Sony Pictures Television
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Sony Pictures Television, Inc. (SPT) is an American and global television production/distribution
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...

 subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese multinational technology and media conglomerate Sony...

. In turn, the latter is part of the Japanese conglomerate Sony
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

.

Background

SPT was previously known as Screen Gems
Screen Gems
Screen Gems is an American movie production company and subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation....

, Columbia Pictures Television
Columbia Pictures Television
Columbia Pictures Television was the second name of the Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gems . The studio changed its name on September 4, 1974.-1974-1982:...

, TriStar Television
TriStar Television
TriStar Television was an American television production company that was launched in 1986 by TriStar Pictures . The same year, Tri-Star Television joined forces with Stephen J...

, and Columbia TriStar Television
Columbia TriStar Television
Columbia TriStar Television was the third name of the television studio Screen Gems, named after its then-current 1991 home video division....

. The name was changed to reflect the Sony
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

 brand on September 16, 2002.

SPT also owns and distributes the shows from Tandem Productions
Tandem Productions
Tandem Productions, Inc. was a film and television production company that was founded in 1958 by Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear.-Tandem Productions:...

, ELP Communications
Embassy Television
...

 (from T.A.T. to ELP Communications), TeleVentures
Stephen J. Cannell
Stephen Joseph Cannell was an American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor, and the founder of Stephen J. Cannell Productions.-Early life:...

, Merv Griffin Enterprises
Merv Griffin Enterprises
Merv Griffin Enterprises was a television production company founded by Merv Griffin, in business from 1964 to 1994.-History:The company was first established as Merv Griffin Productions in 1964 and Griffin's first production was Jeopardy! In 1965, his talk show The Merv Griffin Show returned to...

, Four D Productions, Barris Industries, Barry & Enright Productions
Barry & Enright Productions
Barry & Enright Productions , was a United States television production company that was formed in 1947 by Jack Barry and Dan Enright.-History:Jack Barry and Dan Enright first met at radio station WOR in New York, where...

, Stewart Tele Enterprises
Stewart Tele Enterprises
Stewart Tele Enterprises was an American major game show production company formed by Bob Stewart in 1964 originally based in New York City.-History:...

, and 2waytraffic
2waytraffic
2waytraffic is a television production company based in Hilversum, Netherlands. It was established in 2004 by former Endemol executives Kees Abrahams, Unico Glorie, Taco Ketelaar and Henk Keilman....

.

From 2005 until 2006, SPT also distributed MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

's TV shows and movie library (due in part to the Sony-led consortium's purchase of MGM). In 2006, SPT joined forces with Program Partners to handle ad-sales and distribution rights to foreign television series in the U.S., mostly shows produced in Canada.

In Summer 2007, SPT introduced The Minisode Network
The Minisode Network
The Minisode Network is a Sony Pictures Television internet television network launched in June 2007. The term minisode is a portmanteau of "mini" and "episode." Unlike webisodes, which are initially broadcast on the internet, minisodes are condensed versions of previously broadcast, full length,...

; a digital channel for MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....

 airing shows from the 1960s to early 2000s from four to five minutes. In Winter 2007, The Minisode Network was also added to a few more sites like AOL TV
AOL TV
AOL TV was the name of both a thin client which uses a television for display , and the online service that supports it, both of which were launched in June 2000 to compete with WebTV....

, YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

, and its sister site Crackle
Crackle
Crackle is a digital network and studio, featuring commercially supported streaming video content in Flash Video format. It is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, and its content consists primarily of Sony's library of films and television shows...

 site.

On June 4, 2008, SPT bought Hilversum
Hilversum
is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Located in the region called "'t Gooi", it is the largest town in that area. It is surrounded by heathland, woods, meadows, lakes, and smaller villages...

, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

-based production company 2waytraffic
2waytraffic
2waytraffic is a television production company based in Hilversum, Netherlands. It was established in 2004 by former Endemol executives Kees Abrahams, Unico Glorie, Taco Ketelaar and Henk Keilman....

, international holders of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers large cash prizes for correctly answering a series of multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. The format is owned and licensed by Sony Pictures Television International. The maximum cash prize is one million pounds...

 franchise.

On January 14, 2009, SPT acquired Embassy Row, a television and digital production company by British television producer Michael Davies
Michael Davies (television producer)
Michael Davies is a British producer of television game shows in the United States. As president and CEO of Embassy Row, a New York-based television production company that is a unit of Sony Pictures Television, he was the executive producer of the U.S. version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire...

. Three months later on April 1, Sony Pictures Entertainment consolidated its US and international television divisions into one roof. Sony Pictures Television International now operates in-name-only.

The company also operates the three SPE Networks: AXN
AXN
AXN is a Pay television, cable and satellite television channel owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which was first launched on May 22, 1997. The network is now spread across several regions in the world, including Japan, Europe, other parts of Asia and Latin America...

, Animax
Animax
is a Japanese anime satellite television network, dedicated to broadcasting anime programming. A subsidiary of Japanese media conglomerate Sony, it is headquartered in in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, with its co-founders and shareholders including Sony Pictures Entertainment and the noted anime studios...

, and Sony Entertainment Television
Sony Entertainment Television
Sony Entertainment Television is a series of general entertainment television channels, owned by Sony Pictures Television. At least 9 International versions of this channel exist:*Sony Entertainment Television Asia...

.

SPT owns 40% of cable channel GSN
Game Show Network
The Game Show Network is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite channel dedicated to game shows and casino game shows. The channel was launched on December 1, 1994. Its current slogan is "The World Needs More Winners"...

 (with DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...

), owner of Crackle
Crackle
Crackle is a digital network and studio, featuring commercially supported streaming video content in Flash Video format. It is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, and its content consists primarily of Sony's library of films and television shows...

, a partner in FEARnet
FEARnet
Fearnet is a cable channel, website and Video on Demand television service owned by Horror Entertainment LLC, a joint venture between Comcast, Lions Gate Entertainment, and Sony Pictures Entertainment...

; the horror/thriller website and VOD service
Video on demand
Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...

 (with Lions Gate Entertainment
Lions Gate Entertainment
Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation is a North American entertainment company. The company was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1997, and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California...

 and Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...

), and jointly owns the rights to most of the post-1947 Bob Hope
Bob Hope
Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...

 film library such as My Favorite Brunette
My Favorite Brunette
My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 movie spoofing movie detectives and the film noir style. Starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, it also features Lon Chaney, Jr...

, The Lemon Drop Kid
The Lemon Drop Kid
The Lemon Drop Kid is a 1951 comedy film based on the short story of the same name by Damon Runyon, starring Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell, and directed by Sidney Lanfield.The song "Silver Bells," sung by Hope and Maxwell, was introduced in the film...

, The Seven Little Foys
The Seven Little Foys
The Seven Little Foys is a 1955 film starring Bob Hope as Eddie Foy. James Cagney reprises his role as George M. Cohan for an energetic tabletop dance showdown sequence. In addition to the famous film, the story of Eddie Foy, Sr...

, The Great Lover
The Great Lover (1949 film)
The Great Lover is a 1949 comedy film starring Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, and Roland Young. A scout leader takes his troop on an ocean cruise, pursues a beautiful duchess and is stalked by a murderer.-Cast:*Bob Hope as Freddie Hunter...

, and Son of Paleface
Son of Paleface
Son of Paleface , is a western comedy film and sequel to The Paleface , directed by Frank Tashlin and written by Tashlin, Joseph Quillan and Robert L. Welch. It stars Bob Hope, Jane Russell and Roy Rogers.-Plot:...

 with FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia, Ltd. is the content and production division of Bertelsmann's RTL Group, Europe's second largest TV, radio, and production company...

.

Joining Jeff Arnold (founder of WebMD
WebMD
WebMD is an American corporation which provides health information services. It was founded in 1996 by Jim Clark and Pavan Nigam as Healthscape, later Healtheon, and then acquired WebMD in 1999 to form Healtheon/WebMD...

) and Dr. Mehmet Oz, SPT co-found the online QA platform Sharecare
Sharecare
Sharecare.com is an interactive question-and-answer platform that allows industry experts to answer health and wellness questions. Founded in 2009, Sharecare was created by Jeffrey T. Arnold and Dr...

, where users have their health and wellness-related questions answered by industry experts and institutions such as AARP
AARP
AARP, formerly the American Association of Retired Persons, is the United States-based non-governmental organization and interest group, founded in 1958 by Ethel Percy Andrus, PhD, a retired educator from California, and based in Washington, D.C. According to its mission statement, it is "a...

, the American Cancer Society
American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is the "nationwide community-based voluntary health organization" dedicated, in their own words, "to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and...

, the American Heart Association
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is a non-profit organization in the United States that fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke. It is headquartered in Dallas, Texas...

, the American Red Cross
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross , also known as the American National Red Cross, is a volunteer-led, humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States. It is the designated U.S...

, the Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic
The Cleveland Clinic is a multispecialty academic medical center located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The Cleveland Clinic is currently regarded as one of the top 4 hospitals in the United States as rated by U.S. News & World Report...

 and Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins was a wealthy American entrepreneur, philanthropist and abolitionist of 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Johns Hopkins University and its associated...

. Additional co-founders in Sharecare include Harpo Productions
Harpo Productions
Harpo Productions, Inc. is an incorporated US-based multimedia production company founded by Oprah Winfrey . It also includes Harpo Films & Harpo Radio, Inc....

, Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications, Inc. is an American global media and entertainment company. The company started as a single channel in 1985, The Discovery Channel. Today, DCI has global operations offering 28 network entertainment brands on more than 100 channels in more than 180 countries in 39...

 and HSW International.

As of 2011, In Australia, SPT have non-exclusive licensing deals to replay movie and television content from television broadcasters, the Seven
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

 and Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

.

Shows produced and/or distributed by SPT

In addition to the Columbia TriStar Pictures theatrical library, SPT handles the following:

Current programming

  • The Three Stooges (1958–present) (1958-1974 by Screen Gems, 1974-1995 by Columbia Pictures Television, 1995-2002 by Columbia TriStar Television Distribution/Columbia TriStar International Television, 2002–present by Sony Pictures Television)
  • Jeopardy!
    Jeopardy!
    Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...

     (1964–1975, 1978–1979, 1983, 1984–present) (produced by MGP 1964-1975, 1978–1979, 1983 and 1984 pilots, MGE 1984-1994, CTT 1994-2002, and SPT 2002–present; distributed by King World (1983–2007), CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

     (2007–present))
  • Days of Our Lives
    Days of our Lives
    Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...

     (1965–present) (in conjunction with Corday Productions, continued on by CPT 1974-2001, CTT 2001-2002, and SPT 2002–Present)
  • The Young and the Restless
    The Young and the Restless
    The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...

     (1973–present) (in conjunction with Bell Dramatic Serial Company and Corday Productions, continued on by CPT 1974-2001, CTT 2001-2002, and SPT 2002–Present)
  • Wheel of Fortune
    Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)
    Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin, which premiered in 1975. Contestants compete to solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a large wheel. The title refers to the show's giant carnival wheel that...

     (1975–present) (produced by Merv Griffin Productions 1975-1984, MGE 1984-1994, CTT 1994-2002, and SPT 2002–present; syndicated nighttime version distributed by King World (1983–2007), CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

     (2007–present))
  • Carson's Comedy Classics
    Carson's Comedy Classics
    Carson's Comedy Classics was a stripped 1/2 hour syndicated television show that was first released to U.S. television stations in 1983. The series is narrated by Ed McMahon, who, as a voiceover, introduces the program and each of the segments....

     (1983–present) (Produced by Carson Productions
    Carson Productions
    Carson Productions is a television production company established by Johnny Carson in 1980 to primarily produce The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1980 to 1992 and Late Night with David Letterman from 1982 to 1993....

    )
  • Rescue Me
    Rescue Me (TV series)
    Rescue Me is an American television drama series that premiered on the FX Network on July 21, 2004, and concluded on September 7, 2011. The series focuses on the professional and personal lives of a group of New York City firefighters in the fictitious Ladder 62 / Engine 99 firehouse.The show...

     (2004–present) (co-produced with DreamWorks Television
    DreamWorks Television
    DreamWorks Television is a television distribution and production company that is a division of DreamWorks SKG, a former subsidiary of Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures. The syndication rights to DreamWorks' live-action TV series were held by CBS Television Distribution until fall 2008, the successor...

    , Apostle and the Cloudland Company)
  • The Boondocks (2005–present) (co-produced with Rebel Base by SPT's Adelaide Productions
    Adelaide Productions
    Adelaide Productions is an animation division of Sony Pictures Television.Originally named Columbia TriStar Children's Television, Adelaide has produced numerous animated television series including:*Jumanji: The Series...

    )
  • 10 Items or Less (2006–present)
  • Damages
    Damages (TV series)
    Damages is an American television drama series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler . It is broadcast in the United States on the DirecTV channel Audience Network after originally airing on FX and is produced by the creators' own...

     (2007–Present)
  • Rules of Engagement
    Rules of Engagement (TV series)
    Rules of Engagement is a sitcom that debuted on CBS on February 5, 2007, as a midseason replacement, immediately following Two and a Half Men, in the time slot that was occupied by now-cancelled The New Adventures of Old Christine...

     (2007–present)
  • Breaking Bad
    Breaking Bad
    Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White , a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series...

     (2008–present)
  • The Newlywed Game
    The Newlywed Game
    The Newlywed Game is an American television game show that pits newly married couples against each other in a series of revealing question rounds to determine how well the spouses know each other. The program, originally created by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir The Newlywed Game is an American...

     (1966–1974, 1977–1980, 1984–1989, 1996–1999, 2009–present) (1966-1986 by Chuck Barris Productions, 1986-1989 by Barris Productions/Barris Industries, Inc., 1996–1999 by Columbia TriStar Television Distribution, 2009–Present by Embassy Row, GSN, and Sony Pictures Television)
  • The Dr. Oz Show
    The Dr. Oz Show
    The Dr. Oz Show is an American syndicated television talk show, hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and teaching professor at Columbia University who became famous for his appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show from 2004 until 2009....

     (2009–present; co-produced with Oprah Winfrey
    Oprah Winfrey
    Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011...

    's Harpo Productions
    Harpo Productions
    Harpo Productions, Inc. is an incorporated US-based multimedia production company founded by Oprah Winfrey . It also includes Harpo Films & Harpo Radio, Inc....

    )
  • Community
    Community (TV series)
    Community is an American television comedy series created by Dan Harmon that airs on NBC. The series is about a group of students at a community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado. The series heavily uses meta-humor and pop culture references, often parodying film and television...

     (2009–present; co-produced with Universal Media Studios and Krasnoff Foster Productions; Sony will also own syndication rights)
  • Drop Dead Diva
    Drop Dead Diva
    Drop Dead Diva is an American legal comedy-drama/fantasy television series that debuted on Lifetime on July 12, 2009. The hour-long series, which was created by Josh Berman, is produced by Sony Pictures Television...

     (2009–present; co-produced with Storyline Pictures and Lifetime Television
    Lifetime Television
    Lifetime Television, often referred to as Lifetime TV, or most commonly, Lifetime, is an American cable television specialty channel devoted to movies, sitcoms and dramas, all of which are either geared toward women or feature women in lead roles. The cable network is owned by A&E Television Networks...

    )
  • Shark Tank
    Shark Tank (TV series)
    Shark Tank is a reality television series based on the Sony TV/BBC TV Dragons' Den. It premiered on ABC television in August 2009 and features a panel of five wealthy entrepreneurs who are called "sharks"...

     (2009–Present)
  • The Sing-Off
    The Sing-Off
    The Sing-Off is an American television singing competition featuring a cappella groups. It premiered on NBC on December 14, 2009, and is produced by Sony Pictures Television....

     (2009–Present)
  • Watch What Happens: Live (2009–Present) (co-produced by Embassy Row and Bravo)
  • Justified
    Justified (TV series)
    Justified is an American television drama series created by Graham Yost. It is based on Elmore Leonard's novels Pronto and Riding the Rap and his short story "Fire in the Hole". Its central character is Raylan Givens, a deputy U.S. Marshal. The series is set in the city of Lexington, Kentucky...

     (2010–Present)
  • The Nate Berkus Show
    The Nate Berkus Show
    The Nate Berkus Show, commonly referred to as The Nate Show, is a syndicated talk show hosted by interior designer Nate Berkus, which premiered on September 13, 2010....

     (2010–Present; co-produced with Harpo productions)
  • The Big C
    The Big C (TV series)
    The Big C is a Showtime original television series created by Darlene Hunt which premiered on August 16, 2010. It drew the largest audience for a Showtime original series premiere in eight years. On September 20, 2010, The Big C was renewed for a second season which premiered on June 27, 2011...

     (2010-Present; in association with Showtime)
  • Breaking In
    Breaking In (TV series)
    Breaking In is an American television series which premiered on Fox on April 6, 2011. The series aired at 9:30 pm as a midseason replacement following American Idol. The half-hour workplace comedy stars Christian Slater, Michael Rosenbaum, Odette Annable, Trevor Moore, Alphonso McAuley and Bret...

     (2011) (in association with Happy Madison
    Happy Madison
    Happy Madison Productions is an American film/television production company founded by actor/comedian Adam Sandler in 1999 that is best known for comedy films. Happy Madison takes its name from the films Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, two box office successes starring Sandler himself, both...

    )
  • Happy Endings
    Happy Endings (TV series)
    Happy Endings is an American television series for the ABC network. The single-camera ensemble comedy premiered on April 13, 2011, as a midseason replacement, with a one-hour premiere of two back-to-back episodes starting at 9:30 pm ET/PT...

     (2011-present; co-produced with FanFare Productions
    Jamie Tarses
    Jamie Tarses was head of ABC's entertainment division from 1996 to 1999, the first woman and one of the youngest people to hold such a post in an American broadcast network...

     and ABC Studios)
  • The Glee Project
    The Glee Project
    The Glee Project is an American reality television series from Oxygen. It serves as an audition for the FOX TV series Glee. Although originally planned to begin broadcasting in late May 2011, The Glee Project premiered on June 12, 2011...

     (2011-Present; Co-produced with Embassy Row and Oxygen)
  • Pan Am
    Pan Am (TV series)
    Pan Am is an American period drama television series created by writer Jack Orman. Named for the iconic Pan American World Airways, the series focuses on the pilots and stewardesses of the airline as it operated in the early 1960s at the beginning of the commercial jet age.Sony licensed the rights...

     (September 2011-present; co-produced with Woodbridge Television)
  • Unforgettable
    Unforgettable (TV series)
    Unforgettable is an American crime/mystery television series about a police detective with an unusually detailed memory. The hour-long program, which is based on J...

     (September 2011-present; co-produced with CBS Television Studios)
  • The Substitute (2001-present; in association with Embassy Row and MTV Production Development
    MTV
    MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

    )

Off-net syndication

  • The King of Queens
    The King of Queens
    The King of Queens is an American sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 21, 1998, to May 14, 2007.This show was produced by Hanley Productions and CBS Productions , CBS Paramount Television ,and CBS Television Studios in association with Columbia TriStar Television , and Sony Pictures...

     (1998–2007) (CPT 1998-1999, CTT 1999-2002, and SPT 2002-2007) (co-produced by CBS Productions
    CBS Productions
    CBS Productions is the production arm of the CBS television network now a part of CBS Corporation, formed in 1952 to produce shows in-house, instead of relying solely on outside productions. Its first production was CBS Television Workshop, a drama anthology series...

     1998-2006 and by CBS Paramount Network Television
    CBS Paramount Network Television
    CBS Paramount Network Television was the main production arm of CBS Paramount Television, a division of CBS Corporation. It was known as Paramount Network Television and CBS Productions until 2006.It is now CBS Television Studios, starting in fall 2009....

     2006-2007)
  • Seinfeld
    Seinfeld
    Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...

     (1989-1998) (Produced by Castle Rock Entertainment
    Castle Rock Entertainment
    Castle Rock Entertainment is a film and television production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn. It is a subsidiary of Warner Bros...

    )
  • The Shield
    The Shield
    The Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...

     (2002–2008) (co-production with The Barn Productions and Fox Television Studios
    Fox Television Studios
    Fox Television Studios, Inc. is the TV production arm of the News Corporation's Fox Entertainment Group, as well as being the production arm of Fox and a production arm of 20th Century Fox Television, Inc., itself a division of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation...

    , CTDT then Sony Pictures Television)
  • 'Til Death
    'Til Death
    ’Til Death is an American sitcom which aired on the Fox network from September 7, 2006, to June 20, 2010. The series was created by husband-and-wife team Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, who were also the writers and executive-producers...

     (2006–2010)

Upcoming series

  • Re-Modeled
    Re-Modeled
    ReModeled is an American series set to premiere on The CW as a midseason replacement in the 2011-12 television season. This program was greenlighted to series status on May 17, 2011...

     (to debut Midseason 2011-12; in association with Fly On the Wall Entertainment)
  • The Firm (to debut in 2012; produced by Entertainment One Television in association with Sony Pictures Television and Paramount Pictures
    Paramount Pictures
    Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

    ; Entertainment One will own TV rights outside of AXN
    AXN
    AXN is a Pay television, cable and satellite television channel owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which was first launched on May 22, 1997. The network is now spread across several regions in the world, including Japan, Europe, other parts of Asia and Latin America...

     markets)

Screen Gems
Screen Gems
Screen Gems is an American movie production company and subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation....

 to Sony Pictures Television

(All series by Screen Gems, CPT
Columbia Pictures Television
Columbia Pictures Television was the second name of the Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gems . The studio changed its name on September 4, 1974.-1974-1982:...

, TriStar TV
TriStar Television
TriStar Television was an American television production company that was launched in 1986 by TriStar Pictures . The same year, Tri-Star Television joined forces with Stephen J...

, CTT
Columbia TriStar Television
Columbia TriStar Television was the third name of the television studio Screen Gems, named after its then-current 1991 home video division....

, CTIT
Columbia TriStar International Television
Columbia TriStar International Television was known as the worldwide television distribution arm of Columbia TriStar Television that was launched in 1995...

, Adelaide Productions
Adelaide Productions
Adelaide Productions is an animation division of Sony Pictures Television.Originally named Columbia TriStar Children's Television, Adelaide has produced numerous animated television series including:*Jumanji: The Series...

, SPT, and SPTI; some having gone through distribution from Colex Enterprises
Colex Enterprises
Colex Enterprises was a joint venture company between Columbia Pictures Television and LBS Communications, Inc., active from 1984 to 1988. The joint venture's name was a combination of the two companies' names .The company was responsible for distributing the Screen Gems...

)
Screen Gems
  • The Ford Television Theatre (1948–1957)
  • The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950–1958)
  • Father Knows Best
    Father Knows Best
    Father Knows Best is an American radio and television comedy series which portrayed a middle class family life in the Midwest. It was created by writer Ed James in the 1940s.-Radio:...

     (1954–1960) (Sony recently surrendered its distribution rights to the estate of Robert Young
    Robert Young (actor)
    Robert George Young was an American television, film, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best and as physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. .-Early life:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Young was the son of an Irish immigrant father...

    , the series' copyright holder)
  • Treasure Hunt (1956–1959)
  • Naked City
    Naked City (TV series)
    Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic "semi-documentary" format....

     (1958–1963)
  • The Donna Reed Show
    The Donna Reed Show
    The Donna Reed Show is an American sitcom starring Donna Reed as the upper middle class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz appears as her pediatrician husband Alex, and Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen as their teenage children Mary and Jeff. The show originally aired on ABC at 10 pm from September...

     (1958–1966) (Sony recently surrendered its full rights to the estate of Donna Reed)
  • Dennis the Menace (1959–1963)
  • Route 66
    Route 66 (TV series)
    Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America. The show ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod...

     (1960–1964, 1992) (Columbia Pictures Television in 1992)
  • My Sister Eileen
    My Sister Eileen
    My Sister Eileen originated as a series of short stories by Ruth McKenney that eventually evolved into a book, a play, a musical, a radio play , two films, and a CBS television series in the 1960-1961 season....

     (1960–1961)
  • Showdown (1961-1962; Produced in Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     exclusively for CTV
    CTV television network
    CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...

     during its inagural launch in 1961)
  • Hazel
    Hazel (TV series)
    Hazel is a Screen Gems television series about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series aired in primetime from September 1961 until April 1966...

     (1961–1966)
  • The Farmer's Daughter
    The Farmer's Daughter (TV series)
    The Farmer's Daughter is an American situation comedy series that was produced by Screen Gems Television and aired on ABC from September 20, 1963 to April 22, 1966. It was sponsored by Lark cigarettes and Clairol for whom the two leading stars often appeared at show's end promoting the products...

     (1963–1966)
  • Bewitched
    Bewitched
    Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York and Dick Sargent , Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who marries a mortal and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban...

     (1964–1972)
  • Gidget
    Gidget (TV series)
    Gidget is an American sitcom about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor. Sally Field stars as Gidget with Don Porter as her father. The series was first broadcast on ABC from September 15, 1965 through April 21, 1966...

     (1965–1966)
  • I Dream of Jeannie
    I Dream of Jeannie
    I Dream of Jeannie is a 1960s American sitcom with a fantasy premise. The show starred Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and eventually marries...

     (1965–1970)
  • Morning Star
    Morning Star (TV series)
    Morning Star is a daytime soap opera which aired on NBC from September 27, 1965 to July 1, 1966. The show was created by Ted Corday who created the long-running soap opera Days of our Lives....

     (1965–1966) (in conjunction with Corday Productions)
  • Camp Runamuck
    Camp Runamuck
    Camp Runamuck is an American sitcom which aired on NBC during the 1965-1966 television season. The series was created and executive produced by David Swift, and aired for 26 episodes.-Synopsis:...

     (1965–1966)
  • The Wackiest Ship in the Army
    The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV series)
    The Wackiest Ship in the Army is an American comedy series that aired for one season on NBC between September 19, 1965, and April 17, 1966. Produced by Harry Ackerman and Herbert Hirschman, the series is loosely based on the 1960 film starring Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson.-Synopsis:The series is...

     (1965–1966)
  • Adventures of the Seaspray (1966)
  • The Monkees
    The Monkees (TV series)
    The Monkees is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from September 1966 to March 1968. The series follows the adventures of four young men trying to make a name for themselves as rock 'n roll singers. The show introduced a number of innovative new-wave film techniques to series...

     (1966–1968)
  • Love on a Rooftop
    Love on a Rooftop
    Love on a Rooftop is an American sitcom about a newlywed couple, Dave and Julie Willis, and their humorous struggles to survive in San Francisco on Dave's apprentice architect's salary of $85.37 a week...

     (1966–1967)
  • Everybody's Talking
    Everybody's Talking
    Everybody's Talking was a game show which aired on ABC from February 6 to December 29, 1967. Former dance-party host Lloyd Thaxton was the host; Wink Martindale and Charlie O'Donnell were the announcers...

     (1967)
  • The Flying Nun
    The Flying Nun
    The Flying Nun is an American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC based on the 1965 book The Fifteenth Pelican, by Tere Rios, which starred Sally Field as Sister Bertrille...

     (1967–1970)
  • The Second Hundred Years (1967–1968)
  • Dream House (1968–1970)
  • Here Come the Brides
    Here Come the Brides
    Here Come the Brides is an American comedy Western series from Screen Gems that aired on the ABC television network from September 25, 1968 to April 3, 1970...

     (1968–1970)
  • The Ugliest Girl in Town
    The Ugliest Girl in Town
    The Ugliest Girl in Town was a short-lived American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC. It ran from September 26, 1968 to January 30, 1969....

     (1968–1969)
  • Playboy After Dark
    Playboy After Dark
    Playboy After Dark is an American television show hosted by Hugh Hefner. It ran in syndication through Screen Gems from 1969 to 1970 and was taped at CBS Television City in Los Angeles....

     (1969)
  • The Young Rebels
    The Young Rebels
    The Young Rebels is an American adventure series that was broadcast by ABC as part of its 1970 fall lineup.-Plot:The Young Rebels was the story of a group of youthful guerrillas fighting on the Patriot side in the American Revolutionary War. They were part of the fictional "Yankee Doodle Society",...

     (1970–1971)
  • The Interns (1970–1971) (Based on the 1962 movie by Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

    )
  • The Partridge Family
    The Partridge Family
    The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career. The series originally ran from September 25, 1970 until August 31, 1974, the last new episode airing on March 23, 1974, on the ABC network, as part of a Friday-night lineup...

     (1970–1974)
  • Getting Together
    Getting Together (TV series)
    Getting Together was a musical situation comedy, which aired on the ABC television network during the 1971-72 season. It starred Bobby Sherman and Wes Stern as Bobby Conway and Lionel Poindexter, a songwriting duo...

     (1971–1972)
  • The Good Life
    The Good Life (1971 TV series)
    The Good Life is an American situation comedy which was aired on NBC as part of its 1971-72 lineup. The series stars Larry Hagman and Donna Mills, and was produced by Lorimar, in association with Screen Gems.-Synopsis:...

     (1971)
  • Temperatures Rising
    Temperatures Rising
    Temperatures Rising is an American television situation comedy that ran from September 12, 1972 to August 29, 1974 on the ABC network.The network had a good deal of faith in the low-rated series, which went through three cast changes, two different formats, and two time slots during its...

     (1972–1974)
  • Bridget Loves Bernie
    Bridget Loves Bernie
    Bridget Loves Bernie is an American television comedy program created by Bernard Slade, the creator of the 1970–74 ABC sitcom, The Partridge Family, based loosely on the premise of the 1920s’ Broadway play and 1940s’ radio show Abie's Irish Rose...

     (1972–1973)
  • The Paul Lynde Show
    The Paul Lynde Show
    The Paul Lynde Show is an American sitcom that aired on ABC. The series stars Paul Lynde and aired from September 13, 1972 to September 8, 1973.-Setting:...

     (1972–1973)
  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
    Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (television)
    Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice was a situation comedy broadcast in the United States by ABC as part of its 1973 fall lineup. It was based on the movie of the same title. It was produced by Screen Gems....

     (1973)
  • Needles and Pins
    Needles and Pins (TV series)
    Needles and Pins was a 1973 United States comedic television series about a women's clothing manufacturer & his employees in New York.The series had 14, 30 minute episodes that centred around Nathan Davidson and his mismatched employees. The first episode, Endangered Species premiered on 23...

     (1973)
  • Jeannie (1973–1975) (co-produced with Hanna-Barbera Productions; continued on through CPT in 1974)
  • Police Story (1973–1978, continued on through CPT from 1974–1978)
  • The Girl with Something Extra
    The Girl with Something Extra
    The Girl with Something Extra is an American fantasy-based sitcom that aired on NBC for one season during 1973-1974. The series was created by Bernard Slade and produced by Screen Gems Television.-Synopsis:...

     (1973–1974)
  • Sale of the Century
    Sale of the Century (US game show)
    Sale of the Century is an American television game show which debuted in the United States on September 29, 1969, on NBC daytime. It was one of three NBC game shows to premiere on that date, the other two being the short-lived Letters to Laugh-In and Name Droppers. The series aired until July 13,...

     (1973–1974)

Columbia Pictures Television
  • Dealer's Choice
    Dealer's Choice (game show)
    Dealer' s Choice was an American game show that aired from January 21, 1974 to December 12, 1975 in syndication for a total of 210 episodes. Bob Hastings was the host for only the first few weeks and was later replaced by Jack Clark. They were assisted by hostess Jane Nelson and by announcer Jim...

     (1974–1975) (produced by Fishman-Freer Productions and Odyssey Productions) (Screen Gems only 1973)
  • Police Woman
    Police Woman (TV series)
    Police Woman is an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to March 29, 1978.-Synopsis:...

     (1974–1978)
  • Partridge Family 2200 A.D.
    Partridge Family 2200 A.D.
    Partridge Family 2200 A.D. is an animated television series based on The Partridge Family created by Hanna-Barbera.-Production:This version started out as Hanna-Barbera's updated version of The Jetsons, where Elroy was now a teenager, and Judy now had a steady job as an ace reporter...

     (1974–1975) (co-produced with Hanna-Barbera Productions)
  • That's My Mama
    That's My Mama
    That's My Mama is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the ABC network from September 1974 until December 1975. There are 39 episodes of this series.-Synopsis:...

     (1974–1975)
  • Born Free
    Born Free (TV series)
    Born Free was a short-lived drama based on the 1966 movie of the same name. It aired on the NBC television network from September 9 to December 30, 1974 produced by Columbia Pictures Television....

     (1974)
  • The Diamond Head Game
    The Diamond Head Game
    The Diamond Head Game is an American game show that aired from January 6 to July 4, 1975 in five-day-a-week syndication. Borrowing its name from a long dormant volcano on the island of Oahu, the series was hosted by Bob Eubanks and assistant Jane Nelson, and is the only game show that was taped...

     (1975) (produced by Fishman-Freer Productions)
  • Matt Helm
    Matt Helm (TV series)
    Matt Helm is a short-lived American mystery television series which aired on the ABC Network during the 1975-1976 season. The title character was played by Anthony Franciosa.-Overview:...

     (1975–1976)
  • The Fun Factory (1976) (produced by Fishman-Freer Productions)
  • Tabitha
    Tabitha (TV series)
    Tabitha is an American fantasy sitcom that aired during the 1977-1978 season on ABC. It is a spin-off of Bewitched, which had ended its run several years earlier...

     (1977–1978)
  • Quark
    Quark (TV series)
    Quark is an American science fiction situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin broadcast on NBC. The pilot first aired on May 7, 1977, and the series followed as a mid-season replacement in February 1978. The series was cancelled in April 1978. Quark was created by Buck Henry, co-creator of the...

     (1977–1978)
  • Sha Na Na
    Sha Na Na (TV series)
    Sha Na Na is a syndicated television variety series that ran from 1977 to 1981 for a total of 97 episodes, hosted by the popular rock & roll/comedy group of the same name. The show was produced by Pierre Cossette and originally distributed by LBS Communications. Sony Pictures Television currently...

     (1977–1981) (Originally syndicated by LBS Communications; CPT assumed rights in 2000)
  • David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
    David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
    David Cassidy: Man Under Cover is an American police drama starring David Cassidy, four years after his run starring in the The Partridge Family. The series pilot first aired as a two-hour episode of another show, Police Story, which featured Cassidy playing an undercover police officer...

     (1978–1979)
  • Salvage 1
    Salvage 1
    Salvage 1 is an American science fiction series that aired for 16 episodes on ABC during 1979. The pilot film, Salvage, aired on January 20, 1979 to high ratings....

     (1979)
  • 240-Robert
    240-Robert
    240-Robert is an American drama series that ran on ABC from 1979 to 1981. The series title is a reference to the call-sign designation for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's search and rescue/paramedic teams.-Synopsis:...

     (1979–1981)
  • From Here to Eternity
    From Here to Eternity (TV series)
    From Here to Eternity was a six-hour 1979 television mini-series, followed by a thirteen episode 1980 television series.The mini-series was a remake of the 1953 film From Here to Eternity and based on the 1951 novel of the same name...

     (1979–1980)
  • One in a Million
    One in a Million (US TV series)
    One In A Million is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC for one season in 1980. The show was developed as a starring vehicle for comedienne Shirley Hemphill after the success of What's Happening!! in which she played a supporting role...

     (1980) (with TOY Productions)
  • Walking Tall
    Walking Tall
    Walking Tall is a 1973 semi-biopic of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a former professional wrestler-turned-lawman in McNairy County, Tennessee. It starred Joe Don Baker as Pusser...

     (1981)
  • Mr. Merlin
    Mr. Merlin
    Mr. Merlin, a Larry Larry Company Production in association with Columbia Pictures Television, was a 1981–82 sitcom starring Barnard Hughes as Merlin the wizard, disguised as Max Merlin, a mechanic in modern-day San Francisco.-Plot:...

     (1981–1982)
  • One of the Boys
    One of the Boys (TV series)
    One of the Boys is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from January to April 1982. Starring Mickey Rooney, Dana Carvey, Nathan Lane, and Scatman Crothers, TV Guide ranked it number 24 on its TV Guide's 50 Worst Shows of All Time list in 2002.-Synopsis:Oliver Nugent was a spry senior...

     (1982) (with TOY II Productions)
  • Bring 'Em Back Alive
    Bring 'Em Back Alive
    Bring 'Em Back Alive is an adventure television series starring Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan and Ron O'Neal. The series was shown in the United States from September 1982 to May 1983. Set in Singapore, it was one of several shows like Tales of the Gold Monkey to try and capture the success of...

     (1982–1983)
  • Filthy Rich
    Filthy Rich (1982 TV series)
    Filthy Rich is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from August 1982 to July 1983. Starring Dixie Carter and Delta Burke, the series satirized prime-time soap operas such as Dallas and Dynasty.-Plot:...

     (1982–1983)
  • Jennifer Slept Here
    Jennifer Slept Here
    Jennifer Slept Here is an American fantasy sitcom series that ran for one season on NBC from October 21, 1983 to September 5, 1984.-Overview:...

     (1983–1984)
  • Lottery!
    Lottery!
    Lottery! is an American drama series premiered on ABC on September 9, 1983. The series aired for one season of 17 episodes and starred Ben Murphy as Patrick Sean Flaherty, and Marshall Colt as Eric Rush...

     (1983–1984)
  • Blue Thunder
    Blue Thunder (TV series)
    Blue Thunder is a 1984 ABC TV series based on the movie of the same title featuring the Blue Thunder helicopter.The series used the converted Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopter and large portions of stock footage from the 1983 film. A ground unit named "Rolling Thunder" backed up the helicopter in...

     (1984) (Based on the 1983 movie by Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

    ) (Produced by Rastar Productions
    Rastar
    Rastar was an American film company founded in 1966 by Hollywood producer Ray Stark , who was involved in most of its productions. Its first film was 1968's Funny Girl....

     and Public Arts)
  • Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
    Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
    Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer is the title used for two syndicated television series that followed the adventures of fictional private detective Mike Hammer...

     (1984–1987)
  • Punky Brewster
    Punky Brewster
    Punky Brewster was an American sitcom about a girl named Punky Brewster being raised by her foster parent...

     (1984–1988)
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    Crazy Like a Fox (TV series)
    Crazy Like a Fox is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired on CBS from December 30, 1984 to May 3, 1986.-Overview:...

     (1984–1986)
  • What's Happening Now!!
    What's Happening Now!!
    What's Happening Now!! is an American television sitcom spinoff of What's Happening!!. It ran in syndication from 1985 to 1988. Like the previous series, What's Happening Now!! is loosely based on the motion picture Cooley High...

     (1985–1988) (with LBS Communications)
  • Lime Street (1985)
  • Stir Crazy (1985) (based on the 1980
    1980 in film
    - Events :* May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year ....

     film
    Stir Crazy (film)
    Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as down-on-their-luck friends who are given 125-year prison sentences after being framed for a bank robbery; while in prison they befriend other inmates and ultimately escape. In 2000, Total Film magazine voted it the...

     by Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

    )
  • Helltown (1985)
  • Designing Women
    Designing Women
    Designing Women is an American television sitcom that centered on the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. It aired on the CBS television network from September 29, 1986 until May 24, 1993. The show was created by head writer...

     (1986–1993) (co-produced by Mozark Productions
    Mozark Productions
    Mozark Productions is a production company for TV shows such as Designing Women and Hearts Afire. This production company is the vanity card for creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason....

    )
  • The New Gidget
    Gidget
    Gidget is a fictional character created by author Frederick Kohner in his 1957 novel, Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas. The novel follows the adventures of a teenage girl and her surfing friends on the beach at Malibu. The name Gidget is a portmanteau of "girl and midget"...

     (1986–1990)
  • Starman
    Starman (TV series)
    Starman is an American science fiction television series, starring Robert Hays and Christopher Daniel Barnes. The series ran on the ABC network from September 19, 1986 to May 2, 1987...

     (1986–1987) (Based on the 1984
    1984 in film
    -Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....

     film
    Starman (film)
    John Carpenter's Starman is a 1984 science-fiction fantasy film directed by John Carpenter that tells the story of an alien who has come to Earth in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record installed on the Voyager 2 space probe.The screenplay was written by Bruce A. Evans,...

     by Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

    )
  • The Real Ghostbusters
    The Real Ghostbusters
    The Real Ghostbusters is an American animated television series based on the 1984 film Ghostbusters. The series ran from 1986 to 1991, and was produced by Columbia Pictures Television, DiC Enterprises, and Coca-Cola Telecommunications. "The Real" was added to the title after a dispute with...

     (1986–1991) (co-produced with DiC Entertainment
    DiC Entertainment
    DIC Entertainment was an international film and television production company. In addition to animated television shows such as Ulysses 31 , Inspector Gadget , The Littles , The Real Ghostbusters , Captain Planet and the Planeteers , and the first two seasons of the English adaptation of...

    ); (first season distributed by/as Coca-Cola Telecommunications
    Coca-Cola Telecommunications
    Coca-Cola Telecommunications was a short-lived first-run syndication unit of Columbia Pictures Television created in 1986 that was a merger between CPT's first-run syndication department and The Television Program Source...

    ; subsequent seasons CPT co-syndicated with LBS Communications)(Based on the 1984 film Ghostbusters
    Ghostbusters
    Ghostbusters is a 1984 American science fiction comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, and Rick Moranis and follows three eccentric parapsychologists in New York City, who start a...

     by Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

    )
  • Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters (1988–1990) (co-produced with DiC Entertainment
    DiC Entertainment
    DIC Entertainment was an international film and television production company. In addition to animated television shows such as Ulysses 31 , Inspector Gadget , The Littles , The Real Ghostbusters , Captain Planet and the Planeteers , and the first two seasons of the English adaptation of...

    )
  • Buck James (1987–1988)
  • New Monkees
    New Monkees
    New Monkees was the name of both a US pop rock music group, and a 1987 syndicated television show featuring the group.-Background:The 20th anniversary of The Monkees in 1986 generated enough interest that New Monkees was conceived later that year, and launched the following year...

     (1987) (co-produced with Straybert Productions
    Raybert Productions
    Raybert Productions was a 1960s production company, founded by Robert Rafelson and Bert Schneider. Its principal works were the wildly successful situation comedy The Monkees , and the 1969 movie Easy Rider...

    ; co-produced and co-syndicated with LBS Communications)
  • Tarby's Frame Game
    Tarby's Frame Game
    Tarby's Frame Game was a game show produced by Yorkshire Television in association with Bernstein/Hovis Productions, Columbia Pictures Television & Action Time. It aired on the ITV network from 24 May 1987 until 29 July 1989 and was hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck....

     (ITV
    ITV
    ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

    UK1987) (co-produced with Yorkshire Television
    Yorkshire Television
    Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...

     and Bernstein-Hovis Productions)
  • Something Is Out There
    Something is Out There
    Something Is Out There is the title of a 1988 American science fiction television miniseries that aired on NBC, and a short-lived weekly series that followed in the fall of 1988....

     (1988–1989)
  • Parker Lewis Can't Lose
    Parker Lewis Can't Lose
    Parker Lewis Can't Lose is an American teen sitcom that originally aired on FOX from September 1990 to June 1993. During the last season, the series sported the simpler title Parker Lewis. The series was produced by Columbia Pictures Television and was strongly influenced by the feature film Ferris...

     (a.k.a. Parker Lewis) (1990–1993)
  • Baby Talk
    Baby Talk
    Baby Talk is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from March 8, 1991 until May 8, 1992 as part of ABC's TGIF lineup. The show was loosely based on the popular Look Who's Talking movie series and was adapted for television by Ed. Weinberger...

     (1991)
  • Sunday Dinner
    Sunday Dinner (TV series)
    Sunday Dinner is a short-lived 1991 CBS sitcom produced by Norman Lear, which marked his return to TV after an absence of several years. It ran as a summer entry on CBS' lineup from June 2, 1991 until July 7, 1991...

     (1991) (co-produced with ACT III Communications)
  • The Larry Sanders Show
    The Larry Sanders Show
    The Larry Sanders Show is a satirical television sitcom that aired from August 1992 to May 1998 on the HBO cable television network in the United States. It starred stand-up comedian Garry Shandling as vain, neurotic talk show host Larry Sanders, and centered on the running of his TV show, and the...

     (1992–1999) (co-produced with HBO and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment
    Brillstein-Grey Entertainment
    Brillstein Entertainment Partners is a talent management film and television production company formed by the 1991 addition of Brad Grey to The Brillstein Company, founded by Bernie Brillstein in 1969.-The Brillstein Company:Bernie Brillstein formed The Brillstein Company in 1969...

    )
  • Ricki Lake
    Ricki Lake (talk show)
    Ricki Lake was the first daytime tabloid talk show hosted by American actress Ricki Lake.The show specialized in sensationalist topics involving invited guests and incorporated questions and comments from a studio audience...

     (1993–2004) (with the Garth Anner Company) (CPT and continued by CTT 1996-2002 and SPT 2002-2004)
  • Walker Texas Ranger (1993–2001) (co-produced with CBS Productions
    CBS Productions
    CBS Productions is the production arm of the CBS television network now a part of CBS Corporation, formed in 1952 to produce shows in-house, instead of relying solely on outside productions. Its first production was CBS Television Workshop, a drama anthology series...

    ) (CPT and continued by CTT 1999-2001)
  • The Critic
    The Critic
    The Critic is an American prime time animated series revolving around the life of film critic Jay Sherman, voiced by actor Jon Lovitz. It was created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, both of whom had worked as writers on The Simpsons. The Critic had 23 episodes produced, first broadcast on ABC in 1994,...

     (1994–1995) (co-produced by Gracie Films
    Gracie Films
    Gracie Films is an American film and television production company, created by James L. Brooks in 1986. The company has produced many award-winning films and television series, including Broadcast News, Jerry Maguire, and most notably The Simpsons...

    )
  • The Cosby Mysteries
    The Cosby Mysteries
    The Cosby Mysteries is a American television mystery series that starred Bill Cosby. It was the first television series to star Cosby since The Cosby Show and lasted only one season...

     (1994–1995)
  • Party of Five
    Party of Five
    Party of Five is an American teen drama television series that aired on Fox for six seasons, from September 12, 1994, until May 3, 2000.Critically acclaimed, the show suffered from low ratings and after its first season was slated for cancellation...

     (1994–2000) (CPT 1994-1999 and continued by CTT 1999-2000)
  • Women of the House
    Women of the House
    Women of the House is an American situation comedy television series. It is a spin-off of Designing Women and stars Delta Burke, who had reconciled with producers after a bitter, highly publicized, off-screen battle.- Premise :...

     (1995) (co-produced by Mozark Productions
    Mozark Productions
    Mozark Productions is a production company for TV shows such as Designing Women and Hearts Afire. This production company is the vanity card for creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason....

    )
  • Dark Skies
    Dark Skies
    Dark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory-based sci-fi television series that aired from the 1996 to 1997 season for 18 episodes, plus a two-hour pilot episode. The success of The X-Files on Fox proved there was an audience for science fiction shows, resulting in NBC commissioning this...

     (1996-1997)

TriStar Television
  • My Two Dads
    My Two Dads
    My Two Dads is an American sitcom that starred Staci Keanan, Paul Reiser and Greg Evigan. It aired on NBC from 1987 to 1990 and was produced by Michael Jacobs Productions in association with TriStar Television and distributed by TeleVentures.-Show synopsis:The show begins when Marcy Bradford , the...

     (1987–1990) (CPT February 1988-1990)
  • Charlie Hoover (1991)
  • Forever Knight
    Forever Knight
    Forever Knight was a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a...

     (1992–1996) (in conjunction with Tele München Fernseh Produktionsgesellschaft and Glen Warren Entertainment)
  • The Edge (1992–1993)
  • Mad About You
    Mad About You
    Mad About You is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992 to May 24, 1999. The show starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York City. Reiser played Paul Buchman, a documentary film maker. Hunt played Jamie Stemple Buchman, a public relations specialist...

     (1992–1999) (TriStar Television)
  • The Nanny
    The Nanny
    Nanny may refer to:* Nanny, a child's caregiver* A grandmother * A Cajun word for godmother * A female goat* Nanny , a 1981–83 British drama series starring Wendy Craig* Nanny of the Maroons...

     (1993-1999) (TriStar Television)
  • Ned and Stacey (1995–1997)
  • Early Edition
    Early Edition
    Early Edition is an American television series that aired on CBS from September 28, 1996 to May 27, 2000. Set in the city of Chicago, Illinois, it follows the adventures of a man who mysteriously receives each Chicago Sun-Times newspaper the day before it is actually published, and who uses this...

     (1996–2000, CTT 1999-2000; SPT only owns international rights, US rights are with CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

    )
  • Malcolm & Eddie
    Malcolm & Eddie
    Malcolm & Eddie is an American television sitcom that premiered August 26, 1996 on the UPN Network, and ran for four seasons. This series starred Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Eddie Griffin in the lead roles. This show was canceled after its fourth season, and aired its final episode on May 22, 2000...

     (1996–2000) (CTT 1999-2000)

Columbia TriStar Television
  • Ripley's Believe It or Not!
    Ripley's Believe It or Not!
    Ripley's Believe It or Not! is a franchise, founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims...

     (1982–1986) and (2000–2003) (CPT 1982-1986, CTT 1999-2002, and SPT 2000-2003)
  • Flamingo Fortune
    Flamingo Fortune
    Flamingo Fortune is an American game show for the Florida Lottery that aired from 1995-1999. It was originally produced by Mark Goodson Productions, at the time also producing game shows for state lotteries alongside his regular game shows...

     (1995–1999) (1995-1996 Mark Goodson
    Mark Goodson
    Mark Goodson was an American television producer who specialized in game shows.-Life and early career:...

     Productions, 1996-1997 Jonathan Goodson Productions, 1997-1999 CTT and Game Show Network
    Game Show Network
    The Game Show Network is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite channel dedicated to game shows and casino game shows. The channel was launched on December 1, 1994. Its current slogan is "The World Needs More Winners"...

    . In association with the Florida Lottery
    Florida Lottery
    The Florida Lottery is a government-run organization in Florida, USA. With numerous on-line and scratch-off games available, players have a wide variety of prize levels to choose from. Since it began, the Florida Lottery has continued to add variety to its portfolio of games...

    )
  • NewsRadio
    NewsRadio
    NewsRadio is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1995 to 1999. The series was created by executive producer Paul Simms, and was filmed in front of a studio audience at CBS Studio Center and Sunset Gower Studios...

     (1995–2000)
  • The Steve Harvey Show
    The Steve Harvey Show
    The Steve Harvey Show is an American sitcom that aired for six seasons from August 25, 1996 to February 17, 2002 on The WB Television Network. It was created by Winifred Hervey and directed by Stan Lathan.-Synopsis:...

     (1996–2002) (co-produced by Brillstein-Grey Communications (1996–1999), Brad Grey Television and Universal Studios (1999–2002)
  • Tempestt (1996–1997) (co-produced with Dick Clark Productions
    Dick Clark Productions
    Dick Clark Productions is an entertainment production company founded by entertainer Dick Clark...

    )
  • Between Brothers
    Between Brothers
    Between Brothers is an American television situation comedy centered around four middle-class African American men in their late twenties, living in Chicago. It premiered on September 11, 1997 on Fox, with the second season airing on UPN, until March 2, 1999. The lead characters were portrayed...

     (1997–1999)
  • Just Shoot Me!
    Just Shoot Me!
    Just Shoot Me! is an American television sitcom that aired for seven seasons on NBC from March 4, 1997 to August 16, 2003, with 148 episodes produced. The show was created by Steven Levitan, the show's executive producer.-Description:...

     (1997–2003) co-produced by Brillstein-Grey Communications (1996–1999), Brad Grey Television and Universal Studios
  • Dawson's Creek
    Dawson's Creek
    Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB Television Network and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. The show is set in the fictional seaside town of Capeside, Massachusetts, and in Boston, Massachusetts, during the later seasons...

     (1998–2003) (Co-produced with Procter & Gamble Productions and Outerbanks Entertainment
    Outerbanks Entertainment
    Outerbanks Entertainment is the production company of screenwriter Kevin Williamson, based in Los Angeles, California, USA. It currently produces the CW series The Vampire Diaries. Past credits include Dawson's Creek . It also produced the series Glory Days for The WB and Wasteland for the ABC...

    , SPT 2002-2003) WB
  • Hollywood Squares
    Hollywood Squares
    Hollywood Squares is an American panel game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes. The "board" for the game is a 3 × 3 vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by a celebrity seated at a desk and facing the contestants...

     (1998–2004) (50% ownership with CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

    , CTT 1998-2003 Winkler/Lewitt and SPT 2003-2004)
  • Oh Baby
    Oh Baby
    Oh Baby is an American situation comedy series that ran on Lifetime from August 26, 1998 to March 4, 2000. It also ran from 1999 to 2003 on Canada's W Network...

     (1998–2000) (co-produced with Mandalay Television)
  • Rude Awakening
    Rude Awakening (TV series)
    Rude Awakening is a TV series created by Claudia Lonow, aired by Showtime on 55 22-min episodes for 3 seasons .-Story:Rude Awakening tells the story of Billie Frank, an out of work alcoholic ex-soap opera actress. She tries to go sober and become a writer but continues to struggle with her...

     (1998–2001) (co-produced with Mandalay Television and Showtime)
  • Dilbert
    Dilbert (TV series)
    Dilbert is an animated television series spin-off of the comic strip of the same name, produced by Adelaide Productions, Idbox, and United Media and distributed by Columbia TriStar Television...

     (1999–2000)
  • V.I.P.
    V.I.P. (TV series)
    V.I.P. is an American action/comedy-drama series starring Pamela Anderson. Created by J. F...

     (1998–2002) (In association with Lawton Entertainment)
  • Family Law
    Family Law (TV series)
    Family Law is a television drama starring Kathleen Quinlan as divorced lawyer Lynn Holt, who attempted to start her own law firm after her lawyer husband took all their old clients...

     (1999–2002) (co-produced by CBS Productions)
  • Screen Gems Network
    Screen Gems Network
    Screen Gems Network was an American television program which ran in syndication from 1999 to 2001, launched by Columbia TriStar Television Distribution...

     (1999–2001) (CTTD)
  • Bette (2000–2001) (co-production with CBS Productions)
  • Judge Hatchett
    Judge Hatchett
    Judge Hatchett is a nationally-syndicated American television program produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Television. It starred The Honorable Glenda Hatchett and was modeled after other "court shows" such as Judge Judy and the long running The People's Court, as well as containing elements...

     (2000–2008) (CTTD 2000-2001, CTDT 2001-2002, and SPT 2002-2008)
  • Secret Agent Man (2000)
  • Pasadena
    Pasadena (TV series)
    Pasadena is an American primetime soap opera originally broadcast in the U.S. from September to November 2001 on Fox.-Summary:The series starred Alison Lohman as Lily McAllister, an initially naïve young woman who witnesses a stranger's suicide and begins to investigate the secrets being hidden by...

     (co-produced by Brad Grey Television
    Brad Grey
    Brad Alan Grey is the Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, a position he has held since 2005. Under Grey’s leadership, Paramount has finished No.2 in market share in 2008, 2009 and 2010 despite releasing significantly fewer films than its competitors.Since arriving at Paramount in 2005,...

    ) (2001)
  • The Tick(2001-2002)
  • Shipmates
    Shipmates
    Shipmates is an American syndicated television show that ran for two seasons from 2001 - 2003.Reruns later ran on the cable channel Spike TV. The show was created by Hurricane Entertainment and the executive producer was John Tomlin. Chris Hardwick was the host...

     (2001–2003) (CTDT 2001-2002 and SPT 2002-2003)
  • The Guardian
    The Guardian (TV series)
    The Guardian is an American drama series which aired on CBS from September 25, 2001 to May 4, 2004. It is currently showing in re-runs on the Sleuth Channel in the US. The Guardian has also aired in the United Kingdom on the Hallmark Channel, ABC1 and more recently five USA and as of August...

     (2001–2004) (SPT 2002-2004, co-production with CBS Productions, SPT only owns international rights, US rights are with CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

    )
  • Street Time (2002–2003) (CTDT then SPT)
  • Pyramid
    Pyramid (game show)
    Pyramid is an American television game show which has aired several versions. The original series, The $10,000 Pyramid, debuted March 26, 1973 and spawned seven subsequent Pyramid series...

     (2002–2004)
  • Odyssey 5
    Odyssey 5
    Odyssey 5 is a Canadian science fiction series that first ran in 2002 on Showtime in the United States and on Space in Canada.In the United States, the initial run of the series ran for 14 of the 20 episodes, leaving the six remaining episodes unaired for a period of roughly two years...

     (2002–2004) (CTDT and CTIT, then SPT and SPTI)

Columbia TriStar International Television
  • Cyborg 009
    Cyborg 009
    is a manga created by Shotaro Ishinomori. It was serialized in many different magazines, including Monthly Shōnen King, Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Shōnen Big Comic, COM, Shōjo Comic, Weekly Shōnen Sunday, Monthly Shōnen Jump and Monthly Comic Nora in Japan...

     (2001) (produced by TV Tokyo
    TV Tokyo
    is a television station headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Also known as , a blend of "terebi" and "Tokyo", it is the key station of TX Network. It is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specializing in anime...

     and licensed by Avex, Inc. in North America)

Adelaide Productions
Adelaide Productions
Adelaide Productions is an animation division of Sony Pictures Television.Originally named Columbia TriStar Children's Television, Adelaide has produced numerous animated television series including:*Jumanji: The Series...

 
Note: Adelaide serves as copyright holder and producer of the following shows, but bears the logo of the respective SPE branch.
  • Jumanji: The Series
    Jumanji (TV series)
    Jumanji is an American animated television series that was inspired by the movie based on the book of the same name. The series ran for three seasons from 1996 to 1999. In 1996, it was carried by the UPN Kids network, but later seasons were syndicated by BKN. The series was also shown by CITV in...

     (1996–1999)
  • Channel Umptee-Three
    Channel Umptee-3
    Channel Umptee-3 was a Saturday morning animated television series created by Jim George and produced by Norman Lear that aired on The WB in 1997. Ogden Ostrich, Sheldon S...

     (1997) (in association with ACT III Television and Enchante George Productions)
  • Extreme Ghostbusters
    Extreme Ghostbusters
    Extreme Ghostbusters is an animated television series and a follow-up to the animated series Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters. It is a part of the film/TV Ghostbusters franchise...

     (1997)
  • Men in Black: The Series
    Men in Black: The Series
    Men in Black: The Series also known as Men in Black: The Animated Series is an American animated television series that aired during The WB's Kids' WB programming block for four seasons from 1997 through 2001.The show features characters from 1997's science fiction film Men in Black, which was...

     (1997–2001) (in association with Amblin Entertainment
    Amblin Entertainment
    Amblin Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded by director and producer Steven Spielberg and film producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in 1981. Amblin is only a production company, and has never distributed its own movies, nor has it fully financed its...

    )
  • Godzilla: The Series
    Godzilla: The Series
    Godzilla: The Series is an American/Japanese animated television series which originally aired on Fox in the United States. The show premiered on September 12, 1998, and is a direct sequel to the American Godzilla remake.-Plot:...

     (1998–2000) (co-produced with Centropolis Entertainment
    Roland Emmerich
    Roland Emmerich is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer.His films, most of which are Hollywood productions filmed in English, have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide, more than those of any other European director...

     and Toho Co., Ltd.
    Toho
    is a Japanese film, theater production, and distribution company. It is headquartered in Yūrakuchō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group...

    , based on the 1998 live-action Godzilla
    Godzilla (1998 film)
    Godzilla is a 1998 science fiction monster disaster film film co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich. It is a loose remake of the 1954 giant monster classic Godzilla. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin. The film relates a tale of a nuclear incident...

     adaptation released by Adelaide corporate sibling TriStar Pictures
    TriStar Pictures
    TriStar Pictures, Inc. is an American film production/distribution studio and subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, itself a subdivision of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which is owned by Sony Pictures...

    )
  • Dragon Tales
    Dragon Tales
    Dragon Tales is an American animated pre-school children's television series chronicling the adventures of two siblings, Max and Emmy and their dragon friends Cassie, Ord, Zak, Wheezie, and Quetzal...

     (1999–2005) (in conjunction with Sesame Workshop
    Sesame Workshop
    Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop , is a Worldwide American non-profit organization behind the production of several educational children's programs that have run on public broadcasting around the world...

    ) (CTT 1999-2002) (SPT 2005 and mixed airings of 2005 and 2001 episodes)
  • Dilbert
    Dilbert (TV series)
    Dilbert is an animated television series spin-off of the comic strip of the same name, produced by Adelaide Productions, Idbox, and United Media and distributed by Columbia TriStar Television...

     (1999–2000)
  • Jackie Chan Adventures
    Jackie Chan Adventures
    Jackie Chan Adventures is an animated television series chronicling the adventures of a fictionalized version of action film star Jackie Chan. Many of the episodes contain references to Chan's actual works. This series ran on Kids' WB! from September 9, 2000 to July 7, 2005 for a total of 95...

     (2000–2005) (CTT 2000-2002) (SPT 2002-2005)
  • Max Steel
    Max Steel
    Max Steel is a science fiction–action, CGI, animated series which originally aired from February 25, 2000 to January 15, 2002, based on the Mattel action-figure of the same name. Max Steel ran for three seasons, totaling thirty-five episodes with a predicted audience of young males from the ages of...

     (2001–2002) (co-produced with Mainframe Entertainment
    Mainframe Entertainment
    Rainmaker Entertainment, Inc. is a Canadian computer animation and design company based in Vancouver, British Columbia and Los Angeles, California. It produces computer animation TV series and movies. They are best known for producing the first ever CGI animated series ReBoot, as well as the...

    )
  • Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
    Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
    Spider-Man: The New Animated Series is an animated series featuring the Marvel comic book superhero Spider-Man, which ran for one season, 13 episodes, starting on July 11, 2003...

     (2003) (co-produced with Mainframe Entertainment
    Mainframe Entertainment
    Rainmaker Entertainment, Inc. is a Canadian computer animation and design company based in Vancouver, British Columbia and Los Angeles, California. It produces computer animation TV series and movies. They are best known for producing the first ever CGI animated series ReBoot, as well as the...

     and Marvel Studios
    Marvel Studios
    Marvel Studios, originally Marvel Films, is an American television and motion picture studio based in Manhattan Beach, California. Marvel Studios is a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, a self-contained part of the The Walt Disney Company conglomerate....

    )
  • Stuart Little (2003)
  • Harold and the Purple Crayon
    Harold and the Purple Crayon
    Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 1955 children's book by Crockett Johnson. Johnson's most popular book, it led to a series of books, and inspired many adaptations.-Plot:...

     (2004)

Sony Pictures Television
  • Girls Behaving Badly
    Girls Behaving Badly
    Girls Behaving Badly is an American reality comedy television show on the Oxygen cable channel, and is also syndicated to television stations across the United States and Canada by Sony Pictures Television....

     (2001–present) (distribution only)
  • Pyramid
    Pyramid (game show)
    Pyramid is an American television game show which has aired several versions. The original series, The $10,000 Pyramid, debuted March 26, 1973 and spawned seven subsequent Pyramid series...

     (2002–2004) (CTDT and Sony Pictures Television)
  • Russian Roulette
    Russian Roulette (game show)
    Russian Roulette is an American game show created by executive producer Gunnar Wetterberg that ran for two seasons on Game Show Network from June 3, 2002 to June 13, 2003. It was hosted by Mark L. Walberg, with Burton Richardson announcing. Todd Newton hosted an April Fool's Day episode in 2003....

     (2002–2003) (CTDT and Sony Pictures Television)(co-produced by GSN Originals)
  • My Big Fat Greek Life
    My Big Fat Greek Life
    My Big Fat Greek Life is a situation comedy series that ran on CBS in 2003. The series is a continuation on the 2002 movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding and was produced by HBO Television and Tom Hanks' Playtone Productions for Sony Pictures Television....

     (2003) (in association with HBO Television and Playtone Productions)
  • Joan of Arcadia
    Joan of Arcadia
    Joan of Arcadia is an American television fantasy/family drama telling the story of teenager Joan Girardi , who sees and speaks with God and performs tasks she is given. The series originally aired on Fridays, 8-9 p.m...

     (2003–2005) (Co-Produced by CBS Productions, distributed by CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

     in North America, and SPT overseas)
  • Huff
    Huff (TV series)
    Huff is an American television dramedy series produced by Sony Pictures Television for Showtime. The series was created by Bob Lowry and features Hank Azaria as Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt, a psychiatrist whose life changes abruptly when a 15-year-old client commits suicide in his office...

     (2004–2006)
  • Life & Style
    Life & Style
    Life & Style is an American syndicated talk show that was geared toward young adult females. It was produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Television and lasted only one season, from September 2004 to March 2005...

     (2004–2005)
  • Kingdom Hospital
    Kingdom Hospital
    Kingdom Hospital is a thirteen-episode television miniseries based on Lars von Trier's The Kingdom , which was developed by horror writer Stephen King in 2004 for American television...

     (2004) (co-produced with Touchstone Television, now ABC Studios, co-distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television)
  • The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008–2009)
  • Pat Croce: Moving In
    Pat Croce: Moving In
    Pat Croce: Moving In was an American television show that ran in syndication during the 2004-2005 season. The program was produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Television....

     (2004–2005)
  • Vaughn
    Vaughn
    -Places:*Vaughn, California*Vaughn, California, former name of Bodfish, California*Vaughn, New Mexico, United States*Vaughn, Montana, United States-People with the surname Vaughn:*Billy Vaughn , musician...

    (2004–Present, co-produced with Bad Robot Productions
    Bad Robot Productions
    Bad Robot Productions is an American film and television production company owned by J. J. Abrams. It is responsible for the television series Alias, Lost, What About Brian, Fringe, Six Degrees, Undercovers, Person of Interest and the feature length films Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol , ...

     and ABC Studios)
  • The Residents  (2004) (with TLC)
  • Beautiful People (2005)
  • Emily's Reasons Why Not
    Emily's Reasons Why Not
    Emily's Reasons Why Not is a television series starring Heather Graham. The show, which was based on the novel of the same name, was canceled by its broadcaster, ABC, after airing one episode on January 9, 2006.-Premise:...

     (2006)
  • The Book of Daniel
    The Book of Daniel (TV series)
    The Book of Daniel is a television series broadcast on NBC. The network promoted it as a serious drama about Christians and the Christian faith, but it was controversial with some Christians. The show had been proposed for NBC's 2005 fall line-up, but was rescheduled as a 2006 midseason replacement...

     (2006) (with Universal Television
    NBC Universal Television
    NBCUniversal Television Group is an American and global television production/distribution company and a subsidiary of NBCUniversal.The company is composed of six divisions: Universal Television , NBC Universal Television Stations, NBCUniversal Television Distribution, NBCUniversal...

    ; NBCUniversal Television Distribution distributes in North America, while SPT has international rights)
  • Chain Reaction
    Chain Reaction (game show)
    Chain Reaction is an American game show created by Bob Stewart, in which players compete to form chains composed of two-word phrases.The show aired three separate runs: Bill Cullen hosted the original series on NBC from January 14 to June 20, 1980...

     (2006–2007) (with Embassy Row and GSN)
  • Kidnapped
    Kidnapped (2006 TV series)
    Kidnapped is an American television drama series from Sony Pictures Television which aired on NBC from September 20, 2006, to August 11, 2007...

     (2006)
  • Runaway (2006)
  • My Boys
    My Boys
    My Boys is an American television sitcom that debuted on November 28, 2006, on TBS. The show deals with a female sports columnist in Chicago, Illinois and the men in her life including her brother and her best friend...

     (2006–2010)
  • Judge Maria Lopez (2006–2008)
  • The Greg Behrendt Show
    The Greg Behrendt Show
    The Greg Behrendt Show is a daytime talk show which premiered in syndication on September 12, 2006. The show was distributed by Sony Pictures Television and was taped at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City....

     (2006–2007)
  • Big Day
    Big Day
    Big Day, originally titled A Day in the Life, is an American situation comedy that first aired on ABC from November 28, 2006 to January 30, 2007. The series was co-produced by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa and directed by Michael Spiller for Sony Pictures Television...

     (2006–2007)
  • Viva Laughlin
    Viva Laughlin
    Viva Laughlin is an American musical–dramedy series adapted by Bob Lowry and Peter Bowker from the popular BBC British serial, Blackpool. They also served as executive producers alongside Hugh Jackman, John Palermo, Paul Telegdy and Gabriele Muccino. The latter also directed the pilot...

     (2007, co-production with CBS Paramount Network Television
    CBS Paramount Television
    CBS Television Studios is an American television production/distribution company that was formed on January 17, 2006 by CBS Corporation merging Paramount Television and CBS Productions...

     and BBC Worldwide
    BBC Worldwide
    BBC Worldwide Limited is the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995. In the year to 31 March 2010 it made a profit of £145m on a turnover of £1.074bn. The company had made a profit of £106m...

    )
  • Cashmere Mafia
    Cashmere Mafia
    Cashmere Mafia is an American television dramedy which ran on ABC from January 6, 2008 to February 20, 2008. The series was created by Kevin Wade, who also served as executive producer alongside Darren Star, Gail Katz, Jeff Rake and Michael Pressman, with Susie Fitzgerald co-executive producing....

     (2007–2008)
  • Power of 10
    Power of 10
    Power of 10 is an international Sony Pictures Television game show format featuring contestants predicting how a cross-section of local people from the host broadcaster's country responded to questions covering a wide variety of topics in polls conducted by the broadcaster and production...

     (2007–2008) (in association with Embassy Row)
  • The Runners
    The Runners
    The Runners is a hip hop production duo from Orlando, Florida, consisting of Andrew "Dru Brett" Harr and Jermaine "Mayne Zayne" Jackson. They came together to form the team in 2000, but they have known each other since they were in kindergarten. They are best known for producing the hit singles "Go...

     (2007–2008, co-produced with Bad Robot Productions
    Bad Robot Productions
    Bad Robot Productions is an American film and television production company owned by J. J. Abrams. It is responsible for the television series Alias, Lost, What About Brian, Fringe, Six Degrees, Undercovers, Person of Interest and the feature length films Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol , ...

     and ABC Studios)
  • Canterbury's Law
    Canterbury's Law
    Canterbury's Law is an American legal drama, which ran from March 10, 2008 to April 18, 2008 as a mid-season replacement on Fox. The show was created by Dave Erickson and executive produced by Denis Leary, Jim Serpico, Walon Green, John Kane, and Mike Figgis, who also directed the pilot...

     (2007–2008, co-produced with Apostle and Fox Television Studios
    Fox Television Studios
    Fox Television Studios, Inc. is the TV production arm of the News Corporation's Fox Entertainment Group, as well as being the production arm of Fox and a production arm of 20th Century Fox Television, Inc., itself a division of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation...

    )
  • Judge David Young
    Judge David Young
    David Young is an American judge who stars on the Emmy Award-nominated Judge David Young television show, a daytime nationally syndicated court show. He is the first openly gay TV judge...

     (2007–2009)
  • Absolutely Fabulous (TBD; co-produced in association with Jennifer Saunders
    Jennifer Saunders
    Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedienne, screenwriter, singer and actress. She has won two BAFTAs, an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a Peoples Choice Award.She first came into...

     {creator of the original version
    Absolutely Fabulous
    Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a British sitcom created by Jennifer Saunders, based on an original idea by her and Dawn French, and written by Saunders, who plays the leading character. It also stars Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha, along with June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks...

    }, BBC Worldwide
    BBC Worldwide
    BBC Worldwide Limited is the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995. In the year to 31 March 2010 it made a profit of £145m on a turnover of £1.074bn. The company had made a profit of £106m...

     and Tantamount)
  • The Gong Show with Dave Attell
    The Gong Show with Dave Attell
    The Gong Show with Dave Attell is a revival of the 1970s Chuck Barris comedy game show called The Gong Show, hosted by comedian Dave Attell. The show premiered on July 17, 2008...

     (2008)
  • Judge Karen
    Judge Karen
    Judge Karen is a nationally-syndicated American courtroom television show that debuted on September 8, 2008 in 48 of the top 50 U.S. markets. As with other court shows, such as The People's Court and Judge Judy, a real-life judge presides over small claims court cases...

     (2008–2009)
  • Brothers
    Brothers (2009 TV series)
    Brothers is a television sitcom, which ran on Fox from September 25, 2009 to December 27, 2009. It originally aired on Friday nights at 8:00 pm EST before moving to Sunday nights at 7:00 pm EST as part of the 2009 fall schedule.- Premise :...

     (2009; in association with Tantamount Studios and Impact Zone Productions)
  • The Beast
    The Beast (2009 TV series)
    The Beast is an American crime drama series starring Patrick Swayze and Travis Fimmel. It debuted on the A&E Network on Thursday, 15 January 2009 at 10 PM EST. On June 15, 2009, Entertainment Tonight announced that the show was canceled due to Swayze's pancreatic cancer...

     (2009)
  • The Unusuals
    The Unusuals
    The Unusuals is a comedy-drama television series which premiered on ABC on April 8, 2009 in the U.S. and Global in Canada. An ABC press release described The Unusuals as "like a modern-day M*A*S*H" that "explores both the grounded drama and comic insanity of the world of New York City police...

     (2009)
  • Hawthorne
    Hawthorne (TV series)
    Hawthorne is an hour-long medical drama on the TNT television network starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan. It premiered on June 16, 2009. On Thursday, September 16, 2010 it was announced that Hawthorne has been renewed for a third season consisting of 10 episodes...

     (2009–2011)
  • Hidden Agenda (2010) (in association with Embassy Row)
  • Plain Jane
    Plain Jane (TV series)
    Plain Jane is an American reality television makeover summer series that transforms one woman each week. The show premiered on The CW on Wednesday July 28, 2010 at 9 pm...

     (2010) (in association with Fly On the Wall Entertainment)
  • Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels (2011 TV series)
    Charlie's Angels is an American reboot television series developed by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar for ABC, based upon the 1976 series of the same name created by Ivan Goff, and Ben Roberts. The series ran on ABC from September 22, 2011 to November 10, 2011.Charlie's Angels was canceled on October...

     (2011; co-produced by Flower Films and Miller-Gough Ink)

Sony Pictures Television International
  • Rurouni Kenshin
    Rurouni Kenshin
    , also known as Rurouni Kenshin and Samurai X, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The fictional setting takes place during the early Meiji period in Japan. The story is about a fictional assassin named Himura Kenshin, from the Bakumatsu who becomes a wanderer to...

     (1996-1998) (produced by Studio Gallop, Studio Deen
    Studio DEEN
    is a Japanese company that produces anime. Three years after Sunrise was founded in 1972, Studio Deen was established by Sunrise's members in 1975. As a result of this, anime shows such as Cowboy Bebop that were produced by Sunrise may have had assistance from Studio Deen.-Produced anime:* Urusei...

    , and SPE Visual Works
    Aniplex
    , formerly known as Sony Pictures Entertainment Visual Works Inc. and Sony Music Entertainment Visual Works Inc., is a Japanese anime and music production and distribution enterprise owned by Sony Music Entertainment Japan and established in January 1997...

    )
  • Astro Boy (2003)
  • Dragons' Den
    Dragons' Den
    Dragons' Den is a series of reality television programmes featuring entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas in order to secure investment finance from a panel of venture capitalists. The show originated in Japan as "Manē no Tora"...

     (2004-Present in the UK, 2005-Present in Australia) (co-produced with the BBC (UK) and Seven Network
    Seven Network
    The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

     (Australia))
  • Blood+
    Blood+
    Blood+, pronounced as "Blood Plus", is an anime series produced by Production I.G and Aniplex and directed by Junichi Fujisaku. The series premiered in Japan on Sony's anime satellite channel, Animax, as well as on terrestrial networks such as MBS, TBS, and RKB on October 8, 2005. The final episode...

     (2005-2006)
  • The New Captain Scarlet
    Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet
    Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet is a United Kingdom-produced computer-generated imagery action-adventure TV series which debuted in February 2005 as part of the Ministry of Mayhem on ITV....

     (2005)
  • Zorro: The Sword and the Rose
    Zorro: La Espada y la Rosa
    Zorro: La Espada y la Rosa is a Spanish-language telenovela based on Johnston McCulley's characters. Telemundo aired it from February 12 to July 23, 2007. This limited-run serial shows the masked crusader as a hero torn between his fight for justice and his love for a beautiful woman...

     (2007)
  • The Pyramid Game
    The Pyramid Game
    The Pyramid Game was a United Kingdom game show based on the American format of the same name that was originally shown on ITV from 1981 to 1984 then 1989 to 1990 hosted by Steve Jones, then revived by Challenge in 2007 hosted by Donny Osmond....

     (2007)
  • Los Simuladores
    Los Simuladores
    Los Simuladores is an Argentinian television series about a small team of con artists for hire, who use their skills to solve common people's life problems. The show ran for two seasons, from 2002 to 2003. It was very popular and highly acclaimed, winning a Golden Martín Fierro Award. A number of...

     (Mexico, 2008-Present)
  • Power of 10
    Power of 10 (Australian game show)
    Power of 10 was an short-lived Australian game show which is based on the original American version created by Michael Davies. The game featured contestants guessing the correct percentage range of answers to polls which have been taken from surveys, for a chance to win a million dollars.The...

     (Australian version 2008) (in association with FremantleMedia Australia
    FremantleMedia
    FremantleMedia, Ltd. is the content and production division of Bertelsmann's RTL Group, Europe's second largest TV, radio, and production company...

    )
  • Los Caballeros Las Prefieren Brutas (Colombia, 2010-Present)

Spelling-Goldberg Productions
Spelling-Goldberg Productions
Spelling-Goldberg Productions was a television production company established in 1972 by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg. Together, they've produced such shows as Starsky & Hutch, T. J. Hooker, S.W.A.T., Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island and Hart To Hart...

 

(bold text indicates a Spelling-Goldberg/CPT co-production)
  • The Rookies
    The Rookies
    The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It followed the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department .-History:...

     (1972–1976)
  • S.W.A.T.
    S.W.A.T. (TV series)
    ----S.W.A.T. is a 1970s American television series about the adventures of the WCPD's Olympic Division Special Weapons And Tactics team operating in an unidentified California city....

     (1975–1977)
  • Starsky and Hutch
    Starsky and Hutch
    Starsky and Hutch is a 1970s American cop thriller television series that consisted of a 90-minute pilot movie and 92 episodes of 60 minutes each; created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast between April 30, 1975 and May 15, 1979 on the ABC...

     (1975–1979)
  • Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men...

     (1976–1981)
  • Family
    Family (TV series)
    Family is an American television drama series that aired on ABC from 1976 to 1980. Creative control of the show was split between executive producers Leonard Goldberg, Aaron Spelling and Mike Nichols...

     (1976–1980)
  • Fantasy Island
    Fantasy Island
    Fantasy Island is the title of two separate but related American fantasy television series, both originally airing on the ABC television network.-Original series:...

    (1977–1984 Spelling-Goldberg, 1998-1999 CTT)
  • Hart to Hart
    Hart to Hart
    Hart to Hart is an American television series, starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a wealthy couple who also moonlighted as amateur detectives. The series was created by writer Sidney Sheldon and produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg...

    (1979–1984)
  • T.J. Hooker (1982–1988)

Witt
Paul Junger Witt
Paul Junger Witt is an American film and television producer. He, with his partners Tony Thomas and Susan Harris , produced such hit TV shows as Here Come the Brides, The Partridge Family, The Golden Girls, Soap, Benson, Empty Nest and Blossom...

/Thomas/Harris
Susan Harris
Susan Harris is an American television comedy writer and producer.Harris created numerous TV series: Soap, Benson, The Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Nurses, and The Golden Palace....

 Productions

  • Soap (1977–1981)
  • Benson (1979–1986) (CPTD picked up distribution rights in 1984)

Tandem

  • All in the Family
    All in the Family
    All in the Family is an American sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979. In September 1979, a new show, Archie Bunker's Place, picked up where All in the Family had ended...

     (1971–1979) (Distributed by Viacom Enterprises
    Viacom Enterprises
    Viacom Enterprises was a television distribution company formed in 1971 as the successor to CBS Enterprises, and spun off in 1973 due to now-repealed FCC bylaws prohibiting networks from syndicating their own shows....

     from 1976-1991)
  • Archie Bunker's Place
    Archie Bunker's Place
    Archie Bunker's Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 as a spin-off and continuation of All in the Family. While not as popular as its predecessor, the show maintained a large enough audience to last for four seasons, until its cancellation in 1983...

     (1979–1983)—In Association with the O’Connor-Becker Company (1979–1980), UGO Productions Inc. (1980–1983)
  • Maude
    Maude (TV series)
    Maude was an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972 until April 22, 1978.Maude starred Beatrice Arthur as Maude Findlay, an outspoken, middle-aged, politically liberal woman living in suburban Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York with...

     (1972–1978)
  • Sanford and Son
    Sanford and Son
    Sanford and Son is an American sitcom, based on the BBC's Steptoe and Son, that ran on the NBC television network from January 14, 1972, to March 25, 1977....

     (1972–1977)
  • Good Times
    Good Times
    Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Michael Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer...

     (1974–1979)
  • Sanford Arms (1977)
  • Diff'rent Strokes
    Diff'rent Strokes
    Diff'rent Strokes is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from November 3, 1978 to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985 to March 7, 1986...

     (1978–1986)
  • Sanford
    Sanford (TV series)
    Sanford is an American situation comedy, which was the revival of the 1972–1977 sitcom Sanford and Son.-Background:In 1977, after six seasons of Sanford and Son, Redd Foxx decided to leave the NBC show to star in a variety show for ABC. His new show, The Redd Foxx Comedy Hour, was cancelled...

     (1980–1981)—In Association with Redd Foxx
    Redd Foxx
    John Elroy Sanford , better known by his stage name Redd Foxx, was an American comedian and actor, best known for his starring role on the sitcom Sanford and Son.-Early life:...

     Productions

TOY Productions

  • Grady
    Grady (TV series)
    Grady was an spin-off of the sitcom, Sanford and Son. In this series, Fred Sanford's widower friend Grady moves out of Watts and moves in with his daughter and her family in Westwood. Executive producer Norman Lear served as a consultant to the show.Redd Foxx made a special guest appearance as...

     (1975–1976)
  • What's Happening!!
    What's Happening!!
    What's Happening!! is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from August 5, 1976 to April 28, 1979. The show premiered as a summer series. With good ratings and reviews, and after the failure of several other shows on the network, What's Happening!! returned in November 1976 as a weekly...

     (1976–1979)
  • Carter Country
    Carter Country
    Carter Country is an American television sitcom that ran from 1977 to 1979 on ABC.-Synopsis:Carter Country was set in the fictional small town of Clinton Corners in Georgia Carter Country is an American television sitcom that ran from 1977 to 1979 on ABC.-Synopsis:Carter Country was set in the...

     (1977–1979)

ELP Communications
Embassy Television
...

 

Formerly T.A.T. Communications (1975–1982) and Embassy Communications (1982–1988).
  • The Jeffersons
    The Jeffersons
    The Jeffersons is an American sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from January 18, 1975, through June 25, 1985, lasting 11 seasons and a total of 253 episodes. The show was produced by the T.A.T. Communications Company from 1975–1982 and by Embassy Television from 1982-1985...

     (1975–1985) (1975-1982 T.A.T. Communications Co. and 1982-1985 Embassy Television)
  • Hot l Baltimore
    Hot l Baltimore
    Hot l Baltimore was a short-lived 1975 television situation comedy series adapted from the hit off-Broadway play by Lanford Wilson.-Premise and run:...

     (1975)
  • One Day at a Time
    One Day at a Time
    One Day at a Time is an American situation comedy on the CBS network that aired from December 16, 1975 until May 28, 1984. It portrays Ann Romano, a divorced mother, played by Bonnie Franklin, her two teenage daughters Julie and Barbara Cooper and Schneider, their building superintendent .The show...

     (1975–1984) (1975-1982 T.A.T. Communications Co. and 1982-1984 Embassy Television)
  • Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
    Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
    Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman is an American soap opera parody that aired in daily syndication from January 1976 to May 1977. The series was produced by Norman Lear, directed by Joan Darling and starred Louise Lasser...

     and Forever Fernwood (1976–1978)
  • The Dumplings (1976)
  • The Nancy Walker Show
    The Nancy Walker Show
    The Nancy Walker Show was a short-lived situation comedy produced by Norman Lear and starring Nancy Walker. It aired for half a season on ABC, premiering on September 30, 1976 and running until December 23, 1976. The series was a starring vehicle provided to Ms...

     (1976–1977)
  • Fernwood 2Night/America 2Night (1977, 1978)
  • All That Glitters (1977)
  • A Year at the Top
    A Year at the Top
    A Year at the Top is an American sitcom which aired for five episodes on CBS in 1977. Produced by T.A.T. Communications Company, the series was created by Heywood Kling and co-executive produced by Don Kirshner and Norman Lear.-Synopsis:...

     (1977)
  • The Facts of Life
    The Facts of Life (TV series)
    The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979 to May 7, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focused on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, a prestigious...

     (1979–1988) (1979-1982 T.A.T. Communications Co., 1982-1986 Embassy Television, 1986-1988 Embassy Communications, and 1988 ELP Communications/Columbia Pictures Television)
  • The Baxters
    The Baxters
    The Baxters is an American situation comedy television series produced by Norman Lear. The series premiered in broadcast syndication in 1979 and lasted two seasons, ending in 1981. The series was the first "interactive" sitcom depicting a middle-class St...

     (1979–1981)
  • Hello, Larry
    Hello, Larry
    Hello, Larry is an American sitcom which aired on NBC from January 26, 1979, to April 30, 1980.-First season:Larry Alder is a radio talk show host who left Los Angeles after being divorced and moved to Portland, Oregon, with his two teenage daughters, Diane and...

     (1979–1980)
  • Palmerstown, USA (1981)
  • Gloria
    Gloria (TV series)
    Gloria is an American situation comedy that lasted one season on CBS, from September 1982 to September 1983. It stars Sally Struthers, reprising her role as Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie Bunker on the hugely successful 1970s sitcom All in the Family...

     (1982–1983)
  • Square Pegs
    Square Pegs
    Square Pegs is an American comedy series that aired on CBS during the 1982–1983 season. The series follows Patty Greene and Lauren Hutchinson , two awkward teenage girls desperate to fit in at Weemawee High School....

     (1982–1983)
  • Silver Spoons
    Silver Spoons
    Silver Spoons is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 25, 1982 to May 11, 1986 and in first-run syndication from September 15, 1986 to March 4, 1987...

     (1982–1987)
  • a.k.a. Pablo
    A.k.a. Pablo
    a.k.a. Pablo is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from March to April 1984.-Synopsis:Produced by Norman Lear, it focuses on struggling Hispanic stand-up comic Paul Rivera and his large Mexican American family, who still called him by his given name Pablo...

     (1984)
  • E/R
    E/R
    E/R is an American television sitcom that aired in 1984 and 1985. Developed from a successful play of the same name, the series was produced by Embassy Television and lasted a single season.-Synopsis:...

     (1984–1985)
  • Who's the Boss?
    Who's the Boss?
    Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, which aired on ABC from September 20, 1984 to April 25, 1992...

     (1983; 1984–1992) (1984-1986 Embassy Television, 1986-1988, and 1988-1992 ELP Communications/Columbia Pictures Television)
  • Double Trouble (1984–1985)
  • It's Your Move
    It's Your Move
    It's Your Move is an American sitcom starring Jason Bateman, Tricia Cast, Caren Kaye, Ernie Sabella, David Garrison, and Garrett Morris. The show originally aired on NBC from 1984 to 1985.-Premise:...

     (1984–1985)
  • 227
    227 (TV series)
    227 is an American situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, until May 6, 1990. The series starred Marla Gibbs as a sharp-tongued, inner-city resident gossip and housewife, Mary Jenkins...

     (1985–1990) (1985-1986 Embassy Television, 1986-1988, and 1988-1990 ELP Communications/Columbia Pictures Television)
  • The Charmings
    The Charmings
    The Charmings is an American fantasy sitcom that aired from March 1987 to February 1988 on ABC.-Synopsis:The opening voice-over set-up the premise:...

     (1987–1988) (co-production with Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc.)
  • Married... with Children
    Married... with Children
    Married... with Children is an American surrealistic sitcom that aired for 11 seasons that featured a dysfunctional family living in Chicago, Illinois. The show, notable for being the first prime time television series to air on Fox, ran from April 5, 1987, to June 9, 1997. The series was created...

     (1987–1997) (1987–1988 Embassy Communications and 1988-1997 ELP Communications/Columbia Pictures Television)
  • The Famous Teddy Z
    The Famous Teddy Z
    The Famous Teddy Z is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the fall of 1989. The series was created by Hugh Wilson and inspired by the true story of Jay Kantor, who was a mailroom clerk at MCA and later became Marlon Brando's agent.-Synopsis:...

     (1989–1990)
  • Live-In
    Live-In
    Live-In is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from March 20, 1989 to May 29, 1989.-Synopsis:The series stars Lisa Patrick as an Australian woman who is hired to live with and take care of the children of the Matthews, a suburban New Jersey family. Kimberley Farr and Hugh Maguire stars as Sarah...

     (1989) (co-production with Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc.)
  • Living Dolls
    Living Dolls
    Living Dolls is an American situation comedy featured on the fall 1989 schedule of ABC. It was a spin-off created by a writer from Who's the Boss? and featuring characters introduced during an episode of that show. The show is notable as the acting debut of Halle Berry...

     (1989)
  • Free Spirit
    Free Spirit (TV series)
    Free Spirit is an American fantasy sitcom series that ran on ABC during the 1989-1990 television season. The series was originally produced by ELP Communications. It ran from September 22, 1989 to January 14, 1990.-Overview:...

     (1989–1990)
  • Married People
    Married People
    Married People is an American television situation comedy that aired on ABC as part of its 1990-91 schedule.-Synopsis:The series follows three couples in different stages of their relationships who lived in the same building in New York City...

     (1990-1991) (co-produced by Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc.)
  • Top of the Heap
    Top of the Heap
    Top of the Heap is a 1991 Fox television sitcom that was spun off from Married... with Children. Though it lasted seven episodes, it was nonetheless the most successful of three attempted Married...With Children spin-offs during the main series' run. The pilot was episode 20 of the 5th season of...

     (1991)
  • Beakman's World
    Beakman's World
    Beakman's World is an educational children's television show produced by ELP Communications, Columbia Pictures Television, Universal Belo Productions, and Columbia TriStar Television Distribution....

     (1992–1998) (In association with Universal Belo Productions)
  • The Powers That Be
    The Powers That Be (TV series)
    The Powers That Be is a United States television sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman that aired briefly on NBC from 1992 to 1993. Norman Lear served as executive producer for the show.-Plot:...

     (1991–1992) (co-produced by ACT III Television and Castle Rock Entertainment)
  • Vinnie and Bobby (1992)
  • Phenom
    Phenom (TV series)
    Phenom is an American sitcom about a tennis wunderkind that aired on ABC from September 14, 1993 to May 10, 1994. The series stars Angela Goethals, Judith Light, and William Devane.-Synopsis:...

     (1993–1994) (co-produced by Gracie Films
    Gracie Films
    Gracie Films is an American film and television production company, created by James L. Brooks in 1986. The company has produced many award-winning films and television series, including Broadcast News, Jerry Maguire, and most notably The Simpsons...

    )
  • 704 Hauser
    704 Hauser
    704 Hauser is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from April to May 1994. A spin-off of All in the Family , the series is built around the concept of an African American family, the Cumberbatches, moving into the former Queens home of Archie Bunker years after Bunker had sold the house...

     (1994) (co-produced with ACT III Communications; pilot only with Castle Rock Entertainment)
  • the Embassy Pictures
    Embassy Pictures
    Embassy Pictures Corporation was an independent studio and distributor responsible for such films as The Graduate, The Lion in Winter, This Is Spinal Tap and Escape from New York.-Founding:The company was founded in 1942 by producer Joseph E...

     theatrical library with few exceptions

Merv Griffin Entertainment
Merv Griffin Entertainment
Merv Griffin Entertainment is a production company founded by entertainer Merv Griffin in December 1995. Its productions include revivals of recent franchises . Griffin's company is part of The Griffin Group...

 

  • The Merv Griffin Show
    The Merv Griffin Show
    The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to September 26, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in...

     (1962–1986) (Distribution only, Griffin's second company Merv Griffin Entertainment
    Merv Griffin Entertainment
    Merv Griffin Entertainment is a production company founded by entertainer Merv Griffin in December 1995. Its productions include revivals of recent franchises . Griffin's company is part of The Griffin Group...

     owns series rights)
  • Let's Play Post Office
    Let's Play Post Office
    Let's Play Post Office was an American game show which aired on NBC from September 27, 1965 to July 1, 1966. Don Morrow was the host, with Bill Wendell and Wayne Howell as announcers...

     (1965–1966)
  • Reach for the Stars
    Reach for the Stars (game show)
    Reach for the Stars was an American game show which briefly aired on NBC weekday mornings at 10:00 beginning January 2, 1967 for a total of 65 episodes...

     (1967)
  • One in a Million (1967)
  • Memory Game
    Memory Game
    Memory Game was a short-lived American television game show that aired on NBC...

     (1971)
  • Dance Fever
    Dance Fever
    Dance Fever is an American musical variety series that aired weekly in syndication from January 1979 to September 1987. The series was created and produced by Merv Griffin and written by Tony Garofalo....

     (1979–1987) (produced by MGP 1979-1984, MGE 1984-1987 and 20th Century Fox Television) (Distribution only, Griffin's second company Merv Griffin Entertainment
    Merv Griffin Entertainment
    Merv Griffin Entertainment is a production company founded by entertainer Merv Griffin in December 1995. Its productions include revivals of recent franchises . Griffin's company is part of The Griffin Group...

     owns series rights)
  • Headline Chasers
    Headline Chasers
    Headline Chasers is a syndicated game show that ran daily from September 9, 1985 to September 5, 1986. The series was created, hosted, and produced by Wink Martindale with Johnny Gilbert as announcer...

     (1985; co-production with Wink Martindale Enterprises and Distributed by King World)
  • Monopoly
    Monopoly (game show)
    Monopoly is an American television game show based on the board game of the same name. It aired on ABC from June 16 to September 1, 1990. Mike Reilly, a former Jeopardy! contestant, hosted while Charlie O'Donnell announced....

     (1990) (with King World Productions)
  • Super Jeopardy! (1990) (co-production with King World Productions)
  • Ruckus
    Ruckus (game show)
    Ruckus is an American game show starring The Amazing Johnathan and shot at Merv Griffin's Resorts in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Assistants on the program were Helen and Charlene. The format has audience members playing games for cash prizes. The most used game on the program was Reach for The...

     (1991–1992) (distributed by King World)
  • Merv Griffin's Crosswords
    Merv Griffin's Crosswords
    Merv Griffin's Crosswords is an American game show based on crossword puzzles. The show was created by its namesake, Merv Griffin, who died shortly after beginning production on the series...

     (2007–2008) (co-handled ad sales with NBC Universal Television Distribution with Yani-Brune Entertainment, distributed by Program Partners)

Four D Productions

  • Barney Miller
    Barney Miller
    Barney Miller is a situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker...

     (1975–1982)
  • Fish
    Fish (TV series)
    Fish was a spin-off television series of the sitcom Barney Miller. It starred Abe Vigoda as New York Police Department Detective Phil Fish and Florence Stanley as his wife Bernice.- Overview :...

     (1977–1978)
  • A.E.S. Hudson Street
    A.E.S. Hudson Street
    A.E.S. Hudson Street is a comedy television show that aired on ABC in 1978. The short-lived series followed the antics of the staff of a run-down Adult Emergency Service hospital on Hudson Street, on the lower west side of Manhattan. It was cancelled after five episodes. -Cast and...

     (1978)

Stephen J. Cannell
Stephen J. Cannell
Stephen Joseph Cannell was an American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor, and the founder of Stephen J. Cannell Productions.-Early life:...

 Productions

  • Hardcastle & McCormick (1983–1986) (U.S. distribution only)
  • Riptide
    Riptide (TV series)
    Riptide is a TV detective series that ran on NBC from 1983 to 1986, starring Perry King, Joe Penny, and Thom Bray. Riptide was created by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell, and produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions. The main theme was composed by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter...

     (1984–1986) (U.S. distribution only)
  • Hunter (1984–1991) (U.S. TV distribution only)

Guber
Peter Guber
Howard Peter Guber is an American film producer and executive and Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment...

-Peters
Jon Peters
Jon Peters is an American movie producer.-Early life:Peters was born John H. Peters in Van Nuys, California, the son of Helen , a receptionist, and Jack Peters, a cook...

 Entertainment Company

  • Quiz Kids Challenge
    Quiz Kids Challenge
    The Quiz Kids Challenge is an American game show series that aired in syndication from September 10 to December 28, 1990. It was a slightly different version of the Quiz Kids, and was hosted by Jonathan Prince and announced by Johnny Gilbert and Charlie Tuna.-Gameplay:A team of three Quiz Kids...

     (1990)

Barris Industries

.
  • The Dating Game
    The Dating Game
    The Dating Game is an ABC television show that first aired on December 20, 1965 and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s...

     (1965–1974, 1978-1980, 1986-1989 (as The All-New Dating Game), and 1996-1999)
  • The Game Game
    The Game Game
    The Game Game was a game show hosted by Jim McKrell. It was packaged by Chuck Barris and aired during the 1969-1970 season; the show was Barris' first syndicated program.-Gameplay:The game involved one contestant and three celebrities...

     (1969)
  • The Gong Show
    The Gong Show
    The Gong Show is an amateur talent contest franchised by Sony Pictures Television to many countries. It was broadcast on NBC's daytime schedule from June 14, 1976 through July 21, 1978, and in first-run syndication from 1976–1980 and 1988–1989. The show was produced by Chuck Barris, who also served...

     (1976–1980 and 1988–1989)
  • The $1.98 Beauty Show (1978)
  • 3's a Crowd
    Three's a Crowd (game show)
    Three's a Crowd was an American game show originally packaged by Chuck Barris Productions. The first version aired in syndication from September 17, 1979 to February 1, 1980...

     (1979)
  • Camouflage (1980)

New World Television

  • Tour of Duty
    Tour of duty
    In the Navy, a tour of duty is a period of time spent performing operational duties at sea, including combat, performing patrol or fleet duties, or assigned to service in a foreign country....

     (1987–1990)
  • Get a Life
    Get a Life (TV series)
    Get a Life is a television sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on the Fox Network from September 23, 1990, to March 8, 1992. The show starred Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy named Chris Peterson. Peterson lived in an apartment above his parents' garage...

     (1990–1992) (continued by TriStar Television 1991-1992)

Barry & Enright Productions
Barry & Enright Productions
Barry & Enright Productions , was a United States television production company that was formed in 1947 by Jack Barry and Dan Enright.-History:Jack Barry and Dan Enright first met at radio station WOR in New York, where...

 

  • Tic-Tac-Dough
    Tic-Tac-Dough
    Tic-Tac-Dough is an American television game show based on the pen-and-paper game of tic-tac-toe. Contestants answer questions in various categories to put up their respective symbol, X or O, on the board. Three versions were produced: the initial 1956–59 run on NBC, a 1978–1986 run initially on...

     (1978–1986)
  • The Joker's Wild
    The Joker's Wild
    The Joker's Wild is an American television game show that aired at different times during the 1970s through the 1990s. Contestants answered questions based on categories that were determined randomly by a mechanism resembling a slot machine....

     (1972–1975, 1977–1986)
  • Bumper Stumpers
    Bumper Stumpers
    Bumper Stumpers is a Canadian game show in which two teams of two players attempted to decipher vanity license plates. It aired on the USA Network in the United States and on the Global Television Network in Canada from June 29, 1987 to December 28, 1990...

     (1987–1990)
  • Chain Letters
    Chain Letters
    Chain Letters was a British television game show produced by Tyne Tees Television. The show was filmed at their City Road studios in Newcastle Upon Tyne and broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom between 7 September 1987 and 25 April 1997. Three contestants competed to win money by changing letters...

     (1987–1997) (1987–1990 Barry & Enright Productions, 1995-1997 Columbia TriStar International Television
    Columbia TriStar International Television
    Columbia TriStar International Television was known as the worldwide television distribution arm of Columbia TriStar Television that was launched in 1995...

    , produced with Tyne Tees and Action Time)

Stewart Tele Enterprises

(Note: Formerly Bob Stewart Productions)
  • Eye Guess
    Eye Guess
    Eye Guess is an American game show that ran from January 3, 1966 to September 26, 1969 on NBC in which two contestants tried to answer questions by remembering the answers hidden on a board , with the winner playing for various prizes including a new car.This was the first game show by Bob Stewart...

    : (1966–1969) (co-produced by Filmways)
  • The Face Is Familiar
    The Face Is Familiar
    The Face Is Familiar is an American game show which aired in color on CBS from May 7 to September 3, 1966. The show was hosted by Jack Whitaker and featured celebrity guests including Bob Crane, Dick Van Patten, Mel Brooks and June Lockhart....

    : (1966) (co-produced by Filmways)
  • Personality
    Personality (TV series)
    Personality is an American game show produced by Bob Stewart and hosted by Larry Blyden which ran on NBC from July 3, 1967 to September 26, 1969 at 11:00 AM, EST.-Gameplay:...

    : (1967–1969) (co-produced by Filmways)
  • Celebrity Doubletalk: (1967 unsold pilot) (co-produced by Filmways)
  • You're Putting Me On
    You're Putting Me On
    You're Putting Me On! was a short-lived Bob Stewart NBC game show in which celebrities tried to communicate the identities of famous people through odd and interesting clues...

    : (1969) (co-produced by Filmways)
  • Second Guessers: (1970 unsold pilot)
  • Three on a Match
    Three on a Match (game show)
    Three on a Match was an American television game show created by Bob Stewart that ran on NBC from August 2, 1971 to June 28, 1974 on its daytime schedule...

    : (1971–1974)
  • Says Who?: (1971 unsold pilot)
  • Monday Night Quarterback: (1971 unsold pilot)
  • The $10,000 Sweep: (1972 unsold pilot)
  • Pyramid
    Pyramid (game show)
    Pyramid is an American television game show which has aired several versions. The original series, The $10,000 Pyramid, debuted March 26, 1973 and spawned seven subsequent Pyramid series...

     (From The $10,000 Pyramid to The $100,000 Pyramid excepting The $50,000 Pyramid, Cullen's The $25,000 Pyramid, and Davidson's The $100,000 Pyramid): (1973–1980, 1982–1988, 1985–1988 and 1991) (with distributed by Viacom 1974-1981 CPM Chicago, New York 1981 Basada, Inc. distributed by 20th Century Fox Television 1985-1988 Carolco Television Productions
    Carolco Pictures
    Carolco Pictures, Inc., Carolco International N.V., or Anabasis Investments was an American independent film production company that, within a decade, went from producing such blockbuster successes as Terminator 2: Judgment Day and the first three movies of the Rambo series to being bankrupted by...

     and distributed by Orbis Communications and Mutlimedia 1991)
  • Jackpot!
    Jackpot (game show)
    Jackpot! is a television game show seen in three different runs between 1974 and 1990. Geoff Edwards hosted the original version of this Bob Stewart production from January 7, 1974 until September 26, 1975 on NBC. A second version, produced in Canada, aired from September 30, 1985 to December 30,...

    : (1974–1975, co-produced by Global Television and USA Network 1985-1988, and co-produced by Sande Stewart and Reeves Entertainment Group 1989-1990)
  • Winning Streak
    Winning Streak (US game show)
    Winning Streak is an American television game show hosted by Bill Cullen and announced by Don Pardo. It aired daily on NBC from July 1, 1974 to January 3, 1975 and was produced at the NBC Studios in New York's Rockefeller Plaza.-Gameplay:...

    : (1974–1975)
  • Blankety Blanks
    Blankety Blanks (US game show)
    Blankety Blanks is an American game show that aired on ABC from April 21 to June 27, 1975. This Bob Stewart Production starred Bill Cullen as its host with Bob Clayton announcing.-Gameplay:...

    : (1975)
  • Caught in the Act: (1975 unsold pilot)
  • The Finish Line: (1975 unsold pilot)
  • Get Rich Quick: (1977 unsold pilot)
  • Shoot for the Stars
    Shoot For The Stars
    Shoot for the Stars is a game show created and produced by Bob Stewart, and aired on the NBC television network. The show aired from January 3 to September 30, 1977, and was produced in New York City...

    : (1977) (a.k.a. Shoot the Works)
  • Pass the Buck
    Pass the Buck (game show)
    Pass the Buck is a game show that aired on CBS television's daytime lineup from April 3 to June 30, 1978. The series was hosted by Bill Cullen and was created by Bob Stewart. Bob Clayton was the announcer.-Gameplay:...

    : (1978–1979)
  • The Riddlers: (1978 unsold pilot)
  • Caught in the Act: (1979 unsold pilot)
  • Punch Lines: (1979 unsold pilot)
  • Chain Reaction
    Chain Reaction (game show)
    Chain Reaction is an American game show created by Bob Stewart, in which players compete to form chains composed of two-word phrases.The show aired three separate runs: Bill Cullen hosted the original series on NBC from January 14 to June 20, 1980...

    : (1980) The New Chain Reaction (co-produced by Champlain Productions and USA Network 1986, co-produced by Sande Stewart with Champlain Productions and USA Network 1987-1991)
  • Strictly Confidential: (1980 unsold pilot)
  • Twisters: (1982 unsold pilot) (co-produced by Sande Stewart)
  • Famous Last Words: (1983 unsold pilot)
  • Go
    Go (game show)
    Go is an American television game show created by Bob Stewart and aired on NBC from October 3, 1983 to January 20, 1984. The show featured two teams, each composed of four contestants and a celebrity. The teams had to construct questions one word at a time to convey a word or phrase to their...

    : (1983–1984) (co-produced by Sande Stewart)
  • $50,000 a Minute: (1985 unsold pilot)
  • Double Talk
    Double Talk
    Double Talk is an American game show that aired on the ABC network in 1986. Henry Polic II hosted this word game created by Bob Stewart, which contained elements of the previous Stewart-produced game show Shoot For the Stars...

    : (1986) (A revival of Shoot for the Stars)
  • Money in the Blank: (1987 unsold pilot)
  • Eye Q: (1988 unsold pilot)
  • The Finish Line: (1990 unsold pilot)

Program Partners

  • Da Vinci's Inquest
    Da Vinci's Inquest
    Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. Seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes....

    /Da Vinci's City Hall
    Da Vinci's City Hall
    Da Vinci's City Hall is a Canadian dramatic television series, which premiered on CBC Television on 25 October 2005. The series was a spinoff of the long-running Canadian series Da Vinci's Inquest...

     (1998-2005 [As "Inquest"]/2005-2006 [As "City Hall"] in Canada; Produced by CBC
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

     and Alliance Atlantis
    Alliance Atlantis
    Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. was a Toronto-based media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operator in Canada. Alliance Atlantis also had offices in Halifax, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Madrid, Barcelona, Shannon and Sydney.Alliance Atlantis was acquired by Canwest...

    . Syndicated in the United States since September 2005. Note that "City Hall" is airing in the US under the "Inquest" title)
  • Cold Squad
    Cold Squad
    Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick .The cast of Cold Squad was...

     (1998-2006 in Canada; US Syndication 2006-)
  • Stone Undercover
    Tom Stone (TV series)
    Tom Stone is a crime drama series that ran in Canada on the CBC for two 13-episode seasons beginning in 2002. In the United States, the series is syndicated by Program Partners and Sony Pictures Television under the title Stone Undercover...

     (2002–2003 in Canada [Under the original title Tom Stone] and produced by the CBC
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

    ; US Syndication 2006-)
  • Degrassi
    Degrassi: The Next Generation
    Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Degrassi is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, and follows The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, and...

     (2000–present, produced in Canada by Epitome Pictures; US Syndication 2007 -)
  • ReGenesis
    ReGenesis
    ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC , a fictional organization with a lab based in Toronto...

     (2004–present in Canada; US Syndication 2007-)
  • Intelligence
    Intelligence (TV series)
    Intelligence is a Vancouver-based television crime drama starring Ian Tracey and Klea Scott that aired on the CBC. With its pilot first airing on November 28, 2005, the series began regular broadcasting on October 10, 2006. CBC reaired the pilot on June 7, 2007 and began broadcasting reruns of...

     (2006–present in Canada, produced by the CBC
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

    ; US syndication September 2007–present)
  • The Listener
    The Listener (TV series)
    The Listener is a Canadian science fiction drama set in Toronto about a young paramedic named Toby Logan with the ability to listen to people's minds. The series premiered on Fox International Channels beginning with the Arabic-speaking area of northern Africa and south-western Asia on March 1, 2009...

     (Produced by Shaftesbury Films
    Shaftesbury Films
    Shaftesbury Films is a Canadian film and television production company founded by Christina Jennings and is based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1987, Shaftesbury is a leading creator and producer of original content for television and multiple platforms, with programming available in more than...

     for CTV
    CTV television network
    CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...

    ; 2009–present)
  • Family Court With Judge Penny
    Family Court With Judge Penny
    Family Court with Judge Penny is a syndicated judicial show hosted by former judge and lawyer Penny Brown Reynolds. The half-hour program premiered September 8, 2008. It is produced by 44 Blue Productions and distributed by Program Partners in the United States and Canada and being shown on Pick TV...

     (co-produced with 44 Blue Productions; September 2008-2009)
  • Marie (Was planned for Fall 2009, but was canceled before it went into production)

2waytraffic

  • Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
    Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
    Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers large cash prizes for correctly answering a series of multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. The format is owned and licensed by Sony Pictures Television International. The maximum cash prize is one million pounds...

     (UK Version, 1998-Present)
  • Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
    Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (US game show)
    Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is an American television quiz show which offers a maximum prize of $1,000,000 for correctly answering 14 consecutive multiple-choice questions of random difficulty. Until 2010, the format required contestants to correctly answer 15 consecutive questions of increasing...

     (American Version, 1999-Present) (1999-2007 Celador International 2007–present 2waytraffic) (Owner of the program) (co-produced with Valleycrest Productions, distributed by Buena Vista Television 2002-2007, Disney-ABC Domestic Television 2007–Present)
  • Winning Lines
    Winning Lines
    Winning Lines was a National Lottery game show produced by Celador that ran on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 12 June 1999 to 16 October 2004. It was originally hosted by Simon Mayo from 1999 to 2000, then Phillip Schofield from 2001 to 2004....

     (1999-2004)
  • The People Versus
    The People Versus
    The People Versus is a television game show which aired on ITV from 2000 to 2002 in the United Kingdom. Kirsty Young hosted the program for the primetime series and Kaye Adams hosted the program for the daytime series. The show was radical in terms of the two changes of versions. The second version...

     (2000-2002)
  • Brainiest
    Britain's Brainiest Kid
    Britain's Brainiest Kid was a British television quiz show produced by Celador, which originally aired in a one-off special format on ITV on August 9, 2001, hosted by Carol Vorderman...

     (2001-2002)
  • Grand Slam
    Grand Slam (TV Series)
    Grand Slam is a television quiz show first created for Britain's Channel 4 in 2003. In its first and only series in the UK, the main host was Carol Vorderman. She was joined in the studio by analyst James Richardson...

     (2003)
  • You Are What You Eat (2004-2007, 2009-Present)
  • That's the Question
    That's the Question
    That's the Question is an American quiz game show on GSN hosted by Bob Goen which aired from October 2, 2006 to December 1, 2007. The first season was shot in the Netherlands with Canadians and Americans who live there as contestants. The second season was filmed in Los Angeles aired on September...

     (2006–2007) (co-produced by Scott Sternberg Productions)
  • Take It Or Leave It
    Take It Or Leave It (game show)
    Take It or Leave It? was a British game show, developed by Dutch format company Intellygents, that aired on the digital channel Challenge. Challenge tends to air repeats of classic game shows that have been commissioned by other broadcasters, but it is rare that they produce original content...

     (2006-2008)
  • Last One Standing
    Last Man Standing (UK TV series)
    Last Man Standing and latterly Last Woman Standing is a BBC reality TV show that was first aired on 26 June 2007...

     (2007-2008)
  • All-Star Mr. & Mrs.
    Mr. and Mrs.
    Mr. & Mrs. is a television show that originated in Canada in 1963, debuting in Britain shortly afterwards. The Canadian version was produced at CFTO-TV in Toronto and ran on the CTV network for 780 episodes, and was hosted by Roy Ward Dickson, who was also the show's creator...

     (2008-2010)
  • Pyramid
    Pyramid (game show)
    Pyramid is an American television game show which has aired several versions. The original series, The $10,000 Pyramid, debuted March 26, 1973 and spawned seven subsequent Pyramid series...

     (Australian version) (September 1, 2009-Present)

Others

  • Doctor Doctor (1989–1991) (produced by Reeves Entertainment Group
    Alan Landsburg Productions
    Alan Landsburg Productions was an independent TV production company founded by Alan Landsburg in 1971. The company had huge successes with In Search of... and That's Incredible!, which were two early examples of reality television long before the name even existed...

    , distributor only)
  • Voltron
    Voltron
    Voltron is the titular super robot of an anime series that features a team of young pilots, known as the Voltron Force. The team’s individual vehicles join together to form the giant super robot, with which they defend the galaxy from evil...

     (1984–1985) (produced by World Events Productions
    World Events Productions
    World Events Productions is an American-based animation and distribution company in St. Louis, Missouri, best known for releasing the anime titles Voltron, Defender of the Universe and Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs, as well as producing the original animated series Denver, the Last...

    , distributor only)

Television channels

Sony Pictures Television is part owner of GSN
Game Show Network
The Game Show Network is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite channel dedicated to game shows and casino game shows. The channel was launched on December 1, 1994. Its current slogan is "The World Needs More Winners"...

 and video on demand
Video on demand
Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...

 service Fearnet
FEARnet
Fearnet is a cable channel, website and Video on Demand television service owned by Horror Entertainment LLC, a joint venture between Comcast, Lions Gate Entertainment, and Sony Pictures Entertainment...

. They have launched two new channels: Sony Movie Channel
Sony Movie Channel
Sony Movie Channel is an American television channel that was launched on October 1, 2010. It's wholly owned by Sony Pictures Television and features movies from the Sony Pictures Entertainment library - uncut, commercial-free, and remastered in 1080i high definition...

 on October 1, 2010 and a linear version of FEARnet known as FEARnet HD on October 31, 2010. Sony has also launched a 4th network called 3net
3net
3net is a 3D television channel that launched on February 13, 2011. It is a joint venture of Discovery Communications, Sony, and IMAX. The partnership was announced in June of 2010 and the channel was previewed publicly at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show...

, a 3-D television network jointly owned along with Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications, Inc. is an American global media and entertainment company. The company started as a single channel in 1985, The Discovery Channel. Today, DCI has global operations offering 28 network entertainment brands on more than 100 channels in more than 180 countries in 39...

 and IMAX
IMAX
IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...

.

American shows whose US rights are owned by other companies

The following shows are all distributed by SPT outside of the US
  • Can't Hurry Love
    Can't Hurry Love
    Can't Hurry Love is a US sitcom that ran for less than five months between September 1995 and February 1996.The show starred Nancy McKeon as a 20-something placement coordinator at a New York City personnel agency. McKeon plays Annie O'Donnell, a single career woman living in New York City and...

     (1995-1996, distributed by CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

     in USA)
  • Early Edition
    Early Edition
    Early Edition is an American television series that aired on CBS from September 28, 1996 to May 27, 2000. Set in the city of Chicago, Illinois, it follows the adventures of a man who mysteriously receives each Chicago Sun-Times newspaper the day before it is actually published, and who uses this...

     (1996-2000, distributed by CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

     in USA)
  • US version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
    Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (US game show)
    Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is an American television quiz show which offers a maximum prize of $1,000,000 for correctly answering 14 consecutive multiple-choice questions of random difficulty. Until 2010, the format required contestants to correctly answer 15 consecutive questions of increasing...

     (1999-present, distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television in USA)
  • The Guardian
    The Guardian (TV series)
    The Guardian is an American drama series which aired on CBS from September 25, 2001 to May 4, 2004. It is currently showing in re-runs on the Sleuth Channel in the US. The Guardian has also aired in the United Kingdom on the Hallmark Channel, ABC1 and more recently five USA and as of August...

     (2001-2004, distributed by CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

     in USA)
  • Alienators: Evolution Continues
    Alienators: Evolution Continues
    Alienators: Evolution Continues is a traditionally animated series based on the moderately successful live-action feature film, Evolution.-Premise:...

     (2001-02, owned by DreamWorks Animation
    DreamWorks Animation
    DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. is an American animation studio based in Glendale, California that creates animated feature films, television program and online virtual worlds...

     in USA)
  • Joan of Arcadia
    Joan of Arcadia
    Joan of Arcadia is an American television fantasy/family drama telling the story of teenager Joan Girardi , who sees and speaks with God and performs tasks she is given. The series originally aired on Fridays, 8-9 p.m...

     (2003-2005, distributed by CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

     in USA)
  • The Book of Daniel (2006, distributed by NBCUniversal Television Distribution in USA)
  • Love Monkey
    Love Monkey
    Love Monkey is a television series created by Michael Rauch and based on a book of the same name, by Kyle Smith. It starred Tom Cavanagh as a 30-something, single, record executive who navigated the tumultuous and highly amusing waters of work and dating in New York City.Its first episode aired on...

     (2006, distributed by CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

     in USA)
  • The Tudors
    The Tudors
    The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...

     (2007-2010, owned by Showtime Entertainment in USA and Peace Arch Entertainment in Canada)
  • Viva Laughlin
    Viva Laughlin
    Viva Laughlin is an American musical–dramedy series adapted by Bob Lowry and Peter Bowker from the popular BBC British serial, Blackpool. They also served as executive producers alongside Hugh Jackman, John Palermo, Paul Telegdy and Gabriele Muccino. The latter also directed the pilot...

     (2007, distributed by CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution
    CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

     in USA)
  • Sit Down, Shut Up (2009, distributed by 20th Television
    20th Television
    20th Television is an American television production and syndication company that was formed in 1992 by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, a division of the Fox Entertainment Group, part of News Corporation....

    in USA)

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