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India’s largest TV production company, the 22-year-old Balaji Telefilms, has made its biggest move ever – raising US$23 million to finance and build a direct-to-consumer subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platform, ALT Balaji.

India’s largest TV production company, the 22-year-old Balaji Telefilms, has made its biggest move ever – raising US$23 million to finance and build a direct-to-consumer subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platform, ALT Balaji.

Global Hollywood-style mega-event series will define Nat Geo in Asia this year, part of a strategic programming shift that has the region’s factual networks spread across genres more broadly than ever and following increasingly divergent paths.

Consumer products behemoth Thomas the Tank Engine rode a whole new track into China at the weekend, opening CGI animated Sodor’s Legend of the Lost Treasure on 5,000 screens and tooting his horn for Mattel’s theatrical ambitions in the world’s fastest growing licensing market.

The countdown to this year’s Asia Pacific Video Operators’ Summit (APOS) in Bali in April has begun, with attention focused around questions such as which streaming platforms are most likely to survive, what’s next for telcos and their evolving role in content distribution, and, critically, where