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SYDNEY: The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report finds that Australians are watching more broadcast TV year-on-year and their take-up of new connected devices is also increasing. The majority of Australians still watch TV at home and watch it live. In Q1 2014, Aussies watched an average of 93 hours and 16 …

MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide Productions in India has received commissions for two new youth-skewing daily dramas to air on the local feed of MTV. The shows will air on MTV India from Monday to Friday, reaching some 35 million homes, in the 6 p.m. slot. MTV Fanaah—An Impossible Love Story is …

HONG KONG: WarnerTV in Asia will premiere the new FOX series Gotham, repped by Warner Bros. International Television, across the region shortly after its U.S. debut. The show will be "fast-tracked to Asian screens exclusively on WarnerTV," the pan-regional channel announced today. The Warner Bros. Television-produced show tells the origin …

SINGAPORE: Production studio activeTV Asia has made three new key appointments as it boosts its production output in the region. Christopher Berry was named the head of development, charged with growing the company’s production slate. Berry replaces Marc Checkley and will report to company president Michael McKay. The exec previously …

BOGOTÁ: Caracol TV Internacional has sold The Voice of Freedom into Thailand, where the series airs every Monday through Thursday at 7 p.m. The country’s Thai TV network picked up the series, which originally aired on Colombia’s Caracol Television. The show follows the life of Helena Vargas, a woman with …

SINGAPORE: The pan-regional RTL CBS Asia Entertainment Network has shored up the rights to The X Factor UK, which will air live via satellite with an encore broadcast in prime time. “This is the first time that The X Factor UK is being made available to audiences outside the U.K.," …

HONG KONG: Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE) has locked up the exclusive rights to bring two combat-sports promotions to its KIX sports channel. Through the deals, KIX will air first-in-Asia runs of IMG Media’s World Series of Fighting, a mixed martial arts promotion. That first match is set to air on …

SYDNEY: Screen Australia is planning to reduce its maximum investment in film and TV projects, in addition to shrinking its staff, following cuts to its funding in the federal budget. The agency has been asked by the federal government to cut A$25 million ($23.6 million) over the next four years. …

SYDNEY: According to new figures from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), free-TV broadcasters in Australia continue to exceed their required levels of programming home-grown content. In 2013, commercial networks surpassed their primary channel content quotas, averaging 64.3 percent across the networks. Broadcasters aired more than double the amount …

SINGAPORE/JAKARTA: MNC Sky Vision and Rewind Networks have inked a deal that sees the HITS channel becoming available on Indonesia's Indovision next month. As of August 1, HITS will be added to the Galaxy and Super Galaxy pay-TV packages. The network will eventually roll out as part of the Venus …