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Talk / Edu-tainment
30min / 60min
SHIKUJIRI -Don't Screw Up Like Me!
Life is a series of mistakescbut the secrets to success are actually hidden in these mistakes. The show features real figures in entertainment, sports and politics who really screwed up in their past. Each one of them becomes a teacher in a classroom, shares his/her mistakes in detail and gives an entertaining and memorable lesson on how not to make the same mistakes.
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Social experiment / Reality
The Dinner Table
A family of at least four must get together every night for 100 days at 7:00pm.
They have to start dinner at 7:00pm sharp every consecutive day to get a big money prize.

The challenges is followed not just by TV broadcasting, but also by social media.

It is time to bring the FAMILY back to the DINNER TABLE. Sharing dinner together can help ease day-to-day conflicts, as well as establish traditions and memories that can last a lifetime.
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Outdoor reality
30min / 60min
WORD HUNTERS
An adventure reality show where two paired teams are taken to an unfamiliar country to accomplish a mission that is given to them. Sound familiar? Butc. the teams are given a mission, called the gMystery Command,h in the local language, so they must start from figuring out what their mission actually is! Running against each other and the time limit of ten days, the teams scramble out to the city/town because interpreting the Mystery Command is the first challenge to winning the cash prize. The teams can ask the local people to help them decipher the Mystery Command, but they can only use their mother tongue and gestures.
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Outdoor / Sports Entertainment
Beat the Champions (King of Sports)
This is a game show featuring TV personalities who are challenging professional athletes in different sports.

The show's attraction is in its unique and innovative rules that haunt both the amateurs and the pros alike.
The hilarious advantages and the dead seriousness of the pros trying to overcome their disadvantages make the show truly entertaining and fun to watch for all generations.
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Gameshow
60min
Primetime
Easy Peasy
This is a game show where a team of four takes on challenges that any adult is normally expected to easily succeed.

But time limits are set for each challenge, and speed along with accuracy is required. And even if just one member of the team fails, the challenge cannot be completed, so the members are under a lot of pressure.

Just do what you always do, but you will be surprised to see what happens when TIME is limited.
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Reality
60 minutes
From 1999 (still ongoing)
Be A Legend
A super populara challenge show from a mega hit Janapese TV show "Cocorico Creates a Legend" that has been on air since 1999.

Cameras will follow the challengers throughout the whole time, and witness the progress, achievements, and their wide ranges of emotions over the week.

How will they face the moment of truth -have they managed to "Be A Legend"?
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Studio or outside / Game show
60min
Primetime
Challengers on Fire
One of the most successful game shows in Japan, with over 150 games invented in this program.

Physical strength, stamina, intelligence, teamwork... if you have confidence in something, come and try to take 1 million yen (=US$10,000) challenge!!

The show always welcomes viewers with various kind of games. They can choose and participate in the challenge which they have confidence to complete.
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Studio based / Game show
Noisy Neighbors
Eavesdropping on a neighbor is a crime but it becomes fun when itfs made into an unprecedented TV game!
Two neighboring families; a family of a father, a mother and a daughter living next to each other in the same apartment with the same items compete against each other by guessing the noises that are made by the other family.

Everyone watching the show is bound to become ALL EARS! A simple but irresistible fun game to be enjoyed by the whole family!
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Studio based / Talk + Ranking test
Ranking the Stars
10 female celebrity panelists are asked to rank one another on a variety of topics.
1 of the 1 panelists is asked to reveal her on rankings in front of everyone else.

To make things more interesting 100 people on the street are also asked to rank the 10 panelists.
It's a holds no barred event as friends swipe at friends and respected peers trash each other out, without forgetting laughter.

Studio based / Quiz Show
9 VS 9
Who says Bingo is a good old forgotten game?

Check on this to witness the thrilling excitement of an evolved Bingo, the kind of fun that you are yet to experience!

A team of 9 lined up in a bingo-like seating, tackles floods of versatile exciting quizzes one after another!!
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Studio based / Game show
GO BABY GO
The most hilarious diaper race ever!!

Watch the cutest and capricious ways the babies tackle the races.
Their unpredictable moves and imaginations glue the viewers' eyes.

Your baby can be a STAR in this studio based game show!

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Reality / Endurance competition
Battle of the Budgets
Is it possible to live on US$100 a month?
Can you come up with enough clever ideas to survive?
Or will you try to make it by on sheer perseverance?

Challengers with unique personalities clash!
Who will come out the winner of the 30-day battle?

Everyone, from children to the elderly,will want follow the challengersf struggles.
A new type of survival reality show with lots of survival tips and solutions.
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Studio based or outside / Game show
Car Puzzle
Try solving the car puzzle! Take a brain-teasing challenge!
A unique gaming experience that challenges your intellect while incorporating the mental twist and turns.

All you need to do is to park 4 cars in a complicated course. There is only one right way to park all the cars!
Donft dare scratching any car, some of them are worth millions !!

Studio based / Game show
Intimate Ties
A simple and fun test that entertain an entire family!
How much do you really know about your husband?
How much do you really know about your son?

In the studio, a husband / son will be asked 10 personal questions and his wife and mother will have to give answers simultaneously.
If all 3 members of the family give 10 identical answers, the family will win a money prize of USD 15,000.
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Studio based / Quiz Show
No Brainer
"No Brainer" is a quiz show in which a team of four must work together to win a cash prize.

Before the show the team are ranked in order of their quiz ability and are seated in order from the gBrainboxh– who can win 100 Pounds for a correct answer – to thegNo Brainerh– who can win 500 Pounds for getting a question right.

In three rounds, the team work together to build a cash pot for the Final Stage, where the team must gamble on whether to let the No Brainer in their team answer the questions – and win the full pot of money – or leave it to the teamfs Brainbox to answer – and win lot less.

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Food / Entertainment
Real Dish Fake Dish
An innovative tasting test !
Celebrities will test their tongue to see how much they know about their favorite dish at their favorite restaurant.

In each episode, a celebrity reveals his/her favorite dish on the menu, which will then be cooked by the restaurantfs chef and three gfakeh chefs.

Will the celebrity pick the greal dishh prepared by the greal chefh?
If NOT, he/she will be banned from that restaurant for one year.
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Food / Entertainment
Stuck Till Youfre Done@
This game show takes place in various restaurants.
6-7 players are asked to eat dishes from the menu and to guess the top 10 best selling items off the menu.

They will be stuck until they have figured out all the top 10 dishes – giving up isnft an option.
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Studio based / Game show
The BLOCKS
A physical game and a quiz show using "blocks and boxes in many ways."
A team of 4 members complete in a match game played in 3 stages.

The games in each stage requiring different knowledge and skills played in a visually fascinating block squares make the show attractive to all generations.
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Studio based / Quiz show
The FACTORY
An innovative quiz show presented in an unusual feature; a production line in a factory!

The 2 teams of "factory worker" head on their job at a factory where the more they work the smarter they get.

The team with more correct answers getting more points wins the match.
The winner can get their pays by throwing a "cash exchange dice" to convert their points into cash to go home with...
A visually exciting quiz show requiring speed, intelligence and team work.

BAZOOKA
An unprecedented gScreening Game showh in which 2 teams try to sort out various group of people that fit into categories given by the program. The team with the most correct answers is the winner and rewarded with prize money.

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Food / Entertainment
Gourmet Academy
In gGourmet Academyh, top Grand Chefs rank food from popular restaurants and food companies while tasting and critiquing the dishes.

Their ranking will then be compared with the ranking done by professional market research teams. How will the reps of restaurants or brands react?

Here is a brand new TV concept.
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Studio based / Introducing funny clips
Neighborhood Treasures
An eye popping mega-hit variety show packed with myriad of hilarious video clips!

One and only awesome menu at a restaurant like a colossal sushi, a unique toilet dedicated to a trio, a dog with eyebrows, an avant-garde train, and an amazing scenic spot with a twist are only an entree to the kaleidoscope of mind boggling video clips showing all kinds of strange but entertaining scenes posted from the viewers from every corner of Japan.

Each submissions are judged by the four panelists at the studio and only when all four of them approve the subject to be worthy of the title, the submission is honored with an official registration as a Neighborhood Treasure.
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Grand scale / Original Sports Event
31 Legged Race
Officially certified in the Guinness World Records.
30 elementary school kids form a team by connecting their legs by ankle strapsc and they must run together for 50 meters.

Who will come in first?A hidden drama of the kids behind the race accelerates the excitement of the show.

This is not just a TV show, the children learn how to cooperate with others through this difficult challenge.
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Reality / Relationships
Fake Dad
Let the show arrange a situation where the boyfriend must meet his girlfriend's 'Dad' for dinner for the very first time. What if this 'Dad' is fake, and simply checking him out to prepare him for the real thing?
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High School Coming Out
A reality show to help high school boys/girls who havenft enough courage to express their feelings to their loved ones by giving them a chance to confess their love.

The profession of love takes place in the club room and if they agree to become a couple, they make a breakthrough out of the roof to declare that they have now become a couple.
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Village Voices
This program is about giving members of a village community a chance to join forces and win US$25,000 by taking the Karaoke Challenge! This money will help deal with communal problems and solve them.

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All That News
An innovative Edutainment Show that gives audience easy access to global news! Using stunning visuals, the showfs charismatic anchor makes the most complicated issues easy to understand! On air since April 2010, it proved straight news can become a mega-hit show!


Bounty Hunter
5 players, multiple challenges. It is all about whether they will succeed the challenges or not. A game show where both the players who challenge the game and the ones chickened out has a chance to get the prize money.

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Studio based / Game show
Electric Maze Bar
A game to move a metal pole through a maze made of two winding electric wires without touching either of its ends.

The key to success lies on two contradicting factors: Steadiness & Speed! Only the one who managed to move with speed and care at the same time through the maze filled with tricky courses and reaches the goal becomes the winner and gets the prize money!

Studio based / Quiz show
Pressure Relay
One team member of 10 has to guess what the rest of the team has drawn in only 15 seconds.
A spin off from 'Pressure Study'!
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Studio based / Quiz show
Pressure Study
10 contestants, 10 easy and hard questions from their school days, and a race against time to get to the final stage.

If ALL 10 member can keep on answering one given question each, they all will win a luxurious prize.

Can they handle the pressure passed on by their teammates?
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Studio based / Quiz Show
Quiz Hunter
Four teams, consisting of a couple each, compete against each other in a two round quiz game.

In the first round, they ghunth for prizes by answering trivial questions.
In the second round they compete to steal prizes away from each other.
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Treasure Hunting Elevator
Challengers with physical strength will attempt to take back a treasure a demon has stolen and locked away in a castle. The only way up to the treasure is by an elevator. Challengers that succeed will be rewarded US$15,000!

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Studio based / Relationships
10 Requirements to Marry a Millionaire
While there have been many programs about how women can marry a millionaire from the womanfs perspective, there havenft been any programs on how to hook up with a rich man from the male perspective. Letfs find out what their requirements would be.
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Reality / Game Show
A 12-Hour Game of Tag: A Test of Endurance
35 hiders, 8 seekers, 12 hours hidden in the mountains. The Hider that manages to evade the search of the Seekers for 12 hours and who is first to reach the victory flag will be awarded $10,000.
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Studio based / Quiz Show
Absolute Taste
The sense of taste is on the edge! If the contestant can correctly answer all the 20 ingredients used in the dish, he/she wins the big prize money!
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Studio based / Cooking show
Apron of Love
Who can put together the best tasting dishes in the time allowed? The judges will critique the skills of each of the celeb cooks by tasting their finished dishes. But in many cases..... some celebs have no idea how to cook! A funny yet dangerous cooking show!
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Celebrity X-RAY
Celebrities may look great on the big screen, but what do they look like in private? Viewers will get an inside look at celebrities and a chance to see them just the way they are!

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Studio based / Infotainment
Data Wiz
This infotainment program is about collecting and breaking down various types of data with the help of super-computers in order to answer even the craziest / toughest of questions related to celebrities, sports professionals, royalty, politicians etc. The explanations will also be full of interesting secondary information thatfs sure to satisfy the curiosity of most any viewer.
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Reality / Endurance challenge
Domino Dare(former 'Line up 50,000 dominos in one week' )
50,000 dominos. 7 days. 1 house. Two contestants will have 7 days to set up a 50,000 domino course inside a house. The building tension will culminate in the final toppling on the last day: every domino must fall!
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Reality + candid camera / Relationships
Fidelity Test
The Blackmail, The Stinger, The Triangle. Check your partner's fidelity by unique and clever ways; sending a tricky text message, arrange seducers, or create a bewitched triangle relationship.
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Studio based / Quiz Show
Give Me a Clue
5 men vs 5 women in a quiz show that involves guessing the answer based on a number of clues. Questions get progressively more difficult with each passing round. And the longer it takes contestants to guess the answer, the fewer points they win. The team with the most points at the end of four rounds is declared the winner.
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Reality / Relationships
Love Train
The Perfect Boy is on a train to meet the girl of his dreams! At every stop, he meets new and attractive girls waiting at the platform. However, he only has three boarding tickets in his hand. 'Sexy Girls Station', 'Country Girls Station', 'Looking for Serious Relationships Station'... Which girl may continue the journey with the Perfect Boy, and win out the competition at the final station?
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Reality / Endurance challenge
One Week Legend
Bring out the hidden greatness of endurance and strong will power of the challengers. Do they have what it takes to create a eOne Week Legendf? Eg. Live on chicken eggs for 1 week, Eat all the menus in the restaurant.
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Studio based / Game Show
Party Games
Have a good idea for a party game? Or maybe youfve got a party planned and want some ideas for new games?@This program is about introducing new party games that require no special equipment and can be played for free.@And best of all, if a game you submit to the show is actually presented, youfll also have a chance to win up to $100.
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Studio based / Quiz Show
Quiz 5 x 5
In this variety show, a team of five players is asked to judge whether or not items that are introduced by various brands are the real deal or fake knock-offs. A representative from the brand will be present, listen to the judgments and reveal the truth at the end of the show.
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Game show (driving)
Right Turn Only
A game-cum-reality show. A driving competition where contestants are only allowed to take right turns. If they can reach the goal within the time limit, they will win a luxurious prize. See what one restriction can do to a driver.
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Reality / Fidelity Test
Shifty Eyes
Test your boyfriend's fidelity through a bold and provocative game, "Shifty Eyes". Does your boyfriend really have eyes ONLY for you, or can he be easily seduced by a beautiful and sexy woman who suddenly appears in front of him? Find out the truth in only 5 minutes!
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Studio based / Fashion Contest
Stylin'
Contestants will be given a 'stylin' theme to dress for. They must then put together an outfit using clothes from their own closets (no borrowing or last-minute buying!) and return to the studio to be evaluated by 3 judges. Who will be the most Stylin'?
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Turn Back
A game show where the guest challengers are sitting turning their back to the stage and play truth or false to guess if there is a real and awesome performance going on the show or not.

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Reality / Educational
We Can Do It!
Many children have problems communicating and socializing, but there are also many ways to help. This program gives children the opportunity to explore and develop self confidence, and more importantly, to win the experience to succeed! A very positive, heart-warming, and encouraging must-see format.
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