Dear Radiance: Viewership rate increased slightly to 12.4% for the 3rd episode Kaneie using Tametoki Mahiro becomes a “spy”?

The third episode of the 2024 NHK taiga drama "Dear Radiance" (general, Sundays at 8 p.m., etc.) starring actor Yuriko Yoshitaka, "Nazo no Otoko"(Mysterious Man), was broadcast on January 21st, and the average audience rating ( According to Video Research, the Kanto region) recorded a rate of 12.4% for households and 7.3% for individuals. This was a slight increase from 12.0% for households and 7.1% for individuals in the second survey last week.

"Dear Radiance" is the 63rd taiga drama. The story is set in the aristocratic society of the mid-Heian period, and the main character is Murasaki Shikibu (Mahiro), who wrote ``The Tale of Genji,'' later said to be the world's oldest female literature. The screenplay was written by Shizuka Oishi, who is writing for a historical drama for the second time since 2006's ``Kumei ga Tsuji,'' and it depicts the glittering world of the Heian nobility and the life of a woman who lived, wrote, and loved.

3rd story introduction. Mahiro (Yoshitaka) is worried about Michinaga(Tasuku Emoto), who was captured because of her. However, her father Tametoki (Goro Kishitani) has forced her to refrain, so all she can do is worry. Under the instructions of Kaneie (Yasunori Danda), Michikane (Reo Tamaoki) uses a lady-in-waiting to put poison in the Emperor's food, and Emperor Enyu (Minosuke Bando) suddenly becomes weaker.

Kaneie, who wants to make a second move in order to seize control of the government, uses Tametoki to send Mahiro as an intermediary in order to investigate the movements of his rival, the Minister of the Left family.