World Screen

MUMBAI: Channel NewsAsia International has begun broadcasting in India on DTH platform Tata Sky. The English-language pan-Asian news channel, established by MediaCorp in 1999, now reaches more than 14 million households in India via Tata Sky. It is currently available across 27 territories in Asia. Channel NewsAsia International features news …

SYDNEY: Australia’s Network Ten has unveiled its programming plans for 2016, featuring a lineup of new and returning local and international titles for multiplatform delivery. The network’s local productions will include the new reality series Australian Survivor and Long Lost Family; the drama The Wrong Girl; Brock, a two-part television …

SYDNEY: Australian Network Ten’s digital catch-up hub, tenplay, has launched on the on-demand service Telstra TV. Launched in September 2013, tenplay is part of the channel’s TV Everywhere strategy. Viewers will now be able to enjoy their favorite shows from Ten, Eleven and One on Telstra TV, which has partnered …

NEW YORK: The Chinese VOD platform YOU On Demand (YOD) and Bruno Wu’s Sun Seven Stars Media Group have reached a definitive agreement regarding the previously announced $10 million investment. The proposed transaction was unanimously approved by both companies’ boards of directors. It is expected to close in December, subject …

TOKYO/LOS ANGELES: Japan’s Nippon TV has established NTV Asia Pacific (NTVAP), a local subsidiary based in Singapore. The Japanese network is set to make a $1 million capital contribution in the venture. Hidetoshi Hiramatsu, currently Nippon TV’s managing director of international business development, will assume the new role of representative at …

SYDNEY: ABC Commercial and DRG are expanding their partnership with a new agreement that will see a number of popular DRG shows become available on local SVOD providers in Australia and New Zealand. Local audiences will soon be able to have access to DRG’s Toast of London and the original …

SINGAPORE: Bomanbridge Media has acquired the exclusive Asian rights for Cisneros Media’s clip show XRC. The series was created using a library of more than a thousand hours of extreme video action, including high-speed pursuits, police shootouts, devastating fires, and more. The news images and clips were captured by the …

SINGAPORE: The second season of Indian Summers is a top highlight for all3media international at ATF next week. “It’s a sumptuous period drama set in a beautiful location and [it] features a stellar cast, including BAFTA- and Golden Globe-winning Julie Walters, alongside Olivia Grant, Nikesh Patel and Jemima West,” says …

SINGAPORE: At ATF, Banijay International is launching a brand-new entertainment format, Wonderkids. The live, family-friendly format follows gifted children as they participate in a series of challenges to become the ultimate “Wonderkid.” The company is also offering Fix My Mom, which sees five mother-daughter duos attempt to salvage their relationships. …

SINGAPORE: The Singapore Pavilion at ATF, led by the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA), is hosting 60-plus companies, collectively offering more than 170 titles for international distribution. Highlights include Beach House Pictures’s factual series Wild Cities; Long Long Time Ago, a film from J Team Productions and mm2 Entertainment; …