Astig Pinoy Wins "Showtime" Season 4 Grand Finals

Astig Pinoy of Misamis Oriental was declared the grand champion of Showtime Season 4. The show's grand finals was held at the Ynares Center in Antipolo on December 10, 2011.

With an average score of 9.933, Astig Pinoy brought home P1 million. Their barangay also got P1 million.

Best Barangay Intro, on the other hand, went to Barangay Buñao of Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental and Barangay Dela Paz of Antipolo City.

UDC of Pasig, who did the Komang Dance, won the Madlang People's Choice award.

There were a total of fourteen competing acts. Aside from Astig Pinoy and UDC, other hopefuls were Kalumon Performing Ensemble of Davao, Neutron Acrobats of Bulacan, D’ Shots of Caloocan, Kingz Gambit of Cebu, FMD Extreme of Marikina, Spy of Maynila, Pinoy Hiphop of Antipolo, Racing Chat of Sampaloc, Bailes De Luces of Negros Occidental, Buli Kidz Incredible of Batangas, Teatro Ambahanon of QC and Prime Machine of Negros Oriental.

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Anne Curtis Wins Showtime Hosts' Talent Showdown

ABS-CBN's Showtime has just concluded its second anniversary presentation with the announcement of winners of the recent talent showdown among the hosts.

Anne Curtis was declared the winner and was awarded with P100,000. She got a perfect score from all the celebrity judges composed of Manny Calayan, Cathy Garcia-Molina, Joel Cruz, Liz Uy and Vicki Belo.

Anne sang I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing, incorporating pole dancing and aerial dance in her performance. Award-winning singer and Anne's friend Jed Madela had a special participation in Anne's performance. It was funny (and symbolic?) that someone who can sing as good as Jed was only made to hold the microphone for Anne while she performed.

Billy Crawford and Vice Ganda were the runners-up in the talent showdown. They both got P50,000.00.

Both the winner and the runners-up's prices goes to charity.

Watch the announcement video after the jump.

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Ryan Bang Remains a Burado Despite Dimples Romana's Exit

Despite the effort made by Dimples Romana by giving her judge's seat to the evicted Showtime judge Ryan Bang, the show's management decided to respect the decision of the voting public by following the outcome of the poll.

In a recent statement made by Showtime director Direk Bobet on Monday, October 10, he said that the rules of elimination doesn't allow another judge to give his/her seat to the eliminated hurado just to make him/her stay longer in the talent show.

Much to the sadness of Ryan Bang's fans, the Filipino-Korean remains burado and will not be seen on the show for the meantime. But, of course, they could always call him back on the show for whatever purpose.

Dimples didn't come back today as judge. As she said last Saturday, she was supposed to leave that day but she just postponed it to give the stage to Ryan (so they knew it beforehand). She sent a letter that was read by the show's director where she apologized for whatever misunderstanding she might have caused by giving her seat to Ryan (which didn't happen, anyway).

Jong Hilario was back on his seat. He's been getting the lowest votes which means the viewers really like him to stay.

New judges include the Malaysian superstar Carmen Su, Philippine Volcanoes players Eric Tai and Chris Everingham, and Luis Manzano. Carmen and Luis have been judges before while it's the first time for the footballers.

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Ryan Bang Gets Burado, Dimples Romana Exits to Save Him

Update: Ryan Bang Remains a Burado Despite Dimples Romana's Exit

Ryan Bang got evicted as Showtime judge (hurado) earlier today, October 8, 2011.

It was such an emotional episode as the Filipino-Korean comedian, Ryan Bang, was evicted as a judge of the talent show via text and live audience votes. After forty-eight (48) weeks of being in Showtime, the hosts and staff of the show have already come to love the young and vibrant actor that's why everyone, including the live audience, felt so sad and cried on the result of the eviction.

Even us, at home watching the show, couldn't help but feel lumps in our throats.

Good news for those who love Ryan, though. Dimples Romana another Showtime judge and a tough contender for being hurado, gave up her place through voluntary eviction just so Ryan may continue being in the show.

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"ANNE-bisyosa" is the Title of Anne Curtis' First Album

I still remember the time when Anne Curtis would sing her heart out on Showtime then jokingly give a feeler to her bosses that she really wanted to be a recording artist. She's so funny and cute at the same time as she would gamely give in to requests of songs from her fellow hosts and the show's judges. Her beauty and confidence more than made up for her sharps and flats.

I loved her even more when she sang the jingle of her own Palmolive soap television commercial to the tune of MYMP's Get Me. The TVC actually still makes me smile everytime I see it.

Not long after that, I saw Anne on the evening news happily telling the media about Viva Records actually producing her first ever album. She was so proud and even sang a block from Aegis' Halik when reporters asked to hear her singing voice.

A lot of her fans are waiting for the said album. A lot of us are excited to what the format of the album would be.

Perhaps to tease us even more, she was made to sing and dance on her next TVC (Whisper) to the tune of I Will Survive, and she actually sounded nice.

Last week on Showtime, Anne Curtis said she would talk softly the entire show because she's saving her voice for later in the day, as she's starting to record her first album.

As of this writing, it seems that Pinoys on Twitter are all excited for Anne's upcoming album. Some details about the album has come out. Anne Curtis' first album would be titled ANNE-bisyosa.

And "Anne Bisyosa" is currently Twitter trending at number three in the Philippines.

Some of the songs in the album are said to be duets with the Popstar Princess Sarah Geronimo – Total Eclipse of the Heart, Alone, and Too Many Walls. Anne will also have a duet with the rapper Andrew E. which will reach out to the fans of the rap genre.

I'm sure there will be more facts about Anne's album in the coming days. And I personally wish there would be an upbeat song that Anne could use in a song and dance number for her shows. I'm quite sure her mall shows would draw humongous crowd.

Meanwhile, you can catch Anne Curtis on Showtime from Monday-Friday, and on ASAP Rocks every Sunday.

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Karylle and Billy Crawford are New "Showtime" Hosts

Billy Crawford and Karylle now joins Anne Curtis, Vhong Navarro, Vice Ganda, Kim Atienza, Jugs and Teddy as regular hosts of Showtime.

Karylle was one of the longest-staying judges. She stayed in Showtime as one of the Hurados for 13 weeks, only leaving due to self-eviction.

Karylle said it was her manager who made her do the self-eviction. She didn't know she'd be included as one of the show's regular hosts. It was actually only yesterday, after her song and dance number on Showtime, that she learned about it when it was announced on the spot.

Billy, on the other hand, joined the Hurados for a week last December 2010.

Catch Showtime in its new timeslot, Mondays to Saturdays, 10:15 AM, before Happy Yipee Yehey! at 12:15 PM.

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Showtime – Boyz Unlimited Wins Weekly Finals

Boyz Unlimited of Pangasinan emerged as the winner in the special weekly finals of Showtime this morning.


The dance group's synchronized moves, high energy, coordination, as well as their costume got the judges' more favored votes.

Watch the video of their performance below.

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Showtime - The Return

"Showtime" returns on air today as the temporary suspension given by the MTRCB was lifted. The return was announced yesterday towards the end of the last episode of "Magpasikat" which made the hosts of the show teary-eyed with joy. "Magpasikat" was the show that temporarily replaced "Showtime" for a week while it was suspended.

ABS-CBN's official statement regarding the matter (issued yesterday):
ABS-CBN is happy to announce that the talent-variety program "Showtime" will return on-air starting tomorrow, 19 Jan 2010, following the issuance of a temporary restraining order by the Court of Appeals enjoining the MTRCB from continuing to enforce the preventive suspension order on the show.

We welcome the CA resolution dated 15 January 2010, which states: "For reasons afore-stated, and as prayed for by petitioner, let a TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER be issued, as it is hereby issued, effective sixty (60) days from notice hereof, enjoining respondent MTRCB, including any and all persons acting in their behalf and under their command and authority, from continuing to enforce the Preventive Suspension Order dated January 11, 2010 issued against petitioner, pending the resolution of the instant petition."

Vice Ganda, who acted as one of the hosts in "Magpasikat" returns to his seat as one of the judges together with Andrew E, Joy Viado, Wyngard Tracy, and Karla Henry.

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