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Subscribers to the Hotstar Premium service in India will have access to HOOQ's 6,000-hour slate of Hollywood TV shows and movies following the signing of a new partnership between the two online services.

On the back of adding 20 pay-TV networks to its roster, HOOQ has now expanded its lineup of free-to-air channels in Indonesia, offering a total of 13 on its Live TV feature.

The Asian VOD service HOOQ is introducing a skinny bundle that includes more than 20 pay-TV channels, among them TLC, Discovery and HITS.

HOOQ has hired two industry veterans, Bryan Seah and Tina Arwin, to take on the roles of head of original productions and head of content for Indonesia, respectively.

HOOQ has announced a slate of new content partnerships in Indonesia, where it has also introduced one-day sachet pricing and streaming of free-to-air channels.

Zulfiqar Khan has become the new managing director of HOOQ in India.

HOOQ has appointed Jennifer Batty, most recently the executive VP of programming at RTL CBS Asia Entertainment, as its new chief content officer.

HOOQ has secured the exclusive SVOD rights for three of Marvel’s latest series—Inhumans, Runaways and Cloak and Dagger—for Southeast Asia.

HOOQ has released its first-ever Thai original movie, Saranair Love You, a comedy made in collaboration with Thailand’s movie studio Tech Digital Corporation and featuring Mario Maurer (Love of Siam).

Asian SVOD platform HOOQ has unveiled plans for another original movie and is going to fund five pilots, with a budget of $30,000 each, from innovative filmmakers across the region.