Cianne Dominguez

It's Showtime is a Philippine noontime variety show under ABS-CBN Studios.

Originally hosted by Vhong Navarro, Anne Curtis, Kim Atienza, Jugs Jugueta, Teddy Corpuz, and Vice Ganda, it premiered on October 24, 2009.

It's Showtime premiered on October 24, 2009 as Showtime, replacing Pilipinas, Game Ka Na Ba? as a talent competition program, airing right before the network's noontime shows.

The original hosts include Vhong Navarro, Anne Curtis, Kim Atienza, Jugs Jugueta and Teddy Corpuz, with Vice Ganda as the resident hurado (unevictable judge).

In the third season, the show added former hurados Billy Crawford and Karylle as hosts.

In the first four seasons, Showtime's original competition format was that three groups, each made up of 2 to 25 members (with no age limit) perform a single performance, either a dance and/or song number.

Before the performance, one group member is given 20 seconds to make an introduction before ending with the phrase "It's Showtime!".

After the group's performance, the hurados, with the help of the studio audience, rate the group from 1 to 10.

The group with the highest average score from the hurados wins the competition.

The daily winner perform again to compete in the weekly finals.

The winning weekly finalists advance to the monthly finals.

The winning monthly finalists get the chance to complete in the grand finals.

In the wildcard week, selected groups from the weekly and monthly finals are invited back to compete again for a slot in the grand finals.

Aside from the talent competition, Showtime also featured mini-segments that offers cash prizes to the studio audiences.

In October 2010, Showtime became a noontime show, serving as the lead-in program for Pilipinas Win Na Win which was pushed back to an early afternoon timeslot which lasted until February 11, 2011.

On February 12, 2011, the program returned to its original timeslot to give way for Happy Yipee Yehey!

On January 28, 2012, Showtime aired a special episode to end its two-year competition format with an impartial farewell.

It then went on hiatus as the program prepared to become a noontime show again for the second and current time to replace Happy Yipee Yehey!.

The drama series Mundo Man ay Magunaw took over the timeslot of Showtime from January 30 to February 3, 2012.

The show became a noontime show again after one year and its one-week hiatus with the new name It's Showtime on February 6, 2012, where it aired on its new timeslot at 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, Mondays to Saturdays, replacing Happy Yipee Yehey!.

The program was simulcast on Studio 23 and CgeTV's website during the first months of the relaunch.

It's Showtime brought back its original competition format as a special segment while launching new segments.

It retained all of its main hosts while adding Jhong Hilario, Ryan Bang, Coleen Garcia and Eric "Eruption" Tai.

Also, the program is currently ABS-CBN's longest-running daily noontime variety show, surpassing the original run of Magandang Tanghali Bayan (MTB) in 2016.

In January 2016, Amy Perez and Mariel Rodriguez joined the program as hosts.

In May 2017, Nadine Lustre and James Reid were added as co-hosts.

In October 2018, It's Showtime launched its own YouTube channel Showtime Online Universe.

Three digital programs premiered on the channel: And I Thank You with Miss Q & A segment grand winner Juliana Parizcova Segovia; Hashtag Roadtrip with the Hashtag members; and Donna What To Do with Funny One segment season two grand winner Donna Cariaga.

The Showtime Online Universe received a Silver Creator Award after getting 100,000 channel subscribers in January 2019.

Before the end of 2019, Crawford, Garcia, Tai, Reid, Lustre, Atienza, and Joey Marquez had already departed from the show.

The show was originally broadcast on ABS-CBN until the network's shutdown on May 5, 2020.

It currently broadcasts through cable and satellite channel, Kapamilya Channel, free-to-air television channels A2Z, GMA Network and simulcast on its sister channel, GTV.

It also airs internationally worldwide via TFC and GMA Pinoy TV, online streaming on YouTube and Facebook via Showtime Online Ü, Kapamilya Online Live and Kapuso Stream, and over-the-top content platform via iWantTFC.

Navarro, Curtis, Jugueta, Corpuz, Vice Ganda, Karylle, Jhong Hilario, Ryan Bang, Amy Perez, Ion Perez, Jackie Gonzaga, Kim Chiu, Ogie Alcasid, MC "Muah" Calaquian, Lassy Marquez, Cianne Dominguez and Darren Espanto currently serve as the hosts.

It's Showtime is the second live entertainment program in the Philippines to be broadcast in high-definition behind ASAP Natin 'To.

On March 10, 2020, It's Showtime temporarily stopped admitting a live audience in response to the government's declaration of a public health emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.

Following the government's announcement of a community quarantine in Metro Manila to curb the spread of COVID-19 on March 15, 2020, the show's production was temporarily suspended.

During this period, It's Showtime broadcast a combination of episode replays and live episodes conducted via Zoom.

As part of the network's temporary programming changes, the program's timeslot was shortened on April 29, 2020.

Subsequently, on May 5, 2020, It's Showtime, along with all other ABS-CBN programs, ceased broadcast operations.