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| Happy Sunday | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Happy Sunday -The Return of Superman |
| Genre | Reality television |
| Written by | Shin Yeo-jin An Ju-hyun Lee Woo-jung[1] Kim Hyo-jin Choi Jae-hyung Jo Mi-hyun Kim So-young Lee Sun-hye Kim Dae-ju |
| Creative directors | KBS Art Vision Digital Arts Center for Visual Arts |
| Starring | Lee Dong-gook Sam Hammington Ko Ji-yong Park Joo-ho |
| Narrated by | Lee Won-joon (2004-11-07 - 2008-03-23) Byun Young-hee (2007-04-22 - 2008-09-09) Lee Chul-yong (2008-09-18 - 2008-11-16) Kim Shi-hyang (2008-11-23 - ?) |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 732 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Lee Min-ho Cho Seung-wook Shin Won-ho Cho Sung-sook Shin Hyo-jung Choi Seung-hee Kim Yang-hwi |
| Producer | Kim Young-shik |
| Cinematography | Kang Chan-hee |
| Editor | Kim Hyo-chan |
| Camera setup | Multicamera setup |
| Running time | approx. 1 hours 35 minutes (95 minutes) |
| Production companies | Koen Media Corporation Vision Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | KBS2 |
| Release | November 7, 2004 |
| Related | |
| 다녀오겠습니다 (KBS Joy) | |
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Happy Sunday (Korean: 해피 선데이) is a Korean reality-variety show shown on the KBS2 network, which competes directly against MBC's Sunday Night and SBS's Good Sunday line-up. Although it has been broadcast since 2003, its line-up of shows has frequently changed, with a complete revamp occurring in Spring of 2007. At that time, three new shows were introduced – Are You Ready, High-Five, and Immortal Songs. Due to its poor reception, Are You Ready quickly evolved into 1 Night 2 Days, with most of its cast intact. In late November 2008, Happy Sunday had a revamp of its shows keeping 1 Night 2 Days as the second segment and bringing back Immortal Songs which was previously liked by viewers. However, in late March, Immortal Songs ended once again and was replaced with Qualifications of Men, making Happy Sunday an all-male cast, with a total of 14 members. In 2013, Qualifications of Men was cancelled and replaced with Star Family Show Mamma Mia. On November 3, 2013 Star Family Show Mamma Mia was moved to Wednesday nights and replaced with The Return of Superman.
Out of the three Sunday night shows, KBS's Happy Sunday, MBC's Sunday Sunday Night and SBS's Good Sunday, only KBS has kept its program as a "whole program." Both MBC and SBS has divided their Sunday night show into two parts, the first segment as one program and the second as another. Both MBC and SBS have done this to record better TV ratings, which is important in South Korea media to prove the show's popularity. The key variety programs which garner Sunday night ratings and are usually compared to one another are KBS Happy Sunday's 1 Night 2 Days, MBC Sunday Sunday Night's Real Men, and SBS Good Sunday's Running Man.
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