October 14, 2013
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MANILA: beIN SPORT is delivering two new sports channels on the Philippines’ largest cable provider, SkyCable. beIN SPORT 3 Premiere League HD is the first-ever 24-hour channel dedicated to the Barclays Premier League in Indonesia. beIN SPORT 2 HD features live batches from BPL as well as Serie A, Bundesliga ...
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October 10, 2013
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SINGAPORE: RTL CBS Asia Entertainment Network has secured carriage for the newly launched RTL CBS Entertainment HD channel in Singapore on SingTel mio TV. The channel, which previously launched in Malaysia and Thailand, will be part of the Family+ Pack at no extra charge. Programming highlights include The X Factor ...
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October 9, 2013
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SINGAPORE: The Asian Food Channel, part of the Scripps Networks Interactive bouquet, has scheduled a new cooking program, Tea Twist, which features the Malaysian chef Nik Michael Imran. The original six-part series will air on the channel in 12 territories. The show was produced in collaboration with Unilever Malaysia. It ...
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October 9, 2013
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CANNES: ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has closed a deal with UKTV in Australia for 227 hours of programming across drama and entertainment categories. Among the shows picked up by UKTV are the detective drama franchises Inspector Morse and three seasons of its spin-off Lewis, five seasons of A ...
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October 9, 2013
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CANNES: Malaysian companies at MIPCOM announced a slew of deals this week across the kids, scripted and documentary genres. The country's newly appointed Minister of Communications and Multimedia, Ahmed Shabery Cheek, is leading a delegation of more than 60 companies at the market. “I feel that Malaysia is rapidly evolving ...
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October 8, 2013
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CANNES: NHK Enterprises (NEP) and Thailand's MCOT have signed a deal for the science-entertainment format The New Anatomy Show that includes co-production of a Thai version. Together the companies will develop the format for teenagers. The one-hour Thai iteration will air weekly in prime time on MCOT's free-to-air terrestrial channel ...
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October 8, 2013
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CANNES: FremantleMedia International has announced a multi-year landmark deal with the Chinese portal Youku to carry a variety of entertainment and drama content online. Youku averages 14 million unique users a day. It also has 200 million mobile users. Some 202 hours of FremantleMedia International programming will be available via ...
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October 8, 2013
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CANNES: Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek has revealed Malaysia's plans to form a competitive creative content hub in Asia and desire to lure international entertainment producers attending MIPCOM. One of the reasons why the country could be considered a cost-competitive regional hub is due to ...
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October 5, 2013
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CANNES: Singapore’s MediaCorp is one of the main partners of The Asian Pitch, a competition for original documentaries produced by Asian filmmakers, with four new offerings to be showcased at MIPCOM. There were four winners from last year’s event, and MediaCorp is now ready to offer those finished documentaries to ...
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October 4, 2013
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CANNES: There’s a love triangle at the center of GMA Worldwide’s My Husband’s Lover, between a man, his wife and his secret boyfriend. Temptation of Wife, the Filipino adaptation of the top-rating Korean novela of the same name, tells the story of two women whose friendship is torn apart when ...
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