Since then, MGM has assumed total control over its television output and rejoined the local first-run syndication market for the first time in many years with Paternity Court.

[6] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) first used television for promotional purposes having a tie in with The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS in the early 1950s.

However, when The Ed Sullivan Show switched to 20th Century Fox, MGM attempted to arrange a promotional agreement with NBC, but could not come to terms on the specifics.

TV production was expect to start with the 1957–58 season and was to include half-hour remakes of or series based on its pictures.

[9] MGM then acquired 25% of KTTV in Los Angeles on August 20, 1956, in cash along with a $4 million film lease contract.

[10] MGM-TV began producing commercials by April 1957 creating ads for Knickerbocker and Standard Oil of Indiana.

[11] By April 1957, MGM-TV was sued by the United States Department of Justice for Block booking to TV stations for selling its movie library as a whole.

[13] By 1959, MGM was producing no primetime shows on television after NBC decided not to go with the Jeopardy pilot.

[20][21][22][23][24] Due to mounting financial difficulties and decreased output, MGM closed its distribution offices in October 1973 and outsourced distribution for its film library for a ten-year period along with selling its music publishing arm to United Artists.

[25] In 1981, Fred Silverman and George Reeves via InterMedia Entertainment struck a deal with the studio to produce films and TV shows.

[31] In 1986, Ted Turner bought MGM/UA from Kirk Kerkorian, including all of the movies and television shows by MGM/UA.

Due to a crushing debt, however, Turner was forced to return to Kerkorian all of United Artists and the MGM trademark 74 days later on June 8.

[41] In March 2001, MGM signed a multi-year international distribution deal for the NBC Studios catalog including current and future programs.

[42] Later in 2002, MGM and NBC Enterprises formed a joint advertising venture to sell national advertising barter time for the two companies' syndicated programs and handling the licensing of feature film and television programming product in the domestic television syndication market.

In 2005, MGM was purchased by a consortium which included the Sony Corporation, Comcast and private equity investors.

In October, MGM announced that they would distribute the film and television library from New Line Cinema.

MGM started with This TV, a joint venture network with Weigel Broadcasting, launched on November 1, 2006.

As a result, Burnett's reality show franchises (Survivor, The Voice, The Celebrity Apprentice, and Shark Tank) are now being co-produced by MGM Television with their other respective original producers.

[53] In November 2016, MGM formed Gato Grande Productions, a joint venture with Mexican entrepreneurs Miguel Aleman and Antonio Cué.

[57][59] On July 18, 2017, MGM Television acquired Evolution Media, a non-scripted studio best known for the Real Housewives franchise.

[60] In June 2018, MGM Television acquired Big Fish Entertainment, the production company behind A&E's Live PD.

[61] A new post, senior vice-president of digital and new platform, was created then filled in March 2017 by Sam Toles.

The division's first development project is Tacowood, a comedy series produced by and starring Paz Vega based on an idea by Frank Ariza, announced in early February 2020.

With in the channel, the movies and shows are categorized into thrillers, crime, war films, martial arts, westerns and espionage groups.

[45] The Magnificent Seven, American Ninja 2, Bulletproof Monk, Into the Blue and Roadhouse are also expected to be available in time through the channel.