By Jake Kanter International TV Editor Fremantle and Syco Entertainment’s BBC One dance format The Greatest Dancer is being remade in China after the production companies inked a deal to adapt the format at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
Fremantle and Simon Cowell’s Syco have teamed with Shanghai Media Group to develop The Magnificent Dancer for China’s Dragon TV.
The show will launch locally later this spring. The agreement marks Fremantle’s first licensing deal in China after last year it pulled back from production in the country, where it made China’s Got Talent for Dragon TV.
The deal was also negotiated as China was engulfed in the COVID-19 crisis. Ganesh Rajaram, Fremantle’s general manager and EVP sales ion Asia, said:
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