Drama Prime Time Report – February 17th~19th
Drama Prime Time Report – February 17th~19th
This season the dramas have a hard time getting viewers excited, thus resulting in gradually declining ratings throughout the whole lineup of winter dramas. In the middle of all this, TBS‘ Sunday drama even had to admit defeat against Fuji TV’s Sunday drama for the first time ever since the latter decided to …
Drama Prime Time Report – February 13th~February 16th
Drama Prime Time Report – February 13th~February 16th
This was a week full of variety specials and that usually is bad news for the dramas and their viewer ratings.
On Monday, ‘Stepfather Step‘ (TBS) had to compete against three specials and dropped to an even lower level. Fortunately ‘Lucky Seven‘ (Fuji TV) got spared of the competition and only lost 0.2%.
The …
Drama Prime Time Report – February 10th~12th
Drama Prime Time Report – February 10th~12th
The ratings for the Friday and weekend dramas have stabilized for the most part, with only a few minimum changes here and there, except for NHK’s Sunday taiga drama ‘Taira no Kiyomori‘. It experienced such a crushing defeat that even various news outlets felt it was worth writing about again. ‘Taira no Kiyomori‘ …
Drama Prime Time Report – February 6th~February 9th
After a week of sorrow follows a week of happiness. At least eleven out of the seventeen dramas that air from Monday to Thursday managed to record higher ratings than last week, but of course that doesn’t mean much because of how deep the hole was last week.
Find out the ratings after the cut!
Drama Prime Time Report – February 3rd~5th
Drama Prime Time Report – February 3rd~5th
It looks like the negative trend from Monday until Thursday even lasted until Sunday, as only one drama managed to improve its ratings over the last three days of the week.
The said drama was ‘Renai NEET‘ (TBS) on Friday, which recovered a little bit from last week’s nosedive with a plus of 0.7%. …
Drama Prime Time Report – January 30th~February 2nd
Drama Prime Time Report – January 30th~February 2nd
It looks like it wasn’t just a third-episode itch last week, as the ratings for almost all dramas continued to drop, one by as much as 3.8%.
The downward spiral began on Monday, when ‘Lucky Seven‘ (Fuji TV) received a blow falling 1.7% and thus failing in its pursuit of the Tuesday drama ‘Strawberry Night‘ …
Drama Prime Time Report – January 27th~29th
On Friday, ‘Renai NEET’ lost a lot of viewers with the second episode, while ‘13-sai no Hello Work’ jumped back up to its initial level; plus one new midnight drama to keep an eye one!
Competition was tough again on Saturday, but ‘Risou no Musuko’ actually reached a new personal season-high with its third episode. NHK also aired the first of two episodes of the mini drama ‘Quilt no Ie’.
Meanwhile, the Sunday dramas experienced almost no changes at all, with ‘Mousou Sousa’ actually going as far as repeating the exact same rating as last week.
All the ratings and more details can be found after the cut!
Drama Prime Time Report – January 23rd~26th
A third-episode itch seems to be developing this week, as the ratings for a couple of dramas fell as much as 3.5% with the third episode. However, there weren’t just losers. A few dramas actually managed to gain nearly 2.0% compared to last week.
Meanwhile, two new dramas aired their first episodes on Tuesday, which increases the number of dramas that air during Tuesday’s prime time and evening slots to a total of eight. It’s the most dramalicious day of the week that also happens the feature the currently most popular drama of the season.
Speaking of popular dramas, Fuji TV’s Monday drama seems to be trying to snatch away the top position from Fuji TV’s Tuesday drama. Is it going to be successful?
You can check out the answer, all the ratings, and more details after the cut!
Drama Prime Time Report – January 20th~22nd
The two big highlights: ‘Renai NEET’ and ‘Mousou Sousa’ aired their first episodes.
Meanwhile, not many unexpected developments for the remaining dramas in terms of ratings. Only one drama managed to gain viewers with its second episode. Taiga drama ‘Taira no Kiyomori’ aired its third episode and the ratings dropped again. How is it supposed to survive a whole year with such a weak start?
All the ratings and more details can be found after the cut!
Drama Prime Time Report – January 16th~19th
Three new dramas and one big loser are featured in this week’s first Drama Prime Time Report.
Was Fuji TV able to hit the right note by abandoning romance for quirky suspense on Mondays? Tuesday dramas are becoming stronger, Wednesday and crime stories are finally on good terms again, and Thursday alreadypunished the first drama.
You can check out all the ratings and more details below!
Drama Prime Time Report – January 13th~15th
The last three days of the second week of January featured seven new dramas, three interesting prime time, one 11:00 pm drama, and three midnight/late-night idol dramas.
None of the three prime time dramas made a real approach towards the top of the ranking, but at least two of them are lurking somewhere around the 13.0%. The third one lost against its competition. Meanwhile, NHK managed to gain a couple more viewers for their taiga drama on Sunday, despite a much stronger competition than last week. Is this already the beginning of a positive trend after the bad first episode?
All the ratings and more details can be found after the cut!
Drama Prime Time Report – January 9th~12th
Ten new dramas are featured in this week’s first Drama Prime Time Report. From ending planners, hungry rock bands to dirty mamas, there was a great variety of new stories, but they all were overshadowed by a strawberry night. Which of them can stay near or even above the 15.0% mark this season? It will be interesting season again, with many more anticipated dramas that have to air their first episodes.
You can check out the rating and more details below the cut!
Aragaki Yui & Ohno Satoshi in 'Mou Yuukai Nante Shinai' (Fuji TV)
Last week, NHK’s taiga drama ‘Taira no Kiyomori’ basically opened the quasi first week of the 2012 drama winter season. Two other dramas and a mini series also already aired their first episodes. However, it was the drama specials that really knew how to keep us drama addicts entertained throughout the whole week.
You can check out the ratings and details after the cut!
The 'Aibou 10' special episode leads us into a new year, and a new drama winter season!
The last week of 2011 also finally got its own Drama Prime Time Report. There was one drama left that had yet to air its final episode, while the crime drama ‘Aibou season 10′ already opened the winter season of 2012 with its traditional New Year’s Day special
The rest of the report is made up of drama specials, movies, and various other TV specials.
You can check out all the details below the cut!
Ishihara Satomi in 'Saka no Ue no Kumo' (NHK)
Here is the Friday and weekend edition of the the Drama Prime Time Report, bringing all but one drama to an end. No big surprises awaited us regarding the ratings, only ‘Boku to Star no 99 Nichi’ managed to reach a new personal season-high.
