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And the Seon-deok juggernaut rolls on
by javabeans
Dream, Hometown of Legends I knew Queen Seon-deok was doing well, but it's positively crushing the competition. I wouldn't really use the word "juggernaut" for a drama under 40% ratings (20% is...
Tags: drama ratings, Dream, Hometown of Legends, Queen Seon-deok
Sol Pharmacy reclaims top weekend spot
by javabeans
Yoo Sun and Lee Pil-mo of Sons of Sol Pharmacy With Brilliant Legacy out of the picture, KBS's cheery family drama Sons of Sol Pharmacy has reclaimed the top spot...
Tags: drama ratings, Friend, Iron Empress, Job Well Done, Sons of Sol Pharmacy House, Style
The man who can’t get ratings
by javabeans
This is an interesting article, in that it looks at the low numbers faced by current Monday-Tuesday drama The Man Who Can't Get Married and analyzes it from a cultural...
Tags: drama ratings, j-doramas, Ji Jin-hee, remakes, The Man Who Can't Get Married, Uhm Jung-hwa
Strike Love wraps up two weeks early
by javabeans
Aw, this is too bad. MBC's baseball drama Strike Love has been underperforming in its weekend time slot, and is now reducing its episode order. Rather than the planned 20, the...
Tags: drama ratings, Friend, Strike Love
Failing Ja Myung Go may call it quits early
by javabeans
News is starting to leak that SBS's Ja Myung Go [자명고] is hurrying to wrap up and will very likely end early, falling short of its initial 50-episode plan to sign...
Tags: drama ratings, Ja Myung Go, Jung Ryeo-won, Park Min-young
Kwon Sang-woo would like more viewers, please
by javabeans
And wouldn't we all? Oh, Kwon Sang-woo. I understand that you're in something of a career slump after being one of the hottiest hotties of the early 2000s, and yeah,...
Tags: Bad Love, Cinderella Man, drama ratings, Han Eun-jung, interviews, Kwon Sang-woo, Sohn Tae-young, Song Chang-eui, Yoon-ah
Who’s watching Ja Myung Go?
by javabeans
And I ask that as a real question, not in sarcasm, because it seems the large-scale extravaganza is meeting with all sorts of "disheartening" setbacks and "embarrassments," as several articles...
Tags: drama ratings, Ja Myung Go, Jung Ryeo-won, Park Min-young
Good Job, Queen of Housewives
by javabeans
Eom Ki-joon, Chae Rim of "Good Job, Good Job" There are a couple of new dramas on the block, although I don't know if either of them will make a...
Tags: Chae Rim, Daniel Choi, drama ratings, Eom Ki-joon, Ja Myung Go, Job Well Done, Kim Nam-joo, Oh Ji-ho, Queen of Housewives, Seo Hyo-rim
Ja Myung Go kicks off with a whimper
by javabeans
So, who caught the premiere of Jung Ryeo-won's new grand historical series Ja Myung Go [자명고]? (It has apparently dropped the "Princess" from its title.) …Nobody? Well, you're not alone --...
Tags: Boys Before Flowers, drama ratings, East of Eden, Ja Myung Go, Jung Ryeo-won, Park Min-young
Reruns of Boys Before Flowers beating first-run programming
by javabeans
Boys Before Flowers' ratings are high for its new episodes, but even re-broadcasts are holding strong -- Sunday reruns recorded an 8.6% for Episode 3 and a whopping 13.4% for Episode 4. Not only...
Tags: Boys Before Flowers, drama ratings