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On October 20, Soshina of the comedy duo Shimofuri Myojo announced during his own YouTube livestream that “Tsukkomi Star” will air on Fuji TV, crossing from New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2026, into the new year. He revealed he’d originally planned to announce this at the end of November, and on 5ch the prevailing theory was that he moved the announcement up because a sports tabloid was about to scoop the story first. Opinions on the thread were also split over predictions for each network’s New Year’s Eve lineup and over how past episodes of “Tsukkomi Star” had been received.
Soshina Announces “Tsukkomi Star” Will Air on Fuji TV on New Year’s Eve: “We’re Doing It Across the Year Boundary”
On the 20th, Soshina of the comedy duo Shimofuri Myojo held a livestream on his own YouTube channel. He announced, “On December 31, 2026, crossing into the new year, we’re doing ‘Tsukkomi Star’ on Fuji TV.”
Soshina appeared in a black suit with a black tie, then abruptly switched to a white tie. He revealed, “This is actually something I was planning to announce at the end of November.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
But live is more fun that way anyway
Sponichi: "Guess we'll pull the article then" (Sponichi = Sports Nippon tabloid)
Meddling with a newspaper's editorial rights is actually illegal, you know
I watched the episode Hinohara won, and it just looked like favoritism based on their existing relationship
NTV: Guru Nai Gochi finale
TV Asahi: Zawatsuku Oomisoka
TBS: New Year's Eve All-Star Sports Festival
TV Tokyo: Year-End Japanese Song Special → Solitary Gourmet
Fuji: Dokkiri GP → Tsukkomi Star
No NHK on that list
Seriously nothing worth watching, lol
TV isn't even worth keeping around anymore
Just quietly air it on a weekday late at night
New Year's Eve falls on a Thursday, and Guru Nai airs Thursdays too, so there's a good chance Gochi gets the slot
NTV's the same way — though I did think they might bring back Ultra Quiz for New Year's Eve
Doubt it — I bet December's Suiyoubi no Downtown runs four straight weeks instead
There's just no demand for Shimofuri Myojo anyway
Quite a while back they aired a One Piece movie on New Year's Eve and it bombed hard
Still better than this, though — last year it was 2%
What'd they air last year?
It's not just Soshina — whenever anyone has an announcement, they want to control the timing themselves, through a press conference or livestream
Getting scooped before that happens is a huge step down as a publicity strategy
If he'd announced a year-end broadcast way ahead of time, the buzz would've died out by the time it aired
It'd be like announcing the Kohaku Uta Gassen lineup way too early, right?
Fuji would get better ratings just looping reruns of Drifters Daibakushou at this point
No — that article was updated on the 20th, so it's a different story
Probably because it wouldn't pull good numbers
They'd get better ratings airing it on a different day
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
“Tsukkomi Star” is a Fuji TV special centered on Shimofuri Myojo’s Soshina, in which performers compete on their skill at “tsukkomi” (the comedic straight-man retort). Opinions on past broadcasts remain split within the thread. Regarding this announcement, speculation spread on the thread that he rushed to reveal it via YouTube livestream because a sports tabloid was about to publish an article first — but this theory never rises above hearsay, and there has been no official explanation from Soshina himself or the show’s production side. It was also pointed out that this is a separate matter, timing-wise, from another topic about Soshina supposedly “warning” Sponichi, though the thread never fully sorted the two apart and they remained tangled together. New Year’s Eve specials are a ratings battleground for every network, and prediction wars based on past programming track records were also one of the thread’s central themes.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] Soshina Announces “Tsukkomi Star” Will Air on Fuji TV on New Year’s Eve: “We’re Doing It Across the Year Boundary”.”
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