ABC is "hopeful" that it can strike a deal to bring the American Idol judges back for season three. Earlier this week, the company renewed the signing competition for a third season on its network and its 18th overall. However, it did not reveal whether judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie would return for…

Storyglass, the scripted podcast label set up by American Gods producer Fremantle, has launched its latest slate of shows including a supernatural horror drama and a project based on Margaret of Anjou. It comes after it unveiled its debut series last year including Chris O'Dowd homelessness story Baby It's Cold Outside…

Les Misérables producer Chris Carey has joined British producer Dancing Ledge Productions as the Fremantle-backed company looks to expand its drama slate. Emmy Award-winning Carey, who produced the BBC and PBS adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic for Lookout Point, becomes executive producer at Dancing Ledge. The indie…

American Gods producer and distributor Fremantle has taken the international rights to a one-off documentary about the Notre Dame fire. The company will shop Notre-Dame: In Flames, which features exclusive footage of the recent tragic events in Paris, to international broadcasters and digital platforms after acquiring…

Actor and comedian Joel McHale is set to host Card Sharks, slated to air this summer on the ABC Television Network. "I'm very excited to be hosting 'Card Sharks,'" said McHale. "Game winners can win tens of thousands of dollars and in an updated twist – losers will be fed to a pen of adult Tiger Sharks." The Card Shark…

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Reacher author Lee Child has teamed up with Fremantle-backed producer Dancing Ledge Productions to develop a Black Mirror-meets-Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri true crime anthology drama series. Child has partnered with Dancing Ledge, which has worked on series including Netflix's Delhi Crime…

RTL Group, owner of My Brilliant Friend and American Gods producer Fremantle, has touted its "remarkable" relationship with HBO and revealed that it is in talks to supply content to Apple as it sets a revenue target of $565M by 2021. The company revealed the target after announcing its full-year financial results…

The Got Talent format is heading back to China after Hunan TV partnered with Fremantle and Syco Entertainment. The broadcaster has ordered a 13-part series based on the format that will be known locally as Dian Feng Zhi (World's Got Talent) and will air in April. It comes after a local version of Got Talent aired on…

EXCLUSIVE: Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín’s Fabula, the company behind the Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman, has inked a first-look deal with Fremantle to develop a slate of original English and Spanish-language dramas. Fremantle will distribute the projects worldwide. The Fabula team will work with Fremantle's Global…

Fremantle is reorganizing its executive team under Jennifer Mullin, who took over as CEO of the American Idol and Got Talent producer this past summer following the exit of Cécile Frot-Coutaz. Effective immediately, Fremantle vet Suzanne Lopez has been elevated to the role of COO for North America. Lopez has been with…

Bridesmaids star Chris O'Dowd and Shameless' Anne-Marie Duff are to front Baby It's Cold Outside, the first podcast to emerge from Fremantle's scripted podcast label Storyglass. O'Dowd stars as Ed and Duff plays his estranged wife Sam in the drama, a story of an ordinary man, struggling with homelessness, who is…

Starz has acquired the crime drama series Dublin Murders from Fremantle. The eight-episode series is adapted from Tana French’s first two novels in the Dublin Murder Squad crime series, In The Woods and The Likeness. The atmospheric, psychological thriller, which is currently in production in Belfast and Dublin, is…