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
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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
Pitchin’ in
It was during a shoot in Bali that Malaysian filmmaker Justin Ong started hearing stories of a centuries old irrigation system that is still in use today. Such a mysterious system, considered to be “near perfect” by the locals was the impetus for Ong’s documentary Subak, one of the first documentaries to be commissioned for The Asian Pitch! (TAP), an initiative by NHK, KBS and MediaCorp, launched in 2006. “It was great timing,” Ong said. “Asia was becoming … [Read more...] about Pitchin’ in
Philippines: Battle royale
The Philippines was the first country in Asia to ever have a movie industry. In fact, some of the earliest movies that came out of Asia were made in the Philippines. So important was the local movie industry been to Filipinos that over the years many movie stars have held important positions in local and national government. One – Joseph E. Estrada – even succeeded in winning the No. 1 position of president. In its heyday – up until the mid 90s – local film producers … [Read more...] about Philippines: Battle royale
India: A force to reckon with
This year marks a milestone for India television. For the first time it will cross the 50 per cent mark in terms of its advertising share. Advertising expenditure is expected to reach Rs.300 billion (US$6.6 billion) and the reach of TV in urban homes will be to the tune of 70 per cent and at an all-India level to the tune of 60 per cent. “The Indian TV market continues to grow primarily because we still have another 40 million homes, which don’t have TV sets,” said Mumbai-based … [Read more...] about India: A force to reckon with