The eighth edition of the Singapore Media Festival (SMF) will connect a key player in the media ecosystem – showrunners – to Singapore’s creative talents to bring Asian stories to international markets. Showrunners, which are also known as executive producers, call the shots in the content creation process, with overall creative and management responsibility from conceptualisation to financing to talent selection to production and distribution. With the rise in audience interest in Asian … [Read more...] about Singapore Media Festival 2021: Connecting our content creators to global media players and audiences
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Keshet Studios teams with David E. Kelley and Universal Television on ‘The Missing’
Keshet Studios, the US production arm of global content producer and distributor Keshet International (KI), and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studios Group, are working together with writer and executive producer David E Kelley on a straight-to-series order for Peacock. Adapted for US television by David E Kelley (Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers), The Missing will be based on the novel The Missing File, the first in a series of books written by renowned Israeli crime … [Read more...] about Keshet Studios teams with David E. Kelley and Universal Television on ‘The Missing’
ZEE5 Global drops trailer of first ZEE5 Original Drama Series ‘E Emon Porichoy’
ZEE5 Global, the world’s largest streaming platform for South Asian content, has dropped the trailer of its ZEE5 Original Drama Series E Emon Porichoy which is the first-ever long-series format series for the market. In this new format, each season will have 20 episodes which will be released periodically. E Emon Porichoy stars much-acclaimed actors like Shamol Mawla, Aisha Khan, Shahiduzzaman Selim, and Rosey Siddique. It narrates the story of Nayantara who reaches the famous Mirza House in … [Read more...] about ZEE5 Global drops trailer of first ZEE5 Original Drama Series ‘E Emon Porichoy’
Beijing Gehua Cable (BGC) overhauls infrastructure with the help of ATEME
ATEME, the leader in video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable TV, DTH, IPTV and OTT, today announced that major Chinese cable operator Beijing Gehua Cable (BGC) has deployed ATEME’s encoders to upgrade its cable TV services. This update delivers greater stability and video quality for viewers, while reducing BGC’s energy footprint. ATEME’s TITAN head-end solution replaces BGC’s legacy infrastructure, enabling the operator to better cope with high levels of transcoding and improve video … [Read more...] about Beijing Gehua Cable (BGC) overhauls infrastructure with the help of ATEME
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment acquires Locomotive Global
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Inc. one of the largest operators of streaming advertising-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) networks, announced last week the acquisition of a majority stake in Locomotive Global Inc. Locomotive Global Inc., a production company based in India, is led by industry veterans Scott Anderson, former programming and acquisition strategy head for the Hallmark Channel who also was with Starz/Encore and Liberty Media Corporation, and Sunder Aaron, co-founder of … [Read more...] about Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment acquires Locomotive Global
NHK WORLD-JAPAN launches ’17 Goals for Our World’ campaign to complement upcoming COP26 Climate Change Conference
NHK WORLD-JAPAN, the English-language international service of Japan's public media organization, NHK, announced it will present a collection of premiere and encore programming to commemorate and complement the United Nations' Climate Change Conference (COP26) to be held in Glasgow, Scotland from October 31-November 12, 2021. NHK WORLD-JAPAN, long committed to bringing issues of global importance to the forefront, in January 2021 launched a SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) campaign that … [Read more...] about NHK WORLD-JAPAN launches ’17 Goals for Our World’ campaign to complement upcoming COP26 Climate Change Conference