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Star Circle Quest

Filipino TV series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ7600668 ↗
Source-derived summary

Star Circle Quest (SCQ) is a Philippine television reality competition show broadcast by ABS-CBN. Originally hosted by Luis Manzano and Jodi Sta. Maria, it aired on the network's Primetime Bida and Yes Weekend! line up from March 1, 2004 to February 19, 2011, replacing Next Level Na! Game Ka Na Ba? and was replaced by the second season of Pilipinas Got Talent. KC Concepcion served as the final host.

The theme song was sung by Star in a Million finalists Sheryn Regis and Marinel Santos.

Overview

In 1992, Mr. Johnny Manahan and Freddie M. Garcia formed ABS-CBN Talent Center, now known as Star Magic to hone individuals as exclusive talents of the network. Manahan then introduced Star Circle, an untelevised talent search which aims to look for fresh faces to be the next idol.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Star Circle Quest” is filipino TV series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Star, Circle and Quest, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2011, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004-03-01. For this dossier, Star, Circle and Quest is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “filipino TV series” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7600668. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2011 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Star Circle Quest” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.