Broadcaster ABS-CBN Genre(s) Singing | Origin Batangas | |
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Broadcast from February 20 – June 13, 2010 Judges Freddie M. Garcia
Kris Aquino
Ai-Ai de las Alas Host(s) Got Talent
Billy Crawford
Luis Manzano
Got More Talent
Marc Abaya | ||
The first season of Pilipinas Got Talent premiered on ABS-CBN on February 20, 2010. Billy Crawford and Luis Manzano take role as the hosts of the show. The judges include former ABS-CBN executive Freddie M. Garcia, Kris Aquino, and Ai-Ai de las Alas. Auditions were then held in several key cities in the Philippines including Batangas, Cebu, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, and Davao for three days and Manila for four days.
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This May 14, 2015, Filipina opera singer Gerphil Geraldine "Fame" Flores, who lost in the semi-finals of this season, was declared the 2nd runner-up of the first season of Asia's Got Talent.
Auditions
The audition process took place throughout November and December 2009. The judges visited Philippine cities including Batangas, Cebu, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, and Davao for three days and Manila for four days. The first eighteen shows reflected on the successful, and unsuccessful auditions overall. The first audition episodes were followed in a particular city. However, in later episodes until the seventeenth, aired auditions featured all random cities visited.
Judges' Cull
The second round is the Judges' Cull of all 220 successful auditioned acts. It was held in the Bellevue Hotel located in Metro Manila. This is the round where the judges pick the best 36 acts to enter the live semi-finals. The cull was divided in half throughout the country, 19 acts were picked from the Visayas and Mindanao auditions and the other 17 were taken from Luzon and Metro Manila auditions. The top 36 acts will compete for the live semi-finals round for six weeks.
Top 36 Results Summary
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Semi-finals
The semi-finals round for the first season was held in AFP Theater in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City for the first to fourth week and in Tanghalang Pasigueño in Pasic City for the fifth and sixth week of semi-finals. The results night was always held in Dolphy Theater in ABS-CBN Studios. The elimination begins with the text and online voting percentages. The three acts that receives the lowest percentage vote will automatically be eliminated from the competition, while the highest vote percentage receivers will manage to go through the next elimination round.
On the next round, the act that receives the highest percentage of votes will automatically be included on the grand finals, while the next two highest publicly voted acts must compete over the judges' votes. Over the two remaining acts, the one that gets the highest judge vote will join the highest public vote act in the grand finals of the show.
Grand Finals
The Grand Finals were held in the Araneta Coliseum. Twelve acts that won from the Semi-Finals round performed again to win the title of the first Pilipinas Got Talent winner.Jovit Baldivino was declared as the Pilipinas Got Talent Season 1 Grand Winner, besting 11 talents in the Grand Finals.
National Ratings
Pilipinas Got Talent Season 1 hits all-time high 43.3% national rating.
The National Ratings came from the whole-wide Philippine coverage of TV audience ratings from Kantar Media Philippines.