2015 will go down in Asia’s production history as the biggest, shiniest and most expensive formats year ever. And that’s just the regional versions of international franchises. What’s most likely to happen in 2016?

As Singapore’s year-long 50th anniversary celebrations draw to a close, ContentAsia looks at some of the energy that went into marking the milestone.

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Southeast Asian streaming platform iflix has picked up Canadian distributor DHX Media’s kids comedy, Endangered Species.

Australia’s Ten has picked up The Wrong Girl, a new 13-episode romantic drama from Sony Pictures Television’s (SPT) Australian production house Playmaker Media.

Scripps Networks Interactive gets an early start on original production for 2016 with season two of Food Wars on Food Network premiering on 11 January 2016 in a prime time 10pm slot.