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SINGAPORE: The Asian Food Channel is gearing up to launch A Party Affair, its first locally produced program, and is planning to film its first travel reality series in the Philippines at the end of this year. The first season of A Party Affair makes its debut on November 20. …

SINGAPORE: BBC World News HD has secured carriage on TrueVisions in Thailand and Indonesia's First Media and Big TV. In Thailand, the channel has made the permanent move from SD to HD, and will be available via TrueVisions' TV Everywhere service when it launches next year. On First Media, the …

MELBOURNE: Rohan Lund, who has been serving as the group chief operating officer at Seven West Media, has been appointed COO at Foxtel. Lund takes up the new role as of January 20, 2014. Lund has held several high-profile posts prior to this, including as CEO of Yahoo! 7 and …

TOKYO: The Japanese pay-TV broadcaster WOWOW is teaming up with Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) to co-produce and broadcast the new drama Mozu. The pair previously collaborated on the drama Double Face. Mozu will be created by the same team that produced Double Face. The drama is based on the novel …

MUMBAI: Ronnie Screwvala will step down as the managing director of The Walt Disney Company's operations in India next summer, to be succeeded by Siddharth Roy Kapur. Disney acquired a controlling stake in Screwvala's studio UTV in 2012, at which point he took over running all of the company's operations …

HONG KONG: PCCW has unveiled more details about its planned free-to-air network, which will feature local as well as imported drama series, sports coverage courtesy of sister pay-TV company nowTV and more. Last week, the Hong Kong government approved in principle the issuing of a free-TV license to PCCW's HK …

HONG KONG: The 20th edition of the CASBAA Convention wrapped up yesterday with the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award and Chairman's Award to Steve Marcopoto, the outgoing president and managing director of Turner International Asia Pacific. Under Marcopoto's leadership, Turner has grown from broadcasting two networks in the region …

TOKYO: Ama-chan, NHK's hit morning drama, is scheduled to begin airing in Taiwan and Thailand in November and February, respectively. Set in Northern Japan, Ama-chan follows the life of a female diver living in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake that devastated the nation. NHK Enterprises finalized acquisition deals for …

MELBOURNE: There is a raft of new factual, entertainment and drama programming coming to Australia's SBS in its 2014 season, including the provocative Shine Australia series Living with the Enemy. Living with the Enemy puts two people with very different points of view into each other's lives. The show is …

LONDON: ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has renewed its output arrangement with New Zealand's TVNZ, which has also acquired the new period drama Breathless and other series. The multi-year deal sees TVNZ getting a first look at ITVS GE's programming across all genres. As part of the agreement, TVNZ …