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19 April 2017
Asked what they think is the one thing that will make the most difference to their business this year, media execs with Asian businesses are, probably unsurprisingly, pretty much united around (1) content of all shapes and forms, with both a local angle and global legs, more creatively fund- ed a
30 March 2017
Japan, the world’s second largest content market after the U.S., stands to benefit most from China’s current freeze on all things Korean, including (much to Korea’s dismay) drama series that were fetching US$400,000 or US$450,000 an episode.
30 March 2017
Nippon TV takes a film version of TV crime drama, The Last Cop, to theatres in Japan in May, driving even further the multi-platform agenda that has so far straddled free-to-air broadcast and SVOD streaming.
30 March 2017
Japanese broadcaster Fuji TV is staking out a stronger global footprint, leveraging the successes of formats such as Iron Chef and Hole in the Wall and maximising the new distribution opportunities of the digital/ streaming environment.
30 March 2017
For all the angst over the future of factual, the debate over the lines between fact and fake and where to draw them, whether or not the racer snakes and the marine iguana actually happened for real (it did) or with a little bit of help from CGI (none at all, says BBC), and how much future leisur