{"id":18350,"date":"2015-03-23T19:03:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T19:03:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:49:12","slug":"fox-channels-guilty-of-move-into-asian-mini-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=18350","title":{"rendered":"Fox Channels \u2018Guilty\u2019 of Move Into Asian Mini-Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>21st Century Fox\u2019s Hong Kong-based pay-TV group Fox Intl. Channels is to back \u201cGuilty As Sin,\u201d an Asian mini-series that will begin production later this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Budgets on the 6-8 episode series, which will tell a contemporary Hong Kong-set story, are expected to be around US$1 million per episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Production is led by former Warner Bros. executive Mia Hsia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Later in the year FIC expects to green light another, untitled \u201cAsian scale\u201d series, about an Asian-American sniper. It will likely be shot in English and destined for a regional or global audience.<\/p>\n<p>The move into original content production by pay-TV groups is a well-established trend in North America and Europe, but is relatively new in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The FIC initiative is spearheaded by Cora Yim, senior VP of content and head of its Chinese-language entertainment. The series will air first on FIC\u2019s Star Chinese Movies Channel.<\/p>\n<p>Yim and FIC have previously backed a handful of feature films including Singaporean director Jack Neo\u2019s \u201cAh Boys To Men: Frogmen\u201d and the currently-on-release Hong Kong-made erotic drama \u201cSara.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yim says that she expects to bring other partners onto the series, and to announce a director, in the next months.<\/p>\n<p><em>via www.variety.com<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21st Century Fox\u2019s Hong Kong-based pay-TV group Fox Intl. 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