Ho Soo Fung Vice President, Network Programming & Promotions (Chinese Broadcast) MediaCorp TV Singapore Pte Ltd Singapore

What are your acquisition strategies? What genres are you looking for?

We will continue to acquire the best of drama, movies, variety and documentaries that are suitable for our channels' branding. Since our company has co-produced and invested in quite a number of quality dramas with Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, we are very selective in terms of acquiring drama serials.

Can you give us several titles of domestic / international programming that you acquired this year?

We have acquired the top rated and most talked about Korean drama "Princess Hour" and Taiwanese drama "The Hospital", Hong Kong drama "Central Affairs", Japanese variety show "Masquerade". We have also acquired a high quality documentary "Rediscovering the Yangtze River ".

How many hours of programming will you acquire this year? Do you have an increase or decrease in your acquisition budget in comparison with last year?

We acquired quite a substantial number of hours this year, though the quality and budget are not as high as compared to the previous year.

What programs will be in demand at ATF 2006?

We would like to see some interesting drama serials, variety shows, movies, documentaries, cartoons with an oriental flavor, (programs preferably with Mandarin soundtracks if they are from non-Mandarin speaking countries), that are suitable to our two Chinese channels at ATF.

The Hospital