‘Infinity Challenge’ makes a strong return placing 1st in Saturday ratings

MBC‘s ’Infinity Challenge‘ immediately placed 1st in viewer ratings for Saturday variety shows following their return to TV!

On July 22nd, it was revealed that the July 21st broadcast of ’Infinity Challenge’ achieved a viewer rating of 14.0%.

‘Infinity Challenge’ returned after 174 days due to the MBC strike, during which the show placed last in viewer ratings among Saturday TV shows.

The new episode features a review and reminder of the long-anticipated battle between HaHa and No Hong Chul, and members discussed their thoughts on returning, as well as newlywed Jung Joon Ha‘s housewarming party. The broadcast also revealed an exciting teaser for their upcoming Lee Na Young special!

The return of ‘Infinity Challenge’ beat out competing shows KBS‘s ‘Immortal Song 2‘ and SBS‘s ‘Star King‘, which had viewer ratings of 8.5% and 7.7%, respectively.

Source + Image: My Daily via Naver

Infinity Challenge films a new episode for the first time in 24 weeks

On July 18th, MBC‘s ‘Infinity Challenge‘ members gathered together to film a new episode for the first time in 24 weeks.

The seven members of ‘Infinity Challenge’ all showed up to their practice room located in Seoul Apgujeong and could not hide their excitement to get together and film a new episode for their return on MBC. On this day, rapper and ’8th member of Infinity Challenge’ Defconn showed up in his outfit for the group ‘Hyungdon & Daejun‘ to give support for his partner.

After the filming ended, HaHa sent Jung Jun Ha a tweet saying, “hahaha“. As Jun Ha replied, “Why? Did I do okay today?“, HaHa replied back, “Hyung! You are seriously the funniest person ever!” It seems that the members successfully filmed their new episode and fans are now more than excited to see these seven members return on screen.

In related news, the MBC labor union has announced an end to the 170-day strike and ‘Infinity Challenge’ PD Kim Tae Ho claimed that they will most likely be able to greet the waiting fans by resuming the show on July 21st. Fans are anticipating to finally see the results for the finale of HaHa vs. No Hong Chul on the upcoming episode. It has been almost half a year since the legendary variety show paused its broadcast and now many are expecting to see one of the highest viewer rating in variety show history for the upcoming episode.

Source: Jung Jun Ha’s Twitter, HaHa’s Twitter, News via Nate