Posts Tagged ‘drama ratings’
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End of the World halved due to poor ratings
Bad news for The End of the World, the cable medical plague drama that has picked up a mania following (i.e., a cult hit), though it hasn’t been able to carve out a space for itself in the ratings game. As a result, it’s getting cut early to nearly half its original length. The show... More »
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News bites: April 8, 2013
Aw, it’s the School 2013 almost-kinda-not-really couple (pictured at top) in the headlines again, although they’re not working together. Lee Jong-seok recently posted a photo (via Twitter-esque site me2day) from the star-studded movie he’s working on (seriously star-studded — we’re talkin’ Song Kang-ho, Lee Jung-jae, Jo Jung-seok, and Kim Hye-soo), The Face Reader. It’s a... More »
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That Winter premieres this week with double-header
The ratings race is off and running, and the shows haven’t even started yet! (Well, two of the three.) The Wednesday-Thursday timeslot is about to get interesting with two new shows premiering this week, and the third one still relatively new. Level 7 Civil Servant gave MBC a nice lead since premiering last month, and... More »
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News bites: February 4, 2013
(Hong Soo-hyun, Lee Mi-sook, Lee Yeon-hee) First off, the casting announcements and confirmations: This news was previously announced, so it’s more of a signing-on-the-dotted-line issue: Hong Soo-hyun (History of the Salaryman, The Princess’s Man) is officially part of the cast for Jang Ok-jung, Live For Love, the SBS sageuk reimagining of the infamous concubine starring... More »
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Weekend ratings: series highs for Childless, Seo-young, Alice
It was a good weekend for dramaland ratings, with multiple series highs left and right. Perhaps the most significant of them: cable network JTBC’s hit drama Childless Good Fortune reached a record 9.4% this weekend. Damn. Guess we can’t call cable the land of 1% ratings anymore. The family drama from star writer Kim Soo-hyun... More »
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Childless Good Fortune gets extension thanks to climbing ratings
Well, when you’re a cable drama and you’re breaking 8% ratings (I know, wow), it comes as no surprise that the station extends your run. Scriptwriter Kim Soo-hyun is continuing her hot streak with Childless Good Fortune, the weekend family drama on JTBC that’s currently two-thirds of the way through its run (its last broadcast... More »
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Childless Good Fortune becomes highest rated cable drama
The game, she is a-changin’. Another cable drama has claimed the top ratings title, snatching the distinction away from Answer Me 1997 mere months after that drama hit it big with a finale of 6.03%. Now it’s the Kim Soo-hyun-written weekend family drama on JTBC, Childless Good Fortune (or Childless Comfort), which has edged out... More »
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MBC cancels Mom, quits sitcoms for good
Whoa, this is a dramatic (and sudden!) step for MBC, which announced this week that they are not only cutting their daily sitcom What Is a Mom? (er, as in, What’s the Meaning of Moms Everywhere) but getting rid of their daily sitcoms entirely. According to a senior representative with MBC, sitcoms have been on... More »
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Cable’s latest hit, Childless Good Fortune
There’s another smash cable hit on the horizon, with JTBC’s weekend series Childless Good Fortune hitting rather impressive numbers just six episodes into its 30-episode run. The weekend’s fifth and sixth episodes drew ratings of 3.285% and 3.524%, building on a solid premiere of 1.683%. To break it down further, the show reached a peak... More »
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King of Dramas not a king of ratings
Another drama premiered this week — SBS’s King of Dramas — which changes up the ratings landscape for Monday-Tuesday dramas. Or at least you’d expect that it would, but instead it has just inherited third place from its predecessor, Faith, which wrapped last week. Its premiere episode netted a 6.5% rating. That’s too bad since... More »
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