12 Facts About Desilu Productions

Desilu Productions was an American television production company founded and co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.

Desilu Productions is best known for shows such as I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Mannix, The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible and Star Trek.

Until 1962, Desilu Productions was the second-largest independent television production company in the United States, behind MCA's Revue Studios, until MCA bought Universal Pictures and Desilu Productions became and remained the number-one independent production company, until being sold in 1968.

Desilu Productions was formed in 1950 using the combined names of "Desi Arnaz" and "Lucille Ball".

Desilu Productions's was skilled at proposing new programs that were popular to broad audiences and successful in both their original broadcasts and syndication reruns.

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Desilu Productions's approved original production concepts for development into broadcast series, assessing how the public would enjoy them and their potential for long-term success.

Arnaz persuaded them to allow Desilu Productions to cover all additional costs associated with filming, rather than broadcasting live, under the stipulation that Desilu Productions owned and controlled all rights to the film prints and negatives.

Desilu Productions soon outgrew its first space and in 1954 bought its own studio, the Motion Picture Center on Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood, what is Red Studios Hollywood.

Desilu Productions retained ownership of those shows that premiered after 1960, and were still in production.

Desilu Productions was renamed Paramount Television, and the former RKO main lot on Gower Street was absorbed into the adjacent Paramount lot.

Desilu Productions went to work on her new series Here's Lucy that year.

Desilu Productions Inc was reincorporated in Delaware in 1967, by Paramount Pictures and still exists as a legal entity.