{"id":5377,"date":"2015-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/content-television-secures-scripted-sales-across-asia\/"},"modified":"2015-12-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T00:00:00","slug":"content-television-secures-scripted-sales-across-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/content-television-secures-scripted-sales-across-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Content Television Secures Scripted Sales Across Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tLONDON: Content Media Corporation's Content Television has licensed several dramas, including Dead Rising: Watchtower<\/em>, to broadcasters throughout Asia.<\/p>\n \n\tFOX International Channels Asia Pacific inked a pan-Asian deal for Dead Rising: Watchtower<\/em>, which is based on the hit video-game franchise, for broadcast across the region. The 113-minute production is set during a zombie outbreak. It stars Jesse Metcalfe (Dallas<\/em>), Dennis Haysbert (24<\/em>), Meghan Ory (Intelligence<\/em>) and Virginia Madsen (Sideways<\/em>).<\/p>\n \n\tThe live-action drama Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn<\/em>, also inspired by a video game, is headed to GMA Network in the Philippines. GMA additionally went for The Ark<\/em>, which re-tells the biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood. Also in the Philippines, Solar Entertainment snapped up a package of drama titles, including Cyberbully<\/em>, which stars Game of Thrones<\/em>' Maisie Williams as a troubled teen dealing with a dangerous cyber stalker.<\/p>\n \n\tOver in China, CCTV took a number of TV movies in an agreement brokered by Hong Kong Happiness, including He Who Dares: Downing Street Siege<\/em>, Earthbound<\/em>, Pete's Christmas<\/em> and Driving Lessons<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tDiana Zakis, the VP of sales for Latin America and Asia at Content Television, remarked: "We're delighted to announce these new deals at Asia Television Forum—demand for international scripted drama content continues to be on the rise throughout Asia, and we're seeing a lot of interest for our new programming as well as our library feature films and series. With their well-established fan base, our 'game-to-screen' properties always resonate particularly well in the region, and we're expecting our new feature Halo: The Fall of Reach<\/em> to be very popular when it makes its debut in Singapore."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LONDON: Content Media Corporation's Content Television has licensed several dramas, including Dead Rising: Watchtower, to broadcasters throughout Asia. FOX International Channels Asia Pacific inked a pan-Asian deal for Dead Rising: Watchtower, which is based on the hit video-game franchise, for broadcast across the region. The 113-minute production is set during a zombie outbreak. It stars …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n