The number of viewers and overall viewership ratings for the first episode (broadcast on January 7th) of the 2024 NHK Taiga drama `` Dear Radiance (Hikaru Kimi e)'' starring Yuriko Yoshitaka have been announced (according to Video Research). It was also revealed that it had the highest number of views at 498,000 UB (number of unique browsers) among all the dramas distributed on NHK's missed distribution service ``NHK Plus''.
Special feature Dear Radiance (Hikaru Kimi e)
The number of viewers was 19,969,000 on NHK General (8:00 p.m.-58:58 p.m.) and 3,759,000 on NHK BS (6:00 p.m. - 58:58 p.m.), for a total of 22,436,000 viewers (NHK General and Duplicate people who watched both NHKBS programs are excluded).
The overall viewership rating (households) in Kanto was 20.6% (real-time viewership rate 12.7%, time-shift viewership rate 8.6%), and in Kansai it was 18.8% (real-time viewership rate 10.1%, time-shift viewership rate 10.1%).
`` Dear Radiance'' is set in the mid-Heian period, and the main character is Murasaki Shikibu (named Mahiro in the play), who wrote ``The Tale of Genji,'' which is said to be the world's oldest women's literature. It depicts the glittering world of the Heian nobility and the life of a woman who lived, wrote, and loved with all her talent and effort.