{"id":2313735,"date":"2026-03-05T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2313735"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:24:14","slug":"nbcus-crompton-to-head-fremantle-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nbcus-crompton-to-head-fremantle-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"NBCU&#8217;s Crompton to head Fremantle entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fremantle has appointed Ben Crompton as its new Global Head of Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He will take up the senior leadership role later this month and will report directly to Jennifer Mullin, Fremantle\u2019s Global CEO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crompton most recently served as NBCUniversal Vice President, International Unscripted, where he led the development of formats, IP and third-party projects, working with international producers and talent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prior to this he launched and led Lime Pictures US operation. As Executive Vice President US, he delivered shows including <em>Dance Monsters <\/em>[Netflix], <em>True Love or True Lies<\/em> [MTV<em>], Dating No Filter<\/em> [E!] and <em>Who Do You Believe? <\/em>[ABC]. He has held senior creative and strategic roles at Warner Brothers [Australia], Eyeworks [UK] and ITV Studios.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He will succeed Andrew Llinares, who is stepping down from his role.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jennifer Mullin, Group CEO, Fremantle, said: \u201cWe are thrilled to welcome Ben to Fremantle. He is a business\u2011minded leader with a deep understanding of the industry, not only from a development and production perspective, but also from a commercial and strategic viewpoint. I look forward to working closely with Ben and our hugely talented team at this extremely exciting time for our business \u2013 as we build on our successes and continuing to push the creative boundaries together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ben Crompton, incoming Global Head of Entertainment, Fremantle, said: \u201cIt is a great honour for me to be joining Fremantle and to work with Jennifer and such a brilliant team. I have long admired Fremantle \u2013 a company known for creativity, innovation, and groundbreaking formats. I can\u2019t wait to get started and collaborate with the exceptional talent across the Fremantle business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fremantle\u2019s entertainment catalogue features global franchises including: <em>The Price is Right<\/em>, <em>Family Feud<\/em>, <em>Got Talent<\/em>, <em>Idol<\/em>, <em>Masked Singer<\/em>, <em>Farmer Wants a Wife<\/em>, <em>B&amp;B of Love<\/em>, <em>The Farm<\/em>, <em>The X Factor<\/em>, <em>Freeze<\/em>, <em>Who Knew?<\/em>, <em>Love Never Lies<\/em>, <em>The Piano<\/em>, <em>Too Hot To Handle<\/em> and <em>Pandora\u2019s Box<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.televisual.com\/news\/author\/joncreamer\/\">Jon Creamer<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 30px;\">Share this story<\/p>\n<p>                                <!-- AddToAny BEGIN --><\/p>\n<p>                                <!-- AddToAny END --><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 30px; font-size: 0.9em; margin-bottom: 0!important; color: #666666;\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Share Televisual stories within your social media posts.<\/span><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Be inclusive: Televisual.com is open access without the need to register.<\/span><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Anyone and everyone can access this post with minimum fuss.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.televisual.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Fremantle has appointed Ben Crompton as its new Global Head of Entertainment. He will take up the senior leadership role later this month and will report directly to Jennifer Mullin, Fremantle\u2019s Global CEO. Crompton most recently served as NBCUniversal Vice President, International Unscripted, where he led the development of formats, IP and third-party projects, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2313736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2313735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/NBCUs-Crompton-to-head-Fremantle-entertainment.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313737,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313735\/revisions\/2313737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}