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25 November – 8 DECEMber 2013
Rewind Networks goes live with HitsHimatsinghani intros ‘best of TV’ channel on StarHub
Former Fox In-ternational Chan-nels’ Southeast
Asia boss, Avi Hi-matsinghani, launches
his first indie pay-TV chan-nel, Hits, in Asia on 9 December.
The regional channel debuts on Singa-pore platform StarHub’s basic entertain-ment package, giving it the same reach as WarnerTV, LIfetime, AXN, Fox and Diva Universal, among others.
Hits, operated by Himatsinghani’s Re-
wind Networks out of Singapore, is be-ing offered in both standard definition and HD, and will also be available on StarHub’s TV Anywhere service.
On-demand service, Hits Replay, will launch in early 2014 on both StarHub’s cable and TV Anywhere platforms.
Hits’ tag line is “television’s greatest hits all in one destination”, and the schedule has cherry-picked the best-performing comedy and drama in Asia over the past two decades.
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MediaCorp misses out: Oooh, drama in Singapore over national broadcaster MediaCorp’s failure to air the Golden Horse Awards from Taiwan this past week-end, leaving half the nation (at best) able to see the country’s biggest film win in, like, ever.
Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo – the story of a Singaporean family and its newly arrived domestic helper – won four awards: best feature film, best original screenplay, best new director and best supporting actress.
Facebook discussion is pretty fierce. Words and phrases like “embarrass-ing” and “why don’t they show some initiative” are being used in the public discussion, along with a bit of sympathy about MediaCorp not being able to tell in advance that a Singapore film would do so well.
Lots of likes and thumbs-up for StarHub though. The pay-TV platform bought Sin-
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Industry hiss in the Year of the Snake
Avi Himatsinghani
Lost
MediaCorp misses out & Nat Geo People on its way
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Astro chief executive, Rohana Rozhan
Rozhan lauded for social
responsibilityAstro boss takes home CNBC Asia biz leader award
Dato’ Rohana Rozhan, chief executive of Malaysian pay-TV platform Astro, has won the Corporate Social Responsibility Award at the 12th annual CNBC Asia Business Leaders Awards (ABLA).
The award earlier this month recognises Rozhan’s devotion to issues in education, environment and society, as well as “in-tegrating social responsibility into business objectives”.
Other win-ners include The Appren-tice Asia’s Tony Fernandes, group chief executive of budget airline AirAsia, who took home the Asia Innovator of the Year Award.
The award ceremony airs on CNBC at 8pm (HK/Sin) on 28 November.
Fox Japan in record-busting NCIS telecast
China’s Jiangsu Satellite TV has picked up rights to All3media International’s factual entertainment format, Gogglebox.
The eight-episode mainland Chinese version, produced in-house, will pre-miere early next year.
This marks Jiangsu’s first-ever deal with the indie distributor, and follows a Dragon TV deal for a local version of Undercover Boss.
Gogglebox features local home viewers’ reactions and opinions of the week’s TV highlights. The format has been nominated at the 2013 Grierson Awards and Edinburgh Television Festi-val’s Programme Innovation Award.
Fox International Channels’ (FIC) Fox Japan entertainment channel begins a marathon 234-episode NCIS telecast on 29 December in an effort to bust its previous Guinness World Record for the longest uninterrupted transmission of a television series.
Fox Japan set the previous record in January 2011 with the back-to-back tel-ecast of all seven seasons of 24, starring Keifer Sutherland as counter terrorist unit agent Jack Bauer.
The NCIS marathon runs to 8 January. Fox Japan premieres the new season
of the CBS Studios’ crime procedural in February 2014.
NCIS
Jiangsu picks up Gogglebox format Local China series set
for 2014
Satellite operator SES has entered the final countdown to the launch of new satellite SES-8, which goes up on Tues-day morning (26 November, Asia).
If successful, the launch not only puts additional Ku-/Ka-band capacity above Asia, but also opens a new era of shorter, more cost effective paths to space.
The commercial communications sat-ellite, with coverage of South Asia and Asia Pacific, will be co-located with the SES-owned NSS-6 at 95º East.
The new satellite is one of seven satellites SES plans to operate in the region by 2015.
The launch from SpaceX’s complex at Cape Canaveral is the Falcon 9 rocket’s seventh flight, and its first communications satellite launched to geostationary orbit by SpaceX.
Countdown to SES-8New launch heralds lower-cost space era
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Philippines’ leading television broadcasters ABS-CBN and GMA, took home more than 10 trophies at the 35th annual Catholic Mass Media Awards for Filipino media that promote Christian values.
GMA won seven TV-related awards: Best Newscast (State of the Nation with Jessica Soho), Best Drama Series (Bayan Ko), Best News Magazine (Kapuso Mo, Jes-sica Soho), Best Special Event Coverage (Habemus Papam), Best Comedy (Pepito Manaloto: Ang Tunay Na Kuwento), Best Children and Youth Programme (Poptalk) and Best Adult Educational/Cultural Pro-gramme (Follow That Star).
ABS-CBN won four TV-related awards among its total eight trophies. The TV awards included Best TV Special for documentary San Pedro Calungsod, Best
From left: Bishop Diocese of Paranaque Most Rev Jesse Mercado;ABS-CBN Palawan station manager Patrick Henry Gayapa;CMMA Trustee Engr Feorelio Bote; CMMA Trustee and Executive Director Rev Fr Rufino Sescon Jr
Talk Show for The Botom-l ine with Boy Abunda, and Best Station ID for ABS-CBN TV7 Palawan’s Christmas-themed Kwento Ng Pasko.
The Best Public Service Programme award was shared between ABS-CBN (Pinoy True Stories: Saklolo) and GMA (In-vestigative Documentaries).
ABS-CBN also won Students’ Choice for Best Film for It Takes a Man and a Woman.
The awards, organised by Manila’s Arch-diocese, recognise media products that “enhance the total human development of the Filipino audience through the competent and professional use of mass media tech-niques and to promote Christian values”.
ABS-CBN, GMA sweep Catholic
awards Networks hailed
for Christian values
ITV Choice squeezes Celebrity Window
ITV Studios’ Asia channel, ITV Choice, has squeezed the window on the new season of I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here to 48 hours after the U.K. telecast. The show premiered across Asia and the Middle East in Novem-ber in a 9.30pm (Singapore/Taiwan) weeknight slot. ITV said the U.K. premiere on 17 November had 12 million viewers, making it the country’s top programme of the year after the Wimbledon Final.
Taylor joins NBCUni
Australia/New Zealand TV veteran Chris Taylor has been appointed as NBCUniversal’s vice president of inter-national television. The newly created role covers both channel and content distribution efforts in Australia and New Zealand. Taylor is based in Sydney and reports to both Singapore-based Christine Fellowes, Universal Networks International Asia Pacific MD, and Jus-tin Che, Asia Pacific SVP of sales liaison.
I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here
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StarHub appoints head of ethnic content
Singapore pay-TV com-pany StarHub has appointed former SingTel/Viacom executive, Aileen Joseph, as its senior
manager for ethnic content from this month.
Joseph oversees StarHub’s overall ethnic content strategy – from self-packaged channels, such as Sensasi, to channel providers such as Sun TV.
Joseph was formerly senior program-ming manager at Viacom Interna-tional Media Networks Asia. She also worked as programming manager for rival SingTel mio TV, where she was instrumental in launching popular Ma-laysian pay-TV channel Astro Ria on the Singapore pay-TV platform.
TVB, Next Media spat
Hong Kong’s dominant broadcaster, Television Broadcasts Ltd (TVB) and Jimmy Lai’s Next Media are locked in combat. TVB has accused Next Media’s publications of, among other things, inaccurate reporting, and banned Next journalists from press conferences and events. Next denies the allegations, saying all it was doing was telling the truth about the uproar over Hong Kong’s free-TV licence process and related events.
Father-son duo Gary V (a.k.a. Mister Pure Energy) and Paolo Valenciano dedicate a performance to Typhoon Haiyan victims at Hapi-Hapi Kaara-One. The event marks Philippine cable network Jeepney TV’s
first anniversary-cum-fundraiser concert for victims of the super typhoon. Other performers at the gala include The Voice of the Philippines’ Radha Cuadrado and new local pop/rock band Fair Warning.
Jeepney TV turns oneAnniversary party in aid of Typhoon Haiyan victims
MTV, Nickelodeon support typhoon reliefVIMN, Unicef tie up to help children in need
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Asia is backing Unicef’s drive to help children in need after Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
In addition to Thirty Seconds to Mars’ Jared Leto’s call for donations during the MTV EMA event, the cast of Nickelodeon’s
Sam & Cat, Ariana Grande and Jenette McCurdy, lent support with a PSA to sup-port donations. Both clips are airing on the networks globally. Leto’s stage moment is also airing on Comedy Central Asia.
The MTV Voices site is also carrying ac-counts from the ground.
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Who’s saying what about content trends in Asia ahead of this year’s ATF...
Asian audiences are really embracing the factual entertainment
genre right now. It’s been a slow burner, but the demand is growing.”
Marielle Zuccarelli, Managing Director, International Content Distribution, A+E Networks
It is still the big branded reality entertainment shows
that are eagerly sought after in Asia.”
Ganesh Rajaram, Executive Vice Presi-dent, Distribution and Home Entertainment,
Asia, FremantleMedia
The key acquisitions trend this year has been the
development of the VOD market particularly in
China, Korea and Japan. There is a higher level of interest in
U.K. drama from these territories than in Southeast Asia.”
Stephen Driscoll, Senior Vice President, Sales,
All3Media
“While these event-driven, serialised shows have had strong interest, there continues to be a strong demand for good procedurals – stand-alone episodes work for many of our clients.”
Nicole Sinclair, Director of Sales, Asia, CBS Studios International
Asia is seeing unprecedented local productions of both
international and inter-Asian
formats.”
Joanne Azzopardi, Vice President Sales
Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Beyond Distribution
We have seen a definite increase
in appetite throughout Asia in 2013 for adventurous, travel-related series that cater to all
audiences.”
Kate Blank, Director, Inter-national Distribution, Break-through Entertainment
Fast-paced pro-gramming with nar-
ration is key across Asia and particularly content
focusing on sci-ence, nature, his-
tory and current affairs. Alongside
crime, demand for lifestyle pro-
gramming has con-tinued to rise over the past
12 months.” Chris Bluett, Sales Manager, Asia, Cineflix Rights
“Wildlife and animal pro-grammes remain universal for all territories in Asia. Lately we have seen an increase in interest towards all things related to ‘pets’. Military/weapons/disasters
are also topics of interest nowadays.”
MeeFung Lee, DW Asia Representative, DW Transtel
“Shiny floor entertainment shows still seem to lead the ratings in most Asian territories.”
Kelly Wright, Director International Sales, Asia, Keshet International
“The biggest content acquisition trend has to be the demand for formats.”
Hyeonza Hong, Vice President Sales, Asia, ITV Studios Global Entertainment
“British dramas have to be
one of the big-gest acquisition
trends this year.” Joyce Yeung, Executive Vice President and
General Manager, Asia, BBC Worldwide Distribution
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Company BackgroundThe product of an “East meets West” alliance, Celestial Tiger Enter-tainment (CTE) was formed when two premier Hollywood media companies partnered with Asia’s leading pay-TV platform to build a regionally focused, entertainment powerhouse. Lionsgate, Saban Capital Group and Astro joined the KIX and Thrill channels with Celestial Movies and Celestial Classic Movies, offering a mix of Asian- and Western-programmed pay television services under one roof. Together with our just launched cHK channel, these linear and digital networks comprise the largest bouquet of pan-Asian channels dedicated to Asian entertainment.
CTE is also Lionsgate’s exclusive distributor of film and TV content in Asia. With top movie franchises such as The Hunger Games and Twilight, as well as hit TV series such as Boss and Mad Men, CTE has generated record sales for Lionsgate properties in Asia. ExpansionSoutheast Asia is home to the fastest growing TV markets in the world, and CTE is 100% focused on the region. Celestial is the most widely distributed Chinese movie service in the world. cHK is a one-stop channel for cool, chic and contemporary Hong Kong entertainment. KIX is already the leading English language High Definition channel on Southeast Asia’s largest pay-TV platform, and Thrill is the only regional channel in Asia dedicated to the popular suspense genre.
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Illegal logging story wows judgesKompasTV producer wins CNN-Indovision award
Kompas TV producer Odit Praseno Hadi has been named CNN Television Journalist of the Year 2013.
Hadi’s illegal logging investigative story, The Endangered Towers of Borneo, also won the Environment Award.
Co-organised by Indonesia pay-TV plat-form Indovision, the award sends Hadi to Atlanta for three weeks, where he will train
at CNN’s global headquarters under the CNN Journalism Fellowship Programme.
Other winners include MNCTV reporter Purnama Yudha Hulalata (Features Award), SCTV journalist Kurnia Supriyatna (Indovision Education, Culture and Arts Award) and MetroTV anchor/reporter Silvano Hajid Maulana (Best Single News Story Award).
Left to right: Robi Stanton, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Southeast Asia, Turner International Asia Pacific; Imam Wahyudi, Board of Advisors of the Indonesian Television Journalist Association; Dhini W. Prayogo, Director of Sales, Marketing and Programming, MNC SkyVision/Indovision; Odit Praseno Hadi, Edi-tor, Kompas TV, and Overall Winner and Environment Award winner; Ellana Lee, Vice President/Managing Director, CNN International Asia Pacific; Buyung Wijaya Kusuma, General Manager of News and Current Affairs/General Manager, Kompas TV.
The global premiere of Hong Kong crime thriller Firestorm opens this year’s ScreenSingapore on 4 December 2013.
Stars Andy Lau and Gordon Lam Ka Tung will walk the red carpet at the premiere at Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore.
The movie will be released across Asia on 12 December, which marks the 11th anniversary of Lau’s iconic film Infernal Affairs.
Lau also serves as executive produc-er and producer of Firestorm, his 146th film. The film revolves around a police inspector who crosses his moral red line to bring a notorious gang of criminals to justice.
Andy Lau’s Firestorm opens ScreenSingapore
Firestorm
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Tokyo Broadcasting System’s (TBS) bank-ing drama, Hanzawa Naoki, has reignited the Japanese drama craze in Taiwan and is making its way around the rest of the region.
The critically acclaimed, 10-episode series attracted 550,000 viewers for its 7 October 2013 premiere on Taiwanese pay-TV network Videoland Japan.
In Hong Kong, pay-TV channel TVB Drama 1 began airing the series on 16 No-vember 2013 on a Saturday 11pm slot.
Hong Kong’s dominant free-TV broad-caster, Television Broadcasts Ltd (TVB) is also rumoured to be in talks for a local remake of the show about a charismatic young banker who navigates his way
through the politics, scandals and power struggles of the banking industry.
Masato Sakai stars as Hanzawa Naoki, whose bravery in challenging authorities and unique style of handling conflicts have made him a poster boy for office workers.
The TV drama is adapted from a novel by former bank employee Jun Ikeido. The use of technical banking terms and proc-esses is said to give the show more realism and help popularise a niche genre.
Hanzawa Naoki ran on TBS from July to September this year. The show’s final episode in Japan on 22 September 2013 garnered 42.2% viewership share, break-ing a three-decade record for Japan’s highest-rated programme.
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New S’pore stamp marks 50 years of TV
Singapore’s postal service is issuing commemorative stamps to celebrate the country’s television golden jubi-lee this year. The set of five stamps, which went on sale on 22 November, “chronicles the development of Sin-gapore’s TV broadcasting landscape in the last 50 years”. The stamp issue also includes a first day cover and a presentation pack with complete sets of stamps.
Bloomberg opens Singapore pop up
Bloomberg Television opens its inner news workings to the public in a three-day “pop-up studio” at Singapore’s Raffles Place from 25-27 November. Anchor Haslinda Amin is the face of the marketing stunt, which also includes the chance for select participants to become TV reporters for a day.
Princess Aurora dethrones on 27 Dec
After weeks of uncertainty over how many more (or less) episodes will be added to Korean drama Princess Au-rora, broadcaster MBC has said the show will not go on after 27 December. This means the series will have aired for a total of 155 episodes.
The third annual government-sponsored pitching session, Tokyo Docs (previously Tokyo TV Forum), opens in the Japanese capital on Monday, 9 December, with 20 Japanese projects ranging from traditional performing arts to post-earthquake recon-struction.
Four Asian projects from China, Korea, Thailand and India will also be presented during the four-day event, which also in-cludes panel discussions and workshops.
This is in line with the 2013 focus on Asian collaboration.
The 30 international content executive taking part include Kenny Bae (KBS), Mark Francis (Fox International Channels Asia), Vikram Channa (Discovery Networks Asia Pacific) and Haibo Huang (Phoenix Satel-lite TV).
Outstanding projects will be presented at Asian Side of the Doc 2014 and given international co-production support.
Japan sharpens factual focus Third annual Tokyo Docs runs 9-12 December
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Who was at... Rewind Networks’ new office drinks
Seow Si Chin, Julie Petersen, Discovery Kevin Dickie, Theresa Ong, Discovery
Yvonne Tay, Fox International Channels; Avi Himats-inghani, Rewind Networks; Basil Chua, StarHub
Sandie Lee, Rewind Networks; Arjan Hoekstra, Discovery
Lynn Huang, Carolyn So, Endah Evryana, Rewind Networks
The launch schedule includes iconic titles such as Seinfeld, Lost, The Cosby Show, Diff’rent Strokes, Golden Girls, Moonlighting and Criminal Minds.
Other comedy and drama titles ac-quired so far include Cheers, The A-Team, Murder She Wrote, Mad About You, Mar-ried With Children, Taxi and Star Trek – The Next Generation.
“There’s so much general entertain-ment out there, the challenge is to find a unique space to add value to the offering,” Himatsinghani says.
Himatsinghani has so far ac-quired series from Disney/ABC, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Television, CBS Studios, NBC Universal and Carsey Werner.
“We basically looked at the shows that won awards,” says Rewind Networks’ vice president and channel head, Sandie Lee.
Lee also looked at series that did well in Asia. These included The Cosby Show, which was Singapore’s top-rated series and the most expensive show ever ac-
quired by the-then Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (now MediaCorp) at the time.
“We have two sets of au-diences – the first timers and
people who remember these shows from the past and want
to see them for the second time,” Himatsinghani adds.
The programming grid mirrors Hits brand-ing – simple and intuitive. Series are stripped across weekdays on the hour or half hour, with omnibus back-to-back episodes at
Sandie Lee
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weekends. “We have put together a simple and in-
tuitive viewing schedule,” Lee says, add-ing: “Audiences can catch their favourite shows at the same time every weekday or binge view back-to-back episodes during the weekend”.
Himatsinghani says about 50% of the schedule at launch will be HD upconvert-ed from standard definition and the rest has been acquired in HD from the studios, which have remastered and upgraded their libraries. “Over time, everything will be in HD,” he says.
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Singapore’s English-language mass-market free-TV channel, MediaCorp’s Channel 5, has gone with back-to-back scheduling of U.S. studio shows, such as Hawaii Five-O season three in November and, earlier in the year, with Revolution
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Your Destiny Sr 3 Ep 307
Just Kidding Ep 23
Just Kidding Ep 24
Survivor 27 (18:30)
Just For Laughs Gags Sr 9
Stay Home Saturday Movie:
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
Movie Event: Harry Potter And
The Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (18:00)
19:0019:15 19:15
19:30 Wheel of Fortune S 30 Ep 8
Wheel of Fortune S 30 Ep 9
Wheel of Fortune S 30 Ep 10
Friday Mega Movie: Jurassic Park III
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20:30Our Makan Places: Lost And Found Sr 4
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Action Sports Ep 7
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The X Factor U.S. Sr 3
Incredible Tales Sr 7 Ep 10 Grimm #02
Ep Natural Born Wesen
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Touch Ep Tesselations
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Ep Ho'opio (To Take Captive)
Survivor 27
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Ep And The Very Christmas Thanksgiving
Sportsworld Weekend Ep 34 0:00
Singapore: MediaCorp Channel 5 (18-24 November 2013)
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America’s Funniest Home Videos
Yr 21 Ep 42
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War Of The World
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Rio
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Wipeout USA Season 5
Wipeout Salutes The Armed Forces
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TV50: Best of Local Sitcoms
Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd Sr 5
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Ep 101 Pilot
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Monday night is the big local drama night, with 50th anniversary series, period drama Mata Mata, in the 8pm slot.
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BBC Earth documentary Africa took home two awards at the annual Sichuan TV Festival’s International Golden Panda Awards in Chengdu earlier this month.
The five episode Africa series explores the continent’s diverse regions. The co-production be-tween BBC’s Natural History Unit and Mainland Chinese free-TV broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) won the Grand Prize for Documen-tary (Nature and Environ-ment) and Bes t Long Documen-tary (Nature and Environ-ment).
BBC Earth also bagged the Most Inno-vative Documentary (Nature &
Environment) award for aerial adventure
series Earthflight.The awards follow an MoU
signed between BBC World-
BBC-CCTV co-pro wins Golden PandaWins follow MoU for CCTV-9/BBC Earth projects
wide and mainland Chinese documentary channel CCTV-9 on 18 November for at least two major BBC Earth projects over the next six months.
Left: (from left) Neil Nightingale, Creative Director, BBC Earth; Pierre Cheung, VP and GM, Greater China, BBC
Worldwide; Liu Wen, Managing Director, CCTV9Above: Award-winning co-pro Africa
gapore rights to the live event for its in-house entertainment channel, E-City.
Nat Geo People on its way to Asia: Here’s one to look for-ward to: the launch of Nat Geo People in Asia in the next few months. We don’t have many details yet and there’s nothing officially announced out of Fox International Channels (FIC) Asia HQ in Hong Kong.
But we hear that, like elsewhere in the world, Nat Geo People will
replace Nat Geo Adventure in Asia in early 2014 in HD, linear and non-linear formats.
The global announcement, made out of Washington at the end of September this year, bills the new brands as offering “unfiltered, intimate access to the true, amazing and inspiring stories of real people all over the world”.
FIC bosses in As ia have been shopping around for suitable content ever since to add to global acquisitions such as David Rocco’s Dolce
Vita with celeb chef David Rocco, and Hook, Line & Sis-ters, about fishing duo Sierra and Memry competing in the high-stakes, male-dominated world of commercial fishing.
We’re thinking that some of the series that will air in other parts of the world – like Ladyboys, which “follows the connection between British expats and their ladyboy lovers in Thailand as they navigate new and unique relationships” – probably won’t make it out here. But you never know...
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