Angel’s Temptation picks up in its timeslot
by javabeans
After a lukewarm beginning, SBS is seeing an upswing for its makjang melodrama Angel’s Temptation, which has risen from an initial 10% to nearly double that with this week’s episodes. As a result, it has been given an extension — albeit for only one more episode. It will now end with Episode 21.
SBS tried some schedule experimentation with this drama, whose original assignment to the prime-time Monday-Tuesday hour all but consigned it to ratings hell, since rival series Queen Seon-deok has been consistently crushing its competition. SBS therefore moved Angel’s Temptation up an hour — which has never been done before — to air uncontested by other dramatic fare, instead going up against news and documentary programming. At first, results were disappointing, but thanks to quick-moving revenge plots, the drama has been steadily rising in the ratings.
This week, Angel’s Temptation finally beat KBS News, which regularly pulls in about 18% ratings, with a 19.6% to the news hour’s 18.1%. Of course, it’s difficult to compare news to dramas when the ratings as we understand them are always relative to other drama series. In comparison, Mi-shil made her big exit in Queen Seon-deok an hour later to 42.3% ratings.
Following Angel‘s run will be the medical sageuk series Jejoongwon (starring Park Yong-woo, Han Hye-jin, and Yeon Jung-hoon), on January 4. No definite word is out yet about which hour Jejoongwon will air in, but its staff is anticipating a return to the normal prime-time schedule, as Seon-deok will be over by year’s end.
Via SBS, Sports Khan
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1 snuffythemonkey
November 18, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Hey Dramabeans, I don't know if it is just me but I've been getting a pop-up whenever I visit this site saying that I need a username and password for an authentication requirement. (says the server stage.blogherads.com:80 at Staging needs it.)
Sorry, didn't know where else to inform you and I'm not sure if this is suppose to happen.
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2 pat
November 18, 2009 at 2:05 PM
This drama is fun if you put your brain on total HOLD.
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3 ockoala
November 18, 2009 at 2:06 PM
@ JB and snuffythemonkey (love your user name, BTW) - and sorry for being off-topic, as this issue sounds pervasive:
The same thing kept happening to me starting mid-morning, I finally kept clicking okay (rather than cancel) repeatedly in quick succession, and then it went away once and for all. Whereas when I close the window or click cancel, it pops up again the next time I refresh or switch threads. I thought it was caused by IE 8, which I hate anyways, so I uninstalled it and went back to IE 7, but the same issue happened until I did the click okay repeatedly method. No clue why it worked. And I did not enter a username or password.
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4 jo
November 18, 2009 at 2:20 PM
OMG! I'm so happy for the extension, only one episode is better than four+ more. I've been following angel's temptation but didn't know that it's doing pretty well now.
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5 annie
November 18, 2009 at 3:58 PM
"This week, Angel’s Temptation finally beat KBS News..."
I don't know why, but that sentence made me laugh out loud (sleep-deprived?).
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6 pabo ceo reom
November 18, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Don't have a problem and I'm using Firefox....
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7 more
November 18, 2009 at 5:34 PM
i cant understand why people like Queen Seon-deok??
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8 Rna
November 18, 2009 at 7:07 PM
My problem with this drama is that after a while the subbing fizzled and i can't find subbed episodes beyond the first several. I bet the younger sister will die at the hands of the Ah Ran - unknowingly. Then she'll find out she was her sister.
@7 more -- I agree. I don't see the point of watching it anymore after Mishil kicked the bucket.
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9
November 18, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Could it be that the ratings took a turn for the better once Bae Soo Bin came into play? Just a thought!
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10 Annie
November 18, 2009 at 9:36 PM
@Anonymous
Yes, actually it was true. Since BSB began to appear in the drama after full plastic surgery in the drama, the rating went up fast. I think people really like to watch revenge stroy. This week's TA seems to be full of BSB's real talent show (he didn't use any substitute actor and did all swimming (to show his muscle?:-), drum play, Chinese dialogue (veeey fluent), Japanese fencing) and other main characters' war of nerves. I like the four cast here in the drama. At least they know how to act and portray their characters as plausible as possible. Esp. BSB is really hot here.
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11 max60
November 19, 2009 at 9:09 AM
I'm not surprised this is doing well. Especially now that BSB has stepped in. He had me swooning throughout ep. 7.
But 21 episodes!? Is it really going to take that long for BSB's character to get revenge?
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12 belleza
November 19, 2009 at 5:07 PM
SBS's rating decision has been a big success, and hopefully it'll get the broadcasters to open up their programming choice.
Not sure which show I like better -- Angel Temptation or You're Beautiful. Angel Temptation is a work of art, a fusion of melodrama and domestic thriller. Little of it registers emotionally, but from a primal "bitch gotta die!!" level, the histrionics are succulent. The story has zilcho plausibility, but the internal logic itself is marvelously intricate and hermetic, as good as a mid-level sageuk. Also the acting perfectly matches the tenor of the show -- it's wonderfully overacted (esp. the lead female villain, the ham is golden with this one) with just enough quiet moments to go "ahhh, that's nice."
As for BSB . . . he likes his martinis shaken, not stirred. First time, he's been allowed to be the Sexy Beast that he so obviously, obviously is.
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13 PGOcnp
July 22, 2013 at 4:59 AM
109901 234160Hey there! Nice stuff, please keep me posted when you post something like this! 476027
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