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: Endemol Asia heads into the last quarter of 2014 with more than 45 series on air across the region (excluding India) and high expectations of besting 2013 revenues, which were double those of 2011.

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?