Television
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New Zealand broadcaster reprimanded over ‘graphic’ dolphin mating scene
Nature series Our Big Blue Backyard drew one complaint to media watchdog that it should not have given the pro…
- Buddhism, Children, Dalai Lama, India, Religion, South and Central Asia, Spain, Television, Television & radio, World news
From six-year-old Tibetan monk to teenage Ibiza raver: a Spanish boy’s incredible journey
Osel Hita Torres joined a monastery after the Dalai Lama declared him a reincarnated spiritual leader, but at …
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As a Muslim in New Zealand I’ve long yearned for a TV show that reflected my life. So now we’re making one | Mohamed Hassan
We have been seen as caricatures, but never as rich, nuanced and fully human. Which is why it’s time to show t…
- Asia Pacific, Coronavirus, Culture, Digital media, Drama, Internet, LGBT rights, Media, Online TV, Television, Television & radio, Thailand, World news
Thailand’s gay-romance TV dramas help revive flagging tourism industry
The popularity of ‘boy-love’ series sends fans from home and abroad flocking to filming locations across the c…
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‘Please tell me that is not your penis!’ New Zealand’s Shortland Street in 14 key moments
Country’s longest-running soap opera marks 30 years on air this week. Here we celebrate some of its most infam…
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‘Astonishing’ errands: Old Enough’s Japanese creator on the child star TV hit
Junji Ouchi says show grew out of tradition of sending toddlers off on their own to do simple but challenging …
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Taste the TV: Japan invents lickable screen to imitate food flavours
Prototype uses carousel of canisters to create flavour samples on hygienic film over flatscreen TVA Japanese p…
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Max Stahl obituary
Documentary-maker who captured East Timor atrocities on film and left behind his earlier career as a Blue Pete…
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‘I had to find them’: kidnapped filmmaker Mellissa Fung on her mission to find the Boko Haram girls
After being abducted on assignment in Afghanistan, journalist Mellissa Fung shares an intense bond with the te…
- Asia Pacific, China, Culture, Europe, Music, Reality TV, Russia, Television, Television & radio, World news
Russian man ‘trapped’ on Chinese reality TV show finally voted out after three months
Vladislav Ivanov says he regretted his decision to join Produce Camp 2021 but fans refused to vote him outThe …
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The White Tiger rides the surge in streamed south Asian stories
The adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel is coming to Netflix – one of a growing number of films…
- Culture, Espionage, Europe, France, India, Second world war, Television, Television & radio, UK news, World news
Life of Indian princess who fought Nazis to be told in TV series
Spy Princess is based on Noor Inayat Khan, killed in France while working as a British spy in second world war…
- Communities, Culture, Immigration and asylum, India, Race, Radio, Society, South and Central Asia, Television, Television & radio
‘This is British history’: the radio series preserving the nation’s south Asian past
Kavita Puri’s Three Pounds in My Pocket is an extensive oral history of the lives of Indian and Pakistani migr…
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In the ‘land of storytelling’, Netflix and Amazon Prime reshape India’s creative landscape
The streaming giants are making bold TV shows but the threat of censorship looms largeThis year’s Emmy awards,…
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Game of Thrones video game tycoon dies in suspected poisoning
Police in China detain colleague of Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi on suspicion of involvement in deathShanghai p…