23 Facts About Spelling Television

Spelling Television Inc was an American television production company that went through several name changes.

Spelling Television produced popular shows such as The Love Boat, Dynasty, Beverly Hills, 90210,7th Heaven, Melrose Place and Charmed.

Spelling Television was founded by television producer Aaron Spelling on October 25,1965.

On October 25,1965, after his exit from Four Star Television as a staff writer prior to becoming a producer, Aaron Spelling formed his own company with Danny Thomas, Thomas-Spelling Productions.

Spelling Television adapted its name by July 18,1966, when it announced the financial involvement of ABC with its first show, Range, a half-hour comedy western starring Tim Conway.

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In 1984, Spelling had seven shows for the ABC television network, accounting for one-third their prime time schedule.

Aaron Spelling Television Productions went public in 1986 after raising $80 million.

In May 1987, Spelling Television decided to expand into feature production, with five projects already in the works for different studios, and four projects ASP is heading up for the development slate.

In 1988, Aaron Spelling Television Productions acquired Laurel Entertainment and most of the Taft Entertainment Company, including Worldvision Enterprises, Inc All three companies became part of Spelling Television Entertainment Inc – though Worldvision was the only Taft division to continue operating.

Spelling Television was one of the first production companies to actively run a website for a show they produced, when the internet was just taking off in the 1990s.

Also, they felt that the operations of Spelling Television was too similar to its Paramount Television division.

The remainder of Spelling Television Entertainment was then acquired by Viacom on June 23,1999.

Spelling Television grew so large with so many different entities that at one point it leased all three top floors of the 5700 building and held additional office space across the street.

Aaron Spelling Television had one of the largest offices in Hollywood for a single executive.

Spelling Television briefly moved to smaller offices in Santa Monica in 2006.

Company president Jonathan Levin handled day-to-day operations and longtime Spelling producing partner, E Duke Vincent helped guide the successful production company.

In late 2005, Spelling Television had downsized its staff and signed into a pod development and production deal with Paramount Television, and moved its employees there to Paramount.

Spelling Television was eventually downsized even further and became a small "production shingle" under CBS Paramount Television, a division of CBS Corporation, with a small staff.

The Spelling logo continues to appear on the covers of DVD releases of the Spelling library except for those shows owned outright by Sony Pictures Television, and shows that were not originally produced by Spelling although eventually later acquired, such as Bonanza.

In late 2008, some of Spelling Television's productions, including Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, Twin Peaks, and The Love Boat began streaming full episodes online through CBS's website under the Classics page.

In 1998, Spelling divested in several assets in an attempt to focus solely on television.

Spelling Television Films was shut down, as well as their home video arm.

In September 1998, Spelling Television licensed the North American home video rights to its library to Artisan Entertainment, initially for seven years.