“Sign” reigns on TV chart for 3rd week

SBS drama "Sign" [SBS]

‘SBS series “Sign” stood a winner on the Wednesdays and Thursdays’ prime time chart again, making it the third straight week for the show to achieve the feat, according to the findings by two media research surveys on Friday.

“Sign” marked an average viewership rating of 17.5 percent on Total National Multimeida Research’s (TNmS) poll and 19.9 percent on AGB Nielsen Media Research’s (AGB) listing, the highest scores the drama has seen so far. Last night’s episode in particular passed the 20 percent mark, according to AGB’s finding. Starring Park Shin-yang, Kim A-joong, Uhm Ji-won and Jung Gyu-woon, this week’s episodes dealt with a serial murder perpetrated by the head of a conglomerate who tried to hide the fact that he evaded his taxes by poisoning his subordinates.

Medical examiner Yoon Ji-hoon (played by Park) finds out the truth eventually but gives a false testimony at the court after learning that the case is linked to the honor of his late-mentor Jung Byung-do who led a similar case 20 years ago.

MBC’s “My Princess” starring Kim Tae-hee and Song Seung-heon faltered slightly this week, posting an average viewership rating of 12.2 percent and 15 percent, on TNmS’ and AGB’s reports, respectively. This week's story showed Lee Seol (Kim) forced to leave the palace due to her step-sister’s false argument that she is the real princess and diplomat Park Hae-young (Song), pressured to leave the country, taking off on a quest together to reveal the truth.

KBS’ “PRESIDENT” starring Choi Soo-jong and Ha Hee-ra, continued to fall behind, fetching an average viewership rating of 6.2 percent on TNmS’ chart and 6.95 percent on AGB’s poll.

The latest episodes featured presidential candidate Jang Il-joon (Choi) finding himself tangled up in a case of an illegal fund because of his wife So-hee (Ha). The president orders an immediate investigation while Jang tells his wife never to interfere with his campaign again.

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