Divisions
The company had several divisions in other countries:
- Grundy France EURL - the now defunct French division which was best known for producing Questions pour un champion, along with other programs Le Juste Prix and La Gym de Neurones.
- Grundy Light Entertainment - the still active German division, which produces such shows as Ruck Zuck (best known of Grundy's German game shows), Das Quiz mit Jorg Pilawa, Q-Boot, along owing and producing German versions of RTL Group formats Family Feud (Familien-Duell), Sale of the Century (Hopp oder Top), and The Price Is Right (Der Preis ist heiss).
- Grundy Productions Italy - Italian division, which produced programs like Furore, Greed, and $20, based on the Australian game show The $20 Challenge.
- Grundy Productions Spain - Currently rebranded as FremantleMedia España.
- Their Swedish operation produced a local version of Sons and Daughters - Skilda världar. It also produced the Swedish version of Card Sharks - Lägt kört ligger.
- Grundy also had a UK division, best known for producing two big hit shows for the BBC called Going for Gold and Small Talk. They also produced two cult shows for ITV called Keynotes and Man O Man before becoming a joint production company with Channel 5 to produce a few more shows such as 100%, Fort Boyard and Night Fever. It also owned the rights to two Bruce Forsyth game shows such as The Price Is Right and Play Your Cards Right as well as a Dale Winton game show called Dale's Supermarket Sweep and a Michael Barrymore game show called Strike It Lucky.
- Reg Grundy Productions was the United States division. This is now defunct, having been folded into FremantleMedia North America, along with Mark Goodson Productions. Their U.S. office was headquartered in West Los Angeles, near Century City.
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