Tudou Brings Hit Disney TV Series to Users in China.

Tudou, China's leading online video website www.tudou.com, has announced an agreement with Disney Media Distribution to bring popular U.S. TV series including "Criminal Minds," "Desperate Housewives," "Cougar Town," and "Lost" to the Chinese online video audience.

Complete episodes and all seasons of these Disney TV series will be available on Tudou.com with high definition format and professional quality Chinese subtitles. Audiences will be able to access all previous seasons of "Criminal Minds" (Season 1 to 5), "Cougar Town" (Season 1) and "Lost" (Season 1 to 6) on-demand. In addition, Chinese audiences will have access to episodes from the latest seasons of these hit series closely after their telecast in the United States.

"Criminal Minds," the widely popular crime-busting action series featuring an FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit crew launched back in September 2005 on CBS Network and has been a long time U.S. TV ratings winner. The crime procedural has been very well received among Chinese audiences. All episodes of "Criminal Minds" will be available on a specially designed feature page on Tudou.com (http://zone.tudou.com/criminal_minds/).

Tudou has been expanding content partnerships with other Hollywood studios and publishers in the Asian region. More of the popular international high quality programming will be made available to the over 300 million Chinese Internet video audience, some with same or approximate window as that in overseas market.

Keywords: Asia, China, Tudou.com.

This article was prepared by China Weekly News editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, China Weekly News via VerticalNews.com.