ABC Television Studio (Formerly Touchstone Television) is an television production company that was once part of movie studio Touchstone Pictures from 1985 to 2007, when it was renamed to its latest inception.
Established in 1985 under its former name, Touchstone Television absorbed ABC Circle Films and its post-1973 library in 1996, when its parent company, The Walt Disney Company purchased ABC. It mainly produces TV shows for the Disney Channel, ABC and all other ABC channels (although it has produced and does produce shows on rivals NBC and CBS). It is a spin-off company from Touchstone Pictures, the first Disney-owned company not to carry the Walt Disney name.
On February 8, 2007, The Disney-ABC Television group rebranded Touchstone Television as ABC Television Studio. Announced at the annual Disney Investor Conference, the rebranding is part of the company's evolution to rebrand their strategy to focus on the three core brands: Disney, ABC, & ESPN.
Currently produced
- According to Jim (ABC)
- The Amazing Race (CBS, co-production with CBS Paramount Television and Jerry Bruckheimer Television)
- Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
- Criminal Minds (CBS, co-production with CBS Paramount Television, formerly Paramount Television)
- Day Break (ABC)
- Desperate Housewives (ABC)
- Dirt (FX)
- Ghost Whisperer (CBS, co-production with CBS Paramount Television)
- Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
- In Case of Emergency (ABC)
- Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC)
- The Knights of Prosperity (ABC)
- Lost (ABC)
- Monk (USA, co-production with NBC Universal Television Studio)
- Psych (USA, co-production with NBC Universal Television Studio)
- Scrubs (NBC)
- Six Degrees (ABC)
- Ugly Betty (ABC)
- What About Brian (ABC)
Formerly produced
- 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (ABC)
- Alias (ABC)
- Boy Meets World (ABC)
- Blossom (NBC)
- Clerks: The Animated Series (ABC)
- Commander in Chief (ABC)
- Crumbs (ABC)
- Dinosaurs (ABC)
- Empire (Mini-Series) (ABC)
- Empty Nest (NBC)
- The Golden Girls (NBC)
- Home Improvement (ABC)
- Hope and Faith (ABC)
- In Justice (ABC)
- In the Game (ABC)
- Kevin Hill (UPN)
- Less Than Perfect (ABC)
- Life As We Know It (ABC)
- Little House on the Prairie (ABC)
- The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (MOW) (ABC)
- My Wife and Kids (ABC)
- Romy and Michele: In The Beginning (ABC Family)
- Popular (the WB)
- Playmakers (ESPN)
- Rodney (ABC)
- Sports Night (ABC)
- Tilt (ESPN)
Logos
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The Touchstone Television logo from 2004 to 2007
