13 June 2014: I was told that executive producer Ron Moore might arrive for this interview in a kilt. And, still at the very beginning of his Scottish adventure that could run for the next eight years or more, he did. "There's nothing like walking down the streets of L.A. in a kilt," he says.

13 June 2014: There's something of a hallelujah mini-moment dawning for rights holders in the online environment. And it can't come soon enough or be applauded more loudly.

13 June 2014: Rahul Johri is happy. In the past two years, the Discovery Networks Asia Pacific executive vice president and South Asia general manager has seen Discovery Science's ratings rise six times. Sister channel, Animal Planet, is up by 77%. And the joy is spreading.

13 June 2014: Asia's content industry by numbers, from the 90% of men in Malaysia who see themselves as the primary grocery shopping decision makers to forecasts of 13.3 million TV everywhere subscribers in the region by 2018.RM17.28mMalaysia's highest-grossing local film, Astro Shaw's The Journey,

13 June 2014: The entire Asia Pacific pay television ecosystem added 26 million net new customers in 2013, the lowest annual growth since 2007, according to Media Partners Asia's (MPA) latest annual research, released at the end of May.

13 June 2014: Why TV is "the place to be" for the next five years, what the digital mindset really means and other things PricewaterhouseCoopers charts in its new Global entertainment and media outlook 2014-2018 report, which also puts China, India and Indonesia on its global growth watchlist.US$8.7