FreemantleMedia is a London based British television production and distribution company. Europe's largest entertainment production company, Bertesmann's RTL Group, is their parent company offering them many business opportunities.
The company holds the rights to many of the worlds most popular daytime game shows such as "Let's Make A Deal" and Press Your Luck." Along with Columbia Pictures they own the rights to most of the Bob Hope films made after 1948. Of their more popular.offerings is "Baywatch" for which they own the distribution rights.
They have an American division that is the producer of such shows as "Family Feud," "The Price Is Right" and "American Idol." That last is an American reimagining of the British show "Pop Idol" for which they also own the rights. FreemantleMedia has proven themselves adept at transferring game, reality and other television entertainment from one international market to another. This includes transforming such shows as "The X Factor" from the UK into "America's Got Talent" in the US. Strait forward reproductions such as the Australian serial "Neighbors" and "Wilfred" also form a large part of their business.
With the foreign distribution rights to American, Australian, British and many other nationalities television ideas and programming, FreemantleMedia controls a large portion of what is seen across Europe and around the world.
