FremantleMedia Offers Up Atlantic Fare

CANNES, April 17: In addition to its big new drama
launches for MIPTV, led by Love You to Death,
FremantleMedia Enterprises has a significant factual slate in Cannes this week,
bolstered by a deal with British filmmakers Atlantic Productions for the
worldwide rights to five new documentaries.

Superspy:
The Man Who Betrayed The West is the story of Robert Hanssen, the FBI double agent responsible for
the West’s worst ever security breach, selling secrets worth billions of
dollars that were passed on to Osama Bin Laden and used to facilitate the
planning of 9/11.

Apollo 11:
The Untold Story and Apollo
13: The Inside Story
reveal the untold stories of the two most famous space missions. Both are
co-productions of Five, Discovery Communications, La7 and FremantleMedia.

Secrets of
the Great Plague, which
was co-produced with the Discovery Health Channel, Discovery UK, La7 and
FremantleMedia, follows medical detective Dr. Stephen O’Brien as he undertakes
a series of groundbreaking experiments and archaeological discoveries to reveal
how the Great Plague could hold the key to surviving infectious diseases in the
21st century.

In Jack The
Ripper: The First Serial Killer produced for Five, Discovery Channel, La7, Crime & Investigation
Network and FremantleMedia, Laura Richards of Scotland Yard’s Violent Crime
Directorate re-examines the case, utilising modern criminology and
psychological analysis.