Protégé: The Battle for the Big Break is a 2011 reality-based singing talent show created by Real Florido for GMA Network. It is hosted by Ogie Alcasid, as the journey host, Dingdong Dantes as gala presenter, and Jennylyn Mercado, the show's reality host. It is the first season of GMA's reality talent program, Protégé.
The show was first intended to be a "talent search" similar to StarStruck and Protégé might have been the replacement of the said show.
This show is stapled the timeslot between the two talent shows from other rival shows with ABS-CBN's Pilipinas Got Talent and TV5's Talentadong Pinoy.
The result reveals right after the performance. The first two results nights were shown one hour after the performance of the finalists. The judges, on the other hand are happy that their opinions matter in this contest, since the results will not depend solely on text votes.
Elimination chart[]
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Male contestant
Female contestant
Group
Semi-finalist
Face-off Contenders
Top 10
Did not perform
Safe
Safe first
Safe last
Eliminated
Wild card
Finalist
Runner-up
Winner
| Stage | Face-off round | Finals | |||||||||||||
| Week | 9/25 | 10/2 | 10/9 | 10/16 | 10/23 | 10/30 | 11/6 | 11/13 | 11/20 | 11/27 | 12/4 | 12/11 | 12/18 | ||
| Place | Protégé | Mentor | Result | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Krizza Neri | Aiza Seguerra | Did not perform | Top 10 | Did not perform | Safe | Bottom 2 | Safe | Bottom 2 | Safe | Safe | Did not perform | Safe | Safe | Protégé Battle Champ |
| 2–3 | Lirah Bermudez | Janno Gibbs | Top 10 | Did not perform | Did not perform | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom 2 | Did not perform | Safe | Safe | Runner-up |
| Lovely Embuscado | Jaya | Did not perform | Top 10 | Did not perform | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom 4 | Safe | Eliminated | Wild Card | Safe | Safe | ||
| 4–5 | Nomer Limatog, Jr. | Rachelle Ann Go | Top 10 | Did not perform | Did not perform | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | Wild Card | Safe | Eliminated | Finalist | |
| Jensen Teñoso | Claire de la Fuente | Did not perform | Top 10 | Did not perform | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom 4 | Safe | Safe | Did not perform | Safe | |||
| 6–7 | Kenneth Monico | Jay-R | Top 10 | Did not perform | Did not perform | Safe | Bottom 4 | Bottom 3 | Safe | Bottom 2 | Safe | Did not perform | Eliminated | ||
| So Wat? | Rey Valera | Did not perform | Did not perform | Top 10 | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Did not perform | ||||
| 8 | Denise Barbacena | Gloc 9 | Did not perform | Did not perform | Top 10 | Safe | Bottom 4 | Bottom 2 | Eliminated | Eliminated | |||||
| 9 | Samantha Felizco | Joey Generoso | Did not perform | Did not perform | Top 10 | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | |||||||
| 10 | Rosalyn Navarro | Imelda Papin | Did not perform | Top 10 | Did not perform | Safe | Eliminated | ||||||||
| 11–30 | Derf Cabael | Gloc-9 | Did not perform | Did not perform | Eliminated | Semi-finalist | |||||||||
| Kristina Laguitan | Did not perform | Did not perform | |||||||||||||
| Aubrey Cabanlig | Joey Generoso | Did not perform | Did not perform | ||||||||||||
| Wilson Peñaflor | Did not perform | Did not perform | |||||||||||||
| Isaw | Rey Valera | Did not perform | Did not perform | ||||||||||||
| Si Pilyo | Did not perform | Did not perform | |||||||||||||
| Mark Gregory | Aiza Seguerra | Did not perform | Eliminated | ||||||||||||
| Zibrille Pepito | Did not perform | ||||||||||||||
| M.O.S.T. | Claire de la Fuente | Did not perform | |||||||||||||
| Via Samantha Mojado | Did not perform | ||||||||||||||
| Jobert Nasidal | Imelda Papin | Did not perform | |||||||||||||
| VIP Singers | Did not perform | ||||||||||||||
| Archimedes Udaundo | Jaya | Did not perform | |||||||||||||
| Joshua Fresco | Did not perform | ||||||||||||||
| Alejandro | Janno Gibbs | Eliminated | |||||||||||||
| Ricky Deloviar | |||||||||||||||
| Allen Sta. Maria | Jay-R | ||||||||||||||
| Cercado Sisters | |||||||||||||||
| Blasians | Rachelle Ann Go | ||||||||||||||
| Rhey "Regina" Otic | |||||||||||||||
The Final Battle (finale episode)[]
In the finale episode aired live on December 18, 2011, on GMA Network and on some feeds of GMA Pinoy TV, on other feeds the program was aired as "recorded" although it did not say so but instead the Protégé logo was replaced where the "LIVE" would usually be on the original airing, all of the top three were given a 4-year STI Education for Real Life Scholarship and a 5-year contract with GMA Artist Center. Lovely Embuscado was the Texter's Choice Awardee given PhP50,000 and an exclusive Fanatxt contract from GMA New Media, Inc. and she also received the Sky Flakes Biggest Break Award which composed of PhP100,000. The winner was Krizza Nerri, the RNB Sistah. She received a PhP3,000,000 2-Bedroom Condo Unit from Suntrust Properties, Inc. and PhP1,000,000 from GMA as well as a five-year contract that the other two also received. On GMA Pinoy TV, several parts were unaired or edited out, such as Arnel Pineda's performance and the third round of the top three's performance which featured the song "Perfect" by Pink. As in past, it may have been with copyright issues with the songs featured and performed that caused those parts to be edited out and unaired internationally. But other non-copyright parts were unaired/edited out as well such as the judges final words on the three protégés and Krizza and Aiza's words after winning.