Australia’s drama production fell to five-year lows in 2019/20, with the exception of foreign spend, which was way up, according to Screen Australia’s new drama report, which charts the havoc Covid-19 has wreaked on the country’s production industries.  

Lake Pyar is part of ambitious original drama plans as the French-backed pay-TV platform ramps up local engagement 

Asian streaming platform Catchplay has unveiled a Taipei-based production subsidiary, Screenworks Asia, with six projects in development from the get go and plans to produce 100 hours a year of mini-series, movies and factual entertainment for audiences across Asia and the rest of the world.

Dennis Yang, CEO and managing partner of Taipei-based Studio76 Original Productions, talks about finding stories and directors with unique visual styles, experimenting with genres and formats, and Taiwan’s advantages and challenges as a content centre.  

KC Global Media Entertainment is part of a rising breed of indie live curated channels operators in Asia.

Discovery has ramped up content creation in China and Korea in a series of partnerships and funding alliances with the Shanghai Media Group, Alibaba/Youku and Korea’s KT. Is it enough for the global network to reclaim its standing in Asia’s future video entertainment environment?