'Saikou no Rikon' (Fuji TV)
'Saikou no Rikon' (Fuji TV)
The end of March means the end of the winter drama season.
After the weekend’s great finale of ‘Tonbi‘ (TBS) and the first episode rating higher than 20% this year, ‘Aibou season11‘ (TV Asahi) followed suit with its own 2-hour finale episode on Wednesday. The popular crime drama’s 19th and finale episode of the season recorded …
'Last Hope' (Fuji TV)
'Last Hope' (Fuji TV)
A handful of dramas have already aired their final episodes this week.
‘Itsuka Hi no Ataru Basho de‘ (NHK) ended without any surprises regarding its viewer ratings, but after all, it had to go against the baseball live broadcast on Tuesday. ‘Shotenin Michiru no Minoue Banashi‘ (NHK) was at least able to achieve a new personal record …
'Itsuka Hi no Ataru Basho de' (NHK)
'Itsuka Hi no Ataru Basho de' (NHK)
Plenty of improvement was recorded during the first half of this week. The biggest winners in terms of season-average ratings are once again the two NHK dramas ‘Itsuka Hi no Ataru Basho de‘ (NHK) and ‘Shotenin Michiru no Minoue Banashi‘ (NHK), which both recorded their highest ratings of the season. Other dramas that …
'Biblia Koshodo no Jiken Techo' (Fuji TV)
'Biblia Koshodo no Jiken Techo' (Fuji TV)
A couple of dramas improved their season-average over the last four days. The biggest improvement was recorded by ‘Share House no Koibito‘ (NTV), which suddenly shot up into the range of its premiere episode with a decent double-digit rating of 11.2% this week. ‘Itsuka Hi no Ataru Basho de‘ (NHK), ‘Shotenin Michiru no …
'Last Hope' (Fuji TV)
'Last Hope' (Fuji TV)
During the last three days, the biggest improvement in terms of season-average ratings was accomplished by ‘Itsuka Hi no Ataru Basho de‘ (NHK). This drama continues to do really well for an NHK drama and managed to record a double-digit rating for the first time during its run. ‘Kasouken no Onna Season 12‘ (TV Asahi) also …
'Yae no Sakura'
'Yae no Sakura'
There were only a few dramas that managed to improve their average ratings during the last seven days. Among them was ‘Aibou season11‘ (TV Asahi) which recorded a great return after a one-week break. ‘Yakou Kanransha‘ (TBS), ‘Nobunaga no Chef‘ (TV Asahi), and ‘Itsuka Hi no Ataru Basho de‘ (NHK) also improved their average ratings with either …
Drama Prime Time Report – 01/21~01/24
Drama Prime Time Report – 01/21~01/24
Monday — The ratings are dropping and not only for the prime time dramas. Only a few variety specials aired this Monday and not even those were able to maintain the level of the previous week. There were some surprisingly big drop in ratings, but not much of a surprise was the slight fall …
Drama Prime Time Report – 01/11~01/17
Drama Prime Time Report – 01/11~01/17
The winter season is settling in nicely with many new dramas that premiered over the past seven days.
‘Nobunaga no Chef‘ (TV Asahi) – starring Kis-My-Ft2’s Tamamori Yuta – premiered on Friday and achieved a good double-digit rating (11.6%) during its 11:00 pm time slot. Many dramas have started with such high ratings in this …
Drama Prime Time Report – 12/24~01/03
Drama Prime Time Report – 12/24~01/03
It’s a longer report over a span of 11 days this time in order to cover the whole Christmas and New Year’s prime time ratings.
On Christmas Eve, Fuji TV aired the final episode of their Monday fall drama ‘PRICELESS‘, which did really well with a rating of 18.7% on such a competitive evening. Unfortunately …
Drama Prime Time Report – 12/14~12/20
Drama Prime Time Report – 12/14~12/20
Several dramas have come to an end during the last seven days.
On Friday, ‘Ooku ~Tanjou~‘ (TBS) finished with a slight rise of 1.3% (rating: 8.3%), but its season-average still went down by a few points to 8.5%. Overall, it’s a mediocre result and not exactly beneficial for the upcoming movie, but Kanno Miho is …
Drama Prime Time Report – 12/10~12/13
Drama Prime Time Report – 12/10~12/13
Good gets better and bad gets worse. Monday drama ‘PRICELESS‘ (Fuji TV) was among the former group and managed to break into the twenty-something ratings with a nice rise of 2.9% (rating: 20.1%). ‘Perfect Blue‘ (TBS) fell by 1.0% again and recorded 7.6% while competing various specials.
On Tuesday, ‘Osozaki no Himawari‘ (Fuji TV) managed …
Drama Prime Time Report – 12/03~12/06
Drama Prime Time Report – 12/03~12/06
This week started off with a weak Monday, as most of the networks lost viewers compared to last week. Looking at only the dramas, ‘Perfect Blue‘ (TBS) lost 0.2% and recorded 8.6%, while ‘PRICELESS‘ (Fuji TV) did well again with a rating of 17.2%, even though that meant a drop of 0.9% compared to its previous …
Drama Prime Time Report – 11/26~11/29
Drama Prime Time Report – 11/26~11/29
After two weeks of mostly negative rating developments, more than just a few dramas have finally found the strength again to improve their season-averages.
The Monday dramas ‘Perfect Blue‘ (TBS) and ‘PRICELESS‘ (Fuji TV) did quite well this week with an improvement of 2.6% and 2.4%, respectively. ‘Perfect Blue’ recorded a rating of 8.8%, while …
Drama Prime Time Report – 11/19~11/21
Drama Prime Time Report – 11/19~11/21
It was another bad start into the new week for all of the prime time dramas.
Various specials caused a viewer shift on Monday and both dramas suffered from heavy losses. ‘Perfect Blue‘ (TBS) lost 2.4% (rating: 6.2%) and ‘PRICELESS‘ (Fuji TV) lost 2.7% (rating: 15.7%), but fortunately the latter just gained a bigger piece …
Drama Prime Time Report – 11/05~11/08
Drama Prime Time Report – 11/05~11/08
The first four days of this week made it pretty obvious that the dramas were in for a depressing week.
Monday lost a lot of viewers in general compared to last week and it’s strongest show, the drama ‘PRICELESS‘ (Fuji TV) wasn’t able to buck this trend as well. The drama starring Kimura Takuya lost …
