StarStruck (Season 2)

StarStruck (Season 2)
Dream, Believe, Survive!
Format	Interactive Reality television show
Starring	Hosts: Dingdong Dantes Jolina Magdangal Judges: Joey de Leon Louie Ignacio Christopher De Leon
Country of origin	Philippines
No. of episodes	96 episodes (Season 2)
Production
Running time	30-60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	GMA Network
Original run	October 11, 2004 – February 20, 2005
External links
StarStruck Website

The second season of StarStruck premiered on October 11, 2004. The council was formed with Joey de Leon, Louie Ignacio, and Christopher De Leon representing it. The show was co-hosted by Dingdong Dantes with the StarStruck Kids (a StarStruck spin-off) host, Jolina Magdangal.

Overview

The second season of StarStruck was announced once again on GMA Network's variety program, SOP, where the hosts invited teenagers to audition for the next and upcoming StarStruck season. Like its first season, much of the auditions were held at the GMA Network's headquarters and at SM Supermalls throughout the Philippines.

The show primer aired the untold secrets of the first season's Final 14; the life they had before and after StarStruck, and the changes StarStruck made into their lives.

There were slight changes made in The Council. Joyce Bernal was replaced by director Louie Ignacio.

Semi-Finals

When the Final 14 was chosen, they are assigned to different challenges every week that will hone their acting, singing, and dancing abilities. Every week, one is meant to leave the competition until there were just 6 others who are left. From Final 6, there will be two of them who will be eliminated and after the elimination of the two, the Final 4 will be revealed. The Final 4 will be battling with each other on the Final Judgment. People will choose who they want to win the competition by text voting. 50% of the result will come from the text votes and the other half is from the StarStruck council.

Innovation: The Final Six

This season was the first occurrence where a former eliminated contestant returned to the competition which was named "The Avengers Strike's Back". CJ Muere was eliminated on December 26, 2004. But because of the Strike Back, Benj Pacia was later replaced by him and returned to the contest through a major twist wherein an avenger (a losing contestant) will be given the chance to re-enter the contest by emerging with at least fourth-best in cumulative scores among the Survivor Six (Ryza Cenon, LJ Reyes, Megan Young, Benj Pacia, Mike Tan, and Kirby de Jesus). Muere emerged in the Final 4, and was reinstated while Pacia was eliminated.

Some viewers did not like this twist for it undermined the rules and regulations of the show. Although, the fans of CJ Muere welcomed his return to the competition and proved to be worthy to be part of the elite Final Four. Muere also got the highest Jollibee votes, thus he starred in a Jollibee commercial.

Final Judgment

The Final Judgment for the second season was held on February 20, 2005 at the Araneta Coliseum with Raymond Gutierrez co-hosting the event. Again, the venue was jampacked of an estimated 12,000 fans and 3,000 outside. Ryza Cenon and Mike Tan became the Ultimate Survivors and won the prize of one million pesos (P 1,000,000) each and GMA Network contracts. Likewise, the Avengers were given their own GMA Network contracts. The Final Judgment gained 37.2% in ratings.

The second Final Judgement's theme was Elektra.

Signature Dances and Songs

There are signature dances and songs made in each batch. With this batch, their signature dances and songs are:

• El Biro-Biro
• Chocolate
• Bop It! (Performed by LJ Reyes and Rainier Castillo with the Abstract dancers, and Kids@Work)
• Rock it (Ryza Cenon and Mark Herras dance number with Manoeuvres, Kids@Work, and Abstract dancers)

Elimination chart