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SINGAPORE: Bomanbridge Media has landed new deals on series from its paranormal catalog, selling shows to NBCUniversal’s Syfy and Celestial's Thrill in Asia.

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: Japan-Singapore co-production Jimami Tofu from BananaMana Films has procured production funding and global distribution partners.

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

SINGAPORE: The Asian entertainment channel GEM is hosting an online call for talented singers, the winner of which will take part in Nippon TV’s competition show I Can Sing in Japanese!

SINGAPORE: Mediacorp and Netflix have struck a deal that will see a range of locally produced Singaporean series being made available on the streaming service around the world from early 2017.

MUNICH: Red Arrow International has licensed its scripted crime format The Last Cop to Nippon TV, which is prepping a theatrical feature for release in Japan.

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.