Sony Pictures Television is a major Hollywood television producer owned by Sony through its Sony Pictures division. The company grew out of Screen Gems, founded in 1948 as Columbia Pictures' first entry into the burgeoning television market. By 1974, Columbia has grown comfortable enough with the medium to produce shows under their own name, and the division was thus renamed Columbia Pictures Television. (CPT's output is profiled under the Columbia Pictures page).
In 1994, CPT was merged with TriStar Television and the combined operation became Columbia TriStar Television (though both CPT and TT continued producing series independently for some time after). In 2002, 12 years after the Sony purchase of Columbia, the division was given its current name. Due to Sony's historic inability to buy television stations (until 2015, the FCC forbade more than 25% investment in stations by a foreign-owned company), SPT is one of the few non-network affiliated production companies still producing shows for network television, often by co-ownership arrangements with network-based producers.
In 2017, Sony Pictures Television purchased a majority interest in North American anime licensor Funimation. In 2022, they acquired British TV company Silvergate Pictures (known for Hilda and The Octonauts), changing its trademark to Sony Pictures Television – Kids.
TV shows (and films) produced and/or distributed by SPT include:
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Animated productions
NOTE: Shows inherited from Columbia TriStar Television are in bold italics:
- Astro Boy (2003 version)
- The Boondocks (2005-14)
- Crossing Swords (2020-present)
- Dragon Tales (2002-05; US distribution and Worldwide Home Entertainment rights only; with Sesame Workshop)
- Good Times (2024-present; with Act III Productions, Unanimous Media and Fuzzy Door Productions)
- Hotel Transylvania: The Series (2017-20; US distribution only; with Sony Pictures Animation and Nelvana)
- Jackie Chan Adventures (2002-05)
- Phantom Investigators (2002; with (W)Holesome Products, Inc.)
- Robot Chicken (2005-present; SPT took over Sony Pictures Digital from season 6 onwards)
- Sit Down, Shut Up (2009; with Twentieth Century Fox Television)
- Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003)
- The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008-09; as Culver Entertainment)
- SuperMansion (2015, 2017-19)
- SuperKitties (2023-present)
Live-action productions
NOTE: Shows inherited from Columbia TriStar Television are in bold italics:
- The Afterparty (2022-present)
- Alex Rider (2020-present)
- Atypical (2017-19, 2021)
- Battle Creek (2015; with CBS Television Studios)
- The Beast (2009)
- Behind Her Eyes (2021)
- The Big C (2010-13)
- The Blacklist (2013-present; with Universal Television)
- The Blacklist: Redemption (2017; with Universal Television)
- Black Monday (2019-21; with Showtime)
- Bloodline (2015-17)
- The Boys:
- The Boys (2019-present; with Amazon Studios)
- Gen V (2023-present; with Amazon Studios)
- Breaking Bad:
- Breaking Bad (2008-13)
- Better Call Saul (2015-20, 2022)
- El Camino (2019)
- Breaking In (2011-12; with Happy Madison Productions)
- Chain Reaction (2006-07, 2015-16, 2021)
- Charlie's Angels (2011 version)
- Cobra Kai (2018-19, 2021-present; with Hurwitz & Schlossberg Productions and Overbrook Entertainment)
- Community (2009-15; with Universal Television)
- The Crown (2016-present)
- Cupid (2009)
- Damages (2007, 2009-12)
- Dawson's Creek (2002-03)
- Days of Our Lives (2002-present)
- Deadly Class (2019; with Universal Cable Productions)
- Dominion (2014-15; with Universal Cable Productions)
- Dr. Ken (2015-17; with ABC)
- Drop Dead Diva (2009-14)
- Fantasy Island (2021-present; with Fox Entertainment)
- The Firm (2012; with Entertainment One and Paramount)
- For All Mankind (2019, 2021-present)
- For Life (2020-21; with ABC)
- Franklin & Bash (2011-14)
- Future Man (2017, 2019-20)
- The Get Down (2016-17)
- The Goldbergs (2013-present; with Happy Madison Productions)
- The Gong Show (2017-18)
- The Good Doctor (2017-present; with ABC})
- Goosebumps (2023-present; with Original Film and Scholastic Entertainment)
- Happy Endings (2011-13; with ABC Studios)
- Hawthorne (2009-11)
- Heist (2006; with NBC)
- Helix (2014-15)
- Hindsight (2015)
- Houdini & Doyle (2016; with ITV)
- Houston Knights (1987-1988; with Columbia Pictures)
- Huff (2004-2006)
- I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021; with Amazon Studios)
- Imaginary Mary (2017; with ABC and Happy Madison Productions)
- Jeopardy! (2002-present)
- The Jim Gaffigan Show (2015-16)
- Joan of Arcadia (2003-05; with CBS)
- Justified (2010-15)
- Just Shoot Me! (2002-03; with Universal Television and Brillstein Grey Entertainment)
- Kevin Can Wait (2016-18; with CBS)
- Kidnapped (2006-07)
- Kingdom Hospital (2004; with Touchstone Television)
- L.A.'s Finest (2020; with Jerry Bruckheimer Television)
- The Last of Us (2023-present)
- Last Resort (2012-13)
- Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector (2020; with Universal)
- Made in Jersey (2012; with CBS Television Studios)
- Marry Me (2014) (2014-15)
- Masters of Sex (2013-16)
- The McCarthys (2014-15; with CBS Television Studios)
- Men at Work (2012-14)
- The Michael J. Fox Show (2013-14)
- Mr. Sunshine (2011) (2011)
- My Boys (2006-10)
- Necessary Roughness (2011-13; with Universal Cable Productions)
- The Night Shift (2014-17)
- One Day at a Time (2017-20 version)
- Origin (2018)
- Outlander (2014-20, 2022-present)
- Party of Five (2020; with Freeform)
- The Player (2015; with Universal Television)
- Pan Am (2011-12)
- Powers (2015-16)
- Preacher (2016-19; with AMC Studios)
- Pyramid (2002-04, 2012, 2016-)
- Quiet on Set (2024)
- Rescue Me (2004-11; with DreamWorks Television)
- Rules of Engagement (2007-13; with CBS Television Studios and Happy Madison Productions)
- Dragon's Den (2009-present; with MGM Television)
- The Shield (2003-08)
- The Sing-Off (2009-11)
- Sneaky Pete (2015, 2017-19)
- Stargate Atlantis (2005-06; season 2 only, with MGM)
- Strong Medicine (2002-06)
- S.W.A.T. (2017-present; with CBS Television Studios)
- THEM (2021; with Amazon Studios)
- The Tick (2016-19; with Amazon Studios)
- 'Til Death (2006-10)
- Timeless (2016-18; with Universal Television)
- Tower Prep (2010; with Cartoon Network Studios)
- Truth Seekers (2020)
- ''Twisted Metal (2023-present)
- Underground (2016-17)
- Unforgettable (2011-16; with CBS)
- The Unusuals (2009)
- Walker, Texas Ranger (1993-2001; in conjunction with CBS)
- Wheel of Fortune (2002-present)
- The Wheel of Time (2021) (2021-present; with Amazon Studios)
- Woke (2020-present; with ABC)
- The Young and the Restless (2002-present)
Other shows distributed by SPT
- The inherited Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures Television/Columbia TriStar Television/TriStar Television library
- The Revolution Studios library
- D'Myna Leagues (produced by Studio B Productions)
- Barney Miller
- Fish
- Seinfeld (Under license from Warner Bros. via Castle Rock Entertainment)
- Most of the Jack Barry and Dan Enright catalog (The Joker's Wild, Tic-Tac-Dough, etc.)
- Most of the Bob Stewart catalog (Pyramid, Chain Reaction, etc.)
- The entirety of the Chuck Barris catalog (The Gong Show, The Dating Game, etc.)
- The Hollywood Squares note
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
- The Monkees
- The New Monkees
- What's Happening!!
- What's Happening Now!!
- Zorro (1990)
- Series produced by Sony Pictures Animation
- Series from the current incarnation of TriStar Television
Shows from the Norman Lear and Embassy catalog:
- All in the Family
- The Jeffersons
- Checking In
- Maude
- Archie Bunker's Place
- Gloria
- 704 Hauser
- The Jeffersons
- Beakman's World
- Diff'rent Strokes
- It's Your Move
- Married... with Children
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
- Fernwood Tonight/America Tonight
- One Day at a Time (original series)
- Sanford and Son
- Grady
- Sanford Arms
- Sanford
- Silver Spoons
- Square Pegs
- Who's the Boss?
