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23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- First Post
Sir David Attenborough's 'Asia' - Here's everything you need to know about the series that premiered on July 18
Filmed over the course of nearly four years, Asia is spotlighted as a focus of a major BBC wildlife series for the first time read more Presented by Sir David Attenborough, the BBC's latest landmark series Asia is set to premiere across BBC Player in India on July 18. The series trailer features original music by K-pop icon SEVENTEEN and award-winning composers Jacob Shea and Laurentia Editha for Bleeding Fingers. Filmed over the course of nearly four years, this is the first time that Asia - home to the highest mountain range, the deepest ocean, the tallest jungles, and the biggest cave – became the focus of a landmark BBC wildlife series**.** The series also prominently features India's most remarkable landscapes and the story behind the majestic elephants living in the high-altitude tea plantations. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD From the vast Gobi Desert to the jungles of Borneo, and from the polar wilderness of Siberia to the coral seas of the Indian Ocean, this series will showcase the breath-taking variety of Asia's wildest places. Across seven one-hour episodes, audiences will journey through Asia's most stunning landscapes, witness a wealth of wildlife, and uncover stories of extraordinary unseen animal behaviour. In the foothills of the Himalaya, amidst forests of bamboo, we'll come across Asia's shyest and possibly cutest mammal: the red panda. In Nepal, we'll follow rhinos playing 'kiss chase' in a bizarre courtship ritual. Five thousand metres up on the Tibetan Plateau, we'll witness a lone wolf relentlessly hunting a herd of antelope for hours on end. In Sri Lanka, we'll join elephants that have learnt to become highway thieves – holding up buses to get food from the passengers. And in the rich waters of the Western Pacific, we'll swim with sea snakes that have learnt to team up with fish to hunt. Filming locations include Lake Baikal, the oldest and deepest lake in the world; the vast taiga forest that stretches across northern Russia; the Lut Desert in Iran; the jungles of Borneo; the coral seas of the Indian Ocean and several bustling Asian cities: Tokyo, Bangkok, Taipei, Bhopal, Hanoi and Singapore. The series will also explore the conservation challenges facing the continent and shine a light on the potential solutions being championed by the region's conservation heroes. In the final episode, the team joins a 24-hour wildlife rescue team saving Sunda pangolins in urban Singapore. Asia will stream on BBC Player starting July 18th on Tata Play Binge and with an ad on subscription on Prime Video India. The awe-inspiring series showcased Asia's grandeur with a two-minute series trailer featuring an original uplifting track, with vocals by SEVENTEEN's DK and SEUNGKWAN. The music transports the viewer on an emotional journey through Asia with the orchestral swells from the renowned Bleeding Fingers accompanying the breath-taking imagery. Asia is made by BBC Studios Natural History Unit, co-produced with BBC America, France Télévisions and ZDF. The Executive Producer is Roger Webb, and the Series Producer is Matthew Wright. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD
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Business Standard
08-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
BBC Studios focuses on BBC Player in India, partners with Tata Play Binge
BBC Player, the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service of BBC Studios, is the key focus area for driving BBC Studios' digital innovation in India, as it announced a new partnership with Tata Play Binge, an OTT aggregation platform, on Thursday, a senior executive told Business Standard. Following this, content from BBC Player will be available through Tata Play Binge. Previously, content from BBC Player was available through Amazon Prime Video as an add-on subscription in India. 'We [BBC Studios] want to invest our time, energy and creativity in growing the platform and understanding the audiences that watch content on Tata Play Binge and, accordingly, curate content that sort of fits with their [consumers'] mindset and sync the BBC Player brand. That is the key focus for now,' said Stanley Fernandes, vice-president, distribution, South Asia, BBC Studios. 'In particular, we know that Tata Play will give us exposure to a new set of young audience primarily due to the digital business model. We are looking forward to seeing growth in this space,' he said. While he did not share the expected boost in revenue and subscribers for BBC Player in the country following the new partnership, he cited that BBC Player's number of active subscribers had quadrupled in the first three months after its launch on Amazon Prime Video in July 2023. He anticipates similar growth from the Tata Play Binge partnership. BBC Studios had earlier stated its aim to double business and profitability by 2028, and Fernandes added that the Indian market forms a key part of this goal. In 2024, BBC Studios generated £1.8 billion in revenue globally. In the Southeast Asian region, he noted that India remains a 'predominantly priority market' for the company. 'BBC Studios is committed to growing our business in India and bringing our wealth of content to audiences across the country. Moving forward, our investment in this area lies in our partnership with Banijay [Asia], and we are excited to see the fantastic British formats we can bring to life for Indian audiences in the future,' said Fernandes. This follows BBC Studios' partnership with Banijay Asia earlier in 2025 to continue its production business in the country. As of now, the company has no plans to partner with any other production house or form a new joint venture in the near future. With the prominence of live entertainment growing in India, Fernandes explained that although BBC Studios has a live entertainment segment, it is not yet a focus for the Indian market.
