Division | |
Industry |
Television production Television syndication |
Predecessor |
Columbia Pictures Television (1974–2001) Columbia TriStar Domestic Television (2001–2002) |
Founded | September 16, 2002 |
Headquarters | Culver City, California, United States |
Area served
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Worldwide |
Key people
|
Jamie Erlicht (President) Zack van Amburg (President) |
Owner | Sony |
Parent | Sony Pictures Entertainment |
Divisions |
Adelaide Productions CPT Holdings Electric Ray Fable Pictures Huaso Stellify Media TriStar Productions TriStar Television |
Subsidiaries |
2waytraffic Blueprint Pictures Califon Productions CSC Media Group Embassy Row Floresta Jeopardy Productions Lean-M Left Bank Pictures Palladium Fiction Playmaker Media Starling Teleset |
Website | SPT Website |
Sony Pictures Television (abbreviated as SPT) is an American television production and distribution studio. Based in Culver City, California, it is a division of Sony Pictures and a unit of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.
In addition to the Sony Pictures Entertainment film library, SPT owns and distributes shows from Tandem Productions, ELP Communications, TeleVentures, Merv Griffin Enterprises, Four D Productions, Barris Industries, Barry & Enright Productions, Stewart Television, and 2waytraffic. It is a joint owner of Game Show Network with the AT&T Entertainment Group, owns the Crackle digital service, and jointly owns the rights to most of the post-1947 Bob Hope film library with FremantleMedia North America.
SPT owns production or distribution rights in many comedies and dramas spanning over six decades, including titles like I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Gidget, The Monkees, the 1959 Dennis the Menace series, Who's the Boss?, Married... with Children, Designing Women,Seinfeld, The King of Queens, Community, Rules of Engagement, Breaking Bad and The Blacklist. The company also produces Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, the two longest-running and highest-rated game shows in syndication; two daytime talk shows, The Dr. Oz Show and The Queen Latifah Show; the reality shows Shark Tank and The Sing-Off; and two long-running soap operas, NBC's Days of Our Lives and CBS's The Young and the Restless.