"This is the first time Amazon Studios has done this, " said Simon Morris, Lovefilm's chief marketing officer.

BBC: Amazon to pilot TV comedies and children's shows online

But local property developer Simon Morris and Duncan Revie, son of former manager Don, have lodged an interest.

BBC: Bates is in the driving seat to stay in charge at Elland Road

Evolutionary palaeo-biologist Dr Simon Conway Morris believes they could even have evolved along the lines of primates or humans.

BBC: Tue 13 March, 2100 GMT, BBC2

Simon Conway-Morris, a palaeontologist at Cambridge University, in England, is the champion of a new interpretation of evolution one that challenges the view that it is largely governed by the accident of circumstances.

ECONOMIST: Evolution

Their stories of triumph and tribulation have been chronicled as cover stories in FORBES ASIA in the past year, including features on Li Ka-shing, Steve Wynn, Teresita Sy-Coson, Simon and Eleanor Kwok, Vincent Tan, Shyam and Hari Bhartia, as well as Morris Chang, the FORBES ASIA Businessman of the Year in 2012.

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