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FremantleMedia International
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Show of the week: The Coronation
For the first time the Queen discusses her Coronation, which took place 65 years ago…
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Fremantle remasters Baywatch classic episodes
FremantleMedia International is remastering the long-running hit TV series, Baywatch, which was originally filmed in…
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FremantleMedia secures global rights to Manson documentary
FremantleMedia International is to handle global distribution for a new ITV documentary series that uses…
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Passion hires Fremantle exec as head of acquisitions
Passion Distribution has hired FremantleMedia International’s (FMI) Sean Wheatley as head of acquisitions. Wheatley will…
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Fremantle Int’l’s global content chief set for departure
FremantleMedia International’s (FMI) executive vice president of global content, Katrina Neylon, has handed in her…
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SVOD net Acorn cops British comedy No Offence
RLJ Entertainment’s Acorn TV has acquired exclusive digital rights in North America for the first…
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Turner poaches Fremantle exec for UK & Euro sales
Turner has secured the services of FremantleMedia International (FMI)’s Joss Duffield. She will become regional…
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TBI Weekly: BBC Worldwide Showcase and the UK Screenings
The BBC Worldwide Showcase is, by some distance, the largest international programming market held by…
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EntertainTV gobbles up Fremantle’s Picnic in exclusive content push
EntertainTV, the Deutsche Telekom pay TV service, has taken exclusive rights to Australian drama Picnic…
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Canal+ orders HBO’s My Brilliant Friend
French group Canal+ has pre-bought My Brilliant Friend, a drama based on Elena Ferrante’s bestselling…
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Sky New Zealand stares into Hard Sun & eyes American Gods
Sky New Zealand has acquired new pre-apocalyptic BBC drama Hard Sun, as well as Starz…
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Neighbours getting Turkish remake at Fox
Australian daily soap Neighbours is being remade for the first time in its 32-year history….
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Fremantle hires Neylon as global content head
FremantleMedia International (FMI) has appointed Katrina Neylon to the role of executive vice president of…
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Amazon has Picnic at Hanging Rock with FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia International has partnered with Amazon US for the premiere of its series Picnic at…
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Fremantle ups scripted buyer
FremantleMedia International (FMI) has promoted Rebecca Dundon to director of scripted acquisitions, and hired an…
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Fremantle hires NBCU sales director
FremantleMedia International has brought in NBCUniversal International sales director Nick Pawsey, TBI has learned. Pawsey…
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Sky brings Aussie drama to Germany
Sky Deutschland has acquired Australian primetime medical drama The Heart Guy. The Essential Media-produced series…
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Altice debuts food net with Jamie Oliver shows
Altice is launching a new cooking brand with a TV channel, print magazine and digital…
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Fremantle tones up with Joe Wicks shows
Programmes from UK fitness guru Joe Wicks are coming to Cannes with FremantleMedia International. A…
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The New Statesman plotting return to power
Iconic British satire The New Statesman is set to return to screens under a new…
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Project Runway Lat Am network change scheduled
Lifetime Latin America has become the pan-regional home of the Project Runway. The original US…
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Fremantle taking Germany RTL shows global
FremantleMedia International is taking hundreds of hours of programming from Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland, a stablemate…
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Amazon hires FMI’s Brown as Euro originals chief
Amazon Studios has hired FremantleMedia International’s Georgia Brown as its first director of original television…
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UK, Germany clean up at international Emmys
Programmes from the UK and Germany led the way at the International Emmy Awards in…
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Revenue and profit fall at Fremantle
Turnover and profit decreased at FremantleMedia through the first nine months of the year, with…
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X Factor struggles down under, Dancing cancelled
Two of the biggest entertainment formats in the world, Dancing with the Stars and the…
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BBC parodies Making a Murderer with spoof
The BBC has commissioned Sexy Murder, a six-part comedy that spoofs true crime hits such…
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ZDF gets to work on Reformation drama
German pubcaster ZDF has commissioned a two-part miniseries about revolutionary priest Martin Luther to celebrate…
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Foxtel orders Picnic at Hanging Rock series
Australian pay TV provider Foxtel has ordered an original drama, Picnic at Hanging Rock, with…
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Amazon adopts American Gods
Amazon Prime Video has snapped up rights to big-budget, high-concept Starz drama American Gods in…