Three-month old BBC Earth is on the hunt for more Asian stories. The channel, which kickstarted the new year with stellar results for Singapore, replaced BBC Knowledge in October last year, and is currently looking at increasing the presence of Asian programming on its offering.

Asia woke to a wonderland of uncensored content on Thursday morning, courtesy of U.S. streaming service Netflix, which flicked the switch on more than 130 new countries – excluding China and North Korea – during the CES show in Las Vegas.

Singapore is wrapping up a celebratory year during which more than 100 hours of programming was created specifically to commemorate the nation’s golden jubilee. The idea was to shine a light across screens on Singapore’s history, culture and icons.

A local version of Viacom International Media Networks’ singing game show format, Lip Sync Battle, is set to air in China in January 2016, giving Viacom’s Singapore-based regional operation its second adaptation in Asia of the original U.S. format.

In August this year, India’s two ratings bodies – Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) and TAM Media Research – merged to create a single entity with measurement meters covering roughly 136,000 of the 800 million Indians watching TV.

Asia’s biggest, shiniest and most expensive regional formats year ever is drawing to a close. Other than unprecedented, is there a word or a phrase that sums up the year in regional formats?