Why did Janis gradually disappear from prime-time TV dramas that began in October?

▲ Gathering with his friend, Hiroshi Yokoyama (37 years old) of Seki 8, at a yakiniku restaurant in Azabu 10th Street (17 years), Aoba Masaki's smile lit up the night

On September 28, Arashi member Masaki Aoba (38), who announced the marriage with Sho Sakurai (39), will play the lead role in "The Men of the Wada Family" (TV Asahi), which will be broadcast on October 22.

The protagonist played by Xiangye is 37 years old, who lost his job because of the epidemic, began to work as a takeaway rider, and finally turned into an online news reporter. Kuranosuke Sasaki plays the remarried husband of the protagonist's late mother, a TV reporter, while Duan Tian yasushi plays his grandfather, who is a journalist. Judging from the main content of the play, if Aiba mentions his marriage news in the publicity, it will definitely cause a lot of heat. (Staff of the drama department of private television stations)

That being said, the series aired on Friday Night Theater at 11:15 p.m. Although the heat brought by marriage is expected to drive a certain rating, after all, the broadcast time is outside the "prime time" from 7 pm to 11 pm.

"The last TV series that Aoba starred in, "Me and Tail and Kagurazaka" (TV Asahi Tv), was broadcast in the same time slot as this drama, and the average rating of all 8 episodes was 5.3% (VIDEO RESEARCH, Kanto region). Because he felt that it was difficult for Aiba to get a high number, he also broadcast it in the same time slot this time, but if the news of his marriage was released earlier, it might be changed to prime time broadcast. (Staff of the TV drama department of the same private television station)

Among the TV dramas that major private tv stations start broadcasting in October, there are only two TV series starring artists under Janis Firm except For Xiangye, and the specific TV stations and broadcast times are as follows:

・Samurai Mama (starring Tokio and Shigeru Shiroshima, airs on October 12, 12:59 p.m. on Japanese television every Monday)

・"Disappearing First Love" (Starring Wave Man Michieda Junyou and Snow Man Meguro Ryori, airs on October 9, TV Asahi every Saturday at 11:30 p.m.)

There are only 3 TV series starring Janis, including Aoba, and none in prime time.

Incidentally, only three TV series starring Janis artists that began airing in July were primetime, namely "She's Beautiful" (Fuji TV), starring Ken Nakajima (27) of the Sexy Zone, a new season of "Criminal 7" (TV Asahi), starring The popular series and junior team Noriyuki Higashiyama (54), and "Family Gathering" (TBS TV) starring Jenny West's Daiki Shigeoka (29).

Next January, "CHIKARA Next Door" (TV Asahi) starring Jun Matsumoto (39) will be broadcast in prime time. However, there is a reason why Janis's figure disappeared from the October prime time when it was widely believed to reap high ratings.

Since the death of founder and former president Johnny Kitagawa, There have been artists under the Janis umbrella who have been quitting the firm. Among them, Ryo Nishikido, Tomohisa Yamashita, and Tomomo Nagase, who are former TOKIO members, are also the mainstays who can play the role of the protagonists of prime-time TV dramas of private television stations, so the withdrawal of these people should be a big blow to Janis.

According to some reports, Fuji TV issued an invitation to Kimura Takuya to broadcast a piece of "Teaching Field" that had been broadcast for two consecutive days during the October new year, which was already broadcast for two consecutive days during the New Year period last year and this year, and the TV series starring Takuya Kimura was well received as soon as it was broadcast, but Kimura refused on the grounds that he was busy with work. At present, the current situation facing Janis is that Kimura is already the most capable of taking on the responsibility of prime-time starring among its artists. Let's look forward to the rise of young people in the future. (Sports Newspaper Entertainment Program Reporter)

In addition, there is another reason for the rise of handsome actors under other acting firms.

"In Janisli, the artists who can star in a TV series are basically members of the group who debuted on CD, so it takes a lot of time before they start to establish their status as actors.

Other performing arts companies, on the other hand, train artists as actors from the beginning. In fact, if you look at the list of tv dramas starring in the prime time of October, you can understand that Masataka Kuwata, Tsuyoshi Ayano, Kei Tanaka, Yumi Yanagi, Shun Oguri, and Hidetoshi Nishijima are all acting actors who have accumulated experience along the way. In particular, "Stardust Production" backed by Wada and Yanagi, and "Tristone Entertainment" signed by Ayano, Tanaka and Oguri are companies that are particularly good at mining and cultivating young actors, and their influence in film and television works has long surpassed Janis. (People related to the film industry)

Janis announced that from March 2023, he will implement a "22-year-old retirement system" for his artists who cannot make their debut on CD. Hopefully, until then, even if it is only for those who voluntarily sign up, Janis can start to really cultivate artists in the direction of actors, so that it may be possible to dig out the "rough stone" that cannot debut on CD, but has amazing acting skills... (Cang Yu /Translation)