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http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20130301-00000305-oric-ent
We all hoped the speculation about the early demise of the return of Iron Chef would turn out to be wrong. Unfortunately, it has been announced that the new Iron Chef will be officially ending after March. As of right now, there is only one more scheduled episode on March 22nd. We do now know yet what this means for the rebroadcasts of the original series on FujiTVONE.
The article was translated over at the Kitchen Stadium Message Boards. (I’ll post it here as soon as I get Miwa’s OK to do so.) Thank you so much to our friend in Japan, Miwa, for translating this article for us.
[The source is ORICON. They are credible. They are a provider of entertainment information and content; especially they are famous for ORICON charts. (like a Billboard charts in the US)
They said as follows (Sorry for my bad English but I did my best for the translation. Hope you understand):
It was revealed in a briefing session of program reorganization by Fuji TV on 3/1 that Iron Chef (Fri. 7:57pm), the revival of Ryori no Tetsujin, a program representing Fuji TV will be terminated in March.
They started to air the new show in last October but the show’s title, the time slot, iron chefs didn’t fit in the audience and they decided the termination of regular broadcast.
Mr. Tatematsu, General Manager of Editing, explained, ”Iron Chef is a high quality show and we can say it is FujiTV’s treasure. Currently we are struggling for the ratings. We think we have a time slot problem, too, so we would like to consider about a way to make it as special program and forward it into the next stage.”
As a trend of the latest audience, Mr. Arai, Chief of Editing & Producing bureau talked about the difficulty of fixing of new show, ”Not only they refuse something new but also they hate mannerism.”
From April, their another variety show ”Jinsei no Seikai TV ~ Korega Teppan! ~” will be scheduled to be promoted from occasional program to regular broadcast (to be aired in there). It is an information variety show with the theme of searching ”which is the correct way?” in a lot of “choice” scene in our life, such as crisis situation in survival scene or real problem in our daily life. The casts are under adjustment.]
Jayme Shimamura says: Very Very sad to hear about the ending of the new Iron Chef series. I hope they decide to continue the show in some fashion . . . in specials at least!!
miwa1234 says: Please use it.
Please correct my bizarre English if there is anything difficut to be understood.
Miwa
jon says: I’m not familiar with the expression myself, but 「マンネリ」 (“manneri”) comes up as “mannerism” in the dictionary, but is probably better translated as “same old same old”. I think the expression might be particularly often used when talking about TV shows.
Sad to see it go, though. =/
miwa1234 says: Thanks, jon, for correcting my English! I could learn a new phrase now!
So….yeah, I was very sad, too, to let you know about this article…
But I will be waiting for coming back again…
Miwa
ic_ishinabe says: Well…I guess we’ll never find out who that 4th Iron Chef will be…
Harold Owen says: I am very sad to hear quite late that the revival iron Chef show was canceled. I was a great fan of the original Iron Chef; so much so that I taped a great number of episodes on VHS. It was a unique introduction for many to the world beyond the united states shores. Humor and the pleasures of watching are a thing of the past.