Five months to go until Asia’s annual FILMART content expo, and organisers are ready to showcase the best Hong Kong has to offer, and say they are expecting demand from streamers to continue to drive business on the market floor.  

Upcoming prime-time Thai drama, Are We Alright?, deals with love across age lines. “We would like to show that love is beautiful regardless of age or gender,” say programmers from Thailand’s Channel 3.

The new season of Indonesia’s Next Top Model debuts in a market hard hit by but recovering from the pandemic. Although Indonesia is nowhere near its 2019 formats highs, the market remains a staunch supporter of big-brand international formats and leads in returning seasons.     

Erik Matti, one of Asia’s best known filmmakers and winner of last year’s ContentAsia Award for Best Director, talks about his latest award-winning project, "On the Job", and the win-win that maximised cinema and mainstream TV screens.    

Japan’s appetite for global partnerships has picked up pace with a string of new international alliances for both scripted and unscripted development. Meanwhile, the domestic market remains relatively closed to international adaptations.    

Drama is by far Singapore’s favourite genre, according to data science platform Parrot Analytics’ “Global Television Demand Report for Q2 2021”. By title, there’s also a clear winner: Disney+.