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 …
On October 8th, it was announced that Ikuta Toma’s younger brother and Fuji TV announcer Ikuta Ryusei will be making a guest appearance on the first episode of Toma’s upcoming drama ‘Osozaki no Himawari‘.
Ryusei is going to play the protagonist “Kodaira Joutarou’s” (Toma) younger brother and makes a short appearance in the beginning of the first episode. He just began …
On September 28th, it was announced that Mr.Children’s new song “Joutouku” will be used as the theme song for the upcoming Fuji TV drama ‘Osozaki no Himawari ~Boku no Jinsei, Renewal~‘.
‘Osozaki no Himawari’ is about a group of seven individuals who are living in the city of Shimanto in the Shimanto River area in prefecture of Kochi (Shikoku). Those seven …
On August 29th, Fuji TV has announced that actor Ikuta Toma will star in their upcoming fall drama ‘Osozaki no Himawari ~Boku no Jinsei, Renewal~‘ (lit. ‘Late Blooming Sunflower ~My Life, Renewal~’). It will be his first starring role in a drama series in three and a half years.
The drama is set at the beautiful Shimanto River in the Kochi …
