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In 1987, Lorimar Television was created as a separate production entity of Lorimar-Telepictures. Around this time, the company purchased a 9% stake in Warner Communications (now Warner Bros. Discovery), which set off talks about a possible merger between two entertainment entities. The following year, Warner Communications finally purchased the ...
The Hogan Family. The Hogan Family is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from March 1, 1986 to May 7, 1990, and on CBS from September 15, 1990 until July 20, 1991. It was produced by Miller-Boyett Productions, along with Tal Productions, Inc., and in association with Lorimar Productions, Lorimar-Telepictures and Lorimar ...
For the 1973 TV movie The Girls of Huntington House (which first aired on February 14), Lorimar briefly ditched the "LP" logo in favor of a simple wordmark, with a line extending from the "L", but being blocked by the "P". See Lorimar-Telepictures Later versions of the logo exist with Time Warner or Time Warner Entertainment bylines.
WB essentially renamed Lorimar Syndication (previously just Telepictures) "Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution" (merging the old WBTV distribution firm into that), and its first new release under that banner was a little something they had been working on with Steven Spielberg—Tiny Toon Adventures. (It was a big enough deal to get a two-page spread in the trades, even though the ...
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May 25, 2012 · Lee Rich, a television executive who co-founded Lorimar — the production company responsible for such successful series as The Waltons and Dallas — has died. He was 85. He was 85. Rich spent more than three decades in the entertainment industry and worked in numerous capacities, including advertising, programming and producing both television and feature films.
Background: Lorimar was formed initially as "Lorimar Productions" on February 1, 1969 by Merv Adelson, Irwin Molasky, and producer Lee Rich, who named the company after Adelson's ex-wife Lori, and San Diego, California's Palomar Airport. Their first production was the TV movie The Homecoming (now owned by CBS Television Studios), based on the book by bestselling author Earl Hamner. Their first ...
