 On December 21, 2017, Ces Oreña-Drilon announced that she would be leaving "Bandila" to focus on her new position in the network as "lifestyle content head".On April 2, 2018, "Bandila" (along with the other news programs of ABS-CBN) has finally switched to high definition (1080i, HDTV) format.On March 17, 2020, Bandila's production was suspended due to the enhanced community quarantine done to help control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.