What do you think is the best way to fry a human leg? Is veal or pork closest to human flesh? Where does one source fingers? How will beef, lamb or goat organs look – or not – on screen? Too dark and bloody? Not bloody enough? Is there such a thing, in the real world, as an edible snail shell?

The first Chinese version of Korea’s Infinite Challenge, premieres in October this year. The variety/comedy format will air on CCTV’s CCTV-1 from 8pm-9pm on Sundays for 12 weeks.

What is OnAir? OnAir is an OTT TV service trial launched in February 2015 in Mongolia by KhulanContent, a subsidiary of Mongol Mass Media Group, offering mostly local TV series, movies and music via Android TV, Chromecast and other internet-connected devices.

RTL CBS Asia Entertainment Network is sticking to magic to help drive penetration of the male-skewed RTL CBS Extreme HD channel.

ingapore terrestrial station, Channel 5, premieres its first long-form daily drama, Tanglin, on Tuesday, 30 June, at 8pm. The series is part of monopoly broadcaster MediaCorp’s revival plan for the English-language mass-market station.

A+E Networks Asia’s History channel premieres a trio of local productions in July, including new local special Secrets of the Otherworld (“mysterious events unexplained by modern science”) on Sundays at 10pm (HK/Singapore) from 19 July.