FEATURES
7 September 2017
CHINA Chinese viewers clearly didn’t get the memo that all things Korean are being frowned upon by the powers that be in Beijing. 60% of the top 10 shows in demand online during the week of 27 July to 2 August were Korean – five of them dramas.
24 July 2017
Pay-TV needs a fresh & sexy story - probably starting with not calling it pay-TV.
28 June 2017
Taiwanese animation house Next Animation Studio (NAS) launches its nxTOONS channel this Friday (30 June), moving into original digital edu-tainment content for kids for the first time.
12 June 2017
Asian buyers emerged from Sony Pictures Television screenings in L.A. a few weeks ago talking mostly about Shemar Moore’s abs and British actor Freddie Highmore as an American version of Korean heartthrob Joo Won in medical drama The Good Doctor.
30 May 2017
Japanese drama story lines took something of a different turn in new series Crisis – Special Security Squad, integrating politically charged story lines inspired by real events and stepping carefully through issues previously considered too sensitive for mass television audiences.
18 May 2017
Asia’s SVOD subscriber landgrab is in full swing, playing out against a wild background where, in the words of Media Partners Asia (MPA) executive director and co-founder, Vivek Couto, “everything is dissolving”.





















