This acquisition gave Pearson worldwide rights to various game show formats as well as drama series in the United States such as Baywatch, while All American Music Group was sold to Zomba Records subsidiary Volcano Entertainment.

Pearson Television acquired Italian drama production company Mastrofilm on 3 November 1998,[13] and European animation financer and distributor EVA Entertainment on 2 February 1999.

Interpublic Group agreed to sell assets of Fremantle International to All American Communications Inc. for $63 million in cash and stock on 7 July 1994.

Paul Talbot continued to own The Fremantle Corporation, the international distributor of All American's Baywatch and other programs until his death in 2005, and the company's assets were later acquired by Canadian-based Kaleidoscope Entertainment in June 2006.

In 2000, German conglomerate Bertelsmann announced that it would form a joint venture between its CLT-UFA group (itself a merger of Luxembourg's CLT and German studio UFA GmbH) with Pearson Television (whose library included former British ITV franchise Thames Television, All American Television—who owned the libraries of American syndicators Lexington Broadcast Services and Blair Entertainment and game show producers Mark Goodson Productions and Fremantle International, and Australia's Reg Grundy Organisation) to create a multinational media group and content business—eventually known as RTL Group—to consolidate their broadcasting and production activities,[21][22] and provide a European competitor to American-owned media conglomerates.

[37] In January 2016, FremantleMedia acquired a 51% majority stake in Tel Aviv-based Israeli scripted reality, drama and entertainment formats television production company Abot Hameiri to expand their international outprint with FremantleMedia's international distribution division will distribute Abot Hameiri's programmes worldwide.

[40][41] In January 2018, FremantleMedia announced that they're exiting the children's market by selling their Kids & Family Entertainment division to Canadian production company Boat Rocker Media under their global distribution unit Boat Rocker Rights in order for the former to focus on their scripted and unscripted entertainment genres.

"[45] In June 2019, Fremantle announced that they struck an overall deal with Richard Brown's new production company Passenger being based in New York and London.

[62] In February 2024, Fremantle announced their acquisition of Singaporean independent TV producer Beach House Pictures from Canadian entertainment company Blue Ant Media.

[64] Fremantle owns of a number of non-scripted formats, including the talent shows Idol, Got Talent, and The X Factor (the latter two with Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment), and game shows via its ownership of the libraries of American producer Goodson–Todman Productions, Australian producer Reg Grundy, and others, which includes formats Family Feud, The Price Is Right and Sale of the Century among others.

Via the Reg Grundy library, Fremantle Australia owns a number of notable Australian dramas and soap operas, including the long-running Neighbours and Prisoner.

[29] Since the mid-2010s, Fremantle has increased its focus on scripted series internationally, having produced or distributed programmes such as American Gods, Beecham House, Charité, Deutschland 83, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Rain, The Young Pope and The Mosquito Coast.

Fremantle North America produces and distributes scripted and alternative programs for broadcast and cable networks, syndication and streaming platforms.