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.

The new Fox Sports Asia turned one in August, celebrating with a Bundesliga kick, leaving the La Liga loss in the dust, and racing forward with robust and rounded sports offerings designed to add partner value.

Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE) is partnering with Philippines’ producer/distributor Viva Communications and direct-to-home satellite platform Cignal TV to launch a first-of-its-kind movie channel.

Philippines’ free-TV broadcast network GMA is expanding its Hong Kong footprint in a mobile deal that puts its new app on PCCW’s now TV OTT platform as well as on telco CSL.

Indonesian free-TV broadcaster SCTV has greenlit a local version of Turkish daily drama Elif following ratings success with the first two seasons of the original series.

China streaming gold rush continues, with Canadian kids/family distributor DHX Media adding library content to both LeTV and iQiyi this week. The new AVOD/SVOD deals, announced in the run up to this year’s ATF in Singapore, involve about 350 hours of content.