2025 is ready to be a powerful 12 months for WeTV with greater, higher, and extra entertaining Southeast Asian choices, together with an all-new season of CHUANG ASIA, a slew of WeTV Originals in Thailand and Indonesia, and flagship leisure reveals from China.
SINGAPORE, Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — WeTV, the worldwide streaming platform by Tencent Video, has unveiled its 2025 content material lineup, showcasing a formidable array of originals and variations throughout key Southeast Asian markets.
Coming off a powerful 2024, the 12 months forward will see WeTV construct on these successes and ship much more to Southeast Asian audiences.
Jeff Han, Vice President of Tencent Video & WeTV Director stated, “WeTV’s outstanding achievements in 2024 have set the stage for a fair brighter future. As we sit up for 2025, we’re poised to raise our presence within the streaming panorama by means of groundbreaking collaborations, award-winning originals, and strategic partnerships. With a steadfast dedication to delivering significant and culturally related content material, we purpose to deepen our reference to audiences throughout Southeast Asia and proceed shaping the area’s leisure narrative.”
CHUANG ASIA Will get a Model-New Season!
Following the success of CHUANG ASIA – which noticed the worldwide debut of the 9-member woman group ‘Gen1es’ – WeTV is ready to carry again the favored idol survival present, with its second season, set to premiere in Thailand and throughout the area on 2 February 2025.
The brand new season of CHUANG ASIA will carry collectively over 60 aspiring trainees from 9 international locations and areas, showcasing people from numerous professions and cultural backgrounds. They are going to compete to safe a coveted spot on the area’s subsequent huge boy group operated by Tencent Music Leisure (TME). Filming begins in Bangkok, Thailand this December, with the present quickly to air on WeTV globally and different main TV networks and OTT platforms throughout Asia together with CH3 in Thailand, Astro in Malaysia and TVB in Hong Kong.
WeTV Originals Thailand and Indonesia Expands Content material Slate
WeTV viewers throughout Thailand and Indonesia can sit again and revel in 2025, as a number of unique Thai and Indonesian productions are set to take the 2 markets by storm, spanning varied genres comparable to romance, comedy, suspense, thriller, and sci-fi.
Thailand
Thai viewers can anticipate thrilling new content material within the BL style, that includes the favored couple Mile and Apo from KinnPorsche within the upcoming drama collection Shine, produced by BeOnCloud. Moreover, Prime Type, the first-ever live-action adaptation of Japan’s famend BL franchise Dakaichi, will likely be co-produced by WeTV and Tailai Leisure, starring younger Thai skills Good and Increase as they convey iconic romantic scenes to life. Moreover, WeTV is launching Boys Misplaced In Thailand, its first Thai on-the-road actuality present, which can introduce an revolutionary interactive format encouraging viewers participation with the idea “My CP, My Selection!” This partnership units the stage for future productions like Love of Silom, which reunites Poompat Iamsamang (Mr. Up) and Sapsangsawat (Mr. Poom), Love Future from Hell, a extremely anticipated work by followers of Violet Rain, in addition to Hid and Blended and I’m Not Unsuitable.
Indonesia
In the meantime, WeTV’s dedication to the Indonesian market continues with upcoming extremely anticipated WeTV Authentic titles comparable to a twisted teen romance thriller Obsessed, starring Aliando Syarief, Aisyah Aqilah, and Richelle Skornicki, a romantic comedy Leo in February starring Rayn Wijaya and Ranty Maria; and Sizzling Daddies Membership, which stars Nino Fernandez and Zoe Abbas Jackson as the primary characters, that tells a youthful crush blossomed right into a forbidden love story.
Extra C-Dramas for Southeast Asian Audiences
Along with all-new WeTV Originals in Thailand and Indonesia, WeTV viewers also can tune right into a line-up of extremely anticipated Chinese language dramas in 2025, together with Guardians of the Dafeng, an adaptation of one of the crucial widespread on-line novels in China, which stars Wang Hedi and Tian Xiwei; The Glory, a suspense-revenge drama collection starring Chen Duling and Xin Yunlai; a suspense-adventure drama, Love on the Turquoise Land, which can see Dilraba and Chen Xingxu staff up as co-stars.
A collection of costume romance dramas can be set to make its solution to Southeast Asia viewers, comparable to Love Past the Grave (starring Dilraba and Chen Feiyu), Legend of the Feminine Common (starring Zhou Ye and Cheng Lei), and Struggle for Love (starring Victoria Tune and Ding Yuxi). And it doesn’t cease there! Love has Fireworks (starring Tan Jianci and Wang Churan) and Be Passionately in Love (starring Liu Haocun and Wang Anyu) can even maintain Southeast Asian audiences swooning over their screens, whereas Tan Jianci and Li Landi will come collectively and star in a sci-fi drama collection, Filter.
WeTV’s Southeast Asia line-up for 2025 is greater, higher, and extra entertaining than ever earlier than.
WeTV Celebrates an Superb 2024
WeTV is ready to enter 2025 with outstanding momentum in Southeast Asia, following a profitable 2024 marked by spectacular double-digit income development and hovering subscription numbers. Most notably, person time spent, engagement, and loyalty have reached report ranges, underscoring WeTV’s robust place available in the market..
Standard Chinese language actress and singer, Yu Shuxin, higher often called Esther Yu, and Chinese language actor and singer, Zhou Yiran, had been named WeTV’s International Model Ambassador, including some A-list glamour to the Southeast Asian market. Yu Shuxin’s most up-to-date hit Jap fantasy collection, Love Recreation in Jap Fantasy exceeded the 30,000 warmth index on Tencent Video, whereas rising star Zhou Yiran has starred in a number of drama collection on WeTV comparable to Falling into Your Smile, and is ready to look on Reborn and Era to Era, which is ready to seize audiences throughout the platform, signaling stronger connections with world audiences. To precise gratitude to its viewers, WeTV has hosted fan conferences in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, inviting widespread younger artists to attach with followers and improve neighborhood engagement.
As an Asia-founded, worldwide streaming service, WeTV has all the time been a frontrunner in Chinese language dramas, and its high-quality content material garnered consideration and affection from world audiences. That is additional confirmed as 4 out of the highest 5 most mentioned Chinese language dramas on TikTok are from WeTV, with Snowfall, Are You The One, Amidst a Snowstorm of Love, and As Lovely As You securing the primary, second, fourth and fifth place respectively.
2024 was additionally a standout 12 months for WeTV Originals, with Indonesian Originals Pardon My Affair which starred Marshanda, Giorgino Abraham, and Stefan William, reaching over 2 billion views on social media. Moreover, the just lately aired Harmful Affair trended in 27 international locations inside simply two days of its launch. In the meantime, the viewership of CHUANG ASIA’s premiere season on WeTV surpassed that of CHUANG 2021, underscoring the present’s rising reputation within the area. In the course of the closing spherical’s livestream, complete votes on the WeTV software amounted to a formidable 500 million, whereas the occasion dominated social media with the hashtag CHUANG ASIA trending at No. 1 in Thailand and #CHUANGAsiaGrandDebutNight being talked about over 1 million occasions. As well as, WeTV has ventured into world artist administration with the debut of CHUANG Asia’s woman group Gen1es. The platform has additionally signed a dozen proficient younger Thai actors as headliners for its native originals, aiming to help the profession growth of native artists in Southeast Asia and past.
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About WeTV
WeTV is an Asian streaming service that sees the creation of premier video-on-demand (VOD) and offers over-the-top (OTT) native content material. The streaming service offers content material from across the area, together with chosen Chinese language, Indonesian, Korean, Malaysian, Philippines and Thai collection and flicks. Working as a freemium service, viewers can entry some content material with out the necessity for a paid subscription and premium content material at a small payment. The essential options additionally embody free subtitles. WeTV is offered on the browser at wetv.vip, or on the WeTV software that may be downloaded from the Apple Retailer for iOS customers and the Google Play Retailer for Android customers.
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