3 September 2014: Ideate Media is about to showcase the first finished episodes of an international series it backed.

3 September 2014: iConcerts launches its new regional Asia service on 1 September, with a whole new ramped up local slate.iConcerts launches its new Asia service on 1 September, with at least 10% of the schedule dedicated to Asian content, the entire service scheduled for Asia and Asian prime times,

3 September 2014: Thailand's military coup uncovered a few ironies, some surprises and a whole lot of soul searching among the country's media.

3 September 2014: This year's ContentAsia Summit takes place at a strange time in Asia's television/video entertainment/channels/platforms industry. There's only a little money (or a lot spread very thin) in what seems to be the most logical move forward into online/mobile/everywhere/multiscreen.

3 September 2014: ProductionAsia’s biggest production news at the moment is Astro’s commitment to 18,000 hours out of Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios over five years. It’s not necessarily new hours, more like a shift of about 40% of Astro’s current production out of Kuala Lumpur.

3 September 2014: Analysts might not be over the moon about the short/medium term profit prospects of OTT, but there's clearly no shortage of companies in Asia willing to give multi-screen options a go.