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Category: TV

  • Blog Type

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    Well, looks like blogging has hit the Japanese TV mainstream. As I was flipping through the channels last night, I came upon BLOG TYPE (Saturdays at 23:30 on Fuji TV). They — including uber-gravia idol MEGUMI and actress Kanno Miho — basically dramatize posts that they find on blogs, and then chat about them. Oh,…

  • MM Versus Sadako

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    Idol group Morning Musume watch RING in front of cameras, and squeal like there’s no tomrrow (be patient, takes a while to load). Link via Waxy.

  • Ozzy in Tokyo

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    Last week’s episodes of THE OSBOURNES saw the family coming to Tokyo so that daughter Kelly could do some promotional stuff, and Ozzy was to accept a prize at the MTV Japan award show. Their arrival in Japan was accompanied by the obligatory Pizzicato Five “Twiggy, Twiggy” reference, but they then followed up with some…

  • TV Salaries

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    My love for Yukie Nakama is pure, going back to her days as the star of the most excellent TRICK series, and I’m shocked to learn how little the star of a top-rated show gets paid — although I just have the American TV industry to compare with. Nippon TV’s Saturday night drama “Gokusen” is…

  • A Video Reprieve

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    I’ve been rather hard of late on the music video channels — with good reason — but all is not lost, as I was just reminded of the weekly SpaceShowerTV show PUSH JAPAN TYO. Just now they were playing a Groovisions directed video for a band called Freenote, for the single “Walkmen.” The song itself…

  • Surfing the Japanese Music Channels, Part Trois

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    You know it, you love it, it’s time for another tour of the music channels! M-On has their “Countdown 100” show on right now, and I was just treated to #42: your generic J-pop idol, strutting her stuff like there’s no tomorrow. She’s cute, as are all her backup dancers, and the video is mostly…

  • Saku Saku

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    Patrick has a post up about the very wacky Saku Saku TV program. It airs on TVK, which is only available in Yokohama, so we don’t get to see it here in Tokyo. A while back, Yuko got a few tapes from a friend, and I would glance over while she was watching. Funny stuff.

  • Gokusen Is a Hit!

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    Seems like the second series of the GOKUSEN drama starring Nakama Yukie is turning into a huge hit. They’re breaking all sorts of ratings records, with a surprising demographic tuning in: the 35-49 group. Most big drama hits are popular with younger viewers, and even the first series followed that same trend. Yuko (for you…