Popular crime drama Wentworth will return for a fourth season, Foxtel and FremantleMedia Australia have announced.
FremantleMedia Australia has promoted Jonathan Summerhayes to Director of Programming, replacing Tim Clucas who resigned in December after four years in the post.
BBC shows which have never been adapted for Australia or have long since disappeared from our screens could be re-activated under a new co-venture between FremantleMedia Australia (FMA) and BBC Worldwide Australia & New Zealand.
Two of the world’s leading content companies have formed a new partnership to produce BBC Worldwide’s general entertainment formats for the Australian market.
FremantleMedia Australia has acquired the format rights to I Can Do That!, a talent show which sees a group of eight celebrities challenged to perform show-stopping live acts each week to try to prove there's nothing they can't do.
Some technicians employed on FremantleMedia Australia productions including Neighbours are in dispute with the company.
Foxtel has announced AFI winner Pamela Rabe is joining the cast of Wentworth to play Joan "The Freak" Ferguson in the second season of the hit FremantleMedia Australia drama.
Craig Pearce is set to develop bestselling novel The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc into a television drama series.