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Content expenditure on TV, movies and online video in India, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam rose by 8 percent last year to top the $10 billion mark, according to Media Partners Asia (MPA).

Guru Studio’s (PAW Patrol) new animated series Big Blue has received the green light from CBC/Radio-Canada.

Federation Entertainment's Cottonwood Media has started production on the second installment of Find Me in Paris, a tween drama about time-traveling ballet dancers from Russia.

Turkish pay-TV platform Digiturk has licensed CBS Studios International's entire 2018-19 fall slate, which includes the Dick Wolf procedural FBI, the Charmed reboot and Showtime's Escape at Dannemora.

The BBC has revealed a range of new content geared toward teens that will be available as box sets on iPlayer, including the drama Logan High.

Ghoul, Netflix's first original horror series from India, is set to roll out on the platform globally on August 24.

Eccho Rights has licensed the Ay Yapim-produced drama Stiletto Vendetta to Mega in Chile.

Essential Media Group, the producer of Australian dramas Rake and Doctor Doctor, has set up a new division focused on premium international scripted content.

At NATPE Budapest International, BBC Studios’ Sumi Connock, Viacom International Media Networks’ Laura Burrell, Filmpool Entertainment’s Felix Wesseler and Red Arrow Studios International’s Bo Stehmeier shared their insights about the format business in a panel discussion moderated by World Screen’s Kristin Brzoznowski.

Elisa Viihde in Finland has commissioned Sphere of Shadows (Nyrkki), a 1950s-set spy thriller.