Wanting to top the number of entries from last year’s event, the Asian TV Awards has added new categories, and tweaked some established ones for the 2011 awards. Now in its 16th year, the annual awards night, to be held at the Shangri-La Hotel on December 8, has increased the number of awards in the Documentary and Technical and Creative categories. In addition to Best Documentary Programme (one-off), there is now an award for Best Documentary Series and awards for Best Drama Screenplay … [Read more...] about TV Awards ups the ante
Channel 5
Money drops into Asia
Singapore – MediaCorp will debut the local version of the hit game show Money Drop on Singapore's National Day. The game show will launch on Channel 5 on 9 August and will run in a weekly prime time slot over 13 weeks. The deal represents the first commission in Asia for The Money Drop, which was created and launched by Endemol UK last year and has so far been sold in 27 countries including the USA, UK, Australia, Germany, France, Israel, Russia, Spain and the Netherlands. Arjen van … [Read more...] about Money drops into Asia