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'HEY!HEY!HEY!' ends 18 year run
On December 17th, Fuji TVfs music program gHEY! HEY! HEY!h on which the comedian duo Downtown served as the host, live broadcast their final episode with the title gKonna ni Waraeta Ongaku Bangumi wa Nakatta ze! Saigo no HEY! HEY! HEY! MUSIC CHAMPg.
The music program started back in 1994, and aired a total of 745 episodes.
For the 2-hour long final episode, total 10 groups of artists (45 people in total), such as EXILE, Porno Graffitti, Every Little Thing, T.M. Revolution, GACKT, AKB48, TRF~Komuro Tetsuya, SMAP (Inagaki Goro was absent), Okuda Tamio, and Hamasaki Ayumi, made appearances.
The live broadcast started with the performance of gAshita ga Aru sah (released in 2001) sang by Re: Japan, which consists of Yoshimoto Kogyofs comedians including Downtown, along with more performances of masterpieces that were related to the program one after another, as well as some footages from the past.
Arashi, Kahala Tomomi, Inoue Yosui, and PUFFY appeared through video messages and actress Shinohara Ryoko, who has co-starred with Downtown in gDowntown no Gottsu Ee Kanjig, also visited the program with a bouquet.
For the finale of the show, Makihara Noriyuki showed up, and all the guests and even the staff members performed a song gChicken Riceg, which is Makihara and Hamada Masatoshifs collaboration song, and written by Matsumoto Hitoshi. During the performance, Hamada commented, gThank you for the past 18 years.h
gHEY! HEY! HEY!h has gained popularity and has become one of Fuji TVfs longest running programs. The highest rating they reached was on June 21, 1999 with 28.5% when Utada Hikaru made her first appearance on the program, however, it has taken a fall in ratings as of late. The guest who appeared most on the show was Amuro Namie with 56 appearances.
Source: Sponichi Annex