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Credit: FremantleMedia Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the beach… FremantleMedia International is looking to make it a little safer with the return of the red swimsuit-sporting lifesavers of Baywatch. After sorting through a complex rights situation, the producer/distributor has remastered the David Hasselhoff/Pamela Anderson-starring series into HD and will begin shopping the upgraded[...]

According to Deadline Hollywood, the announcement comes as a positive ending to the rocky process of getting American Idol back on the air, which resulted in the network closing a deal in 2017 with FremantleMedia North America and CORE Media Group's 19 Entertainment for the revival. "We knew that American Idol on ABC would unleash an opportunity for[...]

With Amazon set to stateside premiere the highly anticipated series later this month at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, the streaming service has released a new trailer for the Natalie Dormer-led Picnic at Hanging Rock from FremantleMedia. A re-imagining of Joan Lindsay's classic 1967 Australian novel, the series is directed by Larysa[...]

Credit: Starz After a rough couple of months that saw: FremantleMedia's highly publicized switch in showrunners from Bryan Fuller (Star Trek: Discovery) and Michael Green (Y: the Last Man) to Hannibal's Jesse Alexander; a contentious online exchange between author/executive producer Neil Gaiman and The Hollywood Reporter; and the departure of Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) and potential[...]

To say it's been a rough couple of months for Starz's American Gods would be a serious understatement, especially considering their series adaptation of author and executive producer Neil Gaiman's novel is coming off of a strong first season.

Credit: (left): Kendall Whitehouse FremantleMedia North America is wasting no time taking advantage of their multi-year production deal with author Neil Gaiman (The Sandman), winning the television series rights to British author Mervyn Peake's sprawling fantasy novel series Gormenghast with Gaiman and Academy Award-winning writer Akiva Goldsman (Star Trek: Discovery) attached Gaiman and Goldsman will serve as series[...]

FremantleMedia is already adapting American Gods and now provides the groundwork to adapt any of Gaiman's wide ranging works from novels to short stories, etc for television The deal also allows for adaptation of projects involving third party source material and intellectual properties The partnership spans Gaiman's involvement in all creative capacities, including as a[...]