6 October 2014: Asia’s mantra of the moment is ‘local, local and more local’. What is the rest of the world doing with that trend? What they’ve always done - talking global.

6 October 2014: Sony Pictures Television’s flagship entertainment channel, AXN, became Asia’s big-budget trailblazer in September with a balsy play that shattered the regional network’s low-key 2014 and put its new leadership in the spotlight for the first time.The first pan-Asian version of Fremant

6 October 2014: A+E Networks Asia is, for the first time, trimming third-party acquisition of A+E titles and buying directly from the year-old A+E Studios and its new international unit, A+E Studios International.The new situation kicks in from Mipcom, when A+E introduces A+E Studios International,

6 October 2014: Scripps Networks Interactive announced the launch of new linear channel HGTV in Asia during the ContentAsia Summit in Singapore in September.

6 October 2014: Amitabh Bachchan as a troubled businessman didn’t go down well with Indian audiences. Yudh (War), the Indian superstar’s first foray into TV fiction on Sony Entertainment Television in July this year, tanked.

6 October 2014: NBCUniversal’s Diva pushed its day-and-date agenda even further in Asia with the premiere of Downton Abbey season five at the end of September. Why include the U.K. series in its new window-squeezing campaign?