The finale of A+E Networks Asia’s MasterChef Asia, airs on Thursday, 10 December, bringing to an end – for now – the Asian network’s biggest, boldest bet on local content. There’s no confirmation yet on season two.

Malaysian media/entertainment group, Prodigee Media, has turbocharged its global content creation and distribution initiatives, aiming, among other things, to drive a billion views a month to its online entertainment platform WebTVAsia by this time next year.

Keshet International (KI) is turbocharging its Asia business with a new office in Hong Kong and expanded regional ambitions driven on the ground by former Sparks|Eccho Group Asia head Gary Pudney.

The battle for India’s OTT heart has just begun. Vanita Kohli-Khandekar looks at the players, the climate, the looming clashes, the natural advantages and the curveballs.The rush of entertainment brands into the Indian OTT market is really something.

Recent question/s to Janine: (1) Why are you being so critical of ad-sponsored programming and product placement in Asia? (2) Don’t you know we can’t make anything without sponsorship?

Bunim/Murray Productions (BMP) is credited with creating the reality genre as we know with, among many others over the past 25 years, Real World (30 seasons to date) for MTV in 1991, Keeping Up with the Kardashians (10 seasons so far) for E!