Underplayed Gems

How do you like Wednesday? (1996)

How do you like Wednesday? poster
Original title
水曜どうでしょう
Genre
travel television show, variety show
Country
Japan
Length
4 seasons, 918 episodes
Rating
7.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A local Japanese variety travel show that originally aired late at night in Hokkaido. The hosts visit different places and go on amusing adventures.

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What happens

How do you like Wednesday? (水曜どうでしょう, Suiyō Dōdeshō) is a Japanese television variety series that aired on HTB in Hokkaidō, Japan, and on other regional television stations in Japan. The program debuted on HTB on October 9, 1996. The series was one of the first local variety programs to be produced on Hokkaido; prior to this series' launch, local variety programs in Hokkaidō were virtually non-existent. The program also had a significant influence on other local programs in other regions in Japan, most notably Kwangaku! in Kansai and Nobunaga in Tokai. The series achieved a record 18.6% viewing share on December 8, 1999, the highest share for a late-night program on a local TV station. Production of the weekly regular series ended in September 2002. Though new limited-run series were produced every 18 months on average, the latest series was shown on HTB in late 2005 and is eight episodes in length. Most of the series have been rerun under the names of Dōdeshō Returns and Suiyō Dōdeshō Classic. Several Music and telops and formats used for trailers and various scenes of the program are reused from Shusuke Kaneko's "Heisei Gamera Trilogy" as Tadahisa Fujimura is a fan of the series. Most notably, Gamera 2: Attack of Legion features Hokkaido as one of main setting locations, and Yō Ōizumi, Takayuki Suzui, and Ken Yasuda appeared as extras, and this was Oizumi's first film career although his name was accidentally excluded from the end credit. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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