[J-ENT] TELEVIEWS / Charity auction made the best TV amid days of gloom
- 16th May , 2008 by KNDY in Japanese Entertainment News
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In Wm. Penn’s latest Televiews column for the Daily Yomiuri, Penn wrote, “TV viewers were definitely in need of an upbeat moment last week, and Shinsuke Shimada’s Legal Advice Special provided one on Sunday.”
“For most of the past month, the only thing that has broken through the squawking of the prime-time, talent-laden trivia quizzes has been disheartened TV anchors presenting us with endless bad news. Night after night, it’s been kids killing parents, parents killing kids, mysteriously murdered teenage girls and the disillusioned killing themselves and endangering their neighbors with hydrogen sulfide gas. Even the tulips and the swans were not safe this past month. Who could forget the late-night surveillance camera footage of the frustrated swordsman, a businessman in a suit, furiously felling tulips with his umbrella?”
“With all this wear and tear on the social fabric painfully apparent, a nice, feel-good program was just what we needed, and NTV’s 55th anniversary Legal Advice Special filled the bill.”
“The popular variety show has been masterminding a campaign to raise the 5 million yen to 6 million yen needed to build a school in a Cambodian village by auctioning off 100 celebrity art works. Staff were dispatched to the tiny village to bring back video reports on the children, and the help of UNICEF ambassador Agnes Chan was enlisted.”
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