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BBC Studios has made two new hires to the Northeast Asia team: Danica Lee and Jihyun Lee.

Jon Penn, executive VP for the Asia Pacific at BBC Studios, talked about the growing importance of China to the company’s global business in his ATF Online+ keynote.

BBC Studios and Bilibili have signed a new content sales and production agreement that includes jointly developing IP for the Chinese market.

BBC Studios and ByteDance’s Xigua Video have inked a multi-genre content partnership that includes the exclusive licensing of two brand-new BBC Studios documentaries in mainland China.

BBC Studios and the Taiwan Mobile-owned OTT service myVideo have struck a deal for carriage of the British drama channel BBC First and the children’s channel CBeebies.

BBC Studios has signed a multiyear output deal with Japan’s U-NEXT for premium British content across all genres.

At BBC Studios, Cheryl Png has been promoted to VP of distribution for Southeast Asia and Stanley Fernandes has been elevated to VP of distribution for South Asia.

Fiona Lang and Ryan Shiotani have been named as general managers at BBC Studios Asia Pacific, reporting to Executive VP Jon Penn.

BBC Studios has brought together its Asia and Australia and New Zealand regions to create a newly formed Asia-Pacific regional business, under the leadership of Jon Penn.

BBC Studios is set to produce the docuseries One Cup, A Thousand Stories, its first fully-funded production commission in China, for China Mobile’s digital content subsidiary, Migu.