It has been announced that the new program by the popular group SixTONES, "Golden SixTONES," will be broadcast on Nippon TV at 9pm on Sundays from April. The new program, which will be broadcast in the "Line-up Advice Center" time slot, will be a significantly more powerful version of the popular "Game of SixTONES," which was broadcast on September 22nd last year and on New Year's Day this year, with a new title.
The new program was announced by TOKIO leader Shigeru Jojima as a surprise on the February 23rd broadcast of "The! Iron-Armed! DASH!!" (NHK, Sunday 7pm), and the SixTONES members were thrilled by the unexpected announcement. "The! Iron-Armed! DASH!!", the flagship program on Nippon TV's Sunday nights that TOKIO has been working hard to protect, began in 1995 and is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Joshima directly conveyed to SixTONES, who will be "comrades fighting together on Sundays", the hardships and pressure that only TOKIO can understand.
SixTONES' Kyomoto Taiga commented, "I'm really happy. We've always wanted to have a TV show named after us, and five years after our debut, it's finally happening, so we want to make the most of it."
The new show will be a classic studio variety show with a lot of energy, where SixTONES and their special guests will go back to their childhood and have fun to the fullest. The first guests and other details will be announced at a later date.
With the new program, "The Queueable Advice Center" will bring to an end its 23-year history, which has been inherited from its predecessor, "The Queueable Legal Advice Center," which began in April 2002.
SixTONES' comments are as follows:
◇Full comment from SixTONEES (titles omitted)
--It has been decided that your show will be broadcast as a regular program. How do you feel now?
Takachi Yugo: It was announced to us as a surprise during "The! Iron-Armed! DASH!!" and when I heard it, I honestly felt a lot of pressure. I was very happy, but I also wondered if we could make it, as the broadcast time slot was 9pm on Sundays, which is an important time slot. Now that some time has passed, I feel like I'm excited.
Kyomoto Taiga: This is the first time we've had a show with our group name, and it's obviously a bit of pressure to suddenly have it on at such a great time slot. It's been five years since we debuted. Up until now, there have been many instances of the 6 of us being friendly with each other on YouTube and other platforms. I hope that viewers will enjoy the new side of SixTONES that will be brought out by this project, which is built on that usual good atmosphere.
Jesse: I feel a sense of responsibility, but if we don't show our true selves, our feelings won't be conveyed to the viewers, so on this show we'll introduce ourselves again, saying "This is what SixTONES is like as a group," and "These are the people we are," and then we'll expand from there and let people know about SixTONES as they make music... I hope that you can enjoy both of those gaps. I think that there will be a variety of guests, so I hope that I can enjoy interacting with everyone.
--What kind of show do you want to make?
Hokuto Matsumura: I want the guests and viewers to laugh at the six of us and say, "What a hopeless bunch," or "What a bunch of idiots." I want to do light-hearted projects in a relaxed style, but if it's difficult, I'll tackle it head-on.
Takachi: I would be very happy if people thought, "These guys look like they have fun." Right now, we are appearing individually on variety shows and in dramas, movies, and on stage, but I think this nationwide broadcast is a chance for people of all ages to see, "This is what we do when the six of us get together," and "You get to see a different side of us," so I hope they will get to know a new side of us.
Are there any guests you'd like to see?
Juri Tanaka: Beyonce.
Takachi: It'll just cause trouble for us! (laughs)
Kyomoto: I'd like to try something outrageous like getting everyone from different Nippon TV shows to come...like getting the seven from "Shabekuri 007" to come!
Morimoto Shintaro: We each work individually, and everyone says, "SixTONES is an interesting group," so I'd like to introduce the members to the people we've performed with.
Everyone: Ahh!
Morimoto: "We have some friends like this, what do you think?"
Matsumura: Suda (Masaki) and Mamiya (Shotaro), who I was able to be "stupid" with, were the same age. If people who could be "stupid" didn't come regularly, we might get more and more timid (laughs). If only amazing people came... I'd get nervous (laughs).
Jesse: But I hope people will want to come back again.
Takachi: I want to make it a show that people can say, "I was able to appear on the show I wanted to be on!"
Jesse: I wish the teacher would come. Uchimura (Mitsuyoshi)-san.
Takachi: Just connect it directly from "Sekai no Hatsu Made Itte Q!"?
Everyone: That's amazing!
Morimoto: I'd love to see Ucchan Nanchan come to Golden SixTONES.
--The title of the show "Golden SixTONES" has the meaning of "golden time" but also the meaning of "precious". Please tell us about a precious experience you have had so far.
Jesse: My first drama was "Private Bakaleya High School" on Nippon Television, and the six of us who appeared together at that time are still together to this day, which is a very valuable experience for me. Thank you very much.
Everyone: That's true.
Takachi: We went to Disneyland together as a group of six! We had been saying "Let's go" since we were juniors, and we finally made it happen at the beginning of this year. It was so much fun. It was a really valuable experience.
Morimoto: This is the reflective furnace on "DASH Island." We melted aluminum in the reflective furnace and made chopsticks and things like that. There is a World Heritage Site on the island... and we built it ourselves. It was a valuable experience to operate it and make aluminum.
Tanaka: Maybe "Game of SixTONES". Even though I've acted as an MC in my group, I've never had the chance to act as an MC for a guest, so I think it was a really good experience.
Matsumura: Has your outlook on life changed?
Tanaka: Not that bad (laughs).
Kyomoto: The special "Game of SixTONES" was broadcast on New Year's Day, and I was really happy to see the six of us on TV on New Year's Day. It's rare for the six of us to appear on TV on New Year's Day, so I thought something amazing was happening. I also got contacted by people I know, so I thought it was really amazing.
--Please give us your enthusiasm and message as the leader of 2025.
Morimoto: We will do our best to create a fun time that is true to ourselves, and we would be happy if this program, "Golden SixTONES," which airs at 9 p.m. on Sundays, becomes a part of your daily life. Some people will be going to work the next day, and some to school. We would be happy if the program could become a part of your week, making you think, "I'll do my best tomorrow," or, "Another week starts from here." We will make it that kind of program!
