{"id":2525,"date":"2012-07-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvasia\/2012\/07\/13\/mediacorp-tbs-co-producing-weekly-series\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T00:00:00","slug":"mediacorp-tbs-co-producing-weekly-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvasia\/mediacorp-tbs-co-producing-weekly-series\/","title":{"rendered":"MediaCorp & TBS Co-Producing Weekly Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
SINGAPORE: MediaCorp and TBS Television are jointly producing a weekly show that will highlight fashion trends in Tokyo, set to broadcast starting this fall on Channel U. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The two companies will also jointly conduct a feasibility study on television-based e-commerce opportunities in Singapore. The deal between MediaCorp and TBS builds on their existing partnership to collaborate on productions. The first of these co-production efforts was a single-episode, one-hour drama called Mooncake<\/em>. The new fashion-based series will run every Thursday at 9 p.m. on Channel U starting October 18. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Lim Suat Jien, <\/span><\/span>MediaCorp’s managing director for TV, said: “We developed good working relations with TBS on our first television drama co-production project last year and we are delighted to strengthen our collaboration with a weekly television show to target the trend-setter youths today. Beyond broadcasting, a strategic collaboration with TBS in the pursuit of business development would allow us to incorporate e-commerce trials in a television show that can be exported to the region.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Shinji Takeda, the s<\/span><\/span>enior managing director of TBS Holdings, commented: “The key to success in new business ventures overseas is trust and collaboration with a local partner. We look forward to teaming up with MediaCorp to undertake various new challenges together.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SINGAPORE: MediaCorp and TBS Television are jointly producing a weekly show that will highlight fashion trends in Tokyo, set to broadcast starting this fall on Channel U. The two companies will also jointly conduct a feasibility study on television-based e-commerce opportunities in Singapore. The deal between MediaCorp and TBS builds on their existing partnership to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n