No one – not even Netflix (by its own admission) nor Korean creator Hwang Dong-hyuk – predicted the wild success of "Squid Game", which is said to have cost just under US$21.5 million to make and was watched for more than 2.3 billion hours between 13 Sept 2021 and 19 June 2022.

Applause Entertainment is a key player in India’s red-hot production environment. Vanita Kohli-Khandekar snapshots another nine on our production hotlist*.   BBC Studios

Like everywhere, kids content consumption online has soared. That doesn’t mean programmers are buying less. Or that free-TV consumption in every market is equally impacted.

Digital transformation and the expansion of content value takes centre stage at this year’s Asia Content & Entertainment (ACE) Fair and content developer conference in Gwangju in September, highlighting vital top-of-mind issues driving sweeping change across all industry sectors. 

CNN’s Ellana Lee celebrates her 25th anniversary at the global news network this year.

For some of Southeast Asia’s independent producers, life has never seemed better. Others, not so much. We contacted 100 indies in six countries to talk about hopes, challenges, talent, budgets...