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 – 11/12~11/15
Drama Prime Time Report – 11/12~11/15
‘PRICELESS‘ (Fuji TV) was the biggest winner this week. It gained 3.2% and climbed back up to a rating of 18.4%.
A few other dramas also managed to gain viewers this week. ‘Perfect Blue‘ (TBS) improved by 0.7% (rating: 8.6%), ‘Osozaki no Himawari‘ (Fuji TV) stopped its fall with a plus of 0.9% (rating: 8.9%), …
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 …
Drama Prime Time Report – 10/29~11/01
Drama Prime Time Report – 10/29~11/01
A mixture of rating developments were recorded in the first half of this week. There were a total of eight dramas that improved their ratings, while the same number of dramas experienced a drop in ratings.
On Monday, ‘Perfect Blue‘ (TBS) dropped back down to 7.7% (minus 1.5%) after a short rise last week. Fuji …
Drama Prime Time Report – 10/22~10/25
Drama Prime Time Report – 10/22~10/25
The first four days of the 43th week of the year offered some mixed results for our prime time dramas, from nosedives to disappointing starts, with a few slight improvements.
On Monday, everyone was looking at how well Fuji TV’s latest Getsu 9 drama ‘PRICELESS‘ would do with the (former) drama/ratings king Kimura Takuya in …
It was announced on the official website of upcoming drama “Hana no Zubora-Meshi” that NEWS‘ new song titled “Pokopon Pekorya” has been chosen as its theme song. The song is newly written just for the drama by the same people who were also in charge of NEWS’ previous single “Chankapana.”
No other details including the release date have been revealed at …
It’s been announced that actress Kurashina Kana will be starring in a drama adaptation of popular manga “Hana no Zubora-Meshi“. For Kurashina, who gained huge popularity through NHK’s morning drama “Welkame”, this will be the first time taking the lead role in a drama series for commercial broadcasting.
“Hana no Zubora-Meshi”, which is written by Kusumi Masayuki and illustrated by Mizusawa …
