Desilu Productions
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| Fate | Purchased by Gulf + Western and renamed Paramount Television |
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| Successors |
Paramount Television CBS Lucille Ball Productions Desilu Too Desilu Corporation |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Founder |
Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz |
| Defunct | December 31, 1967 |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, United States |
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Area served
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United States |
| Products | Television Production |
| Parent | CBS Corporation |
| Divisions | Desilu Movies |
Desilu Productions (/ˈdɛsiːluː/) was an American television production company co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, best known for shows such as I Love Lucy, Star Trek, and The Untouchables. Until 1962, Desilu was the second-largest independent television production company in the U.S. behind MCA's Revue Productions until MCA bought Universal Pictures, and Desilu became and remained the number-one independent production company until being sold in 1967. Ball and Arnaz jointly owned the majority stake in Desilu from its inception until 1962, when Ball bought Arnaz out and ran the company by herself for several years. Ball had succeeded in making Desilu profitable again by 1967, when she sold her shares of Desilu to Gulf+Western / Paramount Studios for $17 million. After the sale, company officials renamed it Paramount Television.
Its entire library is currently owned by CBS Television Studios. The pre-1960 library is copyrighted to CBS Broadcasting, Inc., while CBS Studios, Inc. holds the copyrights to the 1960s library (previously copyrighted by Paramount Pictures Corporation).
In 2016, The Hensley Group acquired the Desilu brand and controls Desilu Corporation, the parent to Desilu Studios, Desilu Motion Pictures and Desilu Television.
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