Fremantle Launches Comedy Site

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FremantleMedia is launching a Web portal, TVComedyClassics.com, to host its library of comedy shows.

Initial shows will include Tommy Cooper Half Hour, The Howard Confessions, George and Mildred, Love Thy Neighbour and Bless This House, as well as interviews and other original content.

The company says this will be "the first in many programme genre portal websites."

FremantleMedia is best known as the company behind American Idol and game shows Price is Right, Family Feud, Card Sharks and others.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.