User:Petewarrior/AKB48 Sayonara Mōri-san

AKB48 Sayonara Mōri-san (AKB48 サヨナラ毛利さん) is a Japanese television variety show starring Japanese idol girl group AKB48, airing weekly on Nippon Television since April 8, 2022. It is hosted by the comedy duo Shimofuri Myojo and also features former AKB48 member Minami Minegishi as a regular. It is the spiritual successor to AKBingo!, which ran on the same network from 2008 to 2019.

History
In March 2022, it was announced that a new AKB48 variety show would start airing in April, two and a half years after the cancellation of AKBingo! The show was titled in honor of producer Shinobu Mōri (毛利忍), who had produced the Bingo! series and other idol variety shows for 13 years, and would be staffed by a new production team in order to "update the show for the Reiwa era". Minami Minegishi, former AKB48 member and AKBingo! regular cast, would also appear as a regular in the show to "help out".

The show's launch was commemmorated with the "AKBINGO! THE FINAL Sayonara Mōri-san" concert at the Pia Arena MM in Yokohama on April 3. The event also included a farewell ceremony for Miho Miyazaki, Rena Kato, and Anna Iriyama, who had recently left or were about to leave AKB48, and was also to celebrate the eighth anniversary of AKB48 Team 8. In addition, the members participated in a series of games and talent shows to appeal to become the show's "center"; Maho Ōmori won the position by audience vote.