A month after Zee5 turned one in February this year, the Indian streaming platform’s monthly active users topped 61.5 million, with an average daily viewing time of 31 minutes, and the streaming app had a steady place in India's top five free entertainment apps on the Google Play store rankings.

MAY, 2019: Netflix has premiered three made-in-Asia animated series this year – Larva Island (based on Korean IP), pre-school show Yoohoo to the Rescue (also from Korea), and Mighty Little Bheem (non-verbal pre-school slapstick from India’s Green Gold).

APRIL 2019: Disney's new mandate for Southeast Asia is clear: Take local television and move it over the top "in a very substantial way," Kevin Mayer, Disney's chairman, direct to consumer and international, said during Media Partners Asia (MPA) APOS event in Bali at the end of April.

APRIL 2019: Lavish new drama, Beecham House, is set in pre-Raj India against the dying Mughal Empire, colonial ambitions of the British and the French, and India’s maharajas jostling for position.

APRIL 2019: The battle for a share of Indonesia’s video streaming market is in full swing, with 10 home-grown services jostling for space with regional rivals pushing a local content agenda and global giants that are starting to do the same.

APRIL 2019: The Asian conversation at this year’s Mip TV programming market in Cannes earlier in April was dominated by China, Korea and Japan, mostly pitching homegrown formats to global buyers, but also talking about co-development, co-production and co-operation, and putting their best dating