Creative Networks
FremantleMedia Production
Our audience expertise and worldwide reach turn programmes into global entertainment brands.
Our global creative network provides our local companies with instant access to ideas, expertise and trends from around the world and our international production network supports global format roll-outs with unrivalled local execution.
We own and work with local production companies around the world to produce long-running hits and successful entertainment brands appealing to a broad range of audiences.
Our production activities cover most entertainment and drama genres.
Entertainment
Our entertainment programming includes internationally successful shows as varied as Idols, The X Factor, and The Price Is Right and Family Feud.
The Idols format has become a global phenomenon and has been sold to 41 territories including the UK, the USA, France, Australia, Poland, South Africa, India, Singapore and Kazakhstan. The Apprentice, created by Mark Burnett and first broadcast on NBC in the USA, has become one of the fastest-selling formats of all time, having been produced in 16 countries.
In the gameshow genre, we have successfully brought to the international market innovative formats such as Liar, Greed, Distraction, and PokerFace.
Our company also owns one of the largest gameshow catalogues in the world which includes the hugely popular The Price is Right, which is the longest running gameshow in the world and has seen local productions in 30 territories since it launched in the US in 1956. Another show, Family Feud has aired in more countries than any other gameshow and in France, Question Pour Un Champion has been on air since 1988.
New entertainment formats that have recently been successfully launched include Thank God You're Here, Got Talent and PokerFace.
Drama
We are Europe's leading producer of serial drama, producing or supervising serials production in 12 territories around the world.
Our brands include the long-running police drama, The Bill, broadcast in the UK on ITV1 and also internationally. Daily serial dramas include the international hit Neighbours (broadcast on Network TEN in Australia and five in the UK), Germany's top-rated serial drama Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten (Good Times, Bad Times - RTL), Finland's Salatut Elamat (Secret Lives - MTV3), Italy's Un Posto al Sole (A Place in the Sun - RAI 1) and Hungary's Baratok Kozt (Between Friends - RTL Klub).
We are also a leading supplier of telenovelas. Our German telenovelas, which include Julia- Wege zum Glueck and Verliebt In Berlin have been an audience hit our internally developed telenovela formats have begun to travel. Local adaptations of Betty La Fea (Betty The Ugly) have now been produced in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium and Greece.
Our UK headquarters, located in the heart of London W1, offers studios for hire. For more details on this, please visit the Stephen Street Studios website.
Our latest addition is FMX, our new platforms division. We are committed to reaching new audiences by developing and producing personalised, participatory media entertainment across platforms enabled by emerging technology.
FMX is successfully creating new entertainment brands and concepts specifically for mobile, broadband, games consoles and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV).