Greengrass Productions, Inc. is a production company of ABC Entertainment, a division of Disney Entertainment Television.
Greengrass Productions was incorporated in California on February 10, 1992.
On June 7, 1996, due to the merger with Disney, Capital Cities/ABC indicated that its ABC Productions division operations would be shut down while keeping its boutique production companies: Victor Television Productions, ABC/Kane Productions, DIC Entertainment and Greengrass Productions. Greengrass was transferred from ABC Productions to ABC Entertainment.
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Movies and specials
Lincoln Square Productions
Lincoln Square Productions, LLC (LSP) is a television production company owned by ABC News that produces non-fiction content, such as documentaries and talk shows.
History
Lincoln Square Production was formed as a limited liability company on January 8, 2003.
Lincoln Square had previously produced a series known as Watt's World, about journalist Nick Watt traveling to find "little-known places and sub-cultures", in development for the Travel Channel as of Scripps Networks Interactive's upfront event in April 2014. On October 30, 2014, the long-running talk show The View was transferred to Lincoln Square Productions from ABC Entertainment's Times Square Studios after struggling in ratings and a change in hosts.
In January 2015, Lincoln Square had signed a production deal with Christine Connor's XCON historical docudrama company. For A&E channel, Lincoln Square agreed to produce four specials in 2015 starting with Cosby: The Women Speak. The company agreed in July 2018 to produce films by Robin Roberts under the banner "Robin Roberts Presents" for A&E's Lifetime channel. On April 10, 2019, a slate of 10 unscripted series including Rogue Trip from Lincoln Square Productions was revealed for Disney+. Production of Rogue Trip was later taken over by National Geographic.
Programs
A&E Biography: Jodie Foster (2005)
The Assets (ABC) January 2, 2014 - August 3, 2014
Ebola: Inside the Deadly Outbreak (Discovery)
Final Witness (ABC) a seven-episode true-crime series that premiered June 27, 2012
Mustang Millionaire (National Geographic Channel)
NY Med (ABC)
Surgeon Oz (OWN, 2014–2015)
The View (ABC) October 30, 2014—present
Barbara Walters Presents American Scandals (Investigation Discovery, 2015) nine-episode season 1
“Next Step Realty: NYC” (ABC Family, 2015) a documentary series that follows the Next Step Realty employees in their specialty of finding recent college graduates apartments
20/20: In an Instant (ABC; 2015–2018) (with Committee Films)
9/11: As We Watched (American Heroes Channel) Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Capturing Bin Laden (American Heroes Channel) September 7, 2016
The End of America: Putin's Master Plan working title (History) Biography brand 2 hours special
Grace vs. Abrams A&E series (March 29, 2018-) Nancy Grace and Dan Abrams debating infamous crimes and legal cases
Cosby: The Women Speak A&E special (September 17, 2015)
Robin Roberts Presents (Lifetime) telefilm series in which each film would have a companion documentary. Roberts would be an executive producer along with Linda Berman for the films and John R. Green for the documentary.
untitled Mahalia Jackson drama written by Bettina Gilois and documentary
The Last Defense (2018) (with Xcon Productions and JuVee Productions)
Reversing Roe (2018) (with UnbeliEVAble Entertainment and Break Thru Films) Netflix, 99 minutes; Directors, screenwriters, producers and narrators: Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg
1969 (2019)
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse (2022) (co-production with Tremolo Productions)
Valleycrest Productions
Valleycrest Productions Limited is a television series production company owned by ABC Daytime.
Valleycrest Productions was incorporated on March 6, 1987 (1987-03-06). By 1999, Valleycrest was producing "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and was a subsidiary of Buena Vista Television by that time.
On December 2, 2011, Disney-ABC Television Group placed daytime and syndicated production under Times Square Studios.
Valleycrest moved production of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2014 to the Connecticut Film Center in Stamford, Connecticut, to take advantage of the state's film/television tax credits.
Filmography
ABC Circle 7 Productions
ABC Circle 7 Productions, Inc. was the programming subsidiary of the ABC Owned Stations in the 1980s.
In August 1983, Circle 7 Productions announced its Newsbank news distribution service. ABC Circle 7 Productions was incorporated on December 15, 1983.
Programming
Newsbank, news distribution service making about 24 stories available to subscribing stations from ABC's (then) five O&O Stations
ABC Productions
ABC Productions (ABCP) was a television production company that was a division of ABC Television Network Group. While the ABC network had first shot at the unit's shows, the company was allowed to shop shows to other networks and was the first to sell to another network. The company was set up increase the control and financial rewards of producing its own TV shows.
History
ABC Productions was formed in 1989 as ABC Network's in-house production unit after the alteration of the fin-syn rules that increased network ownership to only 40% of prime-time programs. Former ABC Motion Pictures president and ABC Entertainment president Brandon Stoddard on March 21, 1989, to head up the then unnamed production unit, though one source believed it was the former ABC subsidiary ABC Circle Films. In the fall of 1989, it is said that ABC Productions would sign on to develop projects for NBC, HBO and Lifetime.
By early 1991, ABC Productions had purchased Andrew Adelson Co. then signed Andrew Adelson to an exclusive production contract. By May 1991, ABCP produced eight pilots, a series, a miniseries and several TV movies. "My Life and Times" was the company's first series production placed with the ABC network and debuted in May 1991, but was yanked after the ratings dropped 19% from week 1 to 2, so as to avoid May sweeps. While its first miniseries, "An Inconvenient Woman" was shown on ABC in the May sweeps was produced by Adelson. For Lifetime, ABCP produced a telefilm, 'Stop at Nothing'. Former Cosby Show co-executive producer Elliot Shonman for ABCP created, written and produced Coconut Downs while agreeing to a two-year exclusivity deal. Also signing production deals by June 1991 were Martthew Carlson (an extension), Steve Kronish and Norman Morrill. 29 projects were under development.
By the 1994–95 season, ABC Productions was providing half of ABC's regular series programming. DreamWorks Television was formed in December 1994 as DreamWorks Studios agreed to a $200 million seven-year TV production joint venture with Capital Cities/ABC. ABCP placed "The Boys are Back" with CBS for the 1994–1995 season.
In June 1995, Stoddard stepped down as ABC Productions president. On June 7, 1996, due to the merger with Disney, Capital Cities/ABC indicated that its ABC Productions division operations would be shut down while keeping its boutique production companies: Victor Television Productions, ABC/Kane Productions, DIC Entertainment and Greengrass Productions. ABCP executive in charge Brian McAndrews continued managing ABC's other production arms for TV movies, documentaries and children's programming and production interests with DreamWorks SKG, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment and Jim Henson Productions. McAndrews left in early March 1998 for an ABC Sports position, while Greengrass Productions was folded into ABC Entertainment and its telefilm unit, ABC Pictures, would finish its last five projects then disband.
Filmography
ABC Pictures
ABC Pictures was an in house television movie production company of ABC Productions.
The company agreed to a two-year TV movie and miniseries deal with Gary L. Pudney in 1997 with “The Picture of Dorian Gray” in development under the deal. ABC Pictures agreed on August 20, 1997, with the C.P. Group and BIG Entertainment to develop "Tom Clancy's Net Force", as a four-hour miniseries which was broadcast in 1998.
After its final five projects in development, ABC Pictures was shut down in 1998.
Filmography
ABC/Kane Productions
ABC/Kane Productions International (AKPI) is/was a nonfiction programs production company owned by Disney-ABC Television Group. The production company earned 13 Emmy Awards, 6 Genesis Awards, numerous CINE awards, film festival awards and an Academy Award nomination.
ABC/Kane Productions International was formed by Capital Cities/ABC Inc. as a unit of its ABC Television Network Group on October 1, 1988, with the appointment of its first president, Dennis B. Kane. Original plans for the unit was five programs a year for five years starting in October 1990 for ABC and other outlets.
ABC/Kane received 11 Emmy nominations in 1998 for The Living Edens series, the highest to date, while winning 5 five news and documentary Emmys. Devillier Donegan Enterprises, a unit of Buena Vista International Television, in February 1999 took over distribution, management and operation of AKPI.
Productions
The Living Edens (1997-2003, PBS)
ABC's World of Discovery
Secrets of the Internet
Tales of the Serengeti
Wildlife Tales
ABC Saturday Children's Special & series pilot "Crash the Curiosaurus" (January 14, 1995)
ABC News Productions
ABC News Productions (ABCNP) is a long form documentary production unit within ABC News's ABC News Digital Media Group. ABCNP produces documentaries for cable channels, international broadcasters and home video.
ABC News Productions was formed in 1994. In August 2006, ABCNP was placed into ABC News All Media along with the ABC News production unit.
ABC Media Productions
ABC Media Productions (AMP), originally named Buena Vista Productions (BVP), was the in house television development, production and programming unit within ABC Daytime. The company produces non-scripted programming in all three areas (talk, game, reality) for syndication, cable and prime time outlets including outside the Disney conglomerate. The division has oversight of the production of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire".
AMP history
In September 2000 following the merger of ABC Daytime Group and Buena Vista's development group, ABC Daytime replaced Buena Vista Development with Buena Vista Productions, to be headed by president Angela Shapiro, who was then also ABC Daytime president. Shapiro was transferred to ABC Family President in April 2002 with Holly Jacobs taking over at BVP as executive vice president the next month.
In August 2006, BVP and Fujisankei Communications partnered to develop and produce "Run for Money," a game show for the American market, adapted from the original Japanese reality-game show of the same title.
In September 2008, BVP entered a first-look development deal with Silverback, a Swedish production company. In 2009, Buena Vista Productions was renamed ABC Media Productions. In May, AMP was developing The Aisha Tyler Show, a variety & comedy talk show with interactive components including social media, for cable or broadcast syndication.
Programs
Cha$e, Sci Fi Channel
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, syndication
At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper, syndication (1986-)
"The Fashionista Diaries" (SoapNet)
"Camouflage" Game Show Network
Wayne Brady Show
Circle Seven Productions
Circle Seven Productions was the production company of ABC's owned-and-operated station in San Francisco, KGO-TV, in the 1950s and 1960s. The company produced shows for the network and for syndication. Shows produced included a Jack LaLanne fitness series and a Tennessee Ernie Ford daytime talk/variety series.
Keep Calm and Carry On Productions
Keep Calm and Carry On Productions, Inc. is an ABC subsidiary production company that produced Duets and The Glass House. Keep Calm was sued over The Glass House by CBS for using proprietary procedures from Big Brother via hired away staff. The production company was incorporated on October 24, 2008.
Selmur Productions
Selmur Productions, Inc. was formed in 1960 by Selig J. Seligman as a TV production arm of ABC. Selmur Pictures, Inc., also headed by Seligman, was a film production company owned by American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. In 1968, Selmur Pictures, Inc. changed from being a supervising entity to an active film producer, while Selmur Productions was disbanded.
TV series
Combat
Garrison's Gorillas
General Hospital
Shindig
Victor Television Productions
Victor Television Productions was a boutique production company owned by ABC Entertainment.
On June 7, 1996, due to the merger with Disney, Capital Cities/ABC ended its ABC Productions division operations while keeping its boutique production companies: Victor Television Productions, ABC/Kane Productions, DIC Entertainment and Greengrass Productions.
Filmography
Summertime Switch (October 8, 1994)
Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare (April 1, 1995) (co-production with Hickox-Bowman Productions Inc.)
Spring Fling! (April 15, 1995) (co-production with Hickox-Bowman Productions Inc.)
When The Vows Break (November 1, 1995)
A Case For Life (February 18, 1996)
The Stepford Husbands (May 14, 1996)
The Siege at Ruby Ridge (May 19, 1996) (co-production with Edgar J. Scherick Associates and The Regan Company)
Chasing The Dragon (June 19, 1996)
For The Future: The Irvine Fertility Scandal (August 21, 1996)
Devil's Food (September 2, 1996)
Frank Herbert's Dune (December 3, 2000) (co-production with New Amsterdam Entertainment, Blixa Film Produktion and Hallmark Entertainment)
Stephen King's Rose Red (January 27, 2002) (co-production with Greengrass Productions and Mark Carliner Productions)
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (mini-series; March 16–26, 2003)
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (May 12, 2003)
