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The soap, which marks its 30th anniversary this week, has become part of New Zealand’s cultural fabric – what does it mean to you?New Zealand’s longest running soap opera, Shortland Street, celebrates 30 years on screen this week. The hospital drama w…
Read MoreFans who had seen the programme before were quick to notice the absence of several scenes, including those relating to Ross’s ex-wife, Carol, who is gayFriends has been stripped of its lesbian storyline for the Chinese re-release of the sitcom, prompti…
Read MoreMore than 250 newspapers, radio and TV stations have closed in first 100 days of militants’ ruleThe romantic serials have gone after the Taliban warned against racy content, the popular women’s call-in shows were axed after the militants said they didn…
Read MoreDocumentary-maker who captured East Timor atrocities on film and left behind his earlier career as a Blue Peter presenterThe documentary-maker Max Stahl, who has died of throat cancer aged 66, exposed the atrocities of the Indonesian government in East…
Read MoreEntertainment industry told to uphold ‘truth, goodness and beauty’ and remove vulgar and violent contentChina’s broadcasting regulator said it will encourage online producers to create “healthy” cartoons and clamp down on violent, vulgar or pornographi…
Read MoreBroadcasters ordered not to promote ‘sissy’ men in attempt to reshape country’s entertainment industryChina has banned some reality talent shows and ordered broadcasters not to promote “sissy” men, in the latest attempt to reshape the culture of the co…
Read MoreU-turn over those who worked for British media follows outcry from newspapers and broadcastersThe foreign secretary has agreed to consider allowing Afghan journalists who worked for the British to flee to the UK if their lives are endangered by the res…
Read MoreViewers say scenes featuring Lady Gaga, boyband BTS and Justin Bieber are missing from Chinese versionFor many Chinese millennials, the US sitcom Friends was a window to the American way of life. Teachers would use the show to help students learn Engli…
Read MoreAfter being abducted on assignment in Afghanistan, journalist Mellissa Fung shares an intense bond with the teenage girls who were held captive by Boko HaramThe journalist and filmmaker Mellissa Fung is showing me her wound – or to be precise, the scar…
Read MoreVladislav Ivanov says he regretted his decision to join Produce Camp 2021 but fans refused to vote him outThe reality TV ordeal of a Russian who joined a Chinese boy band show by accident – and made it to the final despite urging fans to vote him off –…
Read MoreThe adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel is coming to Netflix – one of a growing number of films from the region snapped up by the streaming giantsThe White Tiger, the film adaptation of the Booker prize-winning book by Aravind Adiga, mar…
Read MoreSpy Princess is based on Noor Inayat Khan, killed in France while working as a British spy in second world warThe story of the daughter of an Indian Sufi mystic, who was killed while a British secret agent fighting with the French resistance in the sec…
Read MoreKavita Puri’s Three Pounds in My Pocket is an extensive oral history of the lives of Indian and Pakistani migrants and their families, from partition to Cornershop“A lot of them had survived partition, they were living in difficult conditions, working …
Read MoreWith its unique blend of gossip, jokes and songs mixed with serious global issues, Kadal Osai has built a devoted audienceSelvarani Mari is a fisher and seaweed collector who lives on Pamban Island of Tamil Nadu, on the southernmost tip of India.Every …
Read MoreThe streaming giants are making bold TV shows but the threat of censorship looms largeThis year’s Emmy awards, one of the biggest nights in global television, was particularly historic for India. It was the second year in a row that several Indian tele…
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