AXN (Asia)

AXN Asia is a pay-TV, cable and satellite TV channel owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment row under permission with AXN name trademark American Film Channel Film Channel It is available in throughout the 19 countries around the Asia-Pacific region (Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand). AXN Asia delivers 24 hours a day of action TV series, movies, and adventure-reality and lifestyle sports programs.^[2]

International programming

• 24: Live Another Day
• 72 Hours (TV series)
• 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show
• The Amazing Race
• American Ninja Warrior
• Australia Smashes Guinness World Records
• The Blacklist (TV series)
• Blue Bloods
• Breaking In
• Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed
• Caught on Camera
• Caught Red Handed
• CHAOS
• The Confession
• Criss Angel: Mindfreak
• Chuck
• Common Law
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• CSI: Cyber
• CSI: Miami
• CSI: NY
• Damages
• Falling Skies
• The Defenders
• The Firm
• Hannibal (TV series)
• Hawaii Five-0
• The Hero (2013 TV series)
• House
• Justified
• Last Resort (U.S. TV series)
• Leverage
• Legend Fighting Championship
• Most Daring
• Most Shocking
• NCIS: Los Angeles
• Numb3rs
• Sherlock
• So You Think You Can Dance
• Supernatural
• Teen Wolf
• Top Chef
• Total Blackout
• Totally Insane Guinness World Records
• The Voice
• Wipeout Series
  • Wipeout USA
  • Wipeout Australia
  • Wipeout Canada

Anime programming

Upon its launch, in the late 1990s and early 21st century, AXN broadcast several anime series, much of them in their original Japanese audio with English subtitles, both in the mornings and evenings, and held annual anime festivals around Southeast Asia.^[3][4] Its anime programming would later be transferred onto Animax Asia in 2004, the preparations of which Sony had been planning since the late 1990s.^[4] In the last quarter of 2010, selected anime programs from Animax Asia which is dubbed in English language audio both in the mornings and evenings. This feed is available in the Philippines territory only.

• 07-Ghost‡
• Accel World‡
• Ah! Megami-sama (OVA)
• Akai Hayate
• Akira
• Alien 9
• Ariel
• Ayashi no Ceres
• Baka and Test: Summon The Beast‡
• Beelzebub (manga)‡
• Blassreiter†
• Bleach (Season 1† 2‡ & 3‡)
• Boys Be
• Burn-Up Excess
• Buso Renkin‡
• Blue Submarine No. 6
• Cardfight!! Vanguard†
• Cooking Master Boy
• Chrome Shelled Regios‡
• City Hunter (Entire Series‡)
• Curious Play (TV & OVA series)
• Cyber Team in Akihabara
• Darker Descendants
• Dual!
• Edens Bowy
• El Hazard: The Alternative World
• El Hazard: The Magnificent World
• Eureka Seven AO‡
• Fairy Tail (Season 1† & 2†)
• Fam & Ihrlie
• Fatal Fury (movies 1-3)
• Flame of Recca
• Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood†
• Galaxy Angel
• Gatekeepers
• Gensomaden Saiyuki
• Gestalt
• Ghost in the Shell
• Ghostsweeper
• Grander Musashi
• Gurren Lagann†
• Gunsmith Cats
• Hana Yori Dango
• Hayate the Combat Butler (Season 1† 2† & OVA†)
• Hayate the Combat Butler: Can't Take My Eyes Off You †
• Hayate the Combat Butler: Cuties †
• Hell Girl: Three Vessels‡
• Idaten Jump†
• InuYasha†
• InuYasha: The Final Act†
• K (anime)‡
• Kekkaishi‡
• Key the Metal Idol
• Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing‡
• The Legend of Condor Hero
• Madox-01
• Metropolis
• NieA 7
• Ninku
• Now and Then, Here and There
• Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan‡
• Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan: Demon Capital‡
• Oji the Section Chief
• Power Stone
• Ranma 1/2
• Rave
• Rayearth (OVA)
• Rental Magica‡
• Sakura Wars
• Samurai Champloo†
• Samurai Showdown
• Samurai X
• Samurai X : The Movie
• Shadow Skill
• Shakugan no Shana Final ‡
• Shakugan no Shana Second†
• Shangri-La (novel)‡
• Shin Hakkenden
• Sket Dance‡
• Slam Dunk
• Sol Bianca
• Space Warship Yamamoto Yoko
• Steam Detective
• Stigma of the Wind†
• Strange Dawn
• Street Fighter Zero
• Tenchi Muyo in Love 2
• The Art of Fighting
• 3x3 Eyes
• Tales of the Abyss‡
• Tears to Tiara†
• The Book of Bantorra‡
• The Tower of Druaga†
• The Wave of Rage
• Twin Signal
• Vandread
• Vandread: The Second Stage
• Vandread: Integral
• Yamato Takeru
• You're Under Arrest!
• You're Under Arrest! (2nd season)
• You're Under Arrest! (movie)

† - English audio dub, Available in the Philippines only. ‡ - Japanese language audio with English subtitles, Available in the Philippines only.

Original productions

• Cash Cab Asia
• The Apartment
• The Kitchen Musical (was available in Singapore)
• The Amazing Race Asia - A local version of the popular reality show The Amazing Race; the fourth season premiered in 2010.
• Ultimate Escape - Holiday adventure show, the first season aired from October 29, 2007 to November 19, 2007.^[5]
• The Contender Asia - Muay Thai boxing reality show similar to The Contender; season 1 premiered on January 16, 2008.^[6]
• e-Buzz - Entertainment news show, hosted by Jaymee Ong; ongoing^[7]
• Sony Style - Lifestyle & entertainment magazine show sponsored by Sony; season 2 & 3 hosted by Oli Pettigrew^[8]
• The Duke - Men's lifestyle magazine talk show; season 1 premiered in 2009^[9]
• The Apprentice Asia, premieres in 2013
• Asia's Got Talent, premieres in 2015

Related channels

• AXN Feeds
  • AXN Pan-regional (SEA: South East Asia)
  • AXN India
  • AXN Indonesia (Same as the SEA feed with local advertisements)
  • AXN Japan
  • AXN Korea (Joint venture with CU Media)
  • AXN Pakistan (Same as Indian feed only local advertising)
  • AXN Philippines (Separated from the SEA feed including local advertisements, Anime Programming from Animax Philippines and Movies but locally produced show "Ten" will not be shown in SEA feed)
  • AXN Singapore (Separated from the SEA feed including local advertisements)
  • AXN Taiwan

• AXN Beyond (now known as BeTV)
  • AXN Beyond Pan-regional
  • AXN Beyond Philippines
  • AXN Beyond Malaysia

There are two feeds of the Pan Asian feed, one is aimed at viewers in Hong Kong and Thailand only, while the other ones airs is aimed at the rest of South East Asia. The shows on both the feeds are same only different advertising and promo timings. This is also the case with the Philippine feed which sometimes carries or drops certain shows for reasons of programming rights. AXN Pakistan and AXN India share the same program content and schedules; however, advertising is different on both beams.

AXN HD

AXN broadcasts all of their dramas in high definition. The network is available in HD in Korea on 1 March 2009 and was launched in Singapore on StarHub TV Channel 559 on 25 May 2010.^[10] In Malaysia it was launched on 16 June 2010 on Astro channel 721.^[11] and in Thailand was launched on 12 July 2011 on TrueVisions channel 12 and in India was launched on 19 July 2014 on Videocon D2H channel 176. It premiered in Sri Lanka on Dialog TV's HD package in 2013 and occupies channel slot 90.

See also

• Animax Asia
• AXN
• BeTV (Asia Pacific) (formerly TV channel)
• Sony Channel (Asia) (formerly TV channel known as SET South East Asia)
• ONE TV ASIA
• SET Asia (India region)
• AXN Crime
• AXN Sci Fi

References

External links

• Official website
• Official India website
• Official Taiwan website (Chinese)
• Official Korea website (Korean)
• Official Japan website (Japanese)

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