About Us

BRINGING A GLOBAL VISION FOR UNSCRIPTED CONTENT:
FROM CONCEPT TO EXECUTION.

Forever Young Media is an independent production company based in Los Angeles,
with production partners across Europe.

We believe television should be brought to the screen with a vision.

Forever Young Media provides that vision. We create a bespoke style and identity for each show we produce and direct.

Forever Young Media also works with American studios and production companies
to adapt their formats for international markets.

Who we are

Portrait Mathieu BESSET

Mathieu Besset, Founder, Director

Mathieu is a multi-camera director with 15+ years of experience in the television industry.

He started his career in France, and worked for the main French networks including TF1, France Televisions, Canal+ and M6. He directed all types of shows, including studio shows (talk, news, game), music concerts, sports (car races, baskeball, extreme sports), special events (New Year's Eve, National Memorial events), reality shows, and newsmagazines. He also served as a consultant for the creation of new TV channels (RMC Sport, Sport365, Orleans TV).

In 2017, he moved to Los Angeles and founded Forever Young Media.

What we do

WE DIRECT AND PRODUCE UNSCRIPTED CONTENT
ACROSS THE WORLD

We produce direct all genres of live, live-to-tape and reality programs.

We also provide 360 production consultation and directing services
to facilitate the adaptation of U.S. formats to foreign markets.



Take a look at what we've done:

Person Place or Thing

Person Place or Thing

Game show (FOX TV Stations)

Crowned

CROWNED

Talk-show (In The Black Network)

FOX SOUL

FOX SOUL

Flagship director (talk-shows, special events...)

The Justice Report

The Justice Report

True crime show (Tubi)

Poker Society

Poker Society

Competition show (Winamax)

Love Trip Paris

Love Trip Paris

Dating show (Freeform/Hulu)

Carpool Karaoke France

Carpool Karaoke France

French version of the Late Late Show's segment (TF1)

Shopping Monsters France

Shopping Monsters France

Daytime show that combines the elements of competition, fashion, gossip, express makeovers and style (M6)

Hero Dog Awards

Hero Dog Awards

Award show (A+E Networks)

New Year's Eve: Live from the Champs-Elysees

New Year's Eve: Live from the Champs-Elysees

Show & fireworks in Paris (world feed)

Commonwealth Games 2022

Commonwealth Games 2022

Pre-show & screens of the Opening Ceremony

Johnny Hallyday's special anniversary memorial

Johnny Hallyday's special memorial

Special anniversary memorial, service and concert (world feed)

Madonna

Madonna

Private show at the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Gala (Saint-Tropez)

RADIO FG PARTY

FG RADIO PARTY

electro night at Le Grand Palais, Paris

France O Folies

France O Folies

Music contest (France Televisions)

Music Festivals

Music Festivals

Paleo, Europavox,...

Motor Racing

Motor Racing

European Le Mans Series, World Series by Renault, TCR Series...
(world feed)

Extreme Sports

Extreme Sports

mountain bike, wakeboard, rollers...
(world feed)

Basketball

Basketball

French professional championship
(world feed)

Channel's Private Feeds

Private Feeds

Multiplex, Premier League, Bundesliga, ATP Masters, NBA, WRC...

American Song Contest

American Song Contest

Creative & Tech support with LiveEdit

Meruelo Media

Meruelo Media

Consulting director (TV)

RMC Sport

RMC Sport (formerly SFR Sport)

Premium sports channel
(launch director)

BFM Sport

BFM Sport

sports news & talk channel
(launch director)

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Contact Us

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We DO NOT accept or consider unsolicited materials (including ideas, concepts, pitches, suggestions, stories, screenplays, treatments, formats, artwork, photographs, drawings, videos, audiovisual works, musical compositions, lyrics, sound recordings, program formats, characterizations and/or other similar materials). Every email including unsolicited materials won’t be open or read by our team, and will be immediately deleted from our servers.
We’re sorry about that, but we want to avoid the possibility of future misunderstandings when projects developed by us or under the direction of us might seem to others to be similar to their own creative work.