FME Shores Up Deals in Singapore

LONDON, September 13:
FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has inked a series of significant sales to
MediaCorp channels in Singapore, including more than 320 hours of content to MediaCorp TV5, Channel News Asia and MediaCorp TV12.

MediaCorp TV5 acquired a package of shows that includes the
reality sensation American Idol Season 7, factual hits How Clean is Your House and The Martha Stewart Show and two Australian titles, Jamie’s Kitchen
Australia and Jamie Oliver:
Australian Diary.

Channel News Asia picked up
season one of the interview series Iconoclasts and the doc Secrets of the Great Plague.

MediaCorp TV12 bagged the
children’s series Planet Cook and
a number of series with natural history expert Nigel Marven, including Nigel Marven’s Rhino Adventures, Nigel Marven’s Ugly Animals and Penguin Adventures with Nigel Marven.

FremantleMedia’s CEO,
David Ellender, commented: “It is very gratifying to see yet another slew of
our programming heading to the buoyant Asian market. The winning combination of
our locally based sales team and the diverse range of strong content we have
available, make us a real distribution force in the Asia-Pacific region.”