Longstanding Fremantle Australia exec Caroline Spencer is to step down from her role overseeing unscripted programming. Spencer has been with Fremantle for a decade but is to exit as director of unscripted at the end of September, having been behind shows including Project Runway, The Biggest Loser and MasterChef Australia. She also had a stint […]
TV production revenues at US studio Lionsgate nearly doubled year-on-year in its latest financial quarter. Production of shows such as Mad Men, Manhattan and Orange is the New Black brought in US$161.2 million for the three months to December 31, 2014, up from US$82.3 million in the same quarter the year before. The studio produced […]
A new pop culture quiz show from Friends star Courteney Cox and her actor husband David Arquette has sold to Tribune Broadcasting stations covering 40% of the US. Celebrity Name Game, which was developed by the couple’s Coquette Productions and showrunner Scott St. John, will air on channels such as WPIX in New York, KTLA […]
