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Re: AZN TV Announcements
Estaska found link #1 and I did a google news search for more information and found additional information in link #2
http://nab.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=91959
http://www.worldscreen.com/newscurrent.php?filename=azn010207.htm class blockquote (Broadcasting & Cable) _ Comcast-owned AZN Television, a network targeted to Asian Americans, is adding new programming to its 2007 slate.
January will seseveral new series premieres.
Handsome Siblings, a drama starring Chinese pop star Nicholas Tse and TV star Dickie Cheung, premieres Jan. 1. Also on Jan. 1: Mars, starring Vic Chou and Barbi Xu. Style: Asia, a guide to fashion from cities such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Shangai, will premiere on the network Jan. 2. Also premiering on this date is Drunken Kung Fu, a Vietnamese drama.
On Jan.12, AZN will premiere Music Bang, a music-video series featuring Asian anAsian-American musicians.
Historical drama Jumong premieres Feb. 20, and Chinese martial arts drama Seven Swordsmen hits AZ Feb. 20.
Said General ManageRod Shanks in a statement, "This is programming that resonatewith all Asian cultures. We are very pleased to be working with programming partners like NBA Entertainment and Sony Pictures to make sure we have the very best entertainment from across Asia, as well as quality original programming produced by and for Asian Americans."
Copyright The Associated Press 2006. All Rights Reserved class blockquote AZN Lines Up New Content
CENTENNIAL, January 2: AZN Television, the Comcast-owned cable network targeting Asian American viewers, has lined up a range of new series and movies for the first quarter of this year, including the Korean drama Jumong.
The big-budget historical drama that drew record audiences in Korea premieres February 20. Other drama highlights for the first quarter of this year include Handsome Siblings with Chinese pop star Nicholas Tse and Mars starring Vic Chou and Barbi Xu, both of which premiered on January 1. Drunken Kung Fu, a Vietnamese drama starring Hong Kong actress Anita Yuen, premieres today. Coming in February is the martial arts drama Seven Swordsmen.
AZN has also acquired the new fashion series Style: Asia, which launches today, and the half-hour weekly music video series Music Bang, slated for a January 12 launch.
A new season of the AZN original NBA Timeout will premiere in February. AZN will also premiere new films, including Japan’s Initial D, Vietnam’s Vertical Ray of the Sun and Korea’s Tae Guk Gi: Brotherhood of War.
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class blockquote A new season of the AZN original NBA Timeout will premiere in February. AZN will also premiere new films, including Japan’s Initial D, Vietnam’s Vertical Ray of the Sun and Korea’s Tae Guk Gi: Brotherhood of War.Tae Guk Gi is excellent and recommended by me. The late leading actress of Firebird/Phoenix has a minor supporting role in the film.
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AZN TV Profile on World Screen Weekly
Excerpted from World Screen Weekly: class blockquote The big draw continues to be dramas—be they in Mandarin, Cantonese or Korean. Korean titles in particular comprise a big part of its prime-time block, with Jumong, a hit for MBC Korea, slated to launch February 20. The Chinese drama Handsome Siblings, with pop star Nicholas Tse, and the Taiwanese title Mars, starring Vic Chou and Barbi Xu, both premiered in early January. “We’re really tapping into some of these Taiwanese dramas,” says Alison Keenan, the programming manager at AZN Television. “The actors are popular throughout Asia, not just specifically Taiwan.”
The bulk of the daytime programming consists of dramas and fresh in-language news feeds that come from all over Asia, including China, Japan and the Philippines.
Movies are also an important part of AZN’s programming slate, with a number of films premiering this year from a 2005 output deal with Sony Pictures Television. This year, AZN has access to 11 titles from that deal, including the Korean movie Tae Guk Gi: Brotherhood of War, Saving Face, and two movies featuring Gong Li: Zhou Yu's Train and The Emperor and the Assassin.
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Anime is also a popular genre for AZN and the network has two new 30-minute shorts scheduled to premiere in August: Kakurenbo: Hide and Seek and Negadon: Monster from Mars. “They use a lot of new computer graphic technology [and] visually they’re stunning,” says Keenan. Kakurenbo is a short “horror-type” film that revolves around a game called Kakurenbo that kids play in the middle of the night. Negadon: Monster from Mars falls into the “kaiju” category, which is a genre of monster, Godzilla-type movies from Japan.
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[Programming Director Alison] Keenan notes that AZN is also looking to expand the content that will be available online, such as offering a series in its original language on the media player and airing the English-language version on television.Wow, those are some first-rate Asian movies AZN has coming up. I highly recommend Tae Guk Gi, Saving Face, The Emperor and the Assassin, and Kakurenbo. I look forward to seeing Zhou You's Train, which I remember hearing reviewed on the network channels.
Airing English-language versions of shows is a bad idea since I'm a fan of subtitled shows, but that comment hopefully applies mostly to AZN's anime, all of which is currently shown in English-only format.
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Hot on the heels of Jumong; AZN is premiering another new K-Drama starting tonight after the Jumong time slot, it's called White Tower.
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It looks like AZN will be shut down in April. Oh well.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6525803
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class blockquote NaijaChica wrote:
It looks like AZN will be shut down in April. Oh well.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6525803More information on the recent news about AZN TV shutting down found here in our General Discussion forum.
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