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Friday Road Show To Air Sing And Sing 2 On Consecutive Weeks
Nippon TV's Friday Road Show will broadcast the Sing animated film series on two consecutive Fridays, November 20 and November 27, 2026.
Reporting from 2 sources: Cinema Today, Anime Anime.
Why it matters
The Sing films are animation imports rather than Japanese productions, so two back-to-back terrestrial slots on Nippon TV point to how the broadcaster is filling its Friday film block with Illumination titles this season.
Key Facts
- Nippon TV's Friday Road Show will air Sing on November 20, 2026, from 9:00 p.m. to 11:04 p.m. in a slot extended by 10 minutes.
- Sing and Sing: Next Stage were produced by Illumination Entertainment, the studio behind the Minions and Despicable Me series.
- Hiroshi Inaba of B'z voices the rock star Clay Calloway in the Japanese dub of Sing: Next Stage, alongside AiNA THE END and Jesse of SixTONES.
- Garth Jennings directed and wrote both Sing and Sing: Next Stage, with Chris Meledandri and Janet Healey as producers and Joby Talbot as composer.
The 2016 first film airs November 20 in a slot extended by 10 minutes, from 9:00 p.m. to 11:04 p.m. The sequel, Sing: Next Stage, airs November 27 from 9:00 p.m. to 11:09 p.m. in a slot extended by 15 minutes, and will be shown uncut. Both films come from Illumination Entertainment, the studio behind the Minions and Despicable Me series. The first film follows koala impresario Buster Moon as he holds a singing contest to save his near-bankrupt theater. The sequel moves the setting to the entertainment city of Redshore City and brings back the previous voice cast alongside new additions, including Hiroshi Inaba of B'z, who voices the vanished rock star Clay Calloway.
The Japanese dub cast for the first film pairs Koji Uchimura as Buster Moon with Maaya Sakamoto as Rosita, Masami Nagasawa as Ash, Takuya Ohashi of Sukima Switch as Johnny, MISIA as Meena, Koichi Yamadera as Mike, Tsukasa Saito of Trendy Angel as Gunter, Mayumi Tanaka as Miss Crawly, Mamoru Miyano as Eddie and Mao Daichi as Nana.
Garth Jennings directed and wrote both films. Chris Meledandri and Janet Healey produced, and Joby Talbot composed the music.
The sequel adds Akio Otsuka as Jimmy Crystal, Subaru Kimura as Darius and akane as Nooshy, with AiNA THE END as Porsha. Hiroshi Inaba voices Clay Calloway in his first dubbing attempt.
- The first film runs on well-known songs by Lady Gaga, The Beatles and Stevie Wonder.
- The sequel uses numbers by U2, Alicia Keys, BTS and Billie Eilish.
- Its story turns on bringing Clay Calloway back to the stage 15 years after he lost his wife.
- Sing earned over 5.1 billion yen at the Japanese box office.
- The November 6 slot is Mufasa: The Lion King, a first broadcast and uncut.
- The November 13 slot is Moana 2, also a first broadcast and uncut.
The first film follows Rosita, a housewife raising 25 piglets, gorilla Johnny, who leaves his gangster father to sing, and elephant Meena, who has extreme stage fright.
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- Cinema Today 金曜ロードショーで『SING/シング』シリーズ2週連続放送決定！
- Anime Anime 「SING／シング」シリーズが金ロー2週連続放送！宮野真守、坂本真綾、木村昴ら吹き替えの音楽エンタメ映画