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"It's Showtime" formerly "Showtime" will be moved to the 12noon time slot to collide with "Eat Bulaga!" which is seen Monday to Saturday on GMA-7. "It's Showtime" will add new segments to make it look more different than usual when it was still known as "Showtime".
Regarding this developments, the Kapamilya Network released it's official statement:
After two years of being a morning kapamilya favorite, “It’s Showtime” will be ABS-CBN’s newest noontime program effective Monday, February 6, 2012.
The new show will be hosted by Vhong Navarro, Anne Curtis, Billy Crawford, Karylle, ‘Kuya’ Kim Atienza, Teddy Corpuz, Jugs Jugueta and Vice Ganda, whose camaraderie, spontaneity, talents, and shared sense of humor have brought joy to kapamilyas. Joining them in “It’s Showtime” are dance master Jhong Hilario, and favorite “ex hurados” Ryan Bang, and Coleen Garcia.Together, they will be bringing a new and more exciting show filled with surprises and engaging segments that will make viewers experience MORE FUN IN SHOWTIME.ABS-CBN thanks the “madlang people, ” here in the Philippines and in The Filipino Channel (TFC)markets worldwide, for being with Showtime and its hosts in their journey of bringing joy and hope every morning the past two years. ABS-CBN invites the viewers to continue their unwavering support for Showtime as it moves to noontime, from Monday to Saturday starting February 6.–Bong Osorio, Head of ABS-CBN Corporate Communications
Son beginning the Monday, February 6, 2012, "It's Showtime" will make it's grand premiere to replace Kapamilya's current noontime show "Happy Yipee Yehey" which will have it's farewell episode on February 4, 2012.
ABS-CBN is really looking to rekindle the noontime wars which remained quite for quite sometime after Willie Revillame's "Wowowee" was axed. The shows that took over such as "Pilipinas Win na Win" and "Happy Yipee Yehey" were certainly no match for "Eat Bulaga!", those show literally bowed down to the kings of noontime Tito, Vic, and Joey.
The question is, how will the "Eat Bulaga!" Dabarkads responds to this new challenge laid down by the Kapamilya Network? Have ABS-CBN finally found the right show to out seat the longest running noontime show which took over the noontime slot for three decades? We have to stay tune to find out.
Just one suggestion, why didn't the Kapamilya Network made the title "Eat's Showtime" rather than "It's Showtime"? I think that looks more catchy and creative. The producers of "Eat Bulaga!" could have chose the title "It Bulaga!" but since it's shown on noon time which is lunch time, they turned it into "Eat Bulaga!". But if the Kapamilya Network does that, it will look like that they copied "Eat Bulaga!" once again.