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#GreatJobs page 2 ! s r a ye 2 0 c 016 g 1 ntent - Celebratin www.contentasia.tv l www.contentasiasummit.com 16-29 May 2016 HBO Asia silent on Cameras roll on How Do I Look? Asia 2 China channel Mama Mai and TV host Jeannie rock Singapore MAIN COLOR PALETTE 10 GRADIENT BG GRADIENT
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Singapore-based HBO Asia is neither confirming nor denying reports about a Chinese movie slate being co-developed with mainland state broadcaster China Central Television’s China Movie Chan- nel/CCTV-6. CCTV-6 will air the movies in China and HBO will broadcast and distribute the titles internationally, according to U.S. trade site, The Hollywood Reporter. News of the deal emerged at the weekend during the Cannes Film Festival. China Movie Channel vice president, Zhang Ling, was quoted in the report confirming the arrangement. How Do I Look? Asia season two host Jeannie Mai (centre) with NBCUniversal creative director, “Our business models are very comple- Natalie Gee and FremantleMedia Asia director of creative content, Glenn Sims mentary, so it is a natural collaboration,” How Do I Look? Asia’s season two host, In short, she’s a rockstar. Who. Needs. he said. Jeannie Mai, has been trailing around Her. Own show. He added that details would be dis- Singapore for the past few days with/after Meanwhile, on the set of the make-over closed during the Shanghai International new-born social media celebrity – the tell- show for NBCUniversal’s Diva, eight style- Film Festival (11-18 June 2016). it-like-she-sees-it Mama Mai. challenged participants from, among Mama Mai has already told Fremantle- other countries, Singapore, Malaysia, Media Asia’s director of creative content, Philippines and Indonesia, are getting Glenn Sims that he has long-life earlobes, the Jeannie Mai treatment from the Viet- SCM to air “At Cafe she’s played a can-u-see-what-I-see namese American host of the original U.S. game in Arab Street with her 24,000+ series, How Do I Look?. 6” in exclusive TV Instagram fans (that’s since she joined on Eight one-hour episodes are being pro- rights deal Mother’s Day this year); she’s kicked up a duced by FremantleMedia Asia for broad- flurry of explanation on why Singapore’s cast across Asia some time in August. At Cafe 6 is headed for Star Chinese construction workers may be sleeping Season two of How Do I Look? Asia Movies (SCM) in an exclusive TV/ theatri- on the backs of moving flat-bed trucks; is one of 210 formats on air or commis- cal distribution deal with Fox Networks she’s learned something about Singapore sioned since the beginning of the year, Group (FNG) for Hong Kong and South- values (“I love when I learned new thing!! according to ContentAsia’s latest Formats east Asia. The movie, based on Fuji Izuki’s I smart I very pretty but when I learn I be- Outlook update for May 2016. 2007 Taiwanese novel, will screen this come a lot beautiful”). Vietnam continues to be Asia’s most ac- summer. FNG has not released the pre- So far, 10 of her 17 Instagram posts are tive formats market, leading with 51 titles miere date for SCM. from Singapore and she has 24,300 fol- (up from 46 at end March 2016), followed Full story on page 6 lowers. More on page 11 c ntentasia 16-29 May 2016 Page 2.
BCM 2016 hits theJC NbTspaceENTASIA 2,700 delegates the place to look for the jobs that matter Korean show organisers’ co-pro love-fest with China and Japan
Chief Sales Representative, Asia Pacific LOCATION: within Asia Pacific, Singapore preferred
Chief is responsible for all TV and Digital rights exploitation of all Miramax properties. Chief will work closely with management and manage members of the Asia Pacific team. Successful candidate is an experienced sales manager within the media sales environment. Must have experience in Film/TV series exploitation, including the contractual and rights procedures involved. Requirements: Must have at least 8-10 years of significant Busan Contents Market (BCM) opening ceremony in depth experience in a sales role, an understanding of the Asian TV and production markets and territories. Sales This year’s 10th annual Busan Contents Market (BCM) closed experience must be for scripted Film/TV. at the weekend with a total of 2,702 delegates and 1,710 For details visit Miramax.com or email CV and cover letter buyers and sellers from 666 companies. to [email protected] and include “Chief Sales - Asia” Organisers said participants from 45 countries came to the in the subject line. seaport, known for its beaches, hot springs and international film festival. Participation has risen steadily over the past 10 years. In 2012, 1,200 people attended, up from 1,060 in 2011. Click here to see more job listings As in past years, delegates said they appreciated BCM’s opportunity for more detailed discussions compared to the frenetic pace of markets like Mip TV and Mipcom. “BCM BCM regular, Gary Pudney, arrived in Busan for the first time this year in is about quality, not quantity,” said Colombian distributor his new role as Keshet International’s Asia head, with a slate that included Caracol’s international sales exec, Maria Estrella. eight-part finished series, The A Word as well as formats such as Boom!. Drama and documentary co-production and co-oper- Like others, Pudney said he appreciated the market’s pace. ation with China and Japan topped BCM’s conference Participants in BCM’s drama sessions heard CODA (Korea Drama Pro- agenda this year. duction Association) president, Park Chang-sik, say it was “time to pick As usual, however, the market floor was dominated by the fruit of the tree we have nurtured”, and maximise Asian content’s Korean drama, which continues to top buyers’ acquisition profile on the global stage. This was best done by co-operating, he said, wish lists from across the region. predicting that in 20 years drama production would be “borderless”. Fresh from the sale of large-scale telenovela The White China TV Drama Production Industry Association head, You Xiaogang, Slave to Vietnam’s National Television (NTV), Caracol Inter- called for expanded co-operation between China, Japan and Korea. nacional used BCM to showcase new series ahead of this His comments follow massive success in China of KBS drama, Descend- year’s L.A. Screenings, which started this week. ants of the Sun. Caracol’s BCM headliners included The Girl, an 80-episode “We need to grow our network,” he said. “Asian countries should work series about a woman, abducted as a young girl by guerillas, together for mutual advantage... If it stays as a one-way relationship, the who attempts to return to normal life. Korean Wave can be affected,” he added. Caracol’s Estrella said she was optimistic about distribution At the same time, he warned that the Chinese government was “very opportunities opening up with new platforms. Caracol’s top sensitive” to the growth of content, and producers has to be “careful”. markets in Asia at the moment are Indonesia, Vietnam and “Trends are changing, but we need to be careful,” You said, adding Myanmar. that KBS had done everything right with Descendants of the Sun. UPDATE Out now!
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Please contact Aqilah at [email protected] or +65 6846-5987 to add your formats deals and productions in Asia “Award-winning long running formats we are proud to deliver and love to watch” Mike Beale - ITV Studios, Global Development and Formats www.contentasia.tv @Contentasia Facebook/Contentasia, HELLS KITCHEN . FOUR, WEDDINGS . COME DINE WITH ME THE CHASE . I M A CELEBRITY... GET ME OUT OF HERE
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Zee dance show Bastings, Kapoor stir India pot returns to S’pore FoodFood added to Discovery’s channel portfolio
Zee TV’s Dance Singapore Dance competition format is auditioning wan- nabe star dancers for season two on 28 May in Singapore. Auditions are open to both amateurs and professionals. The 12 dancers on the shortlist will train with professional choreographers. The new season will air on Zee TV and Zee Tamizh across 18 countries in the last quarter of Discovery Asia head Arthur Bastings with Indian chef Sanjeev Kapoor this year. Singapore platform StarHub, Discovery has turned up the heat in In- closed. which carries both channels, is the pre- dia, adding a majority stake in five-year- Turmeric Vision operates FoodFood senting sponsor. old Indian food channel operator, Tur- and related digital products. Discovery meric Vision, to its portfolio. will sell FoodFood’s advertising, effective The size of the investment, which aligns immediately. the regional network with local celeb Meanwhile, the hunt for an India head Nick Asia to air chef Sanjeev Kapoor, has not been dis- to replace Rahul Johri continues. Top Wing
Nickelodeon Asia will air Canadian Content Tokyo 2016 to open 24% up animation studio 9 Story Media Group’s Netflix, Pixar & “Attack on Titan” insights promised new CG-animated pre-school series Top Wing. The rights deal for the action- adventure series for Asia is part of an ex- Japan’s sixth Content Tokyo opens its doors including the fourth Production Compa- clusive global agreement (ex Canada) on 29 June, with 38,000 delegates expect- nies Expo, for selling/buying/co-produc- for the 52x11-minute series. Broadcast ed to attend the three-day event. ing/investment opportunities, and the details have not been disclosed. Top Last year, 30,511 visitors from 16 coun- fifth Creators’ Expo. Wing follows a team of eager young tries attended the show, which had 1,323 The other streams feature licensing, birds as they help their community and exhibitors, of which 77 were international tech and marketing. earn their wings as full-feathered rescue and the other 1,246 were domestic. Speakers this year include Netflix’s Da- birds. Organisers Reed Exhibitions said in vid Lee and Pixar Animation’s Sandra the run up to this year’s event that 1,530 Karpman. http://www.facebook.com/contentasia companies were expected to exhibit, in- Katsuro Onoue, senior managing di- http://www.facebook.com/contentasia cluding producers, animation and tech rector/VFX director and supervisor of http://www.facebook.com/contentasia http://www.facebook.com/contentasiafacebook.com/contentasia companies. Tokusatsu Lab, will talk about making http://www.facebook.com/contentasia This year’s Content Tokyo continues his most challenging movie, Japanese http://www.facebook.com/contentasia to focus on six specialised segments, manga series Attack on Titan. c ntentasia 16-29 May 2016 Page 5.
beIN launches Thailand sweetens production incentives sports channel New 15% rebate on in-country spend trio on Foxtel Thailand’s film/TV authorities have sweet- were under way. beIN Sports launched three HD sports ened their production incentive pack- Japan and India are, by far, the biggest channels on Foxtel on Saturday, 14 May, ages, adding a cash rebate of between foreign presence in Thailand. boosting the platform’s European football 15% and 20% on in-country production Last year, India was involved in 125 pro- and rugby union slate. spend from 2017. ductions in Thailand, followed by Japan The three new channels have been Productions with local spend of THB50 with 119. This flipped 2014’s production, included in Foxtel’s Sports Pack at no ad- million qualify automatically for the 15% when Japan had 133 and India ended ditional cost to subscribers. rebate. the year with 107. In addition to European cup football The additional 5% depends on the par- European producers (excluding the U.K.) and rugby this past weekend, beIN Sports ticipation of local Thai talent and crew are also a significant presence, rising from will broadcast all 51 games of UEFA Euro as well as whether the production boosts 79 productions in 2010 to 108 last year. The 2016 live and in HD from 11 June along tourism to Thailand. U.K. added another 45 productions last with coverage of European Football in- The incentives were unveiled during the year, its highest ever. cluding Serie A, Ligue 1 and Bundesliga, Cannes Film Festival in France. Other countries included in the break- and South American football including Figures published by the government- down are Korea (34 productions last the South American FIFA World Cup backed Thailand Film Office show that 724 year, down from 41 in 2010), China (48 Qualifiers, Brazilian Serie A and Sao Paulo foreign productions were filmed in Thai- productions last year from 22 in 2010) and Championship. land last year – the highest since 2010. Hong Kong (29 last year compared to 24 As of March this year, 143 productions in 2010). c ntentasia 16-29 May 2016 Page 6.
SCM to air “At Cafe I want... 6” in exclusive TV A quick look at some of Asia’s buyers’ shopping list for this year. rights deal Who Buying Rights Krishnan Rajagopalan Animation Over-the-top Co-Founder, Chief Content and Drama* Distribution Officer Feature film Hooq Japanese anime Kids* Korean drama Sci-Fi Telenovelas
Ofanny Choi Animation Cable/Satellite Executive Vice President, Drama* Catch-up TV Networks Edutainment* Digital/Online Celestial Tiger Entertainment Entertainment* VOD Feature film At Cafe 6 Lifestyle* Japanese anime Taiwanese youth romance At Cafe 6 Kids* MMA* is headed for premium Asian movie Movies* channel Star Chinese Movies (SCM) in an Reality exclusive TV and theatrical distribution Sci-Fi deal with Fox Networks Group (FNG) for Sandie Lee Classic comedies Pay-TV Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Vice President and Drama Digital/Online The movie, based on Fuji Izuki’s 2007 Channel Head Feature film ... for Southeast Rewind Networks Movies Asia, Hong Kong Taiwanese novel, will screen in theatres (Preferably from Hollywood) and Taiwan in Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia on 15 July, and in Hong Kong and China this Krissada Trishnananda Animation Cable/Satellite Head of Acquisition and Right Documentary* Free-TV summer. Management Drama IPTV FNG has not released the premiere Bangkok Broadcasting & TV Co Entertainment Mobile date for SCM. (BBTV Channel 7), Thailand Feature film* At Cafe 6 rides a teen romantic com- Food Formats* edy trend set in 2011 by You Are The Kids Apple of my Eye and followed last year Korean drama by Our Times. Lifestyle/Travel FNG’s theatrical partners outside of Reality Music Taiwan and China are Twentieth Century Sports Fox International in Hong Kong, Clover Sci-Fi Films Distribution, mm2 Entertainment & Nancy Lai Animation Free TV Golden Village in Singapore, and Clover Assistant Controller, Programme Arts Films Distribution & mm2 Entertainment in Division Documentary* Malaysia and Brunei. Television Broadcasts Ltd (TVB), Drama* Hong Kong Education At Cafe 6, directed by Izuki under his Entertainment given name Neal Wu, stars Zijian Dong Feature film (Young Love Lost, The Ark of Mr. Chow), Kids/Youth as a young man looking back on his Lifestyle*/Food/Travel Movies* youth and his bittersweet first love from Reality high school, played by Hong Kong ac- Sci-Fi tress Cherry Ngan (The Way We Dance). Cecilia Dharmawan Animation* Free TV Media Operation and Content Documentary www.contentasia.tv Acquisition Education DAAI TV, Indonesia *Buying more this year. Source: Buyers, www.contentasia.tv/buyers mm x ���mm
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Streaming/OTT: The regional players Platforms Hooq iflix Netflix Tribe Viki Viu Singtel, Sony Pictures, Catcha Group and Owned by Warner Bros Evolution Media Capital Netflix U.S. Astro Malaysia Rakuten Japan PCCW Hong Kong Malaysia (May 2015), Indonesia (Mar 2016) Hong Kong (Oct 2015); Philippines (Mar 2015), Philippines (June 2015), Across Asia (ex China & Singapore & Malaysia Launched Thailand (May 2015), Thailand (Sept 2015) North Korea) in January and to be launched Online in 2007 (Jan 2016); India India (May 2015) and and Indonesia (to 2016 in the Philippines (Mar 2016); Indonesia Indonesia (April 2016) launch in June 2016) within 2016 (coming soon)
SVOD platform Hooq SVOD streaming was established in platform accessible OTT service from January 2015 by via multiple devices, Singapore telco Global streaming Malaysian pay-TV including TV sets via platform. Available platform, targeting Global streaming Multi-screen video app Singtel, Sony Pictures Google Chromecast. Television and Warner directly or through a younger demo. platform, mixed free from Hong Kong telco Has distribution telcos, including Singtel and subscription PCCW. Has distribution About Bros. Has distribution partnerships with Has distribution deals partnerships with (since Jan 2016) and model. USP: crowd- deals with Malaysia’s telcos TM and Digi with Indonesia’s subtitled in about 200 TM and Singapore’s telcos Globe Telecom StarHub (May 2016) in XL Axiata and in Malaysia, PLDT in Singapore. languages Singtel. in the Philippines, the Philippines and Philippines’ Globe AIS Thailand, Airtel Telkom and Indosat in Telecom. India and Telkomsel Indonesia. Indonesia.
No. of 1 million members (the 1.2 million total users subscribers/ number of paying Over 81 million Over 40 million monthly Undisclosed members globally. Asia Undisclosed in the territories it is users, April subscribers has not users available in 2016 been disclosed) figures not available
No. Says it allows users to choose to sign up Censor in accordance and decide what, Censorship/ where and when to Says it "complies Content with local cultural Complies with ratings Rated 12+ on Google preferences and watch by offering with the censorship ratings on ratings guides and regulations in the Rated 12+ on Google system in each territory. Google Play/ Play and Apple App sensitivities for each Play and 17+ on Apple Rated 3+ on Google Store territory. Rated 18+ on episode synopsis as countries it operates in". Apple App guidelines, and a PIN- 3+ on Google Play and App Store Play and 12+ on Apple Store Google Play and 12+ App Store on Apple App Store code system. Rated 4+ on Apple App Store 12+ on Google Play Store and 4+ on Apple App Store Focus on Asian content, particularly 20,000+ hours of All genres. Released Korean drama/variety/ content from the nearly 450 hours of lifestyle/music shows U.S., U.K., Australia, global original content 5 linear channels, from KBS, SBS, MBC Malaysia, Hong Kong, in 2015, targeting over including Turner’s TV series and movies and CJ E&M (promises More than 35,000 hours Korea, the Philippines, 600 hours in 2016. Oh!K and Sony’s One, 4,000 hours of new of Hollywood and local Thailand, Japan and 2016 plan is to offer streamed. Promising from Korea, China, What’s on Taiwan, Japan and titles a year from the content available via Scandinavia, among 75 original series, 24 live and on-demand four partners, with streaming/download. others. Accessible original feature films content comprising live Thailand, among others. most available within to stream and/or and documentary sports, Asian movies, eight hours after Korea downloand. Says it is series, comedy specials and TV series. telecast). Subtitled pushing new releases and 30 original kids for specific markets. to 30 films a week series. Content auto-adjusts to device/access location. Country-specific Country-specific subscription prices/ Country-specific plans. In Malaysia subscription prices/ Single global subscription prices/ plans. Philippines costs costs RM8/US$1.90 plans. Premium ad-free a month. Free one subscription in 190+ from Php149/US$3 countries; content In indonesia: 30 days option with access to to Php499/US$10.60 year for TM’s Unifi subs Universal pricing. Viki additional premium or RM10/US$2.50 a adjusts to location. free trial for XL users for a 2GB data plan. Universal pricing, Pass (HD, ad-free) costs content at a cost. No How much Thailand is THB119/ month for Digi subs. via the MyXL app. US$4.99/month (with limit to the number iflix Thailand is THB100/ currency adjusted. US$3.40 a month. Prices are US$7.99/ Subsequent monthly a 7-day free trial) or of devices a single India is Rs249/US$3.75 US$2.78 a month. In charges cost US$49.90/year account can be the Philippines, iflix US$9.99/US$11.99 a a month. Indonesia month or equivalent to Rp25,000/US$1.90 used on at the same costs Rp18,700/US$1.40 costs Php129/US$2.75 time. Only registered a month (or Php99/ the local currency in a week or Rp49,500/ each country members can save/ US$3.75 a month. US$2 a month for download videos PLDT Home/Smart subscribers). Installs via Google Play, 100,000-500,000 500,000-1 million 100 million-500 million 10,000-50,000 10 million-50 million 500,000-1 million April 2016 KBS (Korea), Media Disney, Fox, CBS, Prima (Malaysia), Warner Bros, MGM, Sony, Disney, Sony Pictures Television, MD Entertainment Paramount, BBC and Paramount, Primeworks (Malaysia), (Indonesia) and Content Warner Bros, 13 NBCUniversal. Says Dreamworks, Warner TVBS (Taiwan) and partners Entertainment, MNC Turner, Fox and CJ E&M Reliance (India). Says it has more than 60 Bros, AMC Networks, Media Nusantara Citra, it has partnerships include… Contents, Multivision content partners, Lionsgate, BBC and MNC (Indonesia) Plus and Transmedia with 250 studios and including some from NBC production houses Asia around the world Amazon Web Services, Tech partners AWS, Google and Apple, Google, LG, The Platform, Accedo, include… Not available Domo Samsung, Sony and Hemisphere and R/GA Not available Not available Microsoft Source: Companies, ContentAsia Satellite Industry Forum 2016 30 May 2016, Pan Paci c Hotel, Singapore #casbaasif
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10 Years Ago This Week...
ContentAsia celebrated its 10th anniversary inSchedule March Watch: 2016. Antv Among • other things, we’re marking the occasion byIPTV: looking Chunghwa back at 100K(and • maybe marvelling a bit at everything that’s happenedCountry since) Profile: at Philippines what • happened this weekASIA in 2006.... Digital: J:Com’s leap • C NTENT Acquisitions: NTV7 • www.contentasia.tv Issue 6: May 15-28, 2006
NEWS All “ize” on Pink at Asia’s biz channel
Vietnam rises on regional map CNBC Asia’s new boss unveils four-pronged strategy A slew of deals in Vietnam has put the one-time pariah TV nation Anyone talking to CNBC’s new approach – localize, year in place of Sandy firmly on the content map. boss, Jeremy Pink, about his supersize, mobilize Brown, who departed strategy for the Singapore-based and globalize – he is shortly after. He has New CEO at Malaysia’s Astro regional biz channel is going to taking to Asia. already demonstrated Rohana Rozhan, former CFO, has get an “ize” full. In addition, there’s the advantages, with taken Astro’s top job. Pink has dubbed his blueprint a “not one ize fits all” the launch in Decem- “The IZE strategy” for the last angle that means ber 2005 of Worldwide China ad revenue hits US$5 billion three letters of the four-pronged the vision will be Exchange, the two-hour China’s TV stations collected US$5 seen through differ- global show that shifts billion in advertising fees in 2005 ent lenses depend- from Asia to Europe to BBC World to stay ing on the market. Jeremy Pink the U.S. and back. Page turned at HK’s TVB Very little of the In addition to driving TVB’s long-time MD, Louis Page, has despite losses, new strategy, he says, is anything Worldwide Exchange, Pink spent quit. His replacement – temporarily, Thompson says that either was or could be at- the first part of this year looking TVB says – is Mona Fong, the wife of tempted before, when CNBC at where the business in Asia is TVB chaiman Sir Run Run Shaw. BBC World will remain on air was part of a joint venture with – and, probably more impor- despite suggestions by an Dow Jones. tantly, where it isn’t – and where MTV in new broadband venture independent auditor in the Now that the business channel he would like it to be. MTV and Korean multimedia de- U.K. to close the global news has gone solo, the opportunities “We want to make sure that veloper, Wizmax, launch Asia’s first channel, according to a have ballooned, says Pink, who every thing we do is product branded broadband network. report in The Hollywood Re- arrived at CNBC in December last Continued on page 4 porter quoting BBC director Thai pirates shut down general Mark Thompson. Channels at Phuket’s four cable Thompson said BBC World Hands off exclusive contracts – MDA ops have been shut down. loses US$29.5 million a year, but that the service had Singapore’s media authorities content could be considered its best year ever in 2005 in have peered into the country’s critical for the success of a advertising terms and would exclusive pay-TV contracts – and pay-TV service, exclusive car- are stepping right back from any riage agreements per se do not The news stories above were treble profits in three years. The channel “is a very interference... for now. substantially foreclose potential adapted from the May 5 & The Media Development entrants’ access to key content 10 issues of ContentAsia’s important part of our glo- bal networks strategy,” he Authority (MDA) will monitor for the pay-TV market in Sin- Insider – a new Blackberry- the situation, the authority said gapore.” The MDA would not, friendly service that gets you was quoted as saying at a Broadcast Press Guild lunch. in a statement on May 10. If therefore, be regulating exclu- your Asian media news first, fast- exclusive carriage agreements sivity, the authority said. est and more frequently. Fully The independent report into the BBC’s request to hike its have a “negative impact” on The investigation, which start- searchable archive access to consumers or the market, the ed last year, is thought to have all ContentAsia magazine and license fee from US$232 a year to US$349 over seven years whole issue will be picked over been prompted by dominant ContentAsia Insider articles is in- once again. telco SingTel, which backed cluded in your paid subscription. identified BBC World as one of a few “high risk” ventures that Explaining its decision, the away from a pay-TV licence For more information, please email MDA said that “while certain Continued on page 8 [email protected] 5/16/06 11:27 AM PageContinued 1 on page 5 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K
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Editorial Director Janine Stein [email protected] Assistant Editor Malena Amzah [email protected] Research Manager CJ Yong [email protected] Editorial Research Aqilah Yunus [email protected] Design House Hunters Asia Rae Yong
From page 1: announcements on either had been Associate Publisher by China with 33 (up from 28 in Q1) and made by 16 May. (Americas, Europe) and VP, Thailand with 27 (up from 26 in Q1). The third big format – Asia’s Next International Business Development In dollar terms, China continues to be by Top Model season four – premiered in Leah Gordon far the biggest market, with production March on Fox Networks Group’s (FNG) [email protected] budgets that dwarf anything in the rest of StarWorld. FremantleMedia Asia pro- Sales and Marketing (Asia) the region. Star China Media’s The Voice duced season four. Season five is widely Masliana Masron of China season four, for instance, had a expected to go to FremantleMedia Asia [email protected] production budget north of RMB100 mil- too, breaking the pattern of switching To receive your regular free copy lion/US$16 million. Season five and its dop- production houses every season. FNG of ContentAsia, please email has not yet confirmed a fifth season. www.contentasia.tv pelganger – the result of a vicious battle [email protected] between rights holder Talpa and former FNG isn’t alone in switching production partner Star China Media – significantly houses. How Do I Look? Asia shifts from Published fortnightly by: increases spend around song shows. NBCUni-backed Matchbox Pictures to Pencil Media Pte Ltd Vietnam’s position at the top of the vol- FremantleMedia Asia for season two. 730A Geylang Road ume list is not a surprise. The country has Reasons for the switch haven’t been giv- Singapore 389641 been a formats driver for years. 2016 kicked en. NBCUni hasn’t disclosed the budget, Tel: +65 6846-5987 off with everything from the 10th season of but it’s said to be less than US$1 million. contentasia.tv Deal or No Deal Vietnam to season seven In the same spend-band is Scripps MCI (P) 091/11/2015 of Vietnam’s Next Top Model. Networks Interactive Asia’s House Hunt- FremantleMedia Asia and Endemol Shine ers Asia, which premieres on HGTV Asia Copyright 2016 Pencil Media Pte on 22 May at 6pm, marking the year-old Group Asia are clear leaders in the region, Ltd. All Rights Reserved. separated by 30+ titles from their closest channel’s entry into original production. rival. Endemol Shine has 55 titles on air/com- House Hunters Asia comes on the back missioned this year, including the firstHunted of regional ratings successes for Scripps’ China. Hunted is one of five titles on Endemol originals, including Papa’s Kitchen, a co- Shine’s China slate. FremantleMedia lists 44 pro with Japan’s Fuji TV, and season two across the region, including four in China. of Family Kitchen with Sherson. Nielsen/ c ntentasia Both companies are in the cross hairs on Kantar ratings provided by Scripps show Daily news with returns of two of the three biggest regional Family Kitchen with Sherson lifting the ContentAsia Insider formats last year – Asia’s Got Talent (Fre- slot’s average viewership by up to 81% email [email protected] mantleMedia for Sony Pictures Networks in Singapore in some weeks and topping for subscription details Asia’s AXN) and MasterChef Asia (Endemol English-language pay-TV charts (ex kids Shine for A+E Networks Asia’s Lifetime). No & movies) for the 9pm slot in Malaysia.