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FremantleMedia is the content and production division of RTL Group, Europe's largest TV, radio, and production company. Its world headquarters are located in London, England.

The company acquired various British and Australian production companies including Grundy Television, Crackerjack Productions (which have now merged to become FremantleMedia Australia), Thames Television and Talkback Productions (the last two later merged as talkbackTHAMES). Early on it merged with Germany's largest television production company, UFA.

Production and rights holdings

The company holds the rights to the Goodson/Todman game show library which includes such classic game shows as What's My Line?, The Price Is Right, Password, Now You See It, Match Game, I've Got a Secret and Family Feud, as well as non-Goodson shows such as Press Your Luck and the Reg Grundy library, which includes Time Machine, Sale of the Century, Scrabble, and Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak.

In addition, they also own (along with Columbia Pictures) the rights to most of the post 1948 Bob Hope film catalog that includes The Seven Little Foys, The Lemon Drop Kid, and Son of Paleface. They were also the distributors of the television series Baywatch, and also hold the rights to the Grundy Television Library, including game shows from its U.S. counterpart, Reg Grundy Productions.

In-house productions include the Fox Network TV show American Idol, current versions of The Price Is Right and Family Feud, and the 2002 revival of Beat the Clock (for Pax TV), carryover productions from Mark Goodson Productions.

Other shows that FremantleMedia holds rights to includes The Apprentice (with co-creator Mark Burnett for BBC One), The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency (on Oxygen in the United States), the Simon Cowell-produced series The X Factor (in both the UK and Australia), and America's Got Talent for NBC, the long running Australian serials Neighbours and Prisoner , Distraction (on Comedy Central), and Gameshow Marathon (on CBS). In other countries they own the franchise rights to Betty La Fea in Germany (Verliebt In Berlin), Spain (Yo Soy Bea) and The Netherlands (Lotte), with new versions scheduled to air in Belgium and Greece in 2007.

FremantleMedia's library also includes the 2001 CBS telefilm The Christmas Shoes (inspired by the NewSong #1 hit), and its 2005 sequel, The Christmas Blessing. (The song is the property of Bertelsmann AG, which is the majority owner in RTL group.)

The company also owns the back catalog of the American TV production company Alan Landsburg Productions, which was acquired by Thames in the early 1990s.

FremantleMedia currently leases the rights to all Goodson-Todman game shows (sans The Price Is Right and the 1994-1995 season of Family Feud) to GSN for television syndication, along with Press Your Luck, the 2000-02 version of To Tell the Truth, and the Richard Karn episodes of Family Feud.

Company structure

FremantleMedia is broken down into two major divisions: Creative Networks, which comprises and co-ordinates local production operations, and FremantleMedia Enterprises, which handles distribution and licensing.

Creative Networks comprises three departments: Worldwide Entertainment, Worldwide Drama and FMX. This international production network supports global format roll-outs across the company by providing local production teams with instant access to ideas, expertise and trends from around the world.

Worldwide Entertainment supports successful shows as varied as Idols, The X Factor, and The Price Is Right and Family Feud. New additions include Thank God You're Here, Got Talent and PokerFace.

Worldwide Drama supports serial drama production in 12 territories around the world including long-running dramas The Bill (ITV1, UK), Neighbours (Network TEN, Australia), Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten (Good Times, Bad Times - RTL, Germany), Salatut Elamat (Secret Lives - MTV3, Finland), Un Posto al Sole (A Place in the Sun - RAI 1, Italy) and Baratok Kozt (Between Friends - RTL Klub, Hungary).

Creative Networks' latest addition is FMX, a new division committed to reaching new audiences by creating non-linear new media experiences across a variety of emerging platforms. Its first live project is an online comedy-drama called Project V.

FremantleMedia Enterprises is the commercial arm of the company responsible for exploiting and developing FremantleMedia's properties off-screen in areas such as merchandising, the Internet, interactive television and wireless. It also focuses on more traditional ancillary rights businesses such as licensing, home entertainment and music publishing.

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RTL Group (LuxSE:  RTL ) is Europe's largest TV, radio and production company, and is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. It has 39 television and 32 radio stations in 10[1] countries.
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London
Canary Wharf is the centre of London's modern office towers
London shown within England
Coordinates:
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Constituent country England
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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Anthem
Advance Australia Fair [1]


Capital Canberra

Largest city Sydney
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Reg Grundy Organisation was an Australian television production company founded by Reg Grundy (born Reg Grundle) in 1959. It has since branched out into Europe and the USA. The company first produced game shows, before branching into soap operas in 1973.
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Crackerjack Productions is an Australian independent television production company headed by brothers Mark and Carl Fennessy.

Based in St. Leonards, Sydney, it concentrates on comedy-related projects, with forays into light entertainment, music, factual and reality TV.
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Thames Television

The final Thames Television logo prior to losing its ITV franchise (1990-1992)
Based in London
Broadcast area Greater London
Launched 30 July 1968

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Talkback Productions was formed in 1981 by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. The company is one of the UK’s leading production companies and part of the RTL Group, a major European broadcast and content company.
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talkbackTHAMES

Public
Founded 2003
Headquarters London, England

Key people Lorraine Heggessey
(CEO)
Industry Media
Products Television
Owner FremantleMedia
(part of the RTL Group)
Website talkbackthames.
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UFA or Ufa may refer to:
  • Ufa, a city in Russia
  • Ufa, a town in Ethiopia
  • Uniform Firearms Act, a set of laws in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  • Uniformed Firefighters Association, the union of the Fire Department of New York.

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Mark Goodson (January 14, 1915 – December 18, 1992) was an accomplished American television producer who specialized in game shows.

Life and television career


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William S. "Bill" Todman (July 31, 1916 - July 29, 1979) was an American television producer born in New York City.

In the 1940s Todman (original first name Wilbur), teamed up with Mark Goodson for radio shows. According to radio historian J.
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game show involves members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. In some shows contestants compete against other players or another team whilst other shows involve contestants
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What's My Line? is a weekly panel game show originally produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. The series debuted on Thursday, February 2, 1950 at 8:00 p.m. EST and aired on alternating weeks.
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The Price Is Right is a television game show format currently owned by the FremantleMedia wing of the RTL Group, originally created by Bob Stewart, former employee of Goodson-Todman Productions in the United States.
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Password was an American television game show produced by Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. The show was hosted by Allen Ludden and was created by Bob Stewart for Goodson-Todman Productions.
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Now You See It is an American television game show in which contestants try to find words hidden within a jumble of letters. The series ran in two incarnations from 1974-75, and in 1989.
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The Match Game was an American television game show, most often hosted by Gene Rayburn. The show featured celebrities and contestants answering fill-in-the-blank questions.
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I've Got a Secret is a weekly panel game show that was produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. It was created by comedy writers Allan Sherman and Howard Merrill as a derivative of Goodson-Todman's own panel show What's My Line?.
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Family Feud is a television game show that pits two families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type question posed of 100 people.
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Press Your Luck is an American television daytime game show originally broadcast on CBS from 1983 to 1986 where contestants collected "spins" by answering trivia questions, and then used the "spins" on an 18-space gameboard full of cash and prizes.
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Reginald Roy Grundy (born Reginald Roy Grundle, 4 August 1923, in Sydney, Australia) is one of the most successful entrepreneurs, Australian media and television moguls of his generation.
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Time Machine" was a short-lived American game show where contestants competed to answer trivia questions about popular culture and recent history to win prizes. The show starred John Davidson and ran on NBC from January to April 1985.
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in Australia 4610 (1980 - 2001)
Production
Running time 30 minutes per episode
Broadcast
Original channel NBC (USA);
Nine Network (AUS); ITV (UK), et al.
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Scrabble is an American television game show that was based on the Scrabble board game. The Reg Grundy production (co-produced in association with Exposure Unlimited) ran from July 2, 1984, to March 23, 1990, and again from January 18 to June 11, 1993, both times on NBC.
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Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak was an ABC game show that aired from January 6, 1986 to April 4, 1986. It was produced by Reg Grundy Productions. Its host was UK personality Bruce Forsyth, and was announced by Gene Wood and Marc Summers.
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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is a film and television production company. It is part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony.
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Bob Hope

Birth name Leslie Townes Hope
Born May 29 1903(1903--)
Eltham, London, England, UK
Died July 27 2003 (aged 100)
Toluca Lake, California, U.S.
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The Seven Little Foys is a 1955 film starring Bob Hope as Eddie Foy. James Cagney reprises his role as George M. Cohan for a tabletop dance showdown sequence.

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