full-length album Une Annee, under a fixed budget.

Birth of a Family
Birth of a Family (Korean: 가족의 탄생) was a South Korean variety show; a part of Saturday Freedom lineup, that was shown on the KBS2 network in 2011-2012. It's an "animal variety" program and was first broadcast on November 12, 2011. The program was divided into two corners, Let's Live Together and Birth of a Family. Let's Live Together features Lee Hwi-jae and Kim Byung-man as rare animals visit their home. While Apink featured in Birth of a Family corner with boy group "Infinite".

The show features idol groups living with previously abandoned and abused dogs for a few weeks until the animal is adopted by a new family. They're responsible to take care of the dog like a part of their family and to help them recover from their abused trauma The purpose of the show was to raise awareness about animal abuse and abandonment issues. In addition they also hope the show can capture the hearts of citizens and inspire viewers to care about abandoned and homeless animals.

Apink's Showtime
Apink's Showtime (Korean: 에이핑크의 쇼타임) is the third season of South Korean reality television series Showtime that premiered on MBC Every1 on November 28, 2013. The first season features South Korean Boy group EXO and followed by Boy group Beast for the second season.

On July 18, MBC Every1 announced that Apink will be the next group features on the Showtime for it's third season, they were the first girl group to features on the show. With the announcement, a rep added, "Apink will show different charms from EXO and B2ST as they show their daily life through Showtime."

During the press conference on August 6, PD Yoon Mi Jin, the main producer of Showtime, revealed the reason for casting Apink for the new season,“They are the hottest girl group of 2014, that is why,” and continued to explain, “Apink and the members as individuals are pursuing activities through both variety and dramas, so we thought people might be curious about them. As their curve of success has been soaring since their debut, we chose them as the main characters of our third season.”

Apink members also shared their thoughts on filming another reality show after Apink News. Nam-joo said, "There are a lot of things we are revealing for the first time through this reality program. Of course, there are our bare faces. We also reveal our dorm. We think we're going to put in a lot of ourselves as is. I think people will be able to feel like they're doing the things with us rather than watching a program." While Na-Eun added, "Not too long ago, we filmed at a water park, and I played so excitedly to the point I didn't even notice the cameras. I do worry about how it may look onscreen, but we received a lot of interest through a reality program when we first debuted. I hope the same will happen this time."

Apink's Showtime premiered on August 7, 2014 and aired every Thursday with total of eight episodes. The first episode recorded a 1.35% average rating and peaked at 1.74%, highest rating for first episode of Showtime and a solid numbers for an idol reality show on a cable channel. It was also well received by female viewers as it recorded 2.1% average rating among women.