“We’ll travel the world in sunshine and rain, and meet all the species on the Dinosaur Train!” sing the animated dino-stars at the beginning of each episode of Dinosaur Train, The Jim Henson Company’s made-in-Singapore animated pre-school series.

Asia has just had its biggest formats year ever. And that’s not only because of the slew of high-profile regional formats that came together all at once.

Singapore-based production house, Beach House Pictures, has just turned 10. Co-founder and managing director, Jocelyn Little, looks at a decade’s worth of travel, adventure, snakes, kids and the reality of local production in Asia.

The new generation of online drama looks, feels and hopefully behaves like the high-end blockbuster titles studios know and love. And making them happen is not a whole lot different, says showrunner Gardner Stern on the eve of The Art of More’s release.

BBC Worldwide debuts a whole new BBC Earth across Asia at the beginning of October, laying Knowledge to rest and going big on natural history, science, better windows and authentic thrills.

If we thought formats in Asia last year were big, we’re looking at huge this year. According to our latest Formats Outlook, at least 260 local versions of regional/international formats aired in Asia – or were commissioned to air – in the 12 months to early August.