Much is being asked of premium Chinese drama producers in chasing Korea’s Hallyu with a C-wave of their own.

Hong Kong director Derek Tsang has as many expectations of himself as others have of him. He spoke to Mathew Scott about the momentum driving the industry and his career and why he feels the best is yet to come.   

Korea’s homegrown streamer, e-commerce giant Coupang’s year-old Coupang Play, premiered its first original series, "One Ordinary Day", on Saturday (27 Nov 2021), with a simultaneous release on regional streaming platform, Viu, with an R21 ratings.

About 90,000 people are said to have died in China’s historic 9,000-km Long March by the Red Army in 1934/35. Eighty-six years later, is the terrain just as treacherous?

Indonesia’s MD Corp is at the centre of Southeast Asia’s streaming hotbed, with at least 13 feature films streaming across platforms, new original series and titles sold to virtually everyone: Disney+ Hotstar, WeTV, Viu, Netflix, Vidio, Migo and Telkomsel Maxstream.

Taiwan is on a creative mission. And no-one, least of all the local industry, is complaining. TAICCA VP, Alice Chang, talks about goals in a market already considered one of Asia’s most creative.