Sydney- Production is underway on Canal Road, a 13-part drama set in a medical and legal advisory centre where the lives of inner-city professionals and their patients entwine. Produced in house by the Nine Network, the series turns on the deaths of the wife and son of Spencer McKay, the centre's psychiatrist. Confronted by the killer of his loved ones, he sets out to exact revenge, which involves friends and workmates. Paul Leyden (Dragnet, LAX, Law & Order: SVU) has returned from the U.S. to … [Read more...] about Nine Network Australia takes Canal Road
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Singaporean-Dutch co-production to chronicle event which led to 1950 riot
Cannes- Singapore's Monsoon Pictures and Dutch filmmakers IdtV Film will co-produce a US$6.5 million feature film to chronicle the Maria Hertogh riots, an event dating back to Singapore's colonial history. Titled Nadra, it tells the story of 13-year-old Dutch girl Bertha Hertogh (a.k.a. Maria Huberdina Hertogh and Nadra binte Maarof), whose custody battle in 1950 between her birth parents and Malay adoptive mother led to a riot in Singapore and adversely affected Hertogh and the people around … [Read more...] about Singaporean-Dutch co-production to chronicle event which led to 1950 riot
Zonemedia acquires new reality series from NZ’s Eyeworks Touchdown
London- Themed channel operator Zonemedia has acquired two reality series from New Zealand producer Eyeworks Touchdown via distributor Eyeworks Distribution. Hit New Zealand series Miss Popularity and Treasure Island: Couples at War will air on Zonemedia's Zone Reality feeds throughout Asia and EMEA. Miss Popularity features 10 New Zealand women who are sent to a luxury hotel in South Australia to be pampered until they are suddenly transported in a van into the Outback and left there to face … [Read more...] about Zonemedia acquires new reality series from NZ’s Eyeworks Touchdown
All new executive team for AETN All Asia Networks
Singapore- AETN All Asia Networks (AAAN), the new joint venture of A&E Television Networks and ASTRO All Asia Networks, has poached executives from other regional broadcasters to run the company. Louis Boswell joins as General Manager, Michele Schofield as Director of Content - Programming, Acquisitions & Production, and Connie Lai as Director of Marketing. AETN All Asia Networks will launch and operate branded channels and services across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It plans to launch … [Read more...] about All new executive team for AETN All Asia Networks
Disney-ABC International Television renews with MediaCorp and Studio 23
Los Angeles- Disney-ABC International Television (Asia Pacific) has renewed multi-genre, multi-year volume agreements with Singapore's MediaCorp TV and with the Philippines' ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation's youth targeted free-to-air channel, Studio 23. MediaCorp TV's free-to-air network Channel 5 will carry programmes including Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Ghost Whisperer, Criminal Minds and The Amazing Race along with new shows Ugly Betty and Brothers & Sisters. Deal also … [Read more...] about Disney-ABC International Television renews with MediaCorp and Studio 23
All new team for AETN All Asia Networks
Singapore- AETN All Asia Networks (AAAN), joint venture of A&E Television Networks and ASTRO All Asia Networks, has appointed Louis Boswell as General Manager, Michele Schofield as Director of Content – Programming, Acquisitions & Production and Connie Lai as Director of Marketing. AAAN was recently formed to launch and operate branded channels and services across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and will launch The History Channel and Crime & Investigation Network in Q2 and Q3 2007. … [Read more...] about All new team for AETN All Asia Networks
