NEWS & VIEWS
June 2018
What’s on Screen
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Let the kids take
charge in I Can Do It
I Can Do It is an infotainment programme
that brings together six Singaporean celebrity
parents and their children to experience family-
bonding activities.
SINGAPORE – I Can Do It is a StarHub local
production that is premiering on Hub E City.
Hosted by Wallace Ang, this infotainment
programme brings together six Singaporean
celebrity parents and their children to experi-
ence family-bonding activities.
For every two episodes, two celebrity par-
ents are featured, and will complete missions
together with their children. The tasks revolve
around themes such as household chores,
taking care of pets, and food preparation.
The celebrities participating in I Can Do It
include Eelyn Kok, Lina Ng, Kelvin Soon and
Jacelyn Tay, among others.
IP’s drawbacks
‘will eventually
become benefits’
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to SDI in order to connect to SDI routers,”
Phan said. “I think this is one of the current
drawbacks about IP if we were to operate
asynchronous facilities.”
The benefits of IP will eventually come
down to the flexibility and cost of infrastruc-
ture, both for production and contribution/
distribution, suggested Andrew Anderson,
head of broadcast ope rations, Seven Net-
work (Operations), Australia.
For its coverage of the Australian Open
tennis competition and Olympic Winter
Games in South Vietnam earlier this year,
Seven Network deployed IP via a produc-
tion hub based at its Docklands Studio in
Melbourne, Australia.
The Australian broadcaster is also con-
tributing to a joint venture with Nine En-
tertainment for the playout operations of
the two organisations, which will be based
around an IP-based system for playout and
headend, Anderson revealed.
He continued: “At present, the biggest
drawback of IP is its ‘newness’, and the lack
of some elements that will come as the
technology matures.
“Principally, the ease of configuration
and ability to re-configure on-the-fly are
both current drawbacks, but will eventually
become benefits.”
Due to the lack of experience, broadcast-
ers may also be mindful of the associated
risks in jumping into IP too early, Anderson
pondered, before adding: “Also, integrating
new IP-based facilities into traditional builds
can be complex and perhaps unnecessary
where the complexity of integration out-
weighs the benefits.”
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Jennifer Fox recounts The Tale
SINGAPORE – HBO Asia is streaming The Tale,
Fox, and is the filmmaker’s first narrative feature.
an American drama film about childhood sexual
Based on Fox’s own life story, The Tale sees Fox
abuse, on HBO as well as on HBO Go and HBO
pushing forward the boundaries of conventional
On Demand.
storytelling, creating a dialogue between past
Starring Laura Dern as Jennifer, The Tale
and present to illustrate the interplay between
uncovers the story of an accomplished docu-
memory and trauma.
mentarian who is completing her latest project
The Tale is an American drama film about childhood
about lives of women around the world.
sexual abuse written and directed by Jennifer Fox, and
is available on HBO, HBO Go and HBO On Demand.
The Tale is written and directed by Jennifer
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