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Stephen McCarty
Stephen McCarty
After 20-odd years spent peddling and polishing words in Hong Kong, Stephen McCarty now resides in Britain, from where he scribbles, daydreams and laments the state of the world.

Actress Jennifer Lim talks to the Post about starring in the first horror series designed for phone viewing – before that became common – and combating stereotypes about Asians on stage and screen.

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The world’s largest library reading space, housed by the Beijing City Library in China’s capital, was inspired by nature – think rice paddies, a river and trees – and designed to be something of a social space.

Macau-born filmmaker Rosa Fong has turned her lens on Britain’s deplorable treatment of Chinese seamen, who served in the UK’s merchant navy in World War II, and were deported after 1945.

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Director Ravi Ajit Chopra is all set to give his Guinness World Record-winning short Cognition the full feature treatment. He talks about working for BBC Films, and his Bollywood dream.

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Singaporean director Tan Pin Pin reflects on her 30 years of putting Singapore on film and the motivation behind her new documentary, walk walk, which explores the significance of walking beyond exercise.

The husband-and-wife team behind the latest adaptation of James Clavell’s most famous novel tell Post Magazine how Shogun became a five-year labour of love.

Magnificent architecture and menacing reminders of war sharpen the senses on a journey around Europe by rail, from London to Brussels to Budapest – as does the arrival of thieves in the night.

Pair whose focus is the need for an architecture that responds to a world being manipulated by AI, and for Emotional cities not Smart cities, put their ideas into practice in design of The Blue in Taipei.

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More people watch streaming TV than traditional TV, and in Asia-Pacific viewers want more local content. TV executives are working to deliver it, while continuing to feed viewer appetite for legacy content.

Singaporean filmmaker Tzang Merwyn Tong tells the Post why he cannot be pigeonholed, and how renewed interest in his movies about outsiders signals a bright future for Southeast Asian independent cinema.

Call the Midwife actress Lucy Sheen, who was born in Hong Kong and grew up in the UK, talks about how talent from Southeast and East Asia is still struggling for recognition in British film and TV.

From a corner shop to outer space, Jean Yoon’s career trajectory has been out of this world. The Canadian actress talks about her starring role in Kim’s Convenience and her intergalactic turn in Code 8: Part II.

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Kwoklyn Wan –the brother of British TV personality Gok Wan – talks about the imminent release of his Amazon cooking show Kwoklyn’s Chinese Takeaway Kitchen on YouTube, and a new series he’s working on.

Slow Horses star Christopher Chung tells Post Magazine about getting back in the saddle for the third-season return of his insufferable egomaniac hacker Roddy Ho.

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Eight Korean actors and Japanese actresses share a house, and maybe find love, in Netflix’s Love Like a K-drama, while BBC First airs three murder mystery Christmas specials.

This Christmas, you can catch Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell in Spirited, Eddie Murphy in Candy Cane Lane, sing along with West End star Hannah Waddingham, and lap up Jamie Oliver’s kitchen tips.

Earth on BBC Earth looks at evolution and extinction on our planet over billions of years, while Netflix K-drama Castaway Diva follows an aspiring singer who spends 15 years on a desert island.

In Slow Horses season 3, Gary Oldman dons his flasher mac for another turn as flatulent spy master Jackson Lamb, while the pandemic’s social ruptures occupy Taiwan-set lockdown anthology At the Moment.

The Sai Kung Hoi Arts Festival features 18 artworks, spread across four outlying islands in east Hong Kong, used to draw visitors into the lives and histories of the people residing there.

BBC First drama Annika stars Nicola Walker as Detective Inspector Annika Strandhed, investigating murders around Scotland and raising her rebellious teenage daughter (Silvie Furneaux).

A house in suburban London was terror ground zero from 1977 when a poltergeist came calling. The Enfield Poltergeist on Apple TV+ investigates the most notorious haunting of its kind.

James Bond was in Macau in The Man with the Golden Gun and Skyfall, as was Bond actor Pierce Brosnan in Around the World in 80 Days, while The Venetian Macao features in K-drama Boys Over Flowers.

BBC Earth’s Michael Palin: Into Iraq takes the genial former comedian, now 80, around the Middle Eastern country, visiting ancient cities, scenes of devastation from recent wars, and disputed lands.

Apple TV+ series Lessons in Chemistry follows a technician, played by Brie Larson, in a US chemistry lab in the 1950s whose work is underappreciated and ridiculed because she is a woman.

Spy novelist John le Carré’s final interview, with Errol Morris in The Pigeon Tunnel on Apple TV+, is riveting, while K-drama meets spaghetti Western in Netflix Korean show Song of the Bandits.

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BBC series Planet Earth III looks at vulnerable animals dealing with a changing world. Its producers talk about getting viewers to care, and working with a 97-year-old broadcasting legend.

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BBC First’s black comedy The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies follows unrepentant con man Robert Chance (played by Alistair Petrie) and the vulnerable women he swindles.

In Disney+’s K-drama Han River Police, Kwon Sang-woo is part of a division of cops dedicated to the safety of Seoul’s main waterway, while on Apple TV+, season 2 of Invasion sees aliens continue their assault on Earth.

Popular, cynical Dutch detective ‘Piet’ Van der Valk, played by Marc Warren, returns for the third season of Van der Valk, and is joined by new recruit Sergeant Citra Li, played by Django Chan-Reeves.