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I Survived A Japanese Game Show (originally titled Big In Japan [2]) is an American reality show that saw its first season premiere on ABC June 24, 2008. The show follows a group of Americans, who leave the United States for Japan where they compete in a Japanese style game show.[3][4] The winner takes home US $250,000.[5] The series won both the Best Reality prize and the overall prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.[6] Season 2, which was supposed to have premiered on July 8, was moved up to June 17 at and debuted that night at 9PM EDT/PDT. The rating is TV-PG (L) for all shows.
[edit] Format
In Season One, contestants are informed that they are to take part in a reality-style competition, but not informed of the nature of the show. They are flown to Tokyo, Japan, and taken to the Toho Studios, where it is revealed that they are to compete on a Japanese game show called Majide (本気で). For Season Two, Majide host Rome Kanda surprised each of the contestants in their hometowns informing them they were going to Japan. They are broken up into teams and, in the first six episodes of Season One and first seven episodes and the first half of the final episode of Season Two, compete in games against each other. The winning team is given a reward activity while the losing team is given a punishment activity. In the second season, the first game played saw the winning team have an advantage into the second game, where rewards and punishments were handed out afterward. In the final episode, the first two games reverted to the rules of Season One. Two members of the losing team are chosen to compete in a additional game head-to-head where the loser of that game is eliminated. In the final part, the teams are broken up and the four remaining players face three elimination challenges in Season One, and final three facing two elimination games in Season Two; in all cases, the losing contestant is eliminated from the show and carried offstage and sent back to the United States by the "sayonara mob" (脱落者决定), dressed in black suits. The series follows not only the Majide competition, but also the contestants' activities backstage and outside the game show in reality style. The contestants live in a house (Kasai House) together, with a Mama-san (Kozue Saito), who generally expects the contestants to live in line with Japanese culture and customs. In season 2, they live in the Majide Guest House with Mama-san. The host of season one was Japanese-American Tony Sano, whose additional television credits include MTV Spring Break Japan and a recurring role on the The CW4Kids series Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight. [7] About the show, Sano commented, "It's going to be like nothing American audiences have seen on network television" (Matt Hurwitz, Associated Press) [8] Episodes are narrated by Robert Cait. The show is produced by A. Smith & Co. Productions (the producers of Gordon Ramsey's Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares in the USA) with Arthur Smith, Kent Weed of A. Smith and Co. and Tim Cresenti of Small World International Format Television as executive producers and Weed directing, and is distributed by Disney/ABC's Greengrass Productions division. The format was created by Danish producers Karsten Bartholin and David Sidebothin for Babyfoot Aps, and was originally titled Big in Japan. [edit] Majide Majide (which is Japanese slang for "Seriously?!"), the show-within-the-show, is not an actual Japanese game show, but is intended to resemble what a stereotypical Japanese game show is like.[9] The American producers watched hours of these Japanese game shows, took the most common elements and created all of the games, with help from producers in Japan, who also produced the game segments at Toho Studios.[10] In contrast to many American game shows, which are usually based on either trivia (such as Jeopardy!) or mental skill (like The Price is Right), Japanese game shows tend to be more physically oriented, such as Takeshi's Castle. The Nickelodeon game show Double Dare was a hybrid of both the American and Japanese styles. Majide is hosted by Rome Kanda[11] and judged by Masahiro Hurugori, known on the show as Judge Bobu (Bob). Kanda has translated "Majide" (マジで) as "You've got to be crazy!" [edit] Seasons[edit] Season TwoMain article: I Survived a Japanese Game Show (season 2) The second season premiered June 17, 2009. Tony Sano did not return to host. In addition, the number of contestants increased from ten to twelve, and there are two team games per episode instead of one. The team that wins the first team game is given an advantage in the second, while the rest of the format remains the same. It ran for eight episodes and finished on August 5, 2009. [edit] Season ThreeIt is currently unknown if ABC will renew the series for a third season since its ratings and viewers in its previous season were lower than the first season. [edit] International formatsBesides the USA, fifteen other countries have bought this format.[12] The American version of this show is airing in Denmark on TV 3+, New Zealand's TV2, Singapore's Channel 5, the Philippines' Studio 23, Sweden's TV6, Slovenia's TV3 Slovenia and Portugal's SIC Radical. The Greek version of the show (under the original name Big In Japan) airs on Alpha TV.In Malaysia 8tv, Fridays 10:30pm, Brazil [ People & Arts ] 22:00. [edit] Other versions[edit] SwedenIn 2009, Sweden began airing its own version of the show called Hjälp! Jag är med i en japansk TV-show (Help! I'm in a Japanese television show) with Swedish celebrities competing against each other. The show was produced and aired by TV4. [edit] Contestants
The winner of the final episode of "Hjälp! Jag är med i en japansk TV-show" was Kjell Eriksson, against runner-up Klasse Möllberg. [edit] NorwayA Norwegian version of the Swedish format has also been aired by the Norwegian network TV3 [edit] References
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