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 …
Drama Prime Time Report – 10/15~10/18
Drama Prime Time Report – 10/15~10/18
The new medical drama ‘Doctor X ~Gekai Daimon Michiko~’ raises the bar and ‘Kekkon Shinai’ seems to have satisfied its viewers. A couple of new dramas aired their first episodes these past four days and tried to appeal to the viewers, while the ones that already premiered last week faced their difficult second episodes …
Drama Prime Time Report – 10/08~10/11
Drama Prime Time Report – 10/08~10/11
The fall season is here and this week already brought us a couple of new dramas, though real surprises failed to appear.
‘Perfect Blue‘ (TBS), starring Takimoto Miori, premiered on Monday and managed to record a better start than last season’s ‘Naniwa Shonen Tanteidan‘ with a rating of 9.0%. It faced some really strong competition …
It’s been announced that actress Takei Emi (18) will be starring in NTV’s upcoming drama “Tokyo Zenryoku Shoujo“, which will start airing in October. This will be the third consecutive starring drama series for Takei after “W no Higeki” (TV Asahi, aired during April ~ June 2012), and “Iki mo Dekinai Natsu” (Fuji TV, currently airing). Reportedly, it will be …
