Everyone’s heard of popular television programs like American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, CSI, Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy. This is standard content for the basic water-cooler chat. But ...

The Japanese have long been known for their torturous game shows that test not only physical endurance but sanity. Now this approach is finding a home on American TV. Why suffer the stolid bookishness ...

On the morning of December 6, the Nikkei MJ (Marketing Journal), a thrice-weekly trade publication covering retailing and marketing, appeared at newsstands. Covering most of its front page, as it has ...

Kinniku Banzuke a.k.a. Unbeatable Banzuke was a weekly Japanese television program and the premier sports entertainment variety show of the Tokyo Broadcasting System. Its successors were Taiiku Oukoku ...

Competitors are challenged in one of more than two dozen events, ranging from target-events adapted to various sports, to nine-area obstacle courses, to other challenges of a different variety, all ...