Thai drama had a record year across Asia, thanks in no small part of the efforts of Bangkok-based JKN Global Media.

2020 may not go down in Korean drama history as the best year ever, but at least two records were shattered – the highest cable drama ratings ever for BBC’s Dr Foster adaptation, The World of the Married, on JTBC, and the most unconventional portrayal ever of North Korea in tvN

Too dark for broadcast TV, Daughters is seeing the light of day courtesy of a streaming environment and a platform determined to tell a different type of story.

Thai director, Chudapha Chantakett, dialed down the comedy and upped the conflict in her latest prime time series, My Forever Sunshine, where the leads are as pretty as ever but character development pushes the boundaries and heroes may not be very heroic.

GroupM’s content investment and rights management company, Motion Content Group, has a second season of MasterChef in production in Singapore, coming on the back of, among other Asia-Pacific productions, the premiere of Asim Abbasi’s 10-part Pakistan drama, Churails, on Indian

Australia’s drama production fell to five-year lows in 2019/20, with the exception of foreign spend, which was way up, according to Screen Australia’s new drama report, which charts the havoc Covid-19 has wreaked on the country’s production industries.