9-22 DECEMber C NTENTASIA 2013 www.contentasia.tv l facebook.com/contentasia l @contentasia l www.asiacontentwatch.com Dope show Weeds to air in Singapore Celestial seals 700 hour SVOD deal with Toggle Wishing you a wonderful 2014. happy Mary-Louise Parker in Weeds Award-winning TV series, Weeds, will air scription video-on-demand rights to feature legally on-demand in Singapore in 2014 as films from U.S. studio Lionsgate. holidays! part of a 700-hour slate acquired by over- The TV and film titles will air on Toggle Eve the-top platform Toggle. and Toggle Movies channels. Distributor Celestial Tiger Entertainment Weeds stars Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy (CTE) says this is not the first time Singapore Botwin in a dark U.S. comedy about a rights to Weeds have been licensed. The marijuana-dealing mother living in an af- C NTENTasia name of the previous broadcaster has not fluent suburb. This is the final issue ofContentAsia newslet- been disclosed. CTE also says it is up to lo- In addition to Weeds, TV titles include five ter for 2013. We will be back on 13 Janu- cal broadcasters to comply with program- seasons of Mad Men; reality show Nail Files, ary 2014. Subscription daily, ContentAsia ming/censorship codes, and that it does about salon owner Katie Cazorla; and Run- Insider, will continue to publish Asia’s top news stories through the holidays. Contact not track edits. ning Wilde, a half-hour comedy starring Will
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