Northern California's KTSF web site

For those who missed the announcement: Starting April 7 the Fuji-TV programming on Saturday evening will start one half hour later at 8:30pm, and run to 12 midnite. I don't know yet if the half hour TokyoTV segment at 11:30pm (lately it's only been NHK news, and no Christian program) is simply being cancelled or if it is being moved to a different timeslot (12-1am or 8-8:30pm?).

Andru wrote:For those who missed the announcement: Starting April 7 the Fuji-TV programming on Saturday evening will start one half hour later at 8:30pm, and run to 12 midnite. I don't know yet if the half hour TokyoTV segment at 11:30pm (lately it's only been NHK news, and no Christian program) is simply being cancelled or if it is being moved to a different timeslot (12-1am or 8-8:30pm?).

Very confusing. :bleh: There was no NHK news last night, even though it was listed as 12 midnite. :doh:

Itazura ichiban wrote:
Very confusing. :bleh: There was no NHK news last night, even though it was listed as 12 midnite. :doh:

Yes, and very disappointing too, since I've become quite a "fan" of NHK news for the past couple of years when the English SAP channel started working. And they had just expanded the Saturday segment to a half-hour recently too. The 15min version (actually only about 10min with commercials) was so brief that the Sunday segment seemed like a repeat (rarely any new news the next day).

But I see all this as just a continuation of the gradual chipping away of our Saturday J-TV programming on KTSF, which I think at one point ran from 7pm to 11:30pm, with three subtitled dramas (Ah, the "good old days...."). I think they first reduced the time by ending earlier at 11pm, then I think in 2003, started later at 8pm and ending at midnite. A similar thing happened on Sunday evenings, but they also eliminated all subtitling too (thank gawd they didn't do that on Saturdays as well, except for a few exceptions like Furuhata Ninzaburo-Final).

By the way, regarding the NHK news, if anyone else is a regular viewer: Did you also find it odd that they didn't have the English SAP working the night they ran the news story about the English teacher being murdered? Usually, the only time they don't have the SAP working is when the newsreaders are apparently taking time off for the new year holiday, or when there is some breaking news and they show the 10pm broadcast instead (like Horie being released on bail).

Andru wrote:
But I see all this as just a continuation of the gradual chipping away of our Saturday J-TV programming on KTSF, which I think at one point ran from 7pm to 11:30pm, with three subtitled dramas (Ah, the "good old days...."). I think they first reduced the time by ending earlier at 11pm, then I think in 2003, started later at 8pm and ending at midnite. A similar thing happened on Sunday evenings, but they also eliminated all subtitling too (thank gawd they didn't do that on Saturdays as well, except for a few exceptions like Furuhata Ninzaburo-Final).

Haha. I was just about to comment about this. You are correct that Fuji-tv once began a 7pm. There was a drama from 7-8pm. The asadora ran from 8-8:30. Then there was the Taiga drama from 8:30-9:30, followed by another drama from 9:30-10:30. The TTV programming slid in from 10:30-11:00. And finally Fuji finished out the night from 11:00 to 12 midnite.

There was a time when the 9:30-10:30/11-12 was one extended drama (the Saturday night special ??). Then they aired Iron Chef at 9:30 with two subtitled dramas that night (at 7 and 11).

Ahh the good ole days.

dochira wrote:Ahh the good ole days.

Gosh! A year ago we had Takeuchi Yuko and Abe Hiroshi in Egao no Hosoku. I thought THAT was the good ole days...

shari wrote:
Gosh! A year ago we had Takeuchi Yuko and Abe Hiroshi in Egao no Hosoku. I thought THAT was the good ole days...

Things have really changed since I started watching Fuji-tv in 1995. And not necessarily for the better. :puppydog:

I hope things aren't getting cut back. :/ I miss NHK news too...Though I have never been able to get the SAP to work!

... more flashbacks? What a waste of time. I could have been watching Keroro Gunsou...

wintersweet wrote:... more flashbacks? What a waste of time. I could have been watching Keroro Gunsou...

You must be referring to the series recap of Kaze No Haruka that has been going on for the past 3 weeks. I think I've seen this before on asadoras about half-way through (it was episode 79/80 that last aired, and there are usually 156 original 15-min episodes in an asadora), but just not over soooo many episodes. I'm hoping that the recap originally went on for only a week, i.e. 6 fifteen minute daily episodes, or 3 of our weekly half-hour episodes, and then the story continued to move on. In this last episode, it did seem like they finally began to advance the story line again.

BTW, so far I think I'm liking Haruka better than Wakaba. But, then what I didn't like about Wakaba was that they would start to develop a subplot, then abandon it. So, for example, it does seem like Haruka has a possible romance in the future with the photog guy, but if she ends up simply hooking up with her childhood crush (what a jerk he is!) and becomes the okami of his father's onsen, then I'm going to start throwing things at the TV screen like I did with Wakaba. :say_argh:

I too like Haruka better than Wakaba. The show has a lot of nice humor in it. When Haruka gets a bucket of water on her head at the most dramatic moment in last night's episode, I thought that was just brilliant.

Waldo T wrote:The show has a lot of nice humor in it.

I like the humor too. Kaze no Haruka was writen by Omori Mika. She also wrote My Boss, My Hero, one of the funniest doramas I've seen. Both Murakawa Eri and Kikawada Masaya (Haruka's childhood friend Masami) had suporting roles in My Boss, My Hero, one as Nagase Tomoya's love interest's best friend, the other as his nerdy brother.
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BTW, NHK said they'd chosen Murakawa Eri over 2000 candidates to play Haruka, but Omori Mika must have had a pretty good idea who her Haruka was going to be. She'd just directed Eri-chan in her movie Koibumi Biyori. And she also wrote Kimi wa Petto, Lunch Queen and Kabachitare among others, so the woman has clout.

BTW2, KTSF website has a new look. It's pretty nice, but try finding the evening lineup... http://www.ktsf.com/en/index.html

did anyone see some of Oooku-another story, is the lead actress Kyoko Fukada, can anyone comfirm that for me. Thanks

MikeNolan wrote:did anyone see some of Oooku-another story, is the lead actress Kyoko Fukada, can anyone comfirm that for me. Thanks

Yes, that was Kyoko-chan. I also found this blurb on the web:

Ooku Special ~Mou Hitotsu no Monogatari~ (‘剜ƒXƒyƒVƒƒƒ‹`‚à‚¤‚ЂƂ‚̕¨Œê`)
Fuji TV, broadcasts December 29 @ 9:00pm
The jidaigeki "Ooku" series, based on the Edo period practice of the shogun keeping a harem to bear successors, has gone through several drama incarnations. This weekend, a film version was released in theaters, and this drama special tells an alternate story to the movie. Kyoko Fukada stars in this special, although she has never been part of the "Ooku" series before.

Other Cast: Shihori Kanjiya, Hisashi Yoshizawa

Andru wrote:

Yes, that was Kyoko-chan. I also found this blurb on the web:

Ooku Special `Mou Hitotsu no Monogatari` (‘剜ƒXƒyƒVƒƒƒ‹`‚à‚¤‚ЂƂ‚̕¨Œê`)
Fuji TV, broadcasts December 29 @ 9:00pm
The jidaigeki "Ooku" series, based on the Edo period practice of the shogun keeping a harem to bear successors, has gone through several drama incarnations. This weekend, a film version was released in theaters, and this drama special tells an alternate story to the movie. Kyoko Fukada stars in this special, although she has never been part of the "Ooku" series before.

Other Cast: Shihori Kanjiya, Hisashi Yoshizawa

Thanks so much for answering my question Andru :mrgreen: :bow:

wintersweet wrote:I hope things aren't getting cut back. :/ I miss NHK news too...Though I have never been able to get the SAP to work!

Are you on a satellite connection or cable? We managed to listen to SAP when we had cable, but now with sat, it doesn't work at all. :(

Geezer wrote:The promise of more scenes with Yoshino Kimura, Ikkei Watanabe, and Asami Mizukawa later in the series kept me coming back. But it looks like it'll be another couple of months before they get a chance to save this show.

Boy, do I miss "Suzuran"

Haruka is moving back to Yufuin, so that means more screen time for Yoshino Kimura and Asami Mizukawa :woot:

JackClark wrote:

Haruka is moving back to Yufuin, so that means more screen time for Yoshino Kimura and Asami Mizukawa :woot:

Yeah, but I might start throwing things at the TV screen! See my post from April 22nd for an explanation.

Andru wrote:

So, for example, it does seem like Haruka has a possible romance in the future with the photog guy, but if she ends up simply hooking up with her childhood crush (what a jerk he is!) and becomes the okami of his father's onsen, then I'm going to start throwing things at the TV screen like I did with Wakaba. :say_argh:

Yeah I hope Haruka doesn't end up with that jerk, if they do end up together it because he got dumped. That guy is my least favorite character on that show. :usuck: But I think that jerk will end up with Nanae. Poor Nanae

Did anyone see that special about maguro fishing instead of Tokyo Tower? I had not seen an announcement and got to it by chance. Very interesting.

Trivia: the soundtrack is mostly from Pirates of the Caribean penned by the same guy whose music was used for Iron Chef.

They'll be showing Watashitachi no Kyokasho at 9:30 starting on the 20th. Looks like a good show, with Kanno Miho, Itoh Atsushi and Shida Mirai (little Natsu in Haru to Natsu).

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