#GreatJobs C NTENT page 4 www.contentasia.tv l www.contentasiasummit.com 21 October-3 November 2019 2 Nov debut for Hunan TV, Endemol Shine co-dev hits #1 DC Super Hero Girls Sing or Spin talent contest debuts at 0.8% in Asia “Girls get shortchanged in the cool department way too often,” creator Lauren Faust says DC Super Hero Girls premieres on Cartoon Network in Southeast Asia on 2 Nov, bring- ing a whole new brand of girls TV to the region. The animated action adventure series tracks teenage versions of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Bumblebee, Batgirl, Zatanna and Green Lantern. “Girls get shortchanged in the cool department way too often,” show creator Lauren Faust told Mip Junior delegates in Cannes this month. The full story is on page 3 Sing or Spin, Hunan TV/Endemol Shine China 4 Nov debut for 1st The premiere of Hunan TV’s new prime “in line with China’s push for innovation TV Tokyo, Piece of time talent show, Sing or Spin, topped its and content support”. slot on Friday (18 Oct) with ratings of 0.8% Endemol also said at Mipcom that Cake co-pro and reach of 3.42% across all provincial TV China’s Jiangsu TV has commissioned Japanese free-TV stations in China. a third season of Puzzle Masters to air in The non-scripted series, part of Hunan early 2020. broadcaster gives viewers TV’s China showcase at Mipcom, is a co- China emerged fourth in ContentAsia’s storyline control development with Endemol Shine China. Formats Outlook for the first half of 2019, The entertainment format is part of the with 23 formats aired/commissioned Japan’s TV Tokyo and media company Chinese broadcaster’s Biu Project initia- across the country. Piece of Cake, release their first drama tive to create a pipeline of pilots for its By volume, this puts China behind Thai- series co-production, House Unknown linear channel. land (45), Vietnam (37) and India (26). on 4 Nov.The eight-part short-form series Hunan TV says the Biu Project created The 23 titles accounted for 10.26% of the is based on a story sources from Piece of more than 500 hours of original non-script- total 224 formats across 15 countries in the Cake’s story platform Note. ed content in 2018. region (Jan-June 2019). Sing or Spin involves a revolving stage 13 (57%) of the 23 formats adapted in The full story is on page 2 that lets singers know how well they are China were scripted/drama series, includ- scoring. The co-development team was ing 30-episode Mandarin version of high- led by Rebecca De Young, Endemol end Australian mystery/crime drama, Miss Plus Shine China’s head of content reporting Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Miss S. • South Park tops demand in Taiwan; to China managing director, William Tan, The 10 non-scripted titles were a mix of Comedy Central show 35% ahead and Lester Hu, Hunan TV’s head of formats reality, game shows, entertainment and • Radio, smart speakers lead news trends and international business. song contests, including World’s Got Tal- • The Naked Director tops Netflix Japan The partnership was approved by Chi- ent China (on Hunan TV from Fremantle) launches na’s National Radio and Television Admin- and Sweet Kiss Bitter Kiss China (Youku ... and a whole lot more istration and is being officially supported from TV Asahi). C NTENTASIA 21 October-3 november 2019 Page 2. 4 Nov debut for first TV Tokyo, Piece of Cake FROM THE SCREEN TO THE SOFA co-production Japanese free-TV broadcaster gives viewers storyline control formats that innovate Celebrity House Unknown, TV Tokyo/Piece of Cake Call Centre Everyday problems, Japanese broadcaster TV Tokyo and media company Piece of extraordinary solutions Cake, will release their first co-produced drama series, House Unknown (translated) on Monday, 4 Nov. The 8 x 15 minute series, about the lives of housemates, is produced by TV Tokyo’s Yu Ota and Tomohiro Goda. The series will air on TV Tokyo as well as on the network’s You- Tube channel and video streaming portal. The first 10 minutes of the show has been decided while the rest of the series will be determined by users. A contest in search for the best storylines started on 3 Oct on Piece of Cake’s storyline platform Note. House Unknown is part of a capital and business alliance between the two companies signed in August this year. The alliance was formed following a collaboration between TV Tokyo, Piece of Cake and publisher Gentosha on an essay/ comic writing competition in April 2019. “The contest was a triumph, with 4,212 entries... it would be a waste to end this [essay/comic] collaboration with Piece of Cake,” says TV Tokyo’s president and chief executive, Shigeru Komago. The alliance aims to, among other things, “create original content from a perspective that has never been seen before”. @all3media_int “In this era, we have to create programmes based on a all3mediainternational.com digital sense... it was essential to collaborate with internet companies,” says Komago. Launched in April 2014, Note is a web service that allows cre- ators to post text, manga, photos, and audio. Approximately five million works have been uploaded so far. The platform says it has 20 million monthly active users (August 2019). 27 May-9 June 2019 page 2. C NTENTASIA 21 October-3 november 2019 Page 3. Indonesian regulator 2 Nov debut for DC Super Hero Girls in Asia suspends Trans talk show “Girls get shortchanged in the cool department,” creator says Indonesia’s media regulator pulled Trans TV talk show, Brownis, for two days this month for multiple violations of the coun- try’s broadcast programming codes. In one of the incidents, the Central In- donesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) said personal conflicts and situations, such as those of celebrities Nikita Mirzani and Barbie Kumalasari, had been dis- cussed. In another episode, two women were dancing and shaking their breasts. The KPI also objected to various con- versations and activities on the show, including a man pushing his friend’s head in an episode in August. KPI said the shows disrespected the right to privacy and values or the norms of decency and morality. “It is fitting for someone’s privacy or DC Super Hero Girls, Cartoon Network personal rights to be respected in every broadcast programme. Personal life is DC Super Hero Girls premieres on Cartoon “Most shows, too many shows, for girls related to married life, divorce, family Network in Southeast Asia on 2 Nov, bring- are less about inspiring them, less about conflict, personal conflict, infidelity, love ing a whole new brand of girls TV to the entertaining them, less about reflecting affairs, religious beliefs, and personal region. their experiences back to them. secrets. Especially the issues discussed in The animated action adventure series, “Too often they come across as lectures the programme are not related to the produced by Warner Bros Animation, in how we expect girls to behave.... they public interest,” KPI said. tracks teenage versions of Wonder Wom- end of being very soft, very nice, and an, Supergirl, Bumblebee, Batgirl, Zatanna everyone is very concerned about every- Zee closes raft of and Green Lantern. body else’s feelings all the time, and that’s “The tone of the show, with the cuteness important to a degree but is that really licensing deals and the silliness, sets us apart,” show crea- exciting to watch? And is that something Zee Entertainment’s Zee Global Con- tor Lauren Faust told Mip Junior delegates that’s going to follow you as you grow up tent Sales has licensed a slate of first-run in Cannes this month. and go on with your life,” she added. English drama series to African digital Faust said girls were portrayed too often “We’re seeing less and less of girls like platform Iroko as part of a raft of deals on TV as “perfect angels all the time... our shopping, and make up and talking on with, among others, the U.K., South girls have flaws and they mess up”. the phone a lot, and more and more Africa, and Bulgaria. Titles include Tashn- “I don’t know if you see that very often female characters across animation and e-ishq, Kumkum Bhagya, Gangaa and in girls shows, them just being idiots,” she live action that have more depth be- Yeh Teri Galiyan. ETV, South Africa’s larg- said. cause we are giving them the gamut of est private free-TV channel picked up “Girls get shortchanged in the cool human emotions not just what we think is marquee dramas – Qubool Hai and Yeh department way too often,” Faust said. exclusive to girls and women.” Teri Galiyan. Embrace the age of Infinite Entertainment. We’re Synamedia. 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