China’s streaming gold rush moves into 2016 at full tilt, sweeping across every genre, carrying thousands of hours of U.S. content in its wake, and mirroring hyper-activity in the feature film production space.

On getting Dirk Gently into development with BBC America

2015 is ending well for Sony Pictures Television’s (SPT) international production unit in Asia Pacific.

Thailand’s Workpoint TV is the poster company for digital broadcast success, with a firm place in the country’s top three mass-market channels, a commitment to fast-track production infrastructure upgrades, and a clear view of where it wants to fit in the country’s entertainment universe.

Asia’s biggest content trading market, the Asia TV Forum (ATF), opens on 2 December in Singapore amid a rush to online/on-demand digital delivery, a frenzy of multi-platform rights and a whole lot of other energy going into future proofing (or at least attempting to) the media business.

Siddharth Varadarajan, the former editor of The Hindu, reckons that political reporting in India has become largely about ‘who said what’. But there is loads that needs to be reported on.