Malaysia’s Primeworks Studios is expanding its horizons, with projects that stretch the domestic studios’ capabilities beyond anywhere it has gone and anything it has done in the past.

Singtel is building out a mobile streaming platform under the Cast banner with a mix of in-house/ packaged channels and third-party services such as FOX+, Viu, tonton and Tribe, channel brands such as WB TV, SonyONE, Oh!K, Nickelodeon, CNN and others, and genre packs created for an-demand univers

Media Prima Television Networks’ seven-year-old home-grown streaming platform, tonton, ventured out of Malaysia and into the region for the first time in April this year, entering a new chapter in its life as an SVOD streamer.

Singapore has put the brakes on digital migration plans, pushing back analogue D-day by 12 months. Turns out that not all local homes are as quick to shift as they might be. On the other end of the scale, the country’s Android box trade looks like its thriving.

Japanese broadcaster Nippon TV is leading a new scripted drama charge into Turkey, beginning with Mother, continuing with Woman, My Life For My Children, which premiered in October, and with a third title already in discussion, and the possibility of a further two acquisitions.

A+E Networks’ has upped its global China originals announced this quarter to three hours, adding Nanking massacre doc with Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation to the Silk Road feature announced in October. The new co-pros will air in Asia and globally.