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The second season of Taiwanese drama, "The World Between Us", pushes the envelope on story and production scale as well as special effects, demonstrating what the local content industry is striving for.

Asia’s formats environment has changed dramatically in the past three years. The response, industry leaders say, is flexibility, collaboration and to solve for different problems. Plus a breakdown of formats in the region from January to September 2024.

Global viewing of Asian content on Netflix’s weekly non-English TV top 10 could reach 4.1 billion hours this year – accounting for 53% of all non-English-language TV viewing on the streaming platform’s top 10 from January to December 2024, according to ContentAsia’s estimates based on Netflix’s p

Nine Asian titles made it to Netflix’s top 100 TV shows for first half 2024 – down from 11 in the second half of 2023. Korean drama dominated the 2.1 billion viewing hours that the nine attracted during the six months in 2024, taking seven places with one drama each from Japan and India.

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) launched Max in five Southeast Asia markets, plus Hong Kong and Taiwan on 19 Nov with 12 platform partners and a direct subscription offering. The streamer carries all WBD’s brands.