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MGM-TV was started with the hiring of Bud Barry to head up the operation in June 1956. MGM-TV was to distribute its 770 films to TV (starting with the networks), TV production and purchasing TV stations. TV production was expect to start with the 1957–58 season and was to include half-hour remakes of or series based on its pictures.
In 1978, the company was established as MGM Home Video, releasing MGM films and television series. In 1980, MGM joined forces with CBS Video Enterprises, the home video division of the CBS television network, and formed MGM/CBS Home Video. In October of that year, they released their first batch of Betamax and VHS tapes. [2]
This list does not include films from United Artists before it merged with MGM (except for co-productions), or other studios that MGM acquired (such as Orion Pictures, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and Cannon Films). MGM's pre-May 1986 library is currently owned by Warner Bros. through Turner Entertainment Co.
The formation of Epix was announced on April 21, 2008, after individual negotiations between Paramount Pictures, MGM, and Lionsgate with Showtime to renew their existing film output deals broke down; each of the three studios disagreed with Showtime over the licensing fee rates for which they wanted Showtime to compensate them to allow future releases to air on the Showtime Networks services. [35]
The MGM/UA Premiere Network [2] along with MCA TV's Universal Pictures Debut Network came as a response to the weakened network television market for films in packages. [3] To put things into perspective, virtually all movies in the early 1980s played on the cable television services before being made available for network showings.
According to Animation Magazine, MGM Animation had plans to do a theatrical animated film adaption of comedian Bill Cosby's famous stand up sketch of his take of Noah's Ark with Cosby producing, co-writing the script with Charles Kipps and as the voice of God, while Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Jonathan Winters were in talks to voice Noah.
As a result, in November 2014, AMC Networks International started to rename their European and Latin American MGM channels under the name AMC. [15] Also, at the end of 2014, they also renamed their Asian MGM channel AMC, and on either June 30, 2015 or July 1, 2015, renamed Casa Club TV (which they had acquired from MGM earlier) Más Chic.