Touchstone Television
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| ABC Studios | |
| Industry | Television production |
| Founded | 1985 (as Touchstone Television) |
| Headquarters | Burbank, California, U.S. |
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Key people
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Disney–ABC Television Group (The Walt Disney Company) |
| Website | abcstudiosmedianet |
| ABC Signature | |
| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Filmed entertainment |
| Founded | October 2012 |
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Key people
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Tracy Underwood |
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Production output
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Cable show programs |
| Parent | ABC Studios (ABC Entertainment Group) |
| Website | www |
Touchstone Television Productions, LLC (dba ABC Studios), is the television production division of Disney–ABC Television Group. ABC Studios was established as Touchstone Films Television Division in 1985 and given its current name in 2007.
Touchstone Television was started by then new Disney CEO Michael Eisner in the 1984–85 television season with the short lived western, Wildside. The next TV season, Touchstone produced a hit with The Golden Girls.
Walt Disney Television and Touchstone Television were grouped together under Garth Ancier as president of network television for Walt Disney Studios on April 18, 1989.
In 1992, Touchstone moved into producing longer forms for TV focusing on more adult fare with its first telefilm being for CBS about Edna Buchanan, a Miami Herald crime reporter who would win a Pulitzer Prize.
On August 24, 1994, with Jeffrey Katzenberg's resignation, Richard Frank became head of Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications, a new Disney group taking Touchstone and other TV units out of Disney Studios.
In April 1996, due to ongoing post Disney-CC/ABC merger realignment and retirement of its president, Disney Television and Telecommunications Group's divisions were reassigned to other groups with Touchstone Television transferred to The Walt Disney Studios. By March 1998, David Neuman assumed the presidency of Touchstone TV. In March 1998, Touchstone was placed under Buena Vista Television Productions, a newly formed group under chairman Lloyd Braun, along with Walt Disney Network Television.
In 2000, Touchstone created two departments with comedy in September, and a drama department in December. While two of their pilots were in consideration for pick up on ABC in April 2003, Tollin/Robbins Productions agreed to a two-year development deal, which included a two-year option, profit sharing and outside sales, with Touchstone Television.
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