New Line Television

New Line Television was the television arm of the film studio of the same name.

History

The company was founded in 1988 with the mission to produce Freddy's Nightmares, a television series based on the studio's popular Nightmare on Elm Street film series. Following the series' cancellation in 1990, New Line officially launched its television unit in 1991.

In 1990, New Line bought a majority stake in RHI Entertainment, a production company specializing in television movies and miniseries.^[1][2] RHI was sold to Hallmark Cards in 1994, shortly after New Line had been acquired by Turner Broadcasting System.^[3]

TBS merged with Time Warner in 1996. From October 2006, MGM Television began distributing New Line's films and television series.

In February 2008, New Line Cinema was merged with Warner Bros. and hence ceased to exist as a separate entity. In turn, New Line Television was folded into Warner Bros.' television division.^[4]

Television production series

Title	Years	Network	Notes
Freddy's Nightmares^1	1988–1990	Syndication
Court TV: Inside America's Courts	1993–1996	TBS/Syndication	with Court TV
The Mask	1995–1997	CBS	with Film Roman, Dark Horse Entertainment and Sunbow Productions
Dumb & Dumber	1995	ABC	with Hanna-Barbera
Mortal Kombat: Konquest	1998–2000	TNT	with Threshold Entertainment/Lawrence Kasanoff; distributed by Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Breaking News	2002	Bravo
The Twilight Zone	2002–2003	UPN
Masterminds	2003–2007	History
Amish in the City	2004	UPN
Kitchen Confidential	2005	FOX	with 20th Century Fox Television
Blade: The Series	2006	Spike	with Marvel Entertainment
The Real Wedding Crashers	2007	NBC
Friday: The Animated Series	2007	MTV2	with Cubevision
High School Confidential	2008	WE tv
Family Foreman	2008	TV Land

Television distribution series

• The Lost World (1999–2002)

Notes

¹ Freddy's Nightmares was distributed in syndication by Lorimar-Telepictures from 1988–1989. Warner Bros. purchased Lorimar-Telepictures in 1989 and assumed distribution for the remainder of the series' run.

References

1. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/60068304.html?dids=60068304:60068304&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+06%2C+1990&author=ALAN+CITRON&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Qintex+Entertainment+to+Sell+Virtually+All+of+Its+Assets&pqatl=google
2. "BUSINESS PEOPLE; President for TV Unit At New Line Cinema". The New York Times. November 16, 1991. Retrieved September 16, 2009.
4. "It's Official - New Line Cinema is Dead!". FirstShowing.net. February 28, 2008. Retrieved February 13, 2009.

External links

• New Line Television at the Internet Movie Database