FME to Showcase Diverse Portfolio

LONDON, May 12: Headlining FremantleMedia Enterprises’s (FME) roster for
the L.A. Screenings this year is the 8×1-hour reality series Oprah’s Big
Give, in which ten contestants are given the challenge to change the lives
of complete strangers.

Hosted by talk show host
and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey, Oprah’s Big Give sees contestants
crisscrossing the U.S. in an effort to find ways to impact the fate and
fortunes of unsuspecting people, with the winner of the competition to receive
$1 million. The panel of judges includes chef Jamie Oliver and Malaak
Compton-Rock, the wife of Chris Rock and charity founder. When Oprah’s Big
Give premiered on ABC earlier this year, it won its slot, defeating the NBC
game show Deal or No Deal.

Other offerings from FME include the 6×1-hour She’s Got the Look, a mature
model competition featuring aspiring female model contestants over the age of
35 that is set to debut on TV Land on June 4, as well as the Spike TV
fly-on-the-wall show DEA, which follows a group of special
agents and task force officers in the Detroit division of the Drug Enforcement
Agency (DEA) as they fight the daily battle in the city’s ongoing war against
illegal drugs.

FME will also showcase two food-and-travel shows: Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, which finds the renowned chef and food writer
spanning the far reaches of the globe in search of unusual delicacies, and Bizarre
Foods with Andrew Zimmern, in which food writer Andrew Zimmern tastes his
way around the world. Additional lifestyle offerings from FME include two
culinary investigative one-off specials featuring Jamie Oliver: Jamie’s Fowl
Dinners and Eat to Save Your
Life. Rounding out FME’s lineup is
the second season of the teen drama The Best Years, which finds Samantha Best returning for another
term at Charles University in Boston.

—By Irene Lew