EXCLUSIVE: Jill Kellie, Fremantle’s VP of Commercial Strategy, Commercial and International, has left the Kill Jackie and Baywatch company. Fremantle confirmed her exit to Deadline, with the departure coming more than four years after she had joined, initially in a Director of Acquisitions…

American Idol might be moving to a new location but it will have the same judges and host as before. Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie and Carrie Underwood are returning as judges for Season 25 of the music competition show alongside host Ryan Seacrest. Bryan announced the news on stage at a show…

California is struggling to keep its iconic reality competition shows filming in the Golden State after it emerged that another long-running series is considering an exit. America's Got Talent is the latest that might move production out of California for its next season, coming days after Deadli…

EXCLUSIVE: The volume of reality TV production in Los Angeles has been falling over the last five years and the situation is set to worsen as one of the biggest music competition shows is set to leave the city. Deadline understands that American Idol is moving production from Los Angeles to the…

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Morgan (The Boy That Never Was), Madeleine Mantock (The Long Song) and Christian Cooke (Frauds) will lead the cast of BBC real-time thriller Nightsleeper Season 2. The trio assume the mantle from Season 1 stars Joe Cole and Ruth Madeley, and will appear alongside the likes of…

Buckle up for a global thrill ride. Catherine Zeta-Jones is on the run in the first trailer for action series Kill Jackie. Zeta-Jones is is seen shooting shotguns, taking out home-raiding assassins with guns hidden in artwork and charting a private aircraft as her character, former drug smuggler…

Fremantle’s long-serving global formats chief Vasha Wallace is laving the Got Talent firm. In a note sent to external colleagues seen by Deadline, she wrote that she was preparing to hand over to colleagues in September. At that point she would exit to become an international consultant, leaving…

Kill Jackie producer Fremantle saw its half-yearly revenues slide nearly 8% due to drama and film production, but earnings still shot up to nearly $70M. In results released by parent RTL this morning, the London-based company posted revenues of €835M ($963M), down 7.7% on the €905M from the same…

Reach for your red lifebuoy; Baywatch is heading back to Europe and beyond. Fox’s reboot of the 1989 drama has been picked up by Amazon Prime Video across Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Benelux, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, Canada, Latin America, and India. The deals, brokered by…

EXCLUSIVE: Katie O'Connell Marsh has been named Fremantle’s next global scripted boss, Deadline can reveal. Baywatch and M. Son of the Century producer Fremantle has been seeking out a UK-based executive to effectively replace Christian Vesper, the CEO of Global Drama and Film who exited his post…

Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) and Claire Foy (All of Us Strangers) will star in You Are Here, a BBC and Starz adaptation of author David Nicholls’ bestseller. Nicholls has penned the eight-part adaptation, which will be produced by Normal People maker Element Pictures. Lenny Abrahamson, who…

American Idol is set to sing another song. ABC has renewed the series for Season 25 with auditions kicking off next month. The renewal is not a surprise given that the previous season launched with its biggest season premiere in four years. What is somewhat surprising is Disney leaning into…