NHK's interactive talk show by and for women is titled "Shaneru" (BS Premium, Mon. 11:15 p.m.), which is a double pun: first on the fashion house Chanel, and second on the neologism "sha-mēru" or "picture mail," since viewers are encouraged to send in their own digital-photo impressions of the topics being discussed.
This week's subject is "women's desires," which can be for anything — food, fashion, objects, karaoke, even sex. The point is to talk openly and nonjudgmentally about the things that the guests and viewers like. The discussion takes place in an open-air venue in Roppongi. Supermodel Ai Tominaga is the host.
This week, TV Asahi's documentary series "Telementary 2013" (Tues., 3:10 a.m.) will present an encore broadcast of an award-winning program it first aired last summer about the late Keiji Nakazawa, who wrote the controversial manga series "Barefoot Gen" dealing with his experiences as a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing.