FME Delivers Docs, Drama, Entertainment and Comedy

LONDON, October 5: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) will be
at MIPCOM this year with a diverse crop of programming that includes the
eco-friendly documentary series Big Ideas for a Small Planet and the new scripted drama adaptation Fanny
Hill, alongside returning entertainment
series like the music-themed Live From Abbey Road and the design competition reality series Project
Runway.

Leading FME’s factual slate this year is the 13×30-minute
eco-friendly documentary series Big Ideas for a Small Planet, produced by Scout Productions for Sundance Channel
in the U.S. The series profiles designers, products and processes contributing
to the mission to reduce the adverse effects of modern living on our planet.
Also from Sundance Channel and new to the market is the eight-part documentary
series Nimrod Nation, which follows
a small town’s obsession with its high-school basketball team, the Nimrods.

Also making
its MIPCOM debut is the 9×30-minute Kylie Kwong: My China, a co-production between Sitting in
Pictures, FME and the Media Development Authority of Singapore. The series
follows Chinese-Australian chef,
author, TV presenter and restaurateur Kylie Kwong as she takes a culinary and cultural journey in search of the heart, soul and taste
buds of the Chinese people. FME is representing the TV, DVD and ancillary
rights to the series worldwide.

FME
will also be launching three new programs from natural-history
guru Nigel Marven: Arctic Week With Nigel Marven, Nigel Marven’s Penguin Safari and Killer Whale Islands With Nigel Marven. There will also be three new documentary series from Silver River Productions, The Wild Gourmets, Bringing Up Baby
and Fat Man’s Warning.

Returning to MIPCOM is the
celebrity interview series Iconoclasts,
now in its third season, which sees 12 more innovative global icons meet
one-on-one to explore their shared passions and show how their passion for what
they do has transformed our culture.

On the factual-entertainment
end, FME will be debuting the new 10×1-hour series Murder, produced by Bunim-Murray Productions for Spike
TV. Hosted by Tommy LeNoir, a senior homicide detective, the series gives real
people the chance to unravel a true homicide pulled directly from police files
and provides viewers with the chance to play along and try to solve the mystery
from their own armchairs.

FME will also bring a second
season of the music concert series Live From Abbey Road, which will be available for international sale on
both TV and DVD. The first season has already been licensed into 112 markets
around the world to date. Other returning series include the fourth season of
the fashion design reality competition series Project Runway, from Miramax and The Weinstein Company, and the
third season of The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, following supermodel Janice Dickinson as she
continues to run her own Hollywood modeling agency. FME will also be offering
up the third season of The Martha Stewart
Show, which is currently airing on NBC and
syndicated throughout the U.S., as well as the first and second seasons of the
U.K. version of The Apprentice, featuring
Sir Alan Sugar.

Rounding out FME’s slate for MIPCOM this year is a variety
of scripted drama and comedy programs. Launching at the market is the drama Fanny
Hill, based on John Cleland’s Fanny
Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of
Pleasure, and adapted by award-winning
script writer Andrew Davies. Produced by the U.K.’s Sally Head Productions, the
drama follows the story of a young, orphaned country girl who falls into
prostitution and works her way up the social ladder of 18th century
London.

Returning to Cannes is the dark scripted series Love You
to Death, from Blueprint Entertainment for
the U.S. channel TruTV (formally CourtTV). The series features John Waters in
his television debut as the “Groom Reaper,” and tells the twisted, inspired-by-reality tales of
spouses who have killed their loved, or not-so-loved, ones. Other scripted
dramas returning to the market are the Australian daily drama Neighbours, and the teen drama series The
Best Years,
produced by Blueprint Entertainment for the nighttime teen network The N.

Finally,
scripted comedy fare will also be showcased at the market, including the second
seasons of the BAFTA award-winning sketch show That Mitchell &
Webb Look and the International
Emmy-nominated series The IT
Crowd, from Ash Atalla (producer of The
Office). The 42×30-minute Comedy
Inc., from Australia’s Crackerjack, and the
subversive cartoon/sketch show Modern Toss will also be available at MIPCOM.