Malaysia’s leading digital streaming and content company launches new channel, Astro Premier (CH410) as the destination for all premium content locally and regionally. Available to all Astro customers until 1 February 2024, Astro Premier offers Astro Originals’ complete library of award-winning and highly successful boundary pushing series.
The channel will showcase a selection of high-quality content with the latest Astro Original title, ‘Riot!’ making its debut on 22 September at 9 p.m. The series follows four university students exposing the sexual misconducts of a respected professor. Astro Premier (CH410) will also be premiering all new Astro Originals titles including ‘Gamers Mangkuk’, a story of five underdog gamers eyeing an opportunity to play with a professional team by winning a competition organised by a famed e-sports athlete; ‘Headliners’, a story of a part time journalist, Lia who discovers her late mother’s polaroid camera that prints pictures of future tragedies; ‘ID’ delves into the challenges of falling in love when everything is fake but true self-perseverance is all one need to come out on top in this volatile world and ‘X-Change’, a story of a son who is forced to take over his family business after his father’s demise i.e. robbing gold stores in small towns.
Meanwhile, highly successful series such as ‘Projek: Anchor SPM’, ‘Kudeta’ and ‘Histeria’ will be part of the Astro Premier’s program line-up. Also featured on Astro Premier are Chinese Astro Originals series including ‘The Patient’ and ‘Lost & Found’ as well as Indian series entitled ‘Kalvanai Kandu Pidi’, a Vinmeen Exclusive.
Also coming to Astro Premiere are seven Viu Originals. These include the dark fantasy hit ‘Nenek Bongkok Tiga’, the Tagalog adaptation of ‘Flower of Evil’, the Indonesian adaptations of popular titles ‘Pretty Little Liars’ and ‘Bad Boys vs Crazy Girls’. Rounding off the list are ‘Alter-Naratif’ (winner of the 2021 Viu Pitching Forum), ‘Return Man’ and ‘Devoted’.
All content on Astro Premier (CH410) will be available via On Demand. New episodes from Astro Originals will have ‘Fast Premiere’ via On Demand ahead of its channel’s premiere.