AKBingo! (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese television variety show featuring Japanese idol girl group AKB48. The show aired weekly on Nippon Television. In each episode, members of AKB48 and occasionally their sister groups participate in activities that include quizzes, games, sports, and news. The original show was cancelled in 2019, and has been succeeded by two different shows since then: AKBingo! NEO and AKB48 Sayonara Mōri-san. History AKBingo! is the successor of two previous shows featuring AKB48 with very similar concepts, AKB 0ji 59fun and AKB 1ji 59fun. The concept of the show was reused for the Sakamichi Series groups with NogiBingo! for Nogizaka46, KeyaBingo! for Keyakizaka46 and HinaBingo! for Hinatazaka46, as well as STU48 with SetoBingo! and HKT48 with HKTBingo! in 2018, and SKE48 with SKEBingo! in 2019. The hosts of the show were changed in June 2016 after 395 episodes, when the owarai comedy duo Bad Boys, consisting of Kiyoto Ōmizo & Masaki Sata, were succeeded by Woman Rush Hour, consisting of Daisuke Muramoto & Paradise Nakagawa. From episode 414 onwards (November 1, 2016), a new intro and logo came into use. AKBingo! is one of the shows featured on a 2018 The Ellen DeGeneres Show segment about "outrageous" Japanese game shows. On , Muramoto announced that the show would end in September after an 11-year run. The last episode aired on . 2021: AKBingo! NEO In January 2021, it was announced that a revival project for the show, later titled AKBingo! NEO, would be launched. The twelve participating members would be picked from the top of the member leaderboards in the mobile card game , in which players can contribute points to support members of their choice, by the end of the month. The top three members (Yuiri Murayama, Nana Okada, and Haruna Hashimoto) had each accumulated more than eight billion points by the end of the contest period (each match in the game, which rules are similar to Uno, yields around 3000 points for the winner and a few hundred points for the other three participants). The first episode of AKBingo! NEO was released on March 29, 2021 on the BS Nippon satellite television channel, again hosted by Woman Rush Hour. Episode two was released on July 20, in which Muramoto announced that he would leave the show to move to the United States. The final episode was released on December 29, featuring Paradise