Fremantle

Fremantle (formerly FremantleMedia) is an British-American international television production and distribution subsidiary of ViacomCBS's Filmed Entertainment Group, founded in 2001, and has since evolved into Europe's largest TV, radio, and production company. It is headquartered in London and on the Paramount lot in Hollywood.

Fremantle creates programming for both scripted and non-scripted genres, with expertise in formatted entertainment and gameshows, reality and factual entertainment programming, and weekly and daily drama series, as well as having a growing presence in the production and distribution of high-end scripted dramas across the world. In 2019, Fremantle produced over 12,000 hours of programming. The company's distribution business, Fremantle Distribution (formerly Fremantle International), licenses and sells formats and finished content throughout the world, selling over 20,000 hours of programming in more than 200 territories.

Fremantle has offices in 31 countries around the world and also has a growing number of acquired production companies to grow its footprint and expertise.

In October 2020, Fremantle's North American and European businesses, along with the MGM owned OWL TV Studios units in the UK and Canada were acquired by ViacomCBS. the company would retain the Fremantle name, and a newly relaunched group, consisting of the merger of Fremantle's North American and European operations and OWL Television Studios' UK and Canadian units would be formed under the Fremantle banner. In Novemeber 2020, ViacomCBS acquired the remaining Fremantle assets from Vuori, and reorganized the unit, under which it would move to the newly formed ViacomCBS Filmed Entertainment Group.

Fremantle also maintains ViacomCBS' stake in Banijay Group.