Fremantle boosts professional

FremantleMedia has upped Paul O'Hanlon to controlling director, Asia, located in Singapore.He begins in October, confirming to Ian Hogg, FremantleMedia's Asia Off-shore Boss.O'Hanlon has labored like a TV professional in a number of areas including Hong Kong, Indonesia, China, India, Afghanistan and Taiwan. He offered as worldwide agent and program director with Taiwan's Next TV, and assisted create content for 2 of Afghanistan's TV systems last year.O'Hanlon was senior Vice president of prduction for News Corp.'s Star TV in Hong Kong, and went their own independent production company from 2000-04.Most lately, he was professional producer in production and development with FremantleMedia Australia. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com