TIS Productions

TIS Productions, commonly known as just TIS[2] and formerly known as The Independent Studios, Estudios TeleMéxico, Fox TeleColombia and TeleColombia, is a Colombian television production company owned by the Paramount Networks Americas division of Paramount Global.

Founded in 1996 by Samuel Duque, René Gómez[1] and Bernardo Romero Pereiro as a production company owned by the latter, who is also a claimed librettist of Colombian dramatizations and soap operas, the company is known for supplying programming to Telemundo, Telefutura, RCN Televisión and the channels of the defunct former national broadcaster, Inravisión.

[3][4][5] In 2009, Fox produced filmed Mental, the first television series produced in Latin America for its eponymous American and international channels,[6] at the Fox Telecolombia complex in Bogotá,[7] but it only lasted for a season.

On 28 October 2021, Paramount Global, at the time known as ViacomCBS, announced its acquisition of a majority stake in the company from Disney, which closed on 23 November that year,[9][10][11][12] thus changing sister stations to Nickelodeon, while keeping the company's founders on board with their roles from a creative and advisory point of view.

[13][14] Paramount then merged Estudios TeleMexico and TeleColombia into one and reverted the latter company's name back to TIS (in homage to its founding name) on 22 October 2022.