Mainland Chinese platform Tencent Video committed to continued investment in original content – including in Southeast Asia – for its WeTV streaming platform and showcased a robust series slate for 2026 during a presentation in Singapore today.  

Speaking at the Leaders’ Dialogue ahead of the ATF market, which runs through Friday, Tencent VP Jeff Han also said the platform would continue to experiment with new formats, and  drew audience applause at the first look video of an AI-generated Thai adaptation of an English-language micro-drama.

Han said the Thai AI adaptation was two thirds finished and would be released soon. “We try to bring an AI element into everything we do,” he said. 

He also drew more than a few raised eyebrows for the boundary-pushing variety show “Love (X)”, a China-Thailand collaboration created “to fill the genre vacuum and appeal to younger audiences”.  The sexual-minorities dating show leverages proven expertise from the domestic production team of “Heart Signal”, he said.  

2026 titles include Indonesian series “Sex, Love & 10 Million Dollars” from Hitmaker Studios. The series promises to explore sex and cohabitation before marriage. 

Also on the coming-soon list is “Akin”, “Yesterday”, and “Fake Idol” from Unlimited Studio. 

Outlining Tencent Video’s growth since 2011, and the fierce competition among streaming services as well as rising production costs, Han said the platform had reached 114 million subscribers this year.

Tencent Video/WeTV offers about 50,000 hours of content in Southeast Asia across genres, including animation, variety, films and sports.  It now produces original series in China, Thailand and Indonesia.

At least 30-40 new drama titles are produced in China every year. “These serve as a basis for our overseas platform content offering,” he said. 

In addition, between 10 and 12 long-form series are made in Indonesia and Thailand a year, including the upcoming “Caged Again” and “Love of Silom”. 

The top-performing Thai title in the first half of this year was “TopForm”, a BL-related Thai-Chinese collaboration based on Japan’s "Dakaichi: I'm Being Harassed by the Sexiest Man of the Year". Han also name-checked Indonesian series, “Pardon My Affair” (2024), originally from the now-defunct iflix platform.

“Moving forward, we will continue to invest… continue to explore what’s different in different formats and business models,” he said.