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EXCLUSIVE: Storyglass, the scripted podcast label set up by American Gods producer Fremantle, is developing an international audio series based around the controversial Project MK-Ultra. The company has partnered with Easy Tiger, a Fremantle-backed production company from Australia, on six-part series Ultra. The show…

Fremantle has named Manuel Martí to the newly-created position of Head of Scripted Development, Latin America. Based in Mexico City, Martí will will be responsible for developing Fremantle's drama slate in the region, securing and delivering commissions and building Fremantle's scripted business. He will report to…

UPDATED with Fremantle’s Response: SAG-AFTRA is expanding its investigation into Fremantle following the departure of Orlando Jones on American Gods.  This comes after the Gabrielle Carteris-led union had already began investigating the RTL-owned producer over Gabrielle Union's exit on America’s Got Talent. In its…

"I'm really trying to do my level best to create an environment for the future, because there are plenty of folks who are going to come behind me with that company who are going to experience the same thing that I experienced," Orlando Jones says of his decision to go public a few days ago with what he calls his firing…

UPDATE, 3:45 PM: EXCLUSIVE: The departure of Orlando Jones from the third season of American Gods is not about race, says Fremantle, it is about story. “The storylines of American Gods have continually shifted and evolved to reflect the complex mythology of the source material,” says a spokesperson for the company to…

A day after the ViacomCBS merger closed, the company's international networks are already starting to work together. UK broadcaster Channel 5 and Australian broadcaster Network Ten have co-commissioned drama thriller Breathless. The four-part series is produced by Fremantle and stars Station 19 star Brett Tucker and Ea…

Turns out Dwyane Wade knows how to shut down the opposition off the court as well as he did back in his Miami Heat days. In an emotional and no-holds-barred series of social media posts, the NBA legend eviscerated the recent departure (aka he’s says “fired”) of his spouse Gabrielle Union from America's Got Talent and…

EXCLUSIVE: Nascent LA/London drama producer Three Tables Productions has teamed with Fremantle to develop an adaptation of mystery thriller The Robber Baron's Daughter. The companies have set Picnic At Hanging Rock writer Beatrix Christian to adapt Jamila Gavin's book. The adaptation marks the first project unveiled…

"I don't think that there is any denying that the future of how people are going to consume their content on what we used to call television is through streamers," WarnerMedia's Sandra Dewey says as her company’s HBO Max prepares to launch in May 2020. Just hours before the much anticipated and heavily promoted…

Hulu has boarded British drama Baghdad Central. The SVOD service will air in the U.S. in 2020 after striking a deal with Fremantle for the Channel 4 series. Produced by Hard Sun producer Euston Films, the series is based on the novel by Elliott Colla and is written by The Last Kingdom scribe Stephen Butchard. It is…

Mipcom – the largest international TV market – is changing fast and buyers and sellers are figuring out how to respond to the ever-shifting global landscape. The corporate consolidation that has been the talk of the Croisette for the last few years has started to have a real-world impact on the distribution business…

Ricki Lake, Glee's Kevin McHale and Hayley Hasselhoff are some of the stars lined up for ITV's The X Factor: Celebrity. The British broadcaster has tweaked its long-running reality competition series to feature celebrities beginning in October. Simon Cowell, Nicole Scherzinger and Louis Walsh will judge, while Dermot…