Fuji Television, which has decided to end “Sake no Tsumami ni naru Hanashi” (Friday night from 10:58 p.m.), a variety show in which Daigo (45) of Chidori serves as MC, seems to be in the midst of another “variety show avalanche crisis. –The “Paju” series is now in the midst of a “variety show avalanche” crisis. The reason for the termination of “Sake no Tsumami ni Narunaru Hanashi” was that Daigo was not satisfied with the sudden change of the originally scheduled broadcast to a rerun on the day of the October 24 episode, and asked to be removed from the program himself. In the originally scheduled broadcast, Daigo had dressed up as Downtown’s Matsumoto Hitoshi (62), but on the day of the broadcast on October 24, Fuji executives reportedly saw this as a problem, and it was replaced. It is believed that behind the decision by Fuji executives to make the hasty replacement was the concern that if Mr. Matsumoto appeared on screen, even in costume, some viewers would be upset and that might irritate commercial sponsors. However, there were some voices within the Fuji station that said, “It may have been overcompliance. In any case, Daigo and his partner Nobu (45), who heard about the change on the day of the broadcast, decided they could no longer do this and asked to leave the program. In the October 31 broadcast, Daigo sent out an urgent message, saying, “After talking it over with Nobu, I’m going to stop the story that will become a snack with alcohol,” and asked the audience to watch until the final episode. Thank you very much! It is unusual for a program to end outside of the April and October seasons. It is unusual for a program to end outside of the April and October seasons, but a source at a private key station said, “‘It’s a good snack with sake. Fuji probably didn’t expect that ‘Sake no Tsumami ni naru Hanashi’ would end at this time,” said a source at a private key station. However, Fuji TV is currently in serious financial difficulties due to the “Nakai-Fuji TV problem” that broke out in January of this year. Fuji Television is reportedly making adjustments in the direction of terminating several variety programs at the time of the reorganization season in April of next year due to the need to drastically cut production costs in the future. Many sponsors withdrew from the station due to the “Nakai-Fuji TV problem” that broke out as a result of the widely reported trouble between Masahiro Nakai (53, retired in January) and a former female announcer of Fuji Television Network. Although sponsors are gradually returning to the station, Fuji Television’s non-consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, showed a loss of 32.8 billion yen in final profit. The “big deficit caused by the riot will force Fuji Television to drastically cut production costs in TV program production in the future. It is said that even variety programs in the prime time slot, which is the station’s main area of competition, will have a production budget about the same as that of the former late-night slot. This means that some variety shows will not be able to continue due to budget constraints. And one of them is said to be “Calling Teacher Tanaka” (Monday nights from 8 pm), a variety show in which Takushi Tanaka (49) of the Angels is the MC and Shinobu Hasegawa (47) of Sisonne is the sub-MC. (The same as before.) “Calling Teacher Tanaka” will start in April 2022. It was originally broadcast on Sunday nights at 9 pm, but was moved to its current time slot in April 2011. The initial program content was to “have about 10 to 15 performers take a simultaneous test and share (announce) unusual answers. The program was similar to the popular program “Mecha x 2 Iketeru! (from July 2000 to December 2005), a popular program on the same station, but the studio set was changed in September 2012. In September 2012, however, the studio set was changed and the program content was substantially renewed, including a style in which the contestants aim for first place. When “Calling Teacher Tanaka” started, Takashi Okamura (55) of Nai-ai, the center of “Mecha-ike,” also mentioned the program. …… One of the reasons why “Calling Teacher Tanaka” is said to be ending is its poor cost performance. It is not a program that features extremely high-priced talents, but 8 to 10 or sometimes as many as 15 talents appear on the program as “students” each time. It is not unusual to have “highly educated guests” who are not entertainers in their own right. The total amount of the fee is higher for such a large number of performers.
