FremantleMedia
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FremantleMedia (formerly All-American Television, LBS Communications, and Pearson Television) is a division of RTL Group which 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, 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 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.
Fremantle also focuses on in-house productions, such as the Fox Network TV show American Idol, and current versions of The Price Is Right and Family Feud, carryover productions from Mark Goodson Productions.
Other shows that Fremantle holds rights to includes "The Apprentice" (with co-creator Mark Burnett for NBC), "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.
Fremantle'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 property of Bertelsmann AG, which is the majority owner in RTL group.)
The company has also acquired British and Australian production companies: Grundy Television, Thames Television, and Talkback Productions, later merged as talkbackTHAMES. 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.
Fremantle currently leases the rights to all Goodson-Todman game shows, sans The Price Is Right, plus Press Your Luck to GSN for television syndication.
