HBO Asia selects March premiere for The World Between Us
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Rebecca Hawkes
| 22 January 2019

HBO Asia has unveiled its new original Taiwan drama series, The World Between Us, which premieres on 24 March.

The ten part series follows the aftermath of a mass shooting, where the fates of the killer, the victims and their families, the media and the defence teams are all inter linked.

With an ensemble cast from Taiwan, The World Between Us stars Alyssa Chia (The Prince of Han Dynasty, The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber), James Wen (My Queen, My Fierce Wife) and Wu Kang-Jen (A Touch of Green, Wake Up). Directed by filmmaker Lin Chun-Yang (The Soul if Bread) the series is penned by screenwriter Lu Shih-Yuan (Dear Ex).

“Following the success of our first Taiwanese drama series, The Teenage Psychic, we are excited to be once again be presenting intriguing content and stories from Taiwan that would resonate with our audience in the region,” said Jonathan Spink, CEO of HBO Asia.

“With the addition of The World Between Us to our line-up of original content, we are further reinforcing our commitment to producing quality local programming for our audience in Asia and beyond.”

The first two-hour long episodes will air back-to-back from 9pm (Singapore time) on HBO Go and HBO. Thereafter, two more episodes of The World Between Us will debut each Sunday, and they will also be available on HBO On Demand.

In Taiwan the series will also stream on Catchplay, which marks the first time the regional video-on-demand platform is offering drama as well as movies.

Daphne Yang, CEO of Catchplay said: “We are delighted that our efforts in building international networks, have placed us in a good position to bring quality Taiwan original content to the world. We are excited to be working with HBO Asia on the global distribution of The World Between Us.

“We will strive to build more collaborations like this to create more opportunity for quality Taiwan content to be seen globally.”

The World Between us is HBO Asia’s seventeenth Asian original since it commenced its own productions in 2012.