Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Galileo gets off to a good start with 22.6%

"Galileo" got off to a good start with its first episode shown on 15 April achieving a high rating of 22.6% in the Kanto region. With that, the drama grabbed the No.1 single episode rating title for 2013 based on dramas aired so far. It had been 5 years since the first series was shown in 2007 and the latest sequel features Fukuyama Masaharu pairing up with new partner Yoshitaka Yuriko. In addition, the first episode got a lot of attention due to guest star Osawa Takao and the highest rating within the episode was at 25.3% which was when Fukuyama's character Yukawa was explaining the tricks used by Osawa's character. With response to the news about the ratings, Fukuyama commented that he was glad that many viewers watched the drama and it was well worth the wait to play this role again. He hoped that this piece of good news would bring some positive energy to the filming set and that they will work hard to ensure that the good news continue.

Source: Sanspo

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