Mansha Daswani

SINGAPORE: OTJ: The Missing 8, the first original series for Asian on-demand service HOOQ, is set to premiere in the first quarter of 2017.

SINGAPORE: Shavkat Berdiev has been enlisted to oversee the Southeast Asian business at Discovery Networks Asia Pacific, with Louis Boswell becoming senior VP of distribution.

SINGAPORE: Production has begun in Singapore on Sent, HBO Asia's first original comedy drama series.

SINGAPORE: Executives from Hulu Japan, HOOQ, AwesomenessTV and LeTV talked about their programming strategies in a panel at Asia TV Forum, where digital disruption has been a key theme of the conference schedule.

SINGAPORE: More than 5,000 participants are expected at Asia TV Forum & Market and ScreenSingapore this week, the largest-ever attendance for the annual events.

SINGAPORE: Free-to-air TV is set to remain the dominant platform in Indonesia, David Fernando Audy, CEO of MNC Media, said at ATF today, with a lack of broadband infrastructure hindering the rollout of online platforms.

SINGAPORE: Analysts from Ovum, Nielsen, Kantar Media, Ernst & Young and IHS Technology talked about the role of telcos, digital transformation, emerging technologies and other factors reshaping the media landscape in the opening session at the Asia TV Forum pre-market conference today in Singapore.

SINGAPORE: Former Telstra executive Michael D’Oliveiro has joined Asian VOD service HOOQ to manage its operations in Singapore on the heels of the platform's launch in the territory.

HONG KONG/SINGAPORE: BBC Worldwide has announced a series of agreements that will bring four BBC Earth Giant Screen docs to museums in mainland China and Hong Kong next year.

The chief content officer and senior VP for kids’ networks at Turner’s Asia-Pacific business, and content head for Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Toonami in the region, talks about his programming strategy.