Asia is in streaming overdrive. And content owners and rights holders couldn’t be happier.

Star India boss Uday Shankar has hammered India’s traditional television sector, saying during the opening of this year’s FICCI Frames convention in Mumbai that the “tectonic shift” in consumer habits was being met with stagnation and denial.

What does an old dog doing new tricks look like? Well, pretty much Like BBC First on StarHub in Singapore.Why?

Asia was Netflixed in the first week of 2016. Southeast Asia is going to be iflixed in a much bigger way from about now with US$45 million from Europe’s Sky plus US$5 million from Indonesia’s Emtek Group (iflix hasn’t confirmed the size of the Indonesian investment).

A+E takes yet another step into owning its content future, wholly and completely, during MIP TV in April with the global premiere of high-end mini-series Roots.

Can anyone remember a time when curiosity ran this high about what’s happening at Discovery in Asia? Yes? When? No? Me neither. Why?