ABC Studios

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ABC Studios

Type	Subsidiary
Founded	1985 (as Touchstone Television) 2007 (as ABC Studios)
Headquarters	Burbank, California, USA
Key people	John E. Pepper, Jr., Chairman Robert Iger, President/CEO
Industry	Television Production
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 in 1985 and given its current name in May 2007.

Disney-ABC Television Group is cutting off 5% of its workforce.^[1]

ABC Entertainment has announced a new organization, effective immediately.^[2][3]

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 dropped entirely. This makes ABC Studios the first television production company to feature the company production credit at the beginning of a television program.

List of programs produced by Touchstone Television/ABC Studios

Currently produced

• The Amazing Race (as Touchstone Television) (CBS, co-production with CBS Television Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Television)
• America's Funniest Home Videos (ABC)
• Army Wives (Lifetime)
• Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
• Castle (ABC)
• Cougar Town (ABC)
• Criminal Minds (CBS, co-production with CBS Television Studios, formerly Paramount Network Television)
• Desperate Housewives (ABC)
• Eastwick (ABC)
• FlashForward (ABC)
• Ghost Whisperer (CBS, co-production with CBS Television Studios)
• Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC)
• Legend of the Seeker (Syndication, distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television)
• Lost (ABC)
• Monk (as Touchstone Television) (USA, co-production with Universal Cable Productions)
• Private Practice (ABC)
• Reaper (The CW)
• Scrubs (NBC/ABC)
• Ugly Betty (ABC), (Co-produced with Silvio Horta's Silent H Productions, Salma Hayek's Ventanarosa Productions and Ben Silverman's Reveille Productions)
• V (ABC), (Co-produced with Warner Bros. Television; ABC Studios holds US rights, while WB owns international distribution rights due the company owning the rights to the "V" franchise)

Future productions

• Agent Hollywood (ABC)
• Life UneXpected (The CW)
• Mr. Proof (ABC, co-production with Sony Pictures Television)
• The Prince of Motor City (ABC pilot)
• The Runners (ABC, co-production with Sony Pictures Television)
• Snack Pizza (NBC)

Formerly produced

• 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (ABC)
• According to Jim (ABC)
• Alias (ABC)
• Boy Meets World (ABC)
• Blossom (NBC)
• Brotherly Love (NBC/The WB)
• Cane (CBS) (Co-produced with CBS Paramount Network Television)
• Carpoolers (ABC) (Co-produced with DreamWorks Television)
• Cavemen (ABC)
• Clerks: The Animated Series (ABC)
• Commander in Chief (ABC)
• The Commish (ABC) (co-produced with Stephen J. Cannell Productions)
• Crumbs (ABC)
• Day Break (ABC)
• Dirt (FX)
• Dinosaurs (ABC)
• Empire (Mini-Series) (ABC)
• Dirty Sexy Money (ABC)
• Eli Stone (ABC)
• Empty Nest (NBC)
• Felicity (The WB)
• The Golden Girls (NBC)
• The Golden Palace (CBS)
• Home Improvement (ABC)
• According to Jim (ABC)
• Hope and Faith (ABC)
• In Case of Emergency (ABC)
• In Justice (ABC)
• In the Game (ABC)
• In the Motherhood (ABC) (co-produced with Cabloom! and Mindshare)
• Kevin Hill (UPN)
• The Knights of Prosperity (ABC)
• Kyle XY (ABC Family)
• Less Than Perfect (ABC)
• Life As We Know It (ABC)
• Life on Mars (ABC), (Co-produced with 20th Century Fox Television)
• October Road (ABC)
• Moonlighting (ABC)
• Miss Guided (ABC) (Co-produced with Fox Television Studios)
• The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (ABC)
• My So-Called Life (ABC)
• My Wife and Kids (ABC)
• The PJs (FOX/The WB)
• Popular (The WB)
• Playmakers (ESPN)
• Rodney (ABC)
• Romy and Michele: In the Beginning (ABC Family)
• Samantha Who? (ABC)
• Six Degrees (ABC)
• Sports Night (ABC)
• Tilt (ESPN)
• Unhappily Ever After (The WB)
• What About Brian (ABC)
• Wildside (ABC)

Logos

The Touchstone Television logo from September 2004 to May 2007

The current ABC Studios logo

Formerly known as

• ABC Studios (May 2007)
• Touchstone Television Productions, LLC (November 2006 – February 8, 2007)^{[citation needed]}
• Touchstone Television (1985 – November 2006, 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