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Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. Company type: Division: Industry: Television production Broadcast syndication: Predecessors: Screen Gems (1947–1974) Columbia Pictures Television (1974–2001) TriStar Television (1986–1988, 1991–1999) Founded: February 21, 1994; 30 years ago () Defunct: September 16, 2002; 21 years ago () Fate
- September 16, 2002; 21 years ago
- Television production, Broadcast syndication
- February 21, 1994; 29 years ago
After a purchase by Sony Pictures Entertainment, both companies Columbia Pictures Television and TriStar Television merged and formed Columbia TriStar Television on February 21, 1994. The television studio was relaunched twice and is currently a specialty label for Sony Pictures Television.
TitleYearsNetworkNotes2023Co-production with Afternoon Nap ...2022–2023Co-production with Lord Miller ...2019Co-production with Smoke House Pictures, ...2016–2017Co-production with Kippster ...- January 4, 1988; 35 years ago (original), June 1999; 24 years ago (first relaunch)
- Sony Pictures Television
Columbia TriStar Television. Founded: February 21, 1994 (30 years ago) Predecessors: Columbia Pictures Television. Founder: Ralph Cohn. Key People: Jeff Frost. Chris Parnell. Jason Clodfelter. Defunct: September 16, 2002 (21 years ago) Fate: Rebranded as Sony Pictures Television. Successors: Sony Pictures Television. Location: United States.
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Screen Gems
Screen Gems was a television production company that was owned by Columbia Pictures from 1948 to May 6, 1974, best known for shows like Bewitched, The Partridge Family and I Dream of Jeannie. It was one of the largest television producers in history, and it was around that time, one of the few TV subsidiaries of a major movie studio that didn't carry the film studio's name. It was highly profitable until 1974, when it was changed its name to Columbia Pictures Television.
Re-incorporation as CPT and early years
The studio changed its name from Screen Gems to Columbia Pictures Television on May 6, 1974, and was suggested by David Gerber, who was producer on such CPT/Screen Gems shows, and now executive vice president of the studio, displacing Art Frankel when he was at Screen Gems. He announced plans to launch a separate unit to concentrate on movie-of-the-week titles. John H. Mitchell, who was president of the studio since 1958 when the studio was Screen Gems, said that they would take the division...
The Coca-Cola Years
The 1980s brought significant changes to CPT. On June 22, 1982, beverage company The Coca-Cola Company bought Columbia Pictures for $750 million. In 1983, Coca-Cola formed CPT Holdings and demerged CPT from Columbia Pictures Industries in 1984 and transferred CPT to CPT Holdings. In 1983, actress Suzanne Somers through Hamel/Somers Productions had signed a deal with the studio. Also that same year that producer Roy Huggins struck a deal with the studio. Also that year, Columbia Pictures Telev...
Bibliography
1. Perry, Jeb H. (1991). Screen Gems: A History of Columbia Pictures Television from Cohn to Coke, 1948-1983. ISBN 0-8108-2487-6.
- January 1, 2001; 22 years ago
- May 6, 1974; 49 years ago Burbank, California, United States
Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. was an American television production and distribution company that was active from 1994 to 2002. It was operated as the third name of the early television studio Screen Gems and the fourth name of Pioneer Telefilms, both part of Sony Pictures Entertainment and the third company to use the Columbia and TriStar ...
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Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. (abbreviated as CTT) was an American television production and distribution company that was active from 1994 to 2002.
On February 21, 1994, TriStar Television merged with Columbia Pictures Television and became Columbia TriStar Television. Both studios still produced its series independently, but in 1999, TriStar Television was folded into CTT before The Nanny and Mad About You ended on CBS & NBC, but kept its name in credit until 2000 on Early Edition.
