Asia’s Got Talent Season 2 starts online auditions next week

AXN will start holding online auditions for the anticipated second season of Asia’s Got Talent on April 10.

The series crowned Filipino shadow dance group El Gamma Penumbra the grand winner in the first season with a cash prize of $100,000.

“Asia’s Got Talent is the world’s biggest talent competition and we encourage people of any age and with any dream to come forward and take the spotlight,” Virginia Lim, Senior Vice-President and Head of Content, Production and Marketing, Sony Pictures Television Networks, Asia, was quoted as saying in a press release. “Following the outstanding success of season one on AXN, and the awe-inspiring talent that emerged from 15 countries, Asia’s Got Talent has established its place as the region’s most powerful platform to launch aspiring stars.”

Potential stars can visit www.AXN-Asia. com/AsiasGotTalent to submit an application and audition video, which should include a short introduction of the act, and the actual performance. The videos should be under two minutes in duration.

In addition to the online auditions, AXN will hold a series of open auditions in major cities across the region next month. Cities, dates and venues will be announced in the coming weeks via AXN’s TV channel, social platforms (@AXNAsia) and Web site.

“For season two, AXN is looking for a variety of acts that span everything from thrilling, surprising and breathtaking to funny and quirky... and sometimes bizarre. Asia’s Got Talent is captivating entertainment at its best and there’s no better place than Asia to discover to the next generation of superstars,” said Ms. Lim.

Season one of Asia’s Got Talent set new ratings records for the English general entertainment (GE) genre during its run, taking AXN to the number one spot in its timeslot among all regional pay-TV channels collectively across Southeast Asia and Taiwan.

In Malaysia, the show was the highest rated entertainment series on English language channels on Astro in the past two years. In the Philippines, the Grand Final Results episode was the highest rated pay-TV program in the country since 2008, and commanded a 96% share among 22 English GE channels.

The Got Talent franchise was created by Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment and is co-produced and owned by Syco Entertainment and FremantleMedia. It is entered in the Guinness World Records as the Most Successful Reality Television Format in history with 70 local versions produced across Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle-East, Africa and the Americas. Around the world, the Got Talent format airs in a total of 186 countries.