Singapore - Local Malay free-to-air TV stations have received the thumbs up for improvements made to the quality of their programmes. Nonetheless, there is still room for doing better, such as the need to maintain language standards by speaking proper Malay, and to be more discerning [...]
Singapore – The Biggest Loser Asia will be returning for its second season this September. The second season of the unscripted series will be helmed by a new host, Marion Caunter. The 30-year-old Malaysian host and television personality brings her affable and bubbly personality [...]
Singapore – Set to premiere on AXN on 23 September 2010, The Amazing Race Asia Season 4 showcases the ultimate engagement as the new racers from across Asia set out to prove their mettle, bringing their friendship, relationship and kinship to a brand new level. Featuring the [...]
Televisa Internacional will be bringing a number of their telenovelas to the MIPCOM market in October. These include Teresa, Timeless Love, Marriage Diaries, as well as Dream of Me. Marriage Diaries centers around six married couples, their joys and sorrows, the drama and the [...]
Jakarta – MEC announced that Achie Francia-Munar has been appointed executive director MEC Indonesia. Francia-Munar will oversee the agency product to MEC’s key clients and lead MEC Trading for Indonesia and will work as part of the agency’s senior management on structure, product [...]
Singapore – Viewers and local press were quick to jump on jerky moments in SingTel mio TV debut coverage of Barclays Premier League opening matches on Saturday 14 August 2010. SingTel spokesperson says the problems were inherent from source and experienced in other countries [...]
Mumbai - Reliance Broadcast Network Limited (RBNL), part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, and CBS Studios International, a division of CBS Corporation, announced their equally owned joint venture that brings together two of the world's pre-eminent media and entertainment [...]
English Premier League giants Manchester United have signed up Hong Kong's PCCW as their official broadcaster in the southern Chinese city. PCCW said the deal was the first of its type in the territory. Under the partnership, PCCW's Now TV, the city's largest pay-TV provider, [...]
London – FremantleMedia announced that Indonesian Idol has crowned its sixth winner. 17-year-old college student Elicohen Chrisstellgo Pentury, who goes by the nickname of ‘Igo’, won the coveted title and became Indonesia’s newest Idol on 7 August 2010 in Jakarta. Igo combined [...]
Singapore - BBC.com has launched its new travel site in partnership with its sister company Lonely Planet. BBC.com/travel (http://www.bbc.com/travel) is the first in a series of factual and lifestyle sites, announced last month alongside BBC.com’s redesigned news site and new US [...]