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EXCLUSIVE: Syndicated gameshow Family Feud is the latest production set to get back up and running. Deadline understands that the Steve Harvey-fronted show is returning to the studio in Atlanta on Tuesday, August 4. The show is set to start airing original episodes for its 22nd season on September 14. While the show…

EXCLUSIVE: Supermarket Sweep is back in the shopping aisles. Deadline understands that ABC's reboot of the classic game show, starring SNL alum Leslie Jones, is now back in production. It becomes the latest high-profile non-scripted entertainment series to resume shooting after the COVID-19 production…

American Idol is eschewing its live casting roadshow for a virtual tour. The ABC competition series was renewed for a fourth season in May. Producers Fremantle generally kick off a live bus tour across American during the summer in search of contestants but this year the hunt will be digital due to COVID-19. The first…

UPDATE: Minutes after we dropped the news of Fremantle’s exit from Mipcom, ITV Studios also confirmed it will not attend. Instead, the studio will host the ITV Studios Fall Festival, a series of virtual content sessions for buyers held over three weeks from September 14. ORIGINAL EXCLUSIVE: Fremantle has joined BBC Stu…

Joerg Winger, the creator of hit German drama Deutschland 83, is stepping down as managing of UFA Fiction to launch a drama label that will sit within the Fremantle-backed production company. Winger has established Big Window Productions, which will focus on bringing stories from Berlin to a global audience. He will…

Amazon Prime Video has commissioned a second season La Jauría, the Spanish-language thriller from Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín's Fabula, which made the Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman. The renewal comes just weeks after Season 1 debuted on Amazon on July 10 across Latin America and Spain. The eight-part series tells…

ITV confirms ‘The Cube’s return ITV has confirmed what Deadline reported weeks ago — that game show The Cube is returning after being rested for five years. Objective Media Group label Wildcard Television will make a new five-part series, which will be hosted by Phillip Schofield. The format will feature two-player…

Fremantle label Naked has poached Fatima Salaria, Channel 4’s head of specialist factual, as its managing director after Simon Andreae was promoted to become Fremantle UK’s chief executive. The My Grandparents War and Putin: A Russian Spy Story commissioner will work closely with Naked’s creative director Tom O'Brien…

Fremantle’s scripted podcast producer Storyglass is to be spun out into a standalone company within the Bertelsmann Group, and will now make shows across a variety of genres including scripted, documentary, true crime, lifestyle and music. Storyglass previously sat in Fremantle’s drama unit, but will become a…

EXCLUSIVE: Card Sharks, ABC's reboot of the classic game show, is the latest broadcast network series to head back into production. Deadline understands that the show, which is starting production on its second season and fronted by Community star Joel McHale, has returned to filming today. It shoots at CBS Studios…

America's Got Talent is one of the first big-budget non-scripted formats to resume filming following the COVID-19 production shutdown. The NBC show started shooting outside last week in Los Angeles and the Fremantle and Syco-produced show put in a number of interesting processes to ensure a safe return. Creator Simon…

UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the coronavirus crisis and his own crippling battle with the disease are to be the subject of a new TV series helmed by BAFTA-winning director Michael Winterbottom. Deadline understands that deals were done to develop the drama this week, with the project being housed at Fr…