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Headquartered at the former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (now Sony Pictures Studios) in Culver City, California, its assets included television production and syndication (which operated under the Lorimar-Telepictures name), feature films, home video, and broadcasting.
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Lorimar's distribution business was folded into Warner Bros. Television Distribution and became Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution; since then, the Telepictures name has been resurrected as both a production company (circa 1990), and once again as a syndication company (1995).
Lorimar-Telepictures Corporation (or simply "Lorimar-Telepictures") was officially formed on April 21, 1986 by the merger of Lorimar Productions and Telepictures Corporation, after it was announced on October 7, 1985 by Lorimar chairman Merv Adelson.
In 1987, Lorimar-Telepictures' television production companies split back in two companies and Lorimar Productions was reincorporated as Lorimar Television, but Lorimar-Telepictures remained as the name for their parent company.
Their first production was the TV movie The Homecoming (now owned by CBS Studios), based on the book by Earl Hamner. Their first logo did not appear until 1971 when The Waltons premiered. On April 21, 1986, it merged with Telepictures Corporation and later became Lorimar-Telepictures Corporation (or just simply Lorimar-Telepictures).
Jan 9, 2014 · THR connected with more than a dozen Lorimar alumni (the voice of Rich, who died in 2012, is drawn from an Archive of American Television interviews) to go behind the scenes of a TV...
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Apr 10, 1988 · Even before the merger, Lorimar was the biggest supplier of shows to the networks, while Telepictures was the biggest supplier of first-run syndicated shows--that is, shows sold directly to ...
