History
On March 4, 2013, then-president and then-CEO of Viacom Philippe Dauman announced that Paramount opted to produce a television series based on one of their films. The show would allow Paramount to “get back, with very little investment, into the television production business.”[9] Hours later, Paramount chairman/CEO Brad Grey announced that the studio was co-producing a CBS television series based on Beverly Hills Cop with Sony Pictures Television; however, the pilot did not move forward.[10][11]
On July 22, 2013, Amy Powell was named president of Paramount Television.[12] Until the re-merger of CBS Corporation and Viacom on December 4, 2019, the revived Paramount Television had no ties to the CBS network unlike the previous incarnation in its later years before the Viacom/CBS split. In addition, shows produced by the revived Paramount Television are distributed on home media by Paramount Home Entertainment under the main Paramount brand, while shows produced by the original Paramount Television are released through CBS Home Entertainment due to CBS Studios owning the pre-2005 Paramount Television library.
A television series based on the 2003 film School of Rock was announced to air on Nickelodeon.[13] On August 26, 2014, Paramount Television and HBO announced plans to develop a new series titled Ashecliffe which will serve as a prequel to the 2010 Paramount Pictures film Shutter Island.[14]
On May 27, 2014, Anonymous Content signed a 3-year first-look deal with Paramount Television to produce and distribute scripted programming.[15] On October 23, 2014, Chapter Eleven, the production company of Kyle Killen and Scott Pennington, signed a 2-year deal with Paramount Television and Anonymous Content after Killen left 20th Century Fox Television (now just 20th Television).[16]
On July 14, 2014, Robert Zemeckis, his producing partner Jack Rapke and their production company, Compari Entertainment, signed a 2-year first-look pact with Paramount Television.[17] On January 6, 2017, Paramount Television signed a first-look agreement with Federation Entertainment.[18] On July 19, 2018, Paramount Television fired its president Powell, following reports that several people had "concerns around [Powell's] comments [made in a] professional setting which they believed were inconsistent" with Viacom's and Paramount's values; claims which Powell countered and was considering legal action.[19] On September 5, 2018, she was replaced as Paramount Television president by Nicole Clemens.[20]
Viacom indicated that Paramount Television generated $400 million in revenue and produced 9 series at the end-of-year review in 2018. In 2019, Paramount's chief executive Jim Gianopulos indicated that Paramount Television would have 20 series in production and double its profit.[4] On August 16, 2021, following the rebrand, Auriel Rudnick had signed an overall deal with Paramount Television Studios.[21]
On April 11, 2023, Paramount Television Studios signed a multi-year first-look deal with Brillstein Entertainment Partners.[22]
Sometime in 2024, management of Paramount Television Studios was transferred to Paramount Global's fellow CBS Entertainment-owned production subsidiary CBS Studios.[23] On August 13, following two rounds of layoffs at Paramount Global that year which included much of Paramount Television Studios' team, it was announced that the division would be shut down by the end of that week, with current series as well as those in development shifting to CBS Studios instead.[24][25]
On August 7, 2025 when Paramount Global merged with Skydance Media to form Paramount Skydance Corporation, Paramount Television Studios was revived to house its television production assets when the new parent merged its former production divisions Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and Skydance Television (who formerly co-produced series with Paramount Television Studios such as Reacher) alongside their current & future production states into the revived television studio who would take over incorporate production content from the former two studios as former Skydance Television president Matt Thunell leading the revived division as its president.[26] Skydance Media's CCO and Skydance Television's co-founder Dana Goldberg joined the revived TV production studio Paramount Television Studios as co-chair who would oversee the relaunched TV studios and Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios' head of scripted Keith Cox had joined the revived television studio Paramount Television Studios as its head of scripted with them interrogate's Showtime/MTV's overall deal with Taylor Sheridan and the latter's joint-venture production subsidiary Antoinette Media.[27][2]
Two months later in October of that year following the Paramount Television Studios' relaunch by Paramount Skydance, Paramount Television Studios took over Nickelodeon Productions and the youth-focused production studio Awesomeness including Nickelodeon's & Awesomeness' production states and had folded the two production units into PTVS as the revived studio would take over Nickelodeon's current production state alongside Awesomeness' current productions, and would produce their future production slates beginning with the upcoming Victorious spin-off series Hollywood Arts which was originally ordered at Nickelodeon had moved to Netflix as its first Nickelodeon-branded series produced by the revived studio.[28]
A week later in that same month following the takeover production of the upcoming series Hollywood Arts and the aborbstion of Nickelodeon Productions and the youth-focused production studio Awesomeness into Paramount Television Studios, Paramount Television Studios announced that Skydance Television EVP & physical production Drew Brown had been named Head of Production at PTVS whilst Skydance Television's EVP, Head of Development Shelley Zimmerman and Carolyn Harris assumed the same roles of EVP, Head of Development at Paramount Television Studios alongside former Netflix whilst Arturo Reyes had joined the television studios for the role of Head of Production Finance.[29] Paramount Television Studios had also appointed former Netflix EMEA VP Mel Rauch to become its Head of Finance while former Skydance Television EVP and Global Head of Production Finance Arturo Reyes became Head of Production Finance at the latter television studio.[30]
