Tawag ng Tanghalan's Rachel Gabreza - 2nd Semi-Finalist and Defending Champion!

Rachel Gabreza of Metro Manila joins Dominador Alviola Jr. into the semi-finals of Tawag ng Tanghalan after Saturday's victory on ITS SHOWTIME.

Rachel Gabreza is Tawag ng Tanghalan's 2nd Semi-finalist courtesy of TFC Godfather

Will she continue her winning streak or will another victor rise? Keep watching ITS SHOWTIME Mondays through Saturdays on ABS-CBN!

Coleen Garcia is no longer on ITS SHOWTIME?

According to ABS-CBNnews, Coleen Garcia admitted  she will not be returning to part of ITS SHOWTIME at this time and will be focusing on her acting career this 2016.  She already has an upcoming untitled Star Cinema film with Piolo Pascual and Dawn Zulueta in the works and playing Jaime Elizondo on the daytime hit serye Pasion de Amor.

Coleen was quoted as saying: "Actually, I was barely ever there during the entire second half of 2015"I don't think I'll be returning. Management talked to me and they want me to focus on acting."

Coleen Garcia has been a part of ITS SHOWTIME for a little over 3 years now and is currently dating ITS SHOWTIME main host Billy Crawford.

 ITS SHOWTIME official ABS subforum: http://forums.abs-cbn.com/its-showtime/
Pasion De Amor official ABS subforum: http://forums.abs-cbn.com/pasion-de-amor/

Mariel Rodriguez & Amy Perez - OFFICIALLY newest members of ITS SHOWTIME!

Was this really a surprise to anyone? About a month or so ago, Mariel Rodriguez and Amy Perez were guest hosting for one week to fill in for Anne Curtis who was in Japan at that time filming a commercial. After that week, they were still hosting, then the following week, they were both still there and last week they were there present as well as part of the New Years Best of SHOWTIME 2015 recap episodes. I guess it was just a matter of time before it became official and now it is.

After the energetic opening number and the ITS SHOWTIME theme opening for the first live program of 2016 with the spiels, Vhong Navarro, Karylle and Vice Ganda made it official by welcoming both talented female hosts to the ITS SHOWTIME family complete with a video package as well as flowers. Main host Anne Curtis called in from Patagonia, Argentina to welcome them to the family as well.

Newest hosts Mariel Rodriguez and Amy Perez ITS SHOWTIME composite collage courtesy of TFC Godfather

Both are veteran hosts from noontime: Mariel was on Wowowee as well as Pilipinas Win na Win and Happy Yipee Yehey while Amy Perez was on earlier than that with Sa Linggo nAPO Sila and  'Sang Linggo nAPO Sila.

Commentary: Glad to have both females as hosts on ITS SHOWTIME. My main concern is the budget for the show now. We have the 11 guys of #HASHTAGS as regulars and 2 more hosts besides the current main and co-hosts as well as the SHOWTIME dancers and XBGensan. I'd cost cut with of all the excessive birthday party fluff (weren't we the TRENDING capital of the Philippines now we are a glorified birthday party trending capital... happy yipee yehey? ) and put a big jackpot game at the end as well. By the way, I am happy that Tawag ng Tanghalan is part of ITS SHOWTIME. We have to go back to the talent part of the show and maybe reach out more to the madlang people, perhaps have an Ikaw Ang Bida segment.

'Tawag ng Tanghalan' sa ITS SHOWTIME starting Saturday na!

ITS SHOWTIME will present the return of Tawag ng Tanghalan, the first talent search on Philippine television history this coming Saturday.

Tawag ng Tanghalan sa ITS SHOWTIME composite teaser collage courtesy of TFC Godfather

TNT was originally slated to be its own program but management decided to turn it into a segment for the Kapamilya noontime variety show, ITS SHOWTIME.TNT was rumored to be hosted by the likes of Regine Velasquez, Edu Manzano, Aga Muhlach and others but things changed. 

Recall Bayani Agbayani's Funny Juan comedy reality search was also in line to be its own reality show but it was absorbed as a segment on SHOWTIME and repackaged as Funny One.