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HBO Asia is the Asian division of HBO, based out of Singapore.^[1]

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A24

A24 Films LLC, commonly referred to as A24, is an American independent entertainment company that specializes in film and television production, as well as film distribution.

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Action film

The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.

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AGC Studios

AGC Studios is an American film and television production studio.

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Airtel digital TV

Airtel Digital TV is an Indian subscription based satellite television provider owned by Bharti Telemedia Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bharti Airtel.

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An anthology series is a written series, radio, television, film, or video game series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each different episode, season, segment, or short.

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ARY Digital Network

ARY Digital Network (ARY ڈیجیٹل شبکه) is a subsidiary of the ARY Group.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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BabyFirst

BabyFirst (stylized in all lowercase since 2019) is an American pay television channel producing and distributing content for babies and toddlers from 0–3 years and their parents through television, the internet, and mobile applications.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.

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Big Little Lies (TV series)

Big Little Lies is an American black comedy drama television series based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty.

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Biographical film

A biographical film or biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, bleak comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, black humor, or dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter for the premium cable channel HBO.

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Cartoon Network (Indian TV channel)

Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an Indian cable and satellite television channel operated by Warner Bros. Discovery under its international division. HBO Asia and Cartoon Network (Indian TV channel) are Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific.

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Castle Rock Entertainment

Castle Rock Entertainment is an American independent film and television production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn.

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Catchplay

Catchplay (stylized as CATCHPLAY) is a Taiwanese multimedia company founded in 2007, whose businesses include OTT VOD streaming service operation, linear television channel operation (CatchPlay Movie Channel), and theatrical film distribution.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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China–United States trade war

An economic conflict between China and the United States has been ongoing since January 2018, when U.S. President Donald Trump began setting tariffs and other trade barriers on China with the goal of forcing it to make changes to what the U.S. says are longstanding unfair trade practices and intellectual property theft.

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Cignal

Cignal (pronounced as signal) is a Philippine satellite television and IPTV provider, owned by Cignal TV Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the MediaQuest Holdings Inc. under the PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund.

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Cinemax

Cinemax (alternatively shortened to Max) is an American pay television, cable, and satellite television network owned by the Home Box Office, Inc. subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. HBO Asia and Cinemax are HBO.

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Cinemax (Asian TV channel)

Cinemax Asia is a pan-Asian pay television channel. HBO Asia and Cinemax (Asian TV channel) are English-language television stations in Singapore, HBO, movie channels, movie channels in Indonesia, movie channels in Malaysia, movie channels in Singapore, movie channels in South Korea, movie channels in Taiwan, movie channels in Thailand, movie channels in Vietnam, movie channels in the Philippines and Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific.

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CNN International

Cable News Network International or CNN International (CNNi, simply branded on-air as CNN) is an international television channel and website, owned by CNN Worldwide.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Comedy drama

Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama.

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Comedy thriller

Comedy thrillers are a hybrid genre that draw subject matter generally from comedy and thrillers.

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Coming-of-age story

In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature, theatre, film, and video game that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood, or "coming of age".

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Communist Party of Vietnam

The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is the founding and sole legal party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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Cooking show

A cooking show, cookery show, or cooking program (also spelled cooking programme in British English) is a television genre that presents food preparation, often in a restaurant kitchen or on a studio set, or at the host's personal home.

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Crime film

Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.

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Dark fantasy

Dark fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy literary, artistic, and cinematic works that incorporates disturbing and frightening themes.

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Dead Mine

Dead Mine is a 2012 English-language Indonesian horror film directed by Steven Sheil and starring Ario Bayu and Joe Taslim.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Dish TV

DishTV India (stylised as dishtv) is an Indian Subscription based satellite television provider based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh with Yes Bank as its biggest stakeholder.

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Disney Star

Disney Star is an Indian media conglomerate owned by Disney India, which is the Indian regional subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.

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Disney+ Hotstar

Disney+ Hotstar is an Indian subscription video-on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Disney India, a subsidiary of Disney Company, featuring domestic Indian film, television and sports content for India itself and its worldwide diaspora.

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Drama (film and television)

In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Entourage (American TV series)

Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004, and ended on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons.

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Eros International

Eros International Media Ltd (also known as Eros India) is an Indian motion picture production and distribution company, based and originated in Mumbai, India.

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Euphoria (American TV series)

Euphoria is an American teen drama television series created and principally written by Sam Levinson for HBO.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Fiji

Fiji (Viti,; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Focus Features

Focus Features LLC is an American independent film production and distribution company, owned by Comcast as a division of Universal Pictures, which is itself a division of its wholly owned subsidiary of NBCUniversal.

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Folklore (TV series)

Folklore is a television horror anthology series that premiered on HBO Asia on October 7, 2018.

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Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and for HBO.

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Gensan Punch

Gensan Punch is a 2021 Philippine-Japanese sports biographical film directed by Brillante Mendoza.

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Girls (TV series)

Girls is an American comedy-drama television series created by and starring Lena Dunham, executive-produced by Judd Apatow.

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Grisse

Grisse is an action historical drama television miniseries developed for HBO Asia by Mike Wiluan.

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Halfworlds

Halfworlds is a dark fantasy thriller television series produced and created by HBO Asia and written by Collin Chang.

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Haram

Haram (حَرَام) is an Arabic term meaning 'forbidden'.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. HBO Asia and HBO are movie channels.

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HBO Family (Asian TV channel)

HBO Family is a Southeast Asian pay television channel owned by HBO Asia, launched on 16 March 2006, together with HBO Hits. HBO Asia and HBO Family (Asian TV channel) are HBO, movie channels in the Philippines and Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific.

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HBO Films

HBO Films (formerly called HBO Premiere Films and HBO Pictures) is an American production and distribution company, a division of the cable television network HBO that produces feature films and miniseries. HBO Asia and HBO Films are HBO.

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HBO Hits

HBO Hits is a Southeast Asian multiplex channel owned by HBO Asia, launched on 16 March 2006, which features Hollywood blockbuster movies of various genres. HBO Asia and HBO Hits are HBO, movie channels in Singapore, movie channels in the Philippines and Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific.

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HBO Signature (Asian TV channel)

HBO Signature is a Southeast Asian pay television network owned by HBO Asia featuring Hollywood blockbuster movies, regardless of genre. HBO Asia and HBO Signature (Asian TV channel) are HBO, movie channels in Singapore and Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific.

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High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies.

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Historical drama

A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents historical events and characters with varying degrees of fictional elements such as creative dialogue or fictional scenes which aim to compress separate events or illustrate a broader factual narrative.

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HK Television Entertainment

HK Television Entertainment Company Limited (or ViuTV) is a television service operator in Hong Kong operated by Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li's PCCW, through its subsidiary PCCW Media, which also owns an IPTV platform, Now TV and operating an OTT service, Viu.

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Home Box Office, Inc.

Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO) is an American multinational media and entertainment company operating as a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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House of the Dragon

House of the Dragon is an American fantasy drama television series created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO.

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Hulu Japan

Hulu, known outside Japan as Hulu Japan, is a Japanese subscription streaming service owned and operated by Nippon TV.

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Human sexual activity

Human sexual activity, human sexual practice or human sexual behaviour is the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality.

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Hung (TV series)

Hung is an American comedy-drama television series that ran on HBO from June 28, 2009, to December 4, 2011.

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I May Destroy You

I May Destroy You is a British black comedy-drama television limited series created, written, co-directed, and executive produced by Michaela Coel for BBC One and HBO.

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Imagine TV

Imagine TV was a Hindi general entertainment channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, and based in New Delhi. HBO Asia and Imagine TV are Defunct television channels in India.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time (IST), sometimes also called India Standard Time, is the time zone observed throughout the Republic of India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.

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Industry (TV series)

Industry is a British television drama series that premiered in 2020.

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Insecure (TV series)

Insecure is an American comedy-drama television series created by Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore, and is partially based on Rae's acclaimed web series Awkward Black Girl.

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IQIYI

iQIYI (pronounced in English as), formerly Qiyi, is a Chinese subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Baidu.

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Islamic dietary laws

Islamic dietary laws are laws that Muslims follow in their diet.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Joint venture

A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance.

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Lionsgate Films

Lionsgate Films (formerly known as Cinépix Film Properties) is a Canadian-American film production and distribution studio founded in Canada in 1962.

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List of HBO original programming

This is a listing of programs that HBO has commissioned or co-commissioned in its history. HBO Asia and list of HBO original programming are HBO.

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List of Western subgenres

The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.

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Lovecraft Country (TV series)

Lovecraft Country is an American horror drama television series developed by Misha Green based on and serving as a continuation of the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff.

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Macau

Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road is a 2015 Australian post-apocalyptic action film co-written, co-produced, and directed by George Miller.

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Major film studios

Major film studios are production and distribution companies that release a substantial number of films annually and consistently command a significant share of box office revenue in a given market.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Malaysian English

Malaysian English (MyE), formally known as Malaysian Standard English (MySE) (similar and related to British English), is a form of English used and spoken in Malaysia.

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Maldives

The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean.

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Mediacorp Pte.

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Mediaproducción, S.L.U., better known as Mediapro, is a multimedia communications group in Spain founded in April 1994 in Barcelona.

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Medium (website)

Medium is an American online publishing platform developed by Evan Williams and launched in August 2012.

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Memoirs of a Geisha (film)

Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 American epic period drama film directed by Rob Marshall and adapted by Robin Swicord from the 1997 novel of the same name by Arthur Golden.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.

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Millennium Media (formerly Nu Image and Millennium Films) is an American independent film production and financing company that was founded by Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Danny Dimbort, and Danny Lerner in 1992, and is one of Hollywood's longest running independent film companies.

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Miramax

Miramax, LLC, formerly known as Miramax Films, is an American independent film and television production and distribution company founded on December 19, 1979, by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and based in Los Angeles, California.

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Miss Sherlock

Miss Sherlock (ミス・シャーロック) is a female-led adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories.

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Movie and Television Review and Classification Board

The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (Lupon sa Rebyu at Klasipikasyon ng Pelikula at Telebisyon; abbreviated as MTRCB) is a Philippine government agency under the Office of the President of the Philippines that is responsible for the classification and review of television programs, motion pictures and home videos.

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Mystery fiction

Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story.

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NBCUniversal

NBCUniversal Media, LLC (abbreviated as NBCU and doing business as simply NBCUniversal or Comcast NBCUniversal since 2013) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is a subsidiary of Comcast and is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Nepal

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.

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New Line Cinema

New Line Productions, Inc., doing business as New Line Cinema, is an American film and television production studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).

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New York Post

The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City.

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Nudity in film

In film, nudity may be either graphic or suggestive, such as when a person appears to be naked but is covered by a sheet.

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Office humor

Office humor, also often called workplace comedy, is humor within the workplace, in particular, office, environment.

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On the Job (miniseries)

On the Job is a six-part Philippine miniseries created by Erik Matti and Michiko Yamamoto for HBO Asia Originals.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Palau

Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).

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Paramount Global

Paramount Global (also known simply as Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate controlled by National Amusements and headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Times Square, Midtown Manhattan.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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Perry Mason (2020 TV series)

Perry Mason is an American period drama television series created by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald for HBO.

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Philippine Daily Inquirer

The Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI), or simply the Inquirer, is an English-language newspaper in the Philippines.

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Pogo (TV channel)

Pogo is an Indian cable and satellite television channel owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery India under its International division, as part of Cartoon Network India as the network's sister channel. HBO Asia and Pogo (TV channel) are Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific.

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Psychological drama

Psychological drama, or psychodrama, is a subgenre of drama and psychological fiction literatures, generally focuses upon the emotional, mental, and psychological development of the protagonists and other characters within the narrative, which is highlighted in a dramatic work.

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Public Television Service

Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation (PTS Foundation/Public Television Service Foundation), also called Public Television Service (PTS), is the first independent public broadcasting institution in Taiwan, which broadcasts the Public Television Service Taiwan.

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Rappler

Rappler (portmanteau of the words "rap" and "ripple") is a Filipino online news website based in Pasig, Metro Manila, the Philippines.

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Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors.

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Red by HBO

Red by HBO (formerly Screen Red, but simply known as Red) was a Southeast Asian pay television movie channel. HBO Asia and Red by HBO are HBO, movie channels in Indonesia, movie channels in Malaysia, movie channels in Singapore, movie channels in Thailand, movie channels in Vietnam, movie channels in the Philippines and Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific.

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Regency Enterprises

Regency Enterprises is an American-British-Luxembourgish entertainment company formed by Arnon Milchan.

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Romance film

Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters.

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Romantic comedy

Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles.

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Romantic fantasy

Romantic fantasy or Romantasy is a subgenre of fantasy fiction combining fantasy and romance, describing a fantasy story using many of the elements and conventions of the chivalric romance genre.

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Science fiction on television

Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

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Screen Gems

Screen Gems is an American brand name owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Japanese multinational conglomerate, Sony Group Corporation.

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Serangoon Garden

Serangoon Garden Estate is a residential estate in the Serangoon district of the North-East Region of Singapore.

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Serangoon Road

Serangoon Road is an Australian-Singaporean drama television series that premiered on 22 September 2013 on ABC and HBO Asia.

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Sex and the City

Sex and the City is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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Singtel

Singapore Telecommunications Limited, commonly known as Singtel, is a Singaporean telecommunications conglomerate, the country's principal fixed-line operator and one of the four major mobile network operators operating in the country.

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Slice of life

Slice of life is a depiction of mundane experiences in art and entertainment.

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Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms.

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South Asia

South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.

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South China Morning Post

The South China Morning Post (SCMP), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Sports film

A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

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Stage 6 Films

Stage 6 Films, Inc. is an American film production label of Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions that acquires and produces feature films that are low budget and that are being released direct-to-disc, on demand, or through streaming services.

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Star World (Indian TV channel)

Star World (stylized in all capital letters) was an Indian pay television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company India, a company wholly owned by The Walt Disney Company. HBO Asia and Star World (Indian TV channel) are Defunct television channels in India.

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STX Entertainment

STX Entertainment is an American independent entertainment and media company.

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Succession (TV series)

Succession is an American satirical black comedy-drama television series created by Jesse Armstrong that aired for four seasons on HBO from June 3, 2018, to May 28, 2023.

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Summit Entertainment

Summit Entertainment, LLC is a film production label of Lionsgate Films, owned by Lionsgate Studios and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

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Supernatural fiction

Supernatural fiction or supernaturalist fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction that exploits or is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting naturalist assumptions of the real world.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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Taiwan Mobile

Taiwan Mobile is a mobile phone operator based in Taiwan.

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Taiwanese Hokkien

Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô), or simply Taiwanese, also known as Taiuanoe, Taigi, Taigu (Pe̍h-ōe-jī/Tâi-lô: /), Taiwanese Minnan, Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by more than 70 percent of the population of Taiwan.

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Television documentary

Television documentaries are televised media productions that screen documentaries.

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Tencent Video

Tencent Video (also called WeTV outside of China) is a Chinese video streaming website owned by Tencent.

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The Bridge (2018 TV series)

The Bridge is a Malaysian-Singaporean crime drama television series aired on HBO Asia, and starring Rebecca Lim and Bront Palarae.

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The Deuce (TV series)

The Deuce is an American drama television series created by David Simon and George Pelecanos, set in New York City during the 1970s and 1980s.

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The finger

In Western culture, "the finger", or the middle finger (as in giving someone the (middle) finger, flipping the bird or flipping someone off) is an obscene hand gesture.

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The Garden of Evening Mists (film)

The Garden of Evening Mists (c) is a 2019 Malaysian English-language historical drama film directed by Tom Lin Shu-yu from the screenplay of Richard Smith and adapted from Tan Twan Eng's 2012 novel of same name.

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The Head (2020 TV series)

The Head is a Spanish-Japanese English-language psychological thriller television series directed by Jorge Dorado for HBO Asia and Hulu Japan.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Idol (TV series)

The Idol is an American drama television series created by Sam Levinson, Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye, and Reza Fahim.

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The Last of Us (TV series)

The Last of Us is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann for HBO.

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The Manila Times

The Manila Times is the oldest extant English-language newspaper in the Philippines.

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The Sopranos

The Sopranos is an American crime drama television series created by David Chase.

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The Straits Times

The Straits Times (also known informally by its abbreviation ST) is a Singaporean daily English-language newspaper owned by the SPH Media Trust.

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The Teenage Psychic

The Teenage Psychic is a 2017 Taiwanese television miniseries.

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The White Lotus

The White Lotus is an American black comedy drama anthology television series created by Mike White for HBO.

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The Wire

The Wire is an American crime drama television series created and primarily written by American author and former police reporter David Simon.

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The World Between Us (Taiwanese TV series)

The World Between Us is a 2019 Taiwanese television series written by Lu Shih Yuan and directed by Lin Chun Yang.

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Thriller (genre)

Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction.

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TriStar Pictures

TriStar Pictures, Inc. (spelled as Tri-Star until 1991) is an American film studio and production company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, part of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. HBO Asia and TriStar Pictures are HBO.

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True Blood

True Blood is an American fantasy horror drama television series produced and created by Alan Ball.

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True crime

True crime is a nonfiction literary, podcast, and film genre in which the author examines a crime and details the actions of people associated with and affected by criminal events.

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True Detective

True Detective is an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto.

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Tuvalu

Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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Universal Pictures

Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal) is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Universal Studios, which is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.

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