20th Television

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Twentieth Television

Type	Subsidiary
Founded	Los Angeles, California, USA (1992)
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, USA
Industry	television syndication
Owner(s)	News Corporation
Parent	Fox Entertainment Group

Twentieth Television, Inc. (commonly referred to as 20th Television) is an American television syndication company that was formed in 1992 by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, a division of the Fox Entertainment Group, part of the News Corporation. 20th Television also produces their own programs and distributes them across the nation (though as a rule, all copyright notices of programming produced by a Fox-related company and distributed by 20th Television reads © (respective year) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation).

20th Television distributes almost all programming from its corporate siblings: the television production unit and its subsidiaries (in addition to acquired libraries MTM, Genesis Entertainment, Metromedia Producers Corporation, Four Star Productions and select programming from New World Television and Cannell Entertainment) and the motion picture studio's output (and their own subdivisions). The company syndicates and/or co-syndicates product from strategic partners such as Regency Television and Debmar-Mercury.

From 1992 to 1994, the 20th Television logo was also used to represent 20th Century Fox Television (despite being separate units).

Since sister company 20th Century Fox Television produces most of the Fox network programming, 20th Television can also be considered the network's syndication arm.

Titles produced and/or distributed by 20th Television

• Note: Not all series were produced by 20th Television in this unit

20th Century Fox Television

• Peyton Place (1964-1969)
• Batman (1966-1968)
• Julia (1968-1971)
• Beat The Clock (1969-1974) (Final two seasons syndicated by Firestone Syndication; owned by FremantleMedia North America)
• M*A*S*H (1972-1983)
• The Cheap Show (1978-1979)
• Dance Fever (1979-1987) (with Merv Griffin Enterprises, now distributed by Sony Pictures Television, currently owned by Merv Griffin Entertainment)
• The $100,000 Pyramid (1985-1988) (owned by Sony Pictures Television)
• L.A. Law (1986-1994)
• America's Most Wanted (1988-Present)
• The Simpsons (1989-Present) (with Gracie Films)
• In Living Color (1990-1994) (with Ivory Way Productions)
• The X-Files (1993-2002)
• Family Guy (1999-2002, 2005-present) (with Fuzzy Door Productions)
• Futurama (1999-2003, 2008-present) (as 30th Century Fox Television; with The Curiosity Company)
• King of the Hill (1997-2009) (with 3 Arts Entertainment)
• Reba (2000-2007) (with ACME Productions)
• American Dad! (2005-present) (with Underdog Productions & Fuzzy Door Productions)
• The Cleveland Show (2009-present) (with Fuzzy Door Productions)
• Better Off Ted (2009-present)
• Sit Down, Shut Up! (2009) (with Sony Pictures Television)

20th Television

• A Current Affair (1988-1996; 2005)
• America's Most Wanted (1988-Present)
• Family Feud (1999-Present) (Handles ad-sales since Fall 2007; produced by FremantleMedia; US syndication with Debmar-Mercury)
• Divorce Court (1999-Present)
• Texas Justice (2001-2005)
• Dead Zone (2002-2007) (Produced by Lionsgate Television and CBS Paramount Television; US syndication along with Debmar-Mercury. CBS Television Distribution handles global distribution of series.)
• Judge Alex (2005-Present)
• Cristina's Court (2006-2009)
• Temptation (2007-2008) (produced by FremantleMedia)
• The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet (2007-2009)
• South Park (1997-present) (assumed in 2008 after previous distributor Tribune Entertainment disbanded; 20th co-distributed with Debmar-Mercury)
• Tyler Perry's House of Payne (2008-present) (US syndication with Debmar-Mercury)
• Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (2009-present)

Fox Television Studios

• The Shield (2002-Present, with Columbia TriStar Domestic Television, now Sony Pictures Television. SPT handles television distribution sales, while TCF handles US home entertainment sales. All five seasons were later shifted to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and released the sixth season.)

Regency Television

• Roswell (1999-2002)
• Malcolm In the Middle (2000-2006)
• The Bernie Mac Show (2001-2006)
• Thief (2006)
• Listen Up! (2005) (co-produced with CBS Paramount Network Television)

Stephen J. Cannell

• 21 Jump Street (1987-1991)
• Silk Stalkings (1991-1999)
• Profit (Pilot only) (1996)

Four Star

• The Big Valley (1965-1969)

New World Television

• Santa Barbara (1984-1993)
• Profit (1996) (in association with Stephen J. Cannell Productions)
• Real Stories of the Highway Patrol (1993-1999) (Also Produced by Genesis Entertainment)

Genesis Entertainment

• The Judge (TV series) (1986-1989)
• Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996; international distribution only)

MTM Enterprises

• The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977)
• The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978)
• Paul Sand in Friends & Lovers (1974–1975)
• The Texas Wheelers (1974-1975)
• Rhoda (1974-1978)
• Doc (1975-1976)
• Three for the Road (1975-1976)
• Phyllis (1975-1977)
• The Tony Randall Show (1976-1978)
• Lou Grant (1977-1982)
• The Betty White Show (1977-1978)
• Something for Joey (1977, TV movie)
• The White Shadow (1978-1981)
• WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-1982)
• Paris (1979-1980)
• The Last Resort (1979)
• The Boy Who Drank Too Much (1980, TV movie)
• Hill Street Blues (1981-1987)
• Remington Steele (1982-1987)
• St. Elsewhere (1982-1988)
• Newhart (1982-1990)
• Bay City Blues (1983)
• The Duck Factory (1984)
• Beverly Hills Buntz (1987-1988)
• Capital News (1990)
• Evening Shade (1990-1994, with CBS Productions, CBS owns the series and distributes the series outside the USA, while 20th Century Fox handles US TV rights.)
• The New WKRP in Cincinnati (1991-1993)
• Xuxa (1993)
• Central Park West (1995-1996, with CBS Productions)
• Family Challenge (1995-1997)
• Bailey Kipper's P.O.V. (1996-1997)
• Night of the Twisters (1996, TV movie)
• Christmas Every Day (1996, TV movie)
• Shopping Spree (1996-1998)
• Good News (1997)

20th Century Fox International Television

20th Century Fox International Television is the international television distribution arm of Fox. It is responsible for distributing the Fox film and television library across the world (including acquired properties).

Shows distributed by other companies in USA but by Fox elsewhere

• Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996, acquired from Genesis Entertainment, distributed by Warner Bros. Television in USA)
• Andy Richter Controls the Universe (2002-03, distributed by CBS Television Distribution in USA)
• Listen Up! (2004-05, distributed by CBS Television Distribution in USA)
• Life on Mars (2008-09, distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television in USA)

References

• 20th Television at Internet Movie Database
• Syndicated Network Television Association- 20th Television