Indian diversifications of fashionable sequence “House” and “Suits” are within the works at Banijay Asia, CEO Deepak Dhar revealed to Variety on the Asia Television Forum and Market.

Further particulars and the platform they are going to be on can be revealed in early 2023, Dhar mentioned. Banijay Asia’s Indian adaptation of “The Good Wife,” starring Kajol, can be on Disney+ Hotstar early subsequent 12 months and “Captain,” the Indian version of “The Night Manager,” additionally for Disney+ Hotstar, is within the last levels of post-production, Dhar mentioned.

The govt additionally revealed plans to make use of India and a few neighboring territories as a content material hub. “We’re now looking at producing a lot of unscripted formats as a hub in India – formats like ‘Survivor’ and ‘Temptation Island,’ ‘Big Brother’ and ‘MasterChef.’ These would be something that we would now take into our pan-Asian plans to really see if we can set those up as hubs in and around India,” Dhar mentioned.

“In India, we can strip down the costs to a certain extent and deliver value back to some of our partners. We’re seeing that with pressure on the price and costs, we are planning to do multiple productions in one go,” Dhar mentioned, including that “Survivor” and “Temptation Island” are being produced in Maldives for a number of pan-Asian purchasers.

There are not any plans to arrange hubs in different Asian territories in the intervening time. Content for Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and South Asian international locations like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal can be produced within the India hub, Dhar mentioned.

“These are all captive reality formats; you could film them anywhere. We’re really taking that philosophy forward to set up a lot of these captive reality formats, and line them up as a hub, where we can have multiple productions running one after the other. So it’s literally like a conveyor belt production,” Dhar mentioned. The hub can be operational by the second quarter of 2023.

Banijay Asia will even host shoots from different Asian international locations in India and avail of the country’s filming incentives.

Meanwhile, on the again of the success of Disney+ Hotstar present “Moving In With Malaika,” which follows Bollywood superstar Malaika Arora, Banijay Asia is planning a number of extra captive actuality exhibits following Indian cricketers, timed across the 2023 version of the immensely fashionable Indian Premier League cricket match.