Netflix is widely expected to launch in Korea in early 2016. An announcement is expected within the week, Korean daily The Korea Times says. Netflix’s arrival in Korea has been rumoured since job ads started appearing in 2014 for local hires.

Fox International Channels (FIC) has confirmed FremantleMedia as the production house for the fourth season of Asia’s Next Top Model (ContentAsia, 25 August 2015). The show will air in 2016.

Discovery Networks Asia Pacific has kicked off its new era under Arthur Bastings talking about 13 upcoming productions scheduled to air from this month to March 2016. The shows will air on Discovery channel, TLC, Discovery Kids and Animal Planet.

Vietnam’s Next Top Model (VNTM) continues to be part of the country’s enthusiastic embrace of foreign formats, including everything from a local version of Ugly Betty in the early days to today’s The Voice and Big Brother.

If I thought last year was a strange time in Asia’s television/video entertainment/channels/platforms industry, this year has to be even stranger.

Singapore’s largest pay-TV platform, StarHub, unveiled its OTT platform in the middle of August, becoming, for a few minutes, the newest player in Asia to embrace the future of video everywhere. And that’s just among the established pay-TV platforms.