FremantleMedia News

Launching a startup enables you to set your own tone, according to Torie Chilcott, co-founder and CEO of Rockabox, and winner of the FDM everywoman woman of the year award 2014.

Human medical experiments, real-time investing and your TV watching you: the best new formats that should be making their way from the Cannes market to your TV soon.

The exclusive two-year deal between producer Dick De Rijk and Fremantle will see the game show expert develop formats for Fremantle to deliver to the world market.

FremantleMedia and Vice will launch a fully co-owned online cooking channel, MUNCHIES, with a lineup of five original shows on munchies.tv.

Syco Entertainment and FremantleMedia said Monday that Guinness World Records has deemed the series the most successful reality TV format worldwide.

This Sept. 14, 2012, file photo, provided by NBC shows host Nick Cannon on stage during auditions for the talent competition series "America's Got Talent," in Newark, N.J. The producers of the "Got Talent" franchise say the TV talent contest is a winner in its own right.

Syco Entertainment and FremantleMedia said Monday that Guinness World Records has deemed the series the most successful reality TV format worldwide.

Veteran scripted development executive Quan Phung has joined Slingshot Global Media , the Los Angeles-based independent television studio former FremantleMedia International CEO David Ellender launched in February with the backing of private investment firm TPG.

Steve Buscemi is teaming with AOL for unscripted original Park Bench . Set in New York City, the video series is part of the AOL Originals platform which will carry the first season online in the U.S. Production starts this month in NY where Buscemi will interact with everyday denizens of the Big Apple along with his celebrity pals, discussing ... (more)

Following on from the successful launch of Neighbours interactive webisodes last month, FremantleMedia Australia announced today another dynamic digital initiative for the iconic drama series as it heads into its 30th year.

FremantleMedia International has signalled its commitment to the emerging markets of the Middle East, Africa and South Eastern Europe by expanding the responsibilities of its Dubai office so that it becomes a distribution hub for the region, selling tape and formats as well as driving FremantleMedia's ancillary and sponsorship activity.

MUMBAI: The month of March has seen a unique property, CEO's Got Talent emerge under the internationally acclaimed 'Got Talent' franchise, bringing together mavericks of the corporate and entertainment industry on a common platform at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai.

The consolidation of independent unscripted production companies continues, with FremantleMedia buying a 75% stake in SallyAnn Salsano 's 495 Prods .

The owner of 'American Idol' Producer FremantleMedia, music group BMG and broadcaster RTL Group posts net profits of $1.2 billion for 2013.

EXCLUSIVE : In a further foray into scripted programming, FremantleMedia is teaming with the UK's Corona Pictures for a drama/adventure series project based on best-selling author Wilbur Smith's Birds Of Prey .

It's the Neighbours plot twist no one could predict. Ramsay Street will face a zombie apocalypse as part of a $400,000 Screen Australia and YouTube incentive to tap into the web's creativity and give online content creators a step up.

Namiech, a former executive at ITV and FremantleMedia, will work to build up a library of English-language non-scripted formats for Banijay.

FremantleMedia International and Oscar-nominated director Roland JoffA© are putting a new spin on Victor Hugo's classic The Hunchback Of Notre Dame .