Fremantle Podcast Storyglass Unveils ‘Household Feud’ Format, UFO Podcast – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Fremantle podcast studio Storyglass has opened in Australia and is behind a variety of podcasts together with one on UFOs, two seasons of Purple Bull’s Why I Run and a Household Feud format.

The division has been up-and-running for round two years and Managing Director Steve Carsey unveiled a wealth of tasks to Deadline in his first interview, a few of which have already launched.

That UFO Podcast is certainly one of Storyglass’ early partnerships and covers all issues unidentified within the air and ocean, chatting with specialists and getting a really feel for a subject that’s rising in curiosity.

Carsey burdened the partnership nature of the upcoming podcast, together with the likes of By accident MILF with Hollywood-based Glistening Productions, and mentioned the group is seeking to “assist the impartial creator community in podcasting – and never simply in audio.”

In the meantime, coming from the recently-opened Australian workplace, which Carsey has overseen, is Household Feud, a gameshow that’s co-produced with iHeart Australia and based mostly on the cult U.S. format from many years in the past.

The present, which launched over the summer time, is testomony to what Carsey is making an attempt to do with gameshow IP and podcasts, he mentioned. Helmed by Pete Helliar, it sees households compete for a money prize by offering the solutions to on a regular basis questions that had been surveyed by 100 members of the general public.

“This isn’t nearly creating new properties and content material, it’s about respiratory contemporary life into heritage IP,” added Carsey.

The Australian hub is working carefully with Fremantle Australia and Carsey mentioned the group is taking a look at the way it can flip five-or-six different established TV codecs into podcasts, whereas, as with most main podcast firms, they’re additionally considering within the reverse about TV and movie spin-offs.

Being a part of the broader Bertelsmann Group, which owns Fremantle and likewise the likes of Penguin Random Home, provides Storyglass entry to IP throughout an enormous vary of curiosity areas, mentioned Carsey. Carsey, an skilled TV exec and former Audible Senior Director, mentioned he was first interested in the Storyglasss position by Fremantle’s “daring technique and talent to take a look at content material with a cross-platform view.”

“We are able to discover synergies not simply in TV however in e-book publishing, music and training,” he added.  “The flexibility to faucet into editorial experience, partnerships and different areas is a key differentiator for us.”

Different reveals to emerge from Storyglass not too long ago embrace Spotify youth historical past format Flex’s Semi-Factual Historical past Classes, Audible scripted spin-off Wentworth: The Fall Woman and true crime providing Chasing Charlie.

In scripted, Carsey mentioned Storyglass is “aligning with Fremantle’s drama pursuits, working solely in audio to establish new writing, writers, worlds and scripts that might transition, over time, into movie, tv, gaming and publishing.”

The corporate can be working up a mega-order of two seasons of Purple Bull’s Why I Run, which tells the extraordinary tales of why completely different athletes turned to operating.