Actress Manami Konishi has had a couple roles in the past as a doctor or nurse, but now she will be stepping up to play a hospital director. She will star in TV Asahi's medical drama "Shoni Kyumei ~Kodomotachi no Tame ni, Sono Mirai no Tame ni~" this fall.

In recent years, many large hospitals have been forced to close their pediatrics departments, leading to a shortage of medical attention available to children across Japan. Konishi plays a doctor who leaves a large hospital to start a children's hospital.

The show premieres in October. It will run in TV Asahi's Thursday 9:00pm time slot.

Hiro Mizushima and Anne Suzuki will co-star in a Fuji TV drama series titled "ROOM OF KING," airing this fall. The show is an unusual comedy scripted by director/screenwriter Ellie Omiya.

The story revolves around a group of housemates sharing a high-class apartment in Tokyo's Aoyama district. Mizushima plays a part-timer while Suzuki plays an OL. They begin living with a venereologist (Haruka Igawa) and a popular stylist (Atsuro Watabe), but after a series of events, they find themselves all competing in a game to win ownership of the apartment.

Fuji TV will broadcast "ROOM OF KING" on Saturday nights at 11:10pm, starting on October 4.