Television production companies

ABC Circle Films was the ABC film and TV production division. It was well known for producing many TV shows such as Moonlighting and America's Funniest Home Videos. When The Walt Disney Company purchased ABC in 1996, it was absorbed by its Touchstone Picture holding, through their Touchstone Television subsidiary. ...more on Wikipedia about "ABC Circle Films"

ABC Entertainment is a network production company owned by The Walt Disney Company and ABC. It produced shows like America's Funniest Home Videos, America's Funniest People, and H.E.L.P.. The company was originally known as ABC Circle Films, and later ABC Productions. ...more on Wikipedia about "ABC Entertainment"

Baby Cow Productions Ltd are a UK comedy television production company established in 1999 by Steve Coogan and Henry Normal. It has since diversified into radio, animation and film. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baby Cow Productions"

Bad Robot Productions is a production company owned by J.J. Abrams. It is responsible for the productions of the 2001 film Joyride and for the television series Alias and Lost. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bad Robot Production"

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which began in 1936. The British Broadcasting Corporation has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. ...more on Wikipedia about "BBC Television"

Big Ticket Entertainment is a production company that is a unit of Paramount Pictures, a Viacom Company. ...more on Wikipedia about "Big Ticket Entertainment"

Brightlight Pictures Inc. is a Canadian film production and television production company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The company was founded in 2001. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brightlight Pictures"

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Cactus TV specialises in broad based Entertainment, Features and Chat Shows. Since the company's inception in 1994 Cactus has produced 37 distinct titles in the UK, for 9 different channels, in the last year alone almost 300 hours were broadcast. The company’s format catalogue is based on the creative talents of its Managing Directors Simon and Amanda Ross. Cactus proudest achievements include producing the highest rated entertainment show on ITV for three years running and winning one of Channel 4’s biggest ever commissions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cactus Television"

Founded by Brian Eastman in 1978 as Picture Partnership Productions Limited, Carnival Films swiftly built up a strong reputation as an independent production company. It has produced shows such as Jeeves and Wooster, Poirot, and Traffik. The company was also responsible for Richard Attenborough's critically acclaimed Shadowlands starring Anthony Hopkins. Its offices are now situated in Ladbroke Grove, where it continues to produce less critically acclaimed but popular shows such as BUGS and the Rosemary and Thyme. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carnival Films"

Carsey-Werner Productions (in some incarnations, Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Productions) is an independent production company founded in 1981 by former ABC writer/producer duo Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner (co-owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball franchise). Caryn Mandabach was made a partner in the firm in 2001 (she joined in 1984), but left in 2004 to embark on her own production deal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carsey-Werner Productions"

CBS Paramount Television (reincorporated from Desilu Productions) (a.k.a. Paramount Television, Paramount Network Television and Paramount Domestic Television) is an American television production/distribution company that was launched in 1967. ...more on Wikipedia about "CBS Paramount Television"

Celador is an independent production company formed in 1983. It has produced a number of popular light entertainment shows, but is probably best known for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. ...more on Wikipedia about "Celador"

Cinema Verity is a British independent television and film production company, founded in 1986 by Verity Lambert, the television producer, who named the company after herself and as a pun on the expression ' cinéma vérité'. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cinema Verity"

Claster Television was a Baltimore, Maryland–based television distributor founded in 1953 by Bert and Nancy Claster as Romper Room Inc. It was originally a producer of the children's show Romper Room. Romper Room was one of the first children's programs, predating Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, Sesame Street, and Barney and Friends. ...more on Wikipedia about "Claster Television" Go crack a www.shortopedia.com!

Clerkenwell Films is a British television production company, which has produced several drama programmes for the ITV network in the United Kingdom. Co-founded by the actor John Hannah, notable programmes produced by the company have included the initial adaptations of the Rebus novels (initially starring Hannah, before the Scottish Media Group took the rights to produce the series in-house and replaced Hannah with Ken Stott) and the supernatural thriller Afterlife. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clerkenwell Films"

Columbia TriStar Television is the third name of the television studio Screen Gems, adopted with the Columbia-TriStar merger of 1992 and last used in 2002, but might still be in operation on Dragon Tales and InuYasha. Columbia TriStar Television was launched in 1994 as a joint venture between Columbia Pictures Television and TriStar Television. CTT also has the production rights to Merv Griffin's Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, as well as shows from ELP Communications, which include Married... with Children and Beakman's World. Its global subsidiary Columbia TriStar International Television, distributes Sony's programs across the globe. Its US distribution arm Columbia TriStar Television Distribution was launched in 1995 to distribute Sony's classic programs all across America and to produce and distribute their own programs as well as movies on TV. In 1996, CTT launched their own animation division, Columbia TriStar Children's Television. The name was changed in 1997 to Adelaide Productions. CTT also acquired Chuck Barris Productions and a revival of his game show, The Newlywed Game that same year. In 1998, the Columbia TriStar Television Group celebrated 50 years of televised entertainment and television distribution since the re-formation of Screen Gems as the television subsidiary of Columbia Pictures Corporation in 1948. ELP Communications was folded into CTT that same year after the cancellation of Beakman's World. In 1999, TriStar TV was folded into CTT after Mad About You and The Nanny ended, but the TriStar name was kept in the closing credits of Early Edition and Malcolm & Eddie until both shows were cancelled in 2000. CTTD launched Screen Gems Network, the first broadcasted program airing classic shows from Columbia Pictures Television that same year. In 2001, CPT was folded into CTT, but CTT kept the CPT Holdings name on The Young and the Restless. The name suddenly became Columbia TriStar Domestic Television that same year. In 2002, Bob Stewart sold his company to CTDT and a revival of his game show Pyramid. Around September, Sony Pictures Entertainment decided to retire the Columbia TriStar name brand and by using the name Sony Pictures for Sony Pictures Television as well as Sony Pictures Television International. ...more on Wikipedia about "Columbia TriStar Television"

Company Pictures is an independent British television production company which has produced drama programming for many broadcasters. Amongst their highest-profile productions have been the comedy drama Shameless ( 2004-date) for Channel 4, the adaptation of Jonathan Coe's novel The Rotters' Club ( 2005) for BBC Two, and the television movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers for BBC Films and HBO. ...more on Wikipedia about "Company Pictures"

Conker Media is a development and production division of Mersey Television. ...more on Wikipedia about "Conker Media"

Crawford Productions is an Australian television production company founded by Hector Crawford. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crawford Productions"

Desilu Productions was a company jointly owned by American actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. It was home to such television series as Star Trek, The Andy Griffith Show, Mission: Impossible, The Untouchables, Mannix, The Lucy Show, and of course, I Love Lucy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Desilu Productions"

Dick Clark Productions is an entertainment production company founded by entertainer Dick Clark. Since its inception in 1957, the company has produced a number of television series, specials and televised movies. Such programs include American Bandstand, TV Bloopers & Practical Jokes and the NBC series American Dreams (which includes classic footage from American Bandstand). Its work also includes such specials as the American Music Awards, the Golden Globe Awards and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve. The company owns Dick Clark's American Bandstand restaurant in the Kansas City, Missouri suburb of Overland Park, Kansas, and four similarly named restaurants in airport terminals in Indianapolis, Indiana, Newark, New Jersey, Phoenix, Arizona, and Salt Lake City, Utah. The company's headquarters is located in Burbank, California. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dick Clark Productions"

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EMI Films is a British film and television production company and distributor. The company was formed after the take over of Associated British Pictures in 1968 by EMI. ...more on Wikipedia about "EMI Films"

Endemol is a television production company based in the Netherlands. It was founded by a merger of television production companies owned by John de Mol and Joop van den Ende, the name deriving from the combination of their surnames. Its biggest success has been the Big Brother " reality television" show, with versions in many countries after the initial Dutch version. They specialise in inexpensive programming that is appealing to television executives in the modern multi-channel world, and other Endemol programmes in this vein include Changing Rooms, Ready Steady Cook, Deal or No Deal, Ground Force, International King of Sports, Space Cadets and Fear Factor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Endemol"

Euston Films was a British film and television production company. It was a subsidiary company of Thames Television, and operated from the 1970s to the 1990s, producing various series for Thames, which were screened nationally on the ITV network. The most famous Euston Films productions include Van der Valk ( 1972), The Sweeney ( 1975- 78), Minder ( 1979- 1994) and Quatermass (1979). The Sweeney series had two feature film spin-offs, Sweeney and Sweeney 2, which were also produced by Euston. ...more on Wikipedia about "Euston Films"

Filmways Inc. was a television and film production company founded by American film executive Martin Ransohoff in 1960. It is probably best-known as the production company of CBS's " rural comedies" of the 1960s, including The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres. Ransohoff left the company in 1972. Around this time Filmways acquired the Heatter-Quigley production company ( Hollywood Squares), animation studio Ruby-Spears Productions in 1978, book publisher Grosset & Dunlap, and American International Pictures in 1979. In 1983 Filmways was acquired in a merger with Orion Pictures Corporation. Today, most of the Filmways library is owned by MGM (successor-in-interest to Orion). ...more on Wikipedia about "Filmways, Inc."

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