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- The company is still alive and is currently running by Cannell's family after Cannell's death on September 30, 2010, though Cannell worked as a novelist the remaind er of his life and served as a creative consultant for the 2010 film, The A-Team with 20th Century Fox, and the final film with Cannell's name on the 2011 film, 21 Jump Street, and was released by Columbia Pictures.
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The in-credit text of Cannell Entertainment is extinct and was seen on TV movies such as Living a Lie and Highway Heartbreaker. The in-credit logos of Stephen J. Cannell Productions are also extinct and were seen on the pilot and early episodes of Caesar's Challenge.
- Overview
- 1st Logo (1976-April 15, 1981, 1982)
- 2nd Logo (March 18, 1981-April 18, 1999, 2004, October 11, 2010)
- 3rd Logo (1991-January 14, 1994)
In Loving Memory of Stephen J. Cannell (1941-2010) -- May you finally rest in peace.
Background: Cannell Entertainment, Inc. (also known as "The Cannell Studios" and formerly "Stephen J. Cannell Productions") was originally started in 1979 by the late writer Stephen J. Cannell after leaving Universal Studios. He was an author and a producer for most shows. In 1986, Cannell with Tri-Star Pictures and Witt/Harris Productions created a joint venture distribution called "TeleVentures". On July 11, 1990, Cannell and Tri-Star dissolved TeleVentures and was sold to Cannell and was renamed "Cannell Distribution Co." and Stephen J. Cannell Productions, Inc. was renamed to "Cannell Entertainment, Inc". In 1995, Cannell Entertainment was acquired by New World Communications for $30 million and folded Cannell Distribution Co. into New World Entertainment, and on January 22, 1997, New World was acquired by News Corporation. However in 1998, Cannell re-acquired his library from News Corporation including an 8% distribution fee. The company is still alive and is currently running by Cannell's family after Cannell's death on September 30, 2010, though Cannell worked as a novelist the remainder of his life and served as a creative consultant for the 2010 film, The A-Team with 20th Century Fox, and the final film with Cannell's name, the 2012 film, 21 Jump Street, which was released by Columbia Pictures. The logo was last used on an original series in 1999, when Silk Stalkings ended its long run on the USA Network. Though News Corporation owned Cannell Entertainment at the time of Cannell's death, Cannell owned most of his library with the exceptions of The A-Team, Stone, The Duke, and Black Sheep Squadron (owned by NBCUniversal), Hardcastle & McCormick and Riptide (owned by Sony Pictures Television in the U.S. only). On January 24, 2006, The Carsey-Werner Company acquired distribution rights to Cannell's library with the exception of those owned or distributed by major television studios. Shout! Factory currently own domestic and international rights to Cannell's solo-produced series.
Logo: Just an in-credit text saying: "A STEPHEN J. CANNELL PRODUCTION". A copyright stamp is sometimes seen below in the early 1980s.
FX/SFX: None or the scrolling of the credits.
Music/Sounds: The end theme of the show.
Availability: Rare. Was seen on Black Sheep Squadron, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Richie Brockelman, Private Eye, the 1981 TV movie Midnight Offerings, and The Greatest American Hero season 1 episode "Reseda Rose", among others. DVDs of these programs (where available) should retain this logo.
Nicknames: "Guy on Typewriter", "Cannell", "The Angry Typewriter Man!", "Mr. Cannell and His Typewriter", "He just can't get this page right..."
Logo: A live-action man (the late Stephen J. Cannell himself) with a pompadour and a beard is typing on an IBM Selectric typewriter in an office/study area with bookshelves and awards galore. The camera then pans clockwise from his face to his back. Once the camera is towards Cannell's back, he throws the paper he is typing on over his head. The paper became animated on a black background, and floats downwards towards a stack of animated papers below. The paper scoops up the top papers in the stack and forms a "C" as the stack became more abstract and the perspective becomes a top-down perspective. The text "Stephen J. Cannell Productions (Inc.)", "A Stephen J. Cannell Production", or "Cannell Entertainment, Inc.", with "Production/Productions (Inc.)/(Inc.)" sliding out from below the company name, is formed above. Cannell appears wearing any of the following outfits:
•March 18, 1981-December 11, 1983: A dark colored sweater with white collar shirt, plus he is smoking his pipe. This was the first of two logos to feature Cannell smoking his pipe.
•December 13, 1983-March 20, 1984: A blue jean jacket and white flannel shirt over a black turtleneck, plus he is smoking his pipe. This is the last logo to feature Cannell smoking his pipe before it was dropped in 1984.
•March 25, 1984-December 31, 1984: A black jacket and dark colored sweater over white collar shirt.
•December 11, 1984-December 26, 1987: A white and gray striped flannel shirt.
Nicknames: "3D Cannell", "The Cannell Studios"
Logo: On a boysenberry-colored marble background, we see a 3D "silvery" version of the "C" from which we zoom out, along with the 3D text "THE CANNELL STUDIOS" in Times New Roman font tilted at a 90-degree angle, then does a 90-degree turn to face us while the "C" takes its position below the Cannell text. Once the text and the "C" go into their above and below positions, respectively, the "C" quickly flashes, turning everything into 2D. A copyright notice for Stephen J. Cannell Productions, Inc. fades in below the logo after the animation is all done.
FX/SFX: The "C" and text zooming out, and the copyright notice fading in.
Music/Sounds: A dramatic synthesizer tune.
2 days ago · Background. Cannell Entertainment, Inc. (also known as The Cannell Studios and formerly Stephen J. Cannell Productions) was originally started in 1979 by writer Stephen J. Cannell after leaving Universal Studios. He was a writer and producer for most shows. In 1986, Cannell with Tri-Star Pictures and Witt/Harris Productions created a joint ...
Stephen Joseph Cannell ( / ˈkænəl /; February 5, 1941 – September 30, 2010) was an American television producer, writer, novelist, occasional actor, and founder of Cannell Entertainment (formerly Stephen J. Cannell Productions) and The Cannell Studios. After starting his career as a television screenwriter, Cannell created or co-created ...
Oct 1, 2010 · He worked for Jack Webb Productions as a story editor on Adam-12. In 1974 NBC greenlit The Rockford Files (co-created with Roy Huggins), and soon thereafter, Stephen J. Cannell became his own boss ...
Oct 12, 2010 · Oct 12, 2010. For any of us who have enjoyed TV since the 1970s, part of what we enjoyed was the work of Stephen J. Cannell, who died on Sept. 30–much too young at 69–of complications from...
Oct 1, 2010 · By the early 1990s, Cannell Entertainment had diversified into owning a handful of TV stations and a majority stake in the North Shore studio facility in Vancouver, British Columbia. Cannell was ...
