ABC Studios

ABC Studios

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Television Production
Founded	1985 (as Touchstone Television) 2007 (as ABC Studios)
Headquarters	Burbank, California, USA
Key people	John E. Pepper, Jr., Chairman Robert Iger, President/CEO
Owner(s)	The Walt Disney Company
Parent	Disney-ABC Television Group
Website	http://www.abcstudiosmedianet.com

ABC Studios is the television production division of Disney-ABC Television Group. ABC Studios was established as Touchstone Television (named after Touchstone Pictures) in 1985 and given its current name in May 2007.

Starting with the 2009–2010 season, all television series produced by ABC Studios now have the wording "An ABC Studios Production" at the start of the in-show credits, while the ABC Studios closing logo was temporarily dropped entirely. This makes ABC Studios the first television production company in the US to feature the company production credit at the beginning of a television program.

In June 2009, ABC Entertainment announced a new organization, effective immediately.^[1][2] In January 2010, Disney-ABC Television Group announced it was cutting 5% of its workforce.^[3]

List of programs produced by Touchstone Television/ABC Studios

Currently produced

• The Amazing Race (as Touchstone Television until 2007; CBS, co-production with CBS Television Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Television)
• America's Funniest Home Videos (as ABC Entertainment; ABC)
• Army Wives (as Touchstone Television until 2007; Lifetime)
• Body of Proof (ABC)
• Castle (ABC)
• Cougar Town (ABC/TBS)
• Criminal Minds (as Touchstone Television until 2007; CBS, co-production with CBS Television Studios, formerly Paramount Network Television)
• Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (with 20th Century Fox Television; ABC)
• Happy Endings (with Sony Pictures Television; ABC)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live (as Touchstone Television until 2007; ABC)
• Grey's Anatomy (as Touchstone Television until 2007; ABC)
• Revenge (ABC)
• Once Upon a Time (ABC)
• Private Practice (ABC)

Future productions

• Damage Control (ABC pilot)
• The Neighbors (ABC; Fall 2012)
• Perception (TNT)
• Under Construction (ABC pilot)
• The Red Band Society (ABC pilot)

Formerly produced

• 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (2002–2005) (co-production with Shady Acres Entertainment / Flody Co./ Touchstone Television ABC)
• According to Jim 2001-2007 (co-production with Tracy Newman / Jonathan Stark / Brad Grey / Touchstone Television; ABC)
• Alias 2001–2006 (co-production with Bad Robot Productions / Touchstone Television; ABC)
• At the Movies (Syndication, as Buena Vista Television until 2007)
• Boy Meets World (1993–2000) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• Blossom (1990–1995) (NBC) (as Touchstone Television)
• Brotherly Love (1995–1996) (as Touchstone Television; NBC/The WB)
• Brothers & Sisters (as Touchstone Television until 2007; ABC)
• Bob Patterson (2001) (co-production with Angel Ark Productions / 20th Century Fox Television; ABC)
• Cane (2007) (as Touchstone Television; CBS, co-produced with CBS Paramount Network Television)
• Carpoolers (ABC; co-produced with DreamWorks Television)
• Cavemen (ABC)
• Clerks: The Animated Series (2000) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• Commander in Chief (2005–2006) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• The Commish (1991–1996) (as Touchstone Television; ABC, co-produced with Stephen J. Cannell Productions)
• Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (CBS, co-production with CBS Television Studios)
• Crumbs (2006) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• Daddio (2000) (Buena Vista Television NBC)
• Day Break (2006–2008) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• Desperate Housewives (as Touchstone Television until 2007; ABC)
• Detroit 1-8-7 (2010–2011) (ABC)
• Dirt (2007–2008) (as Touchstone Television; FX)
• Dinosaurs (1991–1994) (as Walt Disney Television; ABC)
• Dirty Sexy Money (ABC)
• Donas de Casa Desesperadas (Rede TV!; exclusive for Brazil)
• Eli Stone (ABC)
• Empire (2005) (Mini-series, as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• Empty Nest (1988–1995) (as Touchstone Television; NBC)
• Felicity 1998–2002 (co-production with Imagine Television / Touchstone Television; The WB)
• FlashForward (ABC)
• Gary Unmarried (CBS, co-production with CBS Television Studios)
• The Gates (ABC)
• GCB (ABC)
• Ghost Whisperer (as Touchstone Television until 2007; CBS, co-production with CBS Television Studios)
• The Golden Girls (1985–1992) (as Touchstone Television; NBC)
• The Golden Palace (1992–1993) (as Touchstone Television; CBS)
• Home Improvement (1991–1999) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• Hope and Faith (2003–2005) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• Imagine That (2002) co-production with Columbia TriStar Television / Seth Kurland / Touchstone Television; NBC)
• In Case of Emergency (ABC)
• In Justice (ABC)
• In the Game (2005) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• In the Motherhood (ABC; co-produced with Cabloom! and Mindshare)
• Kevin Hill (2004–2005) (as Touchstone Television; UPN)
• The Knights of Prosperity (2007) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• Kyle XY (as Touchstone Television until 2007; ABC Family)
• Legend of the Seeker (Syndication, distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television)
• Less Than Perfect (2002–2006) ((co-production with Nina Wass / Eugene Stein / Touchstone Television; ABC)
• Life As We Know It (2004–2005) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• Life on Mars (ABC; co-produced with 20th Century Fox Television)
• Life With Bonnie (2002–2004) (co-produced with Bonnie Hunt's Bob & Alice Productions / Touchstone Television; ABC)
• Lost (as Touchstone Television until 2007; ABC)
• Man Up!(2011) (ABC)
• Maybe It's Me (2001–2002 co-production with SamJen Productions / Warner Bros. Television; WB)
• Monk (2002–2009) (as Touchstone Television; co-produced with USA/Universal Media Studios)
• Moonlighting (as ABC Circle Films; ABC)
• Miracles (2003) ABC
• Miss Guided (ABC; co-produced with Fox Television Studios)
• Missing (ABC)
• The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• My Generation (ABC)
• My So-Called Life (as ABC Productions; ABC)
• My Wife and Kids (as Touchstone Television; ABC co-produced with Wayans Bros. Entertainment / Impact Zone Productions 2001–2005)
• No Ordinary Family (ABC)
• Nowhere Man (1995–1996) (as Touchstone Television; UPN)
• Nurses (1991–1994) (as Touchstone Television; NBC)
• October Road (ABC)
• Off the Map (ABC)
• Once and Again Bedford Falls Productions (ABC)
• The PJs (1999–2001) (as Touchstone Television; FOX/The WB)
• The Wayne Brady Show 2001–2002 (co-production with Brad Grey / Don Mischer; ABC)
• Popular (1999–2001) (as Touchstone Television; The WB)
• Playmakers (2003) (as Touchstone Television; ESPN, produced as/on behalf of ESPN)
• Reaper (The CW)
• Ringer (The CW, co-production with CBS Television Studios and Warner Bros. Television)
• The River (ABC)
• Rodney (2004–2006) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• Romy and Michele: In the Beginning (2005) (as Touchstone Television; ABC Family)
• Samantha Who? (ABC)
• Scoundrels (ABC)
• Scrubs 2001–2010 (co-production with Doozer; NBC/ABC)
• Six Degrees (ABC)
• Sports Night (1998–2000) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• State of Georgia (ABC Family)
• Tilt (ESPN, produced as/on behalf of ESPN)
• Ugly Betty (as Touchstone Television until 2007; ABC; co-produced with Silvio Horta's Silent H Productions, Salma Hayek's Ventanarosa Productions and Ben Silverman's Reveille Productions)
• Unhappily Ever After (1995–1999) (as Touchstone Television; The WB)
• Veritas: The Quest (2003) (co-productions with Patrick Massett John Zinman) ABC
• Wednesday 9:30 (8:30 Central) (2002) (co-production with The Cloudland Company / Touchstone Television; ABC)
• What About Brian (2006–2007) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)
• Where I Live (1993) (as Touchstone Television; ABC)

Logos

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  The Touchstone Television logo from September 2004 to May 2007

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  The current ABC Studios logo

Formerly known as

• ABC Studios (May 2007)
• ABC Television Studio (March 2007-May 2007)
• Touchstone Television Productions, LLC (January 2000 – February 8, 2007)^{[citation needed]}
• Touchstone Pictures & Television (1985–1999, a label of Walt Disney Pictures and Television)
• ABC Circle Films (1960s–1980s, a division of American Broadcasting Companies)

References

External links

• Official website
• Touchstone becomes ABC Television Studios