1 April 2015: Discovery Asia headed into the second quarter of 2015 with local leadership uncertainty after the sudden exit of president/MD Arjan Hoekstra in February after only 18 months.

1 April 2015: 2014 was a big year for History.

1 April 2015: National Geographic Channel (NGC) stands out in Asia for big-impact event television such as the coming-soon T Rex Autopsy, which promises a hi-tech, state-of-the-art special effects, "guts and glory" look inside a full-size anatomically correct Tyrannosaurus Rex.

1 April 2015: Nat Geo People in Asia has a powerful food-first agenda, with a few big characters doing other things, some travel, a smattering of home design, and a little bit of history.

A big yawn. That's how advertisers greeted Star Sports' Pro Kabaddi League, launched in July last year.

1 April 2015: The Asia's Got Talent premiere in March kicked off a year of regional mega-formats in Asia, adding an estimated US$16 million into the region's original production purse, and boosting optimism that what works will be repeated...