FME to Offer Catalogue for Digital Download

LONDON, March 5:
FremantleMedia Enterprises’s (FME) home-entertainment division has entered into
an agreement with digital entertainment download store Coolroom to offer its
catalogue to customers.

Episodes from classic
series such as Dangermouse, Baywatch
and Bless This House, along with specials featuring comic icons like Tommy Cooper plus Carry On Christmas and new programming like Live From Abbey Road
and Prehistoric Park, will be available on Coolroom’s website and adapted
IPTV channel across Microsoft Media Center. Titles will be available to own and
rent from £0.99.

Commented Pete Kalhan,
FME’s senior VP of home entertainment, “We are delighted to be working with
such a pioneering operation as Coolroom. Now fans, both old and new, will be
able to download FME’s timeless titles exactly when it suits them and, thanks to
Coolroom, in a very 21st-century way.”

Added Rupert Fleming, the
managing director of Coolroom, “FME’s digital library is bursting with cult
classics which we are delighted to be adding to Coolroom, ensuing great premium
content is both readily and legitimately available at the touch of a button.”

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski