High-quality creative content continues to drive the fortunes of the ABC Television Network and its owned stations. The Company's in-house television studio is a major source of high-caliber content, developing and producing premier programming for network, cable, Web, video-on-demand, mobile and broadband platforms for the Company and other outlets.
Formerly Touchstone Television, the Studio was renamed ABC Studios in February 2007. The name change reflects the Studio's critical role in building a brand that viewers identify with quality television on any platform, and reflects the Company's strategy to focus on three core brands: Disney, ABC and ESPN.
The Studio is a leader in television development and production, with a slate of 23 series on broadcast and cable networks, including ABC, NBC, CBS, ABC Family, Lifetime, The CW and FX. ABC Studios produces the biggest hits on ABC, including the cultural phenomenons Grey's Anatomy, Lost and Ugly Betty, as well as break-out hits Kyle XY, ABC Family's most successful series to date, and Army Wives, the most successful series in the history of Lifetime Television.
Buena Vista Productions (BVP) develops and produces non-scripted original programming for television and other platforms, including a new reality series, The Fashionista Diaries, for SOAPnet and the trivia game show Camouflage for the Game Show Network. BVP also oversees production of the high stakes quizzer Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper.
Top: The Desperate Housewives of Wisteria Lane are No.1 on Sundays.
Bottom: Millions of viewers in more than 200 territories around the world have gotten Lost.
