On getting Dirk Gently into development with BBC America

2015 is ending well for Sony Pictures Television’s (SPT) international production unit in Asia Pacific.

Thailand’s Workpoint TV is the poster company for digital broadcast success, with a firm place in the country’s top three mass-market channels, a commitment to fast-track production infrastructure upgrades, and a clear view of where it wants to fit in the country’s entertainment universe.

Asia’s biggest content trading market, the Asia TV Forum (ATF), opens on 2 December in Singapore amid a rush to online/on-demand digital delivery, a frenzy of multi-platform rights and a whole lot of other energy going into future proofing (or at least attempting to) the media business.

Siddharth Varadarajan, the former editor of The Hindu, reckons that political reporting in India has become largely about ‘who said what’. But there is loads that needs to be reported on.

News has splintered in every direction everywhere – and it’s not going to stop. The appetite for news is bigger than ever. Mobile and online consumption has soared. Twitter makes it personal and fast. Out of the Philippines, ABS-CBN’s ANC cable news channel has gone global in a big way.