FremantleMedia Inks Development Deal with Ex-CNN Correspondent

February 16, 2007 World Screen

LONDON, February 16: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has
signed a first look development deal with former CNN music correspondent Serena
Yang for the delivery of four new lifestyle titles: The Beauty Hunter; Truth, Love & Sex; Bionic Living and Paradise Found.

With the deal, Yang joins a host of other talent working
across FME’s expanding lifestyle portfolio, which includes Jamie Oliver, Martha
Stewart, Bill Granger and Kylie Kwong. As a former West Coast correspondent for
CNN’s international music series, World Beat, Yang has covered the Grammy Awards and interviewed renowned musicians
from Bono and Beyoncé
to Carlos Santana and James Brown. Most recently, Yang was creator, executive producer and host of a travel
series on the world’s subcultures called Eye of the Beholder, which aired on the Travel Channel and
Discovery HD Theater in the U.S.

In The Beauty
Hunter, Yang explores the
personal passions, inspirations and wildly divergent lifestyles of the world’s
experts on everything from architecture to racecars to avant-garde art. In Truth,
Love & Sex, she travels
the globe to capture candid conversations about love, sex and marriage with
eclectic and provocative thinkers.
Bionic Living is
a series that explores revolutionary approaches to creating dynamic health on
every level of human existence. In Paradise Found, Yang interviews the world’s most
elite cultural jet-setters with the goal of locating the places one could
travel to if money were not an issue.

David Ellender, the CEO of
FremantleMedia Enterprises, noted: “As the creator, executive producer
and host of each of these provocative shows, we see Serena as a true auteur, a
unique voice and an innovative cultural scout for a new generation of
globally-minded viewers. We’re delighted to be working with her to develop
these programs, which will no doubt be hugely appealing all over the world. The
lifestyle genre is a key priority for us for 2007 and beyond, and we are
actively looking to work with original talent like Serena.”