Asia – FOX International Channels’ (FIC) The Walking Dead Season 3 premiere received impressive ratings performance across Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, defeating other cable competition in its time period with regards to Total Viewers. The debut made FOX Movies Premium (FMP) one of the top Western movie channels in its timeslot among pay-TV viewers in Malaysia and Singapore. It also outperformed FMP’s year-to-date prime time average by about 54% and 194% in Malaysia and … [Read more...] about The Walking Dead third season premieres on high note across Asia
Emmy
NHK, CBC Television win big at International Emmys for News & Current Affairs
New York – Japan’s NHK and Canada’s CBC Television won the top awards at the 2012 International Emmys for News & Current Affairs. NHK received the International Emmy for News for its Great East Japan Earthquake Emergency News, which covered the largest earthquake in the country’s history and the resulting devastating tsunami, in March last year. CBC Television’s Haiti’s Orphans: One Year After the Earthquake, meanwhile, won the Current Affairs category. It … [Read more...] about NHK, CBC Television win big at International Emmys for News & Current Affairs
Sesame Street wins seven Daytime Emmys
Sesame Street was awarded seven Emmys at the 39th Annual Daytime Entertainment Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The categories that Sesame Street won Emmys for are: Outstanding Pre-School Children’s Series, Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series, Outstanding Directing in a Children’s Series, Outstanding Achievement in Multiple Camera Editing, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing and Outstanding Achievement in Technical … [Read more...] about Sesame Street wins seven Daytime Emmys
Emmy nod again for MythBusters
Beyond Productions’ MythBusters has been nominated for an Emmy® Award, for the third year running, in the Outstanding Reality Program category. The nominated episode features President of the United States, Barack Obama, who called on the Mythbusters to test myths of his choosing. Now in its 8th season, Mythbusters, led by Jamie Hynamen and Adam Savage, have solved more than 800 myths and in the process detonated 7 tonnes of explosives and destroyed over 100 cars. The series is … [Read more...] about Emmy nod again for MythBusters
