MUMBAI: Television format creator and distributor FremantleMedia has acquired hit Canadian format ?Family Harmony? (Un Air de Famille).

The show, a concept created and produced by Attraction Images in collaboration with Radio-Canada, is the company?s first acquisition from Quebec and will form part of FremantleMedia?s slate of formats presented at the television trade event MipTV in Cannes, France, this April.

Family Harmony will then be rolled out to international audiences through FremantleMedia?s worldwide network of production companies.

?Family Harmony? brings teams of families together in a battle to become ?pitch perfect? and voted the most popular singing family in the country. Coached by celebrity singers, each week three families perform popular songs and compete for the viewers? vote and the chance to perform with their celebrity mentors. The series culminates in a spectacular live finale in which the winning families sing their hearts out to become the nation?s greatest singing family.

FremantleMedia director, global entertainment development Rob Clark said: ?We are delighted to have acquired Family Harmony. It?s a warm, inclusive, feel-good format celebrating a family?s relationships as much as their talents, and it?s exactly right for today?s television schedule. We are very much looking forward to bringing local versions of Family Harmony to audiences around the world.?

Attraction Images? president Jos?e Vall?e and and executive VP Jean-Fran?ois Boulianne, respectively said, ?We are thrilled that FremantleMedia has picked up our format and will be offering it to territories globally. Family Harmony has been a great success in Canada, where it has just been re-commissioned for a second series by Radio-Canada. We are immensely proud that Family Harmony is FremantleMedia?s first acquisition from Quebec.?