Always on the lookout for new variety show ideas, TV Asahi experiments with the idea of mathematical probability.
The fifth edition of "Kakuritsu Kensho: Unmei no Suji (Probability Verification)" will be aired Monday at 7 p.m. as a two-hour special.
The premise is the influences that certain decisions have on the rest of our lives. However, this being a variety show, the subjects are the usual comedians and ta-rento, and so the central question is always who will still be in show business five or 10 years from now. Using questionnaire surveys of TV Asahi staff and others, the program will attempt to calculate the chances of veteran tarento Ai Iijima marrying a rich foreigner someday, among other segments.