Sony Pictures Television Inc. (abbreviated as SPT) is an American television production and distribution studio. It distributes all 5 seasons as now of Cobra Kai series.
It was founded in 2002 as the successor to Columbia Tristar Television Inc., Tristar Television, Columbia Pictures Television, Screen Gems, and Pioneer Telefilms. Based in Culver City, it is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment and a unit of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.
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In addition to the Sony Pictures Entertainment film library, SPT owns and distributes shows from Tandem Productions, ELP Communications, TeleVentures, Merv Griffin Enterprises, Four D Productions, Barris Industries, Barry & Enright Productions, Stewart Television, and 2waytraffic. SPT also owns Game Show Network, the Crackle Plus digital service with Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, and worldwide television rights to the Embassy Pictures and Revolution Studios film libraries.
SPT owns Production or distribution rights in many comedies and dramas spanning more than seven decades, including such titles as The Flying Nun, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Gidget, The Monkees, The Partridge Family, Hazel, The Hathaways, Route 66, the 1959 Dennis the Menace series, Who's the Boss?, Married...with Children, Designing Women, Castle Rock Entertainment's Seinfeld, and The Blacklist. The company also produces Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, the two largest-running and highest-rated game shows in syndication while CBS Television Distribution distributes the daytime talks show, The Dr. OZ Show and distributed The Queen Latifah Show; the reality shows Shark Tank and The Sing-Off; and two long running soap operas, NBC's Days of Our Lives and CBS's The Young and the Restless.
