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Primetime Kingdom
The entrance to the Primetime Kingdom
The entrance to the Primetime Kingdom
Ruler TV Dinnah
Princess Princess Kokomo
Subjects Broadcasters
Terrain Dusty
Industrial
Regions Public Broadcast Tower
Screw-Loose Isles
Broadcast Tower Road
Public Broadcast Tower Icon

The Primetime Kingdom (テレビの国, Terebi no kuni) is the fifth kingdom explored by Corobo, located east of Skull Plains and northwest of the Kingdom of Alpoko. The king and broadcasting manager, TV Dinnah, runs a hypnotic signal to enslave the inhabitants and force them to watch TV, with help from the Broadcasters. The Primetime Broadcast system is where all the TV signals originate from and is where TV Dinnah is found.

History

TV Dinnah grew up watching TV, developing such an admiration for it that he wanted to work at a TV station when he was older. He stumbled across a deserted wasteland and decided to build his own broadcasting studio within it, thus creating the Primetime Kingdom. His little sister, Kokomo Pine, was desperate to star on the network, but TV Dinnah kept turning her down. He occasionally got her on air, but mostly promised her photo books and her own show as long as she stayed out of his way and took lessons alone. TV Dinnah's studio was very successful and amassed a huge crew. Not only did all the citizens of the kingdom help to run the studio, but were also enamored with watching TV as well. He even managed to capture the attention of God himself, and produced shows specifically for Him to watch.

Despite seemingly lacking access to TV, the Kingdom of Alpoko was issued a fee due to not paying for their broadcasting license. However, King TV Dinnah offered King Corobo the chance to have the payments dropped if he became the champion of a live game show. Corobo invades the Primetime Kingdom, beats up TV Dinnah on the show, takes over the land and launches his own network: Alpoko Television.

The citizens of the kingdom left and TV Dinnah remained trapped underground mostly watching TV alone, although he occasionally presented for the Alpoko Television as well. Corobo also frees and marries Kokomo Pine, now upset about TV Dinnah's constant lies but also worryied about his loneliness. The former king had also planned to replace his TV head with a high-definition model, but Corobo stole the HDTV to create Skinny Ray's Flying Machine.

Geography

Screw-Loose Isles

The maze-like Screw-Loose Isles

The Primetime Kingdom is situated in a wasteland mostly comprised of an archipelago within a large lake, with various TVs and antennae littering the outer cliffs of the area. The overall area within the Primetime Kingdom's borders, water included, is about 30,000 square meters.

Upon Corobo's first visit, he and his Royal Guard are absorbed into a TV at Skull Plains Lake and scattered across the Screw-Loose Isles, forcing Corobo to go through the maze to locate all of his people and recruit them back to his Royal Guard. The maze itself is a series of islands with TVs that teleport Corobo between them, mimicking browsing channels on a TV, with Lotus Root Onii firing at the King from various islands. Failing to recruit citizens will cause them to die once the fight with TV Dinnah begins. Two of these islands contain a Hot Spring and an Art piece.

Public Broadcast Tower

The Broadcast Tower, the main landmark of the Primetime Kingdom

At the east of the kingdom is a large, desert-like landmass, with fluorescent blue lights, TVs, and antennas scattered around a large map of the real world. The area is surrounded by a fence of white pipes, some of which billow steam, and dusty mountains. In the middle of this landmass is the Public Broadcast Tower. Upon Corobo's first visit, many Broadcasters will be sitting on parts of the map to inform the player of TV culture from around the globe. For example, for the United Kingdom, the Broadcaster talks about the BBC's hard work. Many of these Broadcasters will drop hints for the upcoming TV Dinnah battle. A billboard leans against the tower until TV Dinnah's defeat.

Primetime Kingdom Eastern field

Grassy cliff in the easternmost part of the Primetime Kingdom

TV Dinnah's battle takes place inside the player's own TV, allowing the King to attack Corobo by changing the channels. However, the arena remains within the Primetime Kingdom.

The God TV quest takes place in this kingdom, which leads to a separate island with a Flying Machine part, being one of the few areas that can only be visited once.

After defeating TV Dinnah, an Art piece appears near Easter Island in his arena, and a Stone Bridge behind the Public Broadcast Tower connects Miner's Town via a small grassy cliff overlooking Shadow Forest (or Magical Land). Another Art piece can be found here, in a hole containing several Mush Men.

Music

The music that plays here is the "Love" Theme from Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue". While only playing twice (looping once) in Rhapsody in Blue, it plays four times (looping three times) in Little King's Story's version: the first has a low techno melody and beat, the second is similar and adds more techno instruments and sounds to the beat, the third cuts out the beat temporarily and the melody changes to soft strings, and then the final segment adds more strings for an orchestrated climax, more closely resembling the original piece. The "Love" Theme's reprise from shortly before Rhapsody in Blue ends is used to transition between the second & third sections and between the fourth & first sections of the Primetime Kingdom's version.

Culture

The Primetime Kingdom's inhabitants are obsessed with not only watching TV, but also pulling others down the trap of watching it constantly too. It is said that they watch television 24/7. Many of them also run the TV studio, where TV Dinnah is the star of almost every show.

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Etymology

Primetime is the terminology for when a television channel's audience is expected to be at its highest.

Names in other languages 

Name Meaning
Japanese テレビの国

Terebi no kuni

Kingdom of Television
French Télédrama Teledrama
Italian Regno della TV Kingdom of TV
German Reich der Fernsehens Realm of Television
Spanish Reino de la televisión Television Kingdom

The French name literally means "a drama piece made for televised broadcasting," suggesting the Primetime Kingdom is nothing more than a large scale production.

Trivia

  • TV Dinnah and the Primetime Kingdom were inspired by Yoshiro Kimura's love for international television, since he did not find Japanese television as interesting as exploring TV culture from other places in the world, such as the US.
  • TV Dinnah's battle and the Primetime Kingdom take different sections from George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" for their music, for a total of eleven tracks. However, Rhapsody in Blue would not become Public Domain in the United States until January 1st 2020. This means that the use of the song within Little King's Story was technically illegal for almost eleven years.
  • This is the only place in which Corobo can use the hire command outside of the Alpoko Kingdom's borders.
  • This is the only kingdom to lack a Crashed UFO.
  • Due to its focus on technology, the Primetime Kingdom is the only kingdom to not feature any trees.
  • Every Kingdom has at least one Art piece appear in the Kingdom's Center where the respective king was fought if Corobo returns after that king has been defeated. However, an Art piece will appear in TV Dinnah's arena as soon as the battle is over, able to be collected before saving the princess. This is the only Art piece found in a Kingdom Center to do this.

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