A number of production companies were formed under Capital Cities/ABC Video Enterprises, Capital Cities/ABC Video Productions (both were reorganized and absorbed into ABC Cable and International Broadcast Group, which changed name to Disney Media Distribution in 2011 and currently Disney Platform Distribution since 2020 upon Capital Cities/ABC's merger with Disney), Ultra Entertainment, the Hemisphere Group and DIC Entertainment.
[24] Lincoln Square had previously produced a series known as Watt's World, about journalist Nick Watt traveling to find "little-known places and sub-cultures", in development for the Travel Channel as of Scripps Networks Interactive's upfront event in April 2014.
[26] In January 2015, Lincoln Square had signed a production deal with Christine Connor's XCON historical docudrama company.
[27] For A&E channel, Lincoln Square agreed to produce four specials in 2015 starting with Cosby: The Women Speak.
[29] On April 10, 2019, a slate of 10 unscripted series including Rogue Trip from Lincoln Square Productions was revealed for Disney+.
[41] On December 2, 2011, Disney-ABC Television Group placed daytime and syndicated production under Times Square Studios.
[2] The company was set up increase the control and financial rewards of producing its own TV shows.
"My Life and Times" was the company's first series production placed with the ABC network and debuted in May 1991, but was yanked after the ratings dropped 19% from week 1 to 2, so as to avoid May sweeps.
Also signing production deals by June 1991 were Martthew Carlson (an extension), Steve Kronish and Norman Morrill.
Group and BIG Entertainment to develop "Tom Clancy's Net Force", as a four-hour miniseries which was broadcast in 1998.
ABC Circle Films was formed after the first season of Movie of the Week to build on the telefilm success.
[ABCMOW 1] With the 1972–1973 season, ACF began producing films for Movie of the Week including Pursuit.
[80] ABC/Kane Productions International was formed by Capital Cities/ABC Inc. as a unit of its ABC Television Network Group on October 1, 1988, with the appointment of its first president, Dennis B. Kane.
Devillier Donegan Enterprises, a unit of Buena Vista International Television, in February 1999 took over distribution, management and operation of AKPI.
[80] In 2001, DDE began looking for a new owner as Disney is in the movie business with Alliance Atlantis Communications and Granada begin front runners.
Until October 1985, the division produced theatrical films along with TV movies, series and mini-series.
While a boutique would make only a few films per year, Stoddard figured that ABC would succeed in movie production as there were additional revenue sources from video cassettes and cable on top of theater ticket sales and broadcast TV sales.
A Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation media analyst forecast ABC's losses on its theatrical operations for 1985 to be $5 million.
[89] After ABC shuttered down, the company elected to terminate its agreement with Mercury Entertainment in March 1986.
[95] The entry of ABC into theatrical film production led to an FCC inquiry over the network's control of programming and a MPAA anti-trust lawsuit.
[li 1] David O. Selznick owned films were sold after his death in 1965 to API by his widow, Jennifer Jones.
[96] The company's films (including those made by Selmur and Palomar) were not profitable[97] and, with the recession of 1969–1971, ABC Pictures Corporation closed down its operations[li 3] in early 1973.
The company produces non-scripted programming in all three areas (talk, game, reality) for syndication, cable and prime time outlets including outside the Disney conglomerate.
[108] In September 2008, BVP entered a first-look development deal with Silverback, a Swedish production company.
[112] Films were to be B-films with an eye on quality but "meet the exhibitor's call for 'highly gimmicked and exploitable' product.
[117] With its first acquisition of The Unearthly in early May, AB-PT placed it into a double feature premiere with End released on June 19[118] at the B&K Roosevelt Theatre.
[116] On September 24, 1957, AB-PT Pictures indicated that the company would move in the next year into A features with 5 of their 15 planned films to be of this type.
Keep Calm was sued over The Glass House by CBS for using proprietary procedures from Big Brother via hired away staff.
[125] Palomar Pictures International was a film production subsidiary of American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.[126] It is not to be confused with another company with the name Palomar Pictures, founded in 1992 by Anne-Marie Mackay and Jonathon Ker and whose majority ownership stake was sold to Sigurjon "Joni" Sighvattson, a founder of Propaganda Films, in 1999.