Fremantle

Fremantle (formerly FremantleMedia) is a British international television content and production/distribution subsidiary of Bertelsmann's RTL Group, founded in 2001, and evolved as Europe's largest TV, radio, and production company. Its world headquarters is in London.

The company originated from a merger between Luxembourgish-German joint venture CLT-UFA, which consisted of Germany's largest television production company and held a variety of European TV and radio broadcasters on the Luxembourgish side, and their British rival Pearson Television, the television branch sold off by Pearson plc. What emerged became the RTL Group in July 2000, while the structures of Pearson were transferred into the new FremantleMedia a year later.

In the years before as well as after the merger, the company had acquired various British, Australian, and American production companies including Talkback, Thames Television (which later merged as Talkback Thames), Grundy Television, Crackerjack Productions (now merged to become Fremantle Australia), and Goodson-Todman Productions (later Mark Goodson Productions, now folded into Fremantle North America).