Based On: | It's Showtime By |
Genre: | Variety show, comedy talent show |
Judges: | Various |
Opentheme: | "Showtime" performed by It's Showtime hosts |
Country: | Indonesia |
Language: | Indonesian |
Location: | Studio 10 MNC Studios Jakarta, Indonesia |
Runtime: | 90 minutes |
Channel: | MNCTV |
Company: | MNC Productions Entertainment ABS-CBN Studios |
It's Showtime Indonesia was an Indonesian talent variety television show that premiered on March 25, 2019 and concluded on May 9, 2020 on MNCTV. It is a franchise of the Philippine variety show of the same name, It's Showtime of ABS-CBN.
On March 19, 2019, a news report from Rappler announced the acquisition of an Indonesian franchise of It's Showtime in time for the program's tenth year celebration. The original program's business unit head Peter Edward Dizon shared a teaser video of the hosts on Facebook.[1] It's Showtime became ABS-CBN's first non-narrative format franchise bought by a foreign company.[2] With the franchise deal, familiar segments such as "Sine Mo ‘To", "Cash-Ya! Kaya!", "Ansabe", "Copy Cut" and "Bida Dance" were to be adapted for the Indonesian audience.
Creator and director Bobet Vidanes, hosts Jugs Jugueta and Teddy Corpuz, and ABS-CBN director Laurenti Dyogi were among few of the Filipino visitors to watch the pilot program on March 25, 2019.[3]