A four-year-old piano prodigy and world champion salsa dancers are just two of the amazing acts featured in the highly anticipated premiere of DIVA’s Little Big Shots. The new comedy/variety series is executive produced by comedy legends Steve Harvey and Ellen DeGeneres.
Harvey also hosts the feel-good, family-friendly series that celebrates phenomenal kids and goes toe to toe with them in hilarious conversations and interviews.
From pint-size break dancers to five-year-old piano virtuosos, these gifted performers will awe viewers with their talents, slay us with their cuteness and wow us with their accomplishments. These phenomenal kids show us once and for all that talent is born, not made.
“I’ve been amazed at how smart and talented these kids are,” said Harvey. “They may be small in stature, but they’re giants in what they’re able to do.”
Based on the incredible success over its first two episodes, U.S. network NBC has already renewed the series for a second season.
“I am so excited there’s going to be a second season of Little Big Shots,” said DeGeneres. “It’s such a great family show.”
In the U.S., the preview episode of Little Big Shots was watched by 12.8 million viewers overall, making it the highest-rated unscripted alternative series premiere or preview on any network in Adults 18-49 since The X-Factor in September 2011. The episode also generated the largest time-shift viewing uplift for an unscripted series premiere ever, hitting 14.7 million viewers in total.
The show then hit 14.8 million viewers in its timeslot premiere (Nielsen Media Research), making it NBC U.S.’s most-watched Sunday regularly-scheduled entertainment program (excluding post-Super Bowl shows) since March 2005.
In the Philippines, Little Big Shots airs on DIVA with new episodes, same day as the U.S., every 7 p.m. Monday.