Singapore - Viewers across the world can watch BBC World News television, tune into BBC World Service radio and go to BBC.com for coverage of the the marriage of HRH Prince William to Catherine Middleton. Tomorrow, on BBC World News Mishal Husain hosts live coverage from outside Buckingham Palace between 4pm and 3am SG/HK time – including the screening of the live service and its aftermath, featuring expert commentators, special guests and live coverage of the wedding ceremony and the … [Read more...] about BBC’s lineup for the Royal Wedding
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MediaCorp wins three World Medals at New York Festivals 2011
Singapore - MediaCorp has won three World Medals at the 2011 New York Festivals TV & Film Awards. The winning entries are programmes that were produced for and telecast on Channel NewsAsia, Channel 5, okto and a documentary produced for the international market by Caldecott Productions International (CPI). It picked up two Silver World Medals: One for Listen To The Mountain Sages in the documentary category (produced by Caldecott Productions International) and the other for Asia's Monarchies - … [Read more...] about MediaCorp wins three World Medals at New York Festivals 2011
CBS Studios International announces sales for The Borgias
Los Angeles, CA/Cannes - CBS Studios International has concluded licensing agreements for the Showtime series The Borgias across Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Recent international sales for The Borgias include deals in Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Korea, Turkey, and pan region agreements throughout Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. This builds on previous announced deals with Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and with Telecinco … [Read more...] about CBS Studios International announces sales for The Borgias
Delivering the goods
Joyce Yeung, SVP & GM, Sales & Distribution Asia, BBC Worldwide "Natural History programming continues to be a key genre that drives sales across the region with blue chip titles such as Human Planet and Great Rift making big impacts. Also we have seen high demand for shows such as Sherlock, which has sold to more than 70 territories around the world including South East Asia, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. We have some fantastic new content across drama and natural history genres. One of our … [Read more...] about Delivering the goods
It’s up to U
Channel U, which debuted on March 13, is a new youth channel aimed at the 15 to 24-year-old market, a segment of the population that has until now been largely ignored by marketers, who prefer to target, what is perceived as the far more lucrative, 25 to 55-year-old market. The channel, which replaces the now-defunct TVNZ 6 on the digital Freeview platform, will play content directly driven by the tastes of its viewers, through interaction with its core audience on social media network Facebook. … [Read more...] about It’s up to U
Malaysia: An animated journey
Three decades ago, when television in Malaysia was limited to the main channels operated by the stateowned Radio Television Malaysia (RTM), animated programmes were almost exclusively foreign - Saturday morning cartoons from the US and (poorly) dubbed properties from Japan. The first, and for many years sole, local animated content was a series of five rudimentary two-frameper- second edutainment shorts based on fables - Singa yang Haloba ('The Greedy Lion') and Sang Kancil dan Monyet ('The … [Read more...] about Malaysia: An animated journey