Malaysia to Increase Location Production Incentives

WATCH: Hamish and Andy do the TV WEEK two-minute challengeWith fan-favourites like Hamish Blake and Julia Morris nominated for the coveted Gold Logie, there's guaranteed to be plenty of star power on the red carpet and inside the building.READ NEXT: 2019 TV week Gold Logies - The best and worst dressedExpect Home And Away stars, TV legends, reality contestants and more to roll up to The Star in their Sunday best on June 19, when the event is scheduled to begin at 7pm.So how can you tune in and watch the show of the year?Channel Nine will be broadcasting the awards live across free-to-air TV and on its digital streaming platform 9Now, so you can tune in from your laptop or mobile too.Will Hamish Blake bag his second gold Logie this year?The night will kick off with the glamorous red carpet arrivals, where you can expect stars to be rocking plenty of Australian designers.There may also be a few cheeky antics on the red carpet, as the Logies brings together stars from all different spheres of the Aussie entertainment industry.READ NEXT: Carrie Bickmore's awkward Logies slip upInside, the show will run through a series of awards, including the iconic Gold Logie for most popular TV personality.In the running this year are Hamish Blake, Julia Morris, Karl Stefanovic, Melissa Leong, Ray Meagher, Sonia Kruger and Tom Gleeson.WATCH: Meet the nominees for the TV WEEK Gold LogieThere's also the prolific Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent and a number of fan favourites have been nominated this year.Alessandra Rampolla, Carlos Sanson Jr, Matt Evans, Melanie Bracewell, Tony Armstrong andWill Lodder are all up for the exciting award.Tune in to see who takes home a Logie this year on Sunday, June 19 at 7pm on Nine.

All in the family! Ramona Singer gave fans a glimpse of her invitation to Teresa Giudice and Luis Ruelas’ wedding — and she revealed the location!

The Office is getting a Middle Eastern makeover as an Arabic version of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s hit comedy classic is reportedly in the works. While it has been nearly two decades since it ended in the UK, the new version is set to air in the Middle East later this year, following a deal between BBC Studios and local producer-broadcaster MBC.

The mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 remains as shocking and unnerving today as it did when the plane vanished from radar screens more than eight years ago. The fate of the Boeing 777 and all 239 souls on board continues to baffle air crash investigators.

Geeta Malik In “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” Francie Nolan sat on her fire escape, ate peppermint wafers, spied on her neighbors, and read books. In Aurora, I sat on my roof, ate pretzels, spied on my neighbors, and read “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” I felt seen by Francie Nolan and it surprised me when people were surprised by the fact that I related to her. At a certain point, I understood that people assumed I’d have more in common with the slum kids in “City of Joy” than Francie.

MUBI has acquired rights to Cannes hit Holy Spider for the UK, Ireland, LatAm and Malaysia.

Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly have seemingly confirmed the location for I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here this year. The hosting duo are currently doing the media rounds as they promote the Prince's Trust Awards which air for the first time on TV on Thursday (May 26).

Forbes has officially unveiled the 2022 edition of its annual 30 Under 30 list for Asia, with acts such as aespa and Jung Ho-yeon making the entertainment and sports category.The annual list highlights 300 individuals below the age of 30 that have made significant strides and impact in their respective fields, categorised by entertainment and sports, science and entrepreneurship, among others.Included in this year’s 30 Under 30 list for Asia under the Entertainment And Sports category are K-pop girl group aespa, who are notably the only South Korean music act to be included on the list. Meanwhile, Squid Game actress Jung Ho-yeon was also featured on the list as the only South Korean thespian to be included this year.The 2022 list also included Indonesian 88rising rapper Warren Hue, Thai singer-songwriter Pyra, Singaporean hip-hop artist Yung Raja, Malaysian rap artist SYA, ‘Chicken Tendies’ singer Clinton Kane, New Zealand duo Broods, Sydney duo Seaforth and ‘Josh’ singer Peach PRC.Last year’s edition of the same Forbes list saw Hong Kong’s Jackson Wang of GOT7 fame featured on the list, alongside other South Korean musicians such as MAMAMOO’s Hwasa and IU.The entertainment and sports category of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list was judged by ONE Championship Group President Hua Fung Teh, Infinite Studios CEO Mike Wiluan and Caldecott Music Group’s founder and chief executive Kuok Meng Ru.

EXCLUSIVE: Eureka Productions, the company behind series including ABC’s Holey Moley and CBS’ upcoming The Real Love Boat, has bolstered its executive ranks with the hire of former Endemol Shine unscripted chief Eden Gaha.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Despite the cuts to federal tax incentives in recent years, Brazil remains a good source of production mechanisms. “The major platforms led by Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video have production service agreements with Brazilian production companies to take advantage of these funding possibilities,” says FestCampos Talks producer-curator Fernanda Martins.Jose Mauricio Fittipaldi, a partner at law firm CQSFV, adds: “It is true that investment has been severely cut in the last couple of years, but the causes are a bit more complex than just [President Jair] Bolsonaro.

Naman Ramachandran Australian film “The Laugh of Lakshmi,” by renowned theater director turned filmmaker S. Shakthidharan, will be one of the first films to make use of the newly announced Indian filming incentives.The film, a dance drama, is the story of a mother and a son separated by war.

Melissa Gorga is coming clean about the rift that’s opened all the way up between her and fellow Real Housewives of New Jersey co-star Teresa Giudice!

Echo,” a new MCU series starring Alaqua Cox, has begun production, Disney has announced.The series is a spinoff of last year’s Disney+ Marvel show “Hawkeye,” which featured the debut of Cox as Maya Lopez. Created by David Mack and Joe Quesada in 1999 as a supporting character for the superhero Daredevil, Maya Lopez, aka Echo, is a deaf Cheyenne woman with Olympic level athletic skills and the ability to perfectly copy people’s movement. In “Hawkeye,” the character was depicted as the leader of the Tracksuit Mafia, a gang of criminals working under Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio).

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Walt Disney Company in Australia and New Zealand Tuesday unveiled a slate of nine new Australian original films and series. These represent the company’s biggest wave of local content commissions and acquisitions for Disney+ and will launch on the platform in 2022-23.The slate includes three scripted drama series: “The Clearing,” “The Artful Dodger,” “Last Days of the Space Age”; four documentary series, “Matildas: The World at Our Feet,” “Shipwreck Hunters Australia,” “Chasing Waves,” “Fearless: The Inside Story of the AFLW”; and two lifestyle and factual general entertainment series “Donna Hay Christmas” and competition format series “What’s Your Toy Story?” “It was important to us to have that scale to share so we could demonstrate to the marketplace that we are truly serious in this space,” Kylie Watson-Wheeler, senior VP and MD of The Walt Disney Company in Australia and New Zealand told Variety.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefIn the early years of the 21st century, bankers to the film industry set their eyes on East Asia and headed for Hong Kong and Beijing. They could see that mainland China’s decision to open the film business to the private sector had the potential to be a game-changer.

his band’s website on Friday that “due to a positive Covid case in the Willie Nelson Family Band” two upcoming shows scheduled to happen May 6 and May 7 would be postponed and that Nelson’s Sunday performance at Jazz Fest would be cancelled.Nelson was slated to close the Gentilly Stage — the same stage where his son Lukas Nelson is performing earlier in the day with his band the Promise of the Real. No replacement for the elder Nelson has yet been announced.The news comes after Melissa Etheridge announced Thursday that she would not be able to perform Saturday at Jazz Fest due to “COVID hitting my crew.” Mavis Staples will perform during that time period instead.“Oh my heart hurts not to be there.

Netflix has unveiled the first trailer from “God’s Favorite Idiot”, a high-concept comedy series from husband-and-wife team Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy.

For those who can’t get enough of the movie collaborations of comedic husband-and-wife duo Melissa McCarthy (“Nine Perfect Strangers“) and Ben Falcone (“Thunder Force“), we have some good news for you — they’re coming together for an eight-episode series on Netflix. The comedy series sees average joe Clark on a mission from God.