Exclusive: Sony Pictures Television has finalized a new licensing deal with Paramount Global for comedy series The King of Queens to continue to be available on Paramount linear cable networks. The new pact also includes for the first time streaming rights on Paramount+ for all nine seasons and on Pluto TV for some (currently Seasons 1-3).
Paramount Global would not specify which linear networks will be carrying The King Of Queens. The sitcom has been running on the company’s TV Land and CMT.
Sony TV took The King of Queens out a year ago, offering rights across all linear and digital platforms starting in April 2024. The new pact with Paramount Global kicked in at the start of the month, with the show already available on Paramount+ and Pluto TV.
The deal is not exclusive — The King of Queens continues to also be available on NBCU platforms, including Peacock, as well as in broadcast syndication.
Paramount Global would not specify which linear networks will be carrying The King Of Queens. The sitcom has been running on the company’s TV Land and CMT.
Sony TV took The King of Queens out a year ago, offering rights across all linear and digital platforms starting in April 2024. The new pact with Paramount Global kicked in at the start of the month, with the show already available on Paramount+ and Pluto TV.
The deal is not exclusive — The King of Queens continues to also be available on NBCU platforms, including Peacock, as well as in broadcast syndication.
- 4/4/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
The King of Queens wasn’t a rating juggernaut. Still, the series was popular for CBS in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The show followed the lives of a married couple, Carrie and Doug Heffernan, as they adjusted to life with Carrie’s father, Arthur Spooner, living with them. While the series focused on the trials and tribulations of married life, there was one aspect of matrimony that the show did not explore. Carrie and Doug didn’t have children during the show’s initial run. The production team opted not to give the couple children partly for syndication purposes.
Carrie and Doug Heffernan didn’t have children because of syndication
Carrie and Doug didn’t have children of their own during the show’s initial run. As it turns out, that was a call made by studio executives and not the show’s writers. In 2006, executive producer David Bickel...
Carrie and Doug Heffernan didn’t have children because of syndication
Carrie and Doug didn’t have children of their own during the show’s initial run. As it turns out, that was a call made by studio executives and not the show’s writers. In 2006, executive producer David Bickel...
- 10/9/2023
- by Andrea Francese
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Conception, a supernatural mystery drama from writer John Glenn (Eagle Eye) and producer David Janollari, has been set up at NBC with a put pilot commitment. The project hails from Universal Television where Glenn’s and Janollari’s companies, John Glenn Entertainment and David Janollari Entertainment, are both based, and marks a rare put pilot commitment for NBC’s sibling studio. Co-written by Glenn and Lars Jacobson, Conception tracks a modern-day immaculate conception on a large scale. The show follows those few children that survived and how they’re destined to change the world. Glenn and Janollari executive produce. This is Janollari’s third sale to NBC in his first development season at Uni TV, adding to comedies Gifted from writer David Bickel and a romantic half-hour from writer Paul Ruehl. Glenn wrote two drama projects for NBC last season, the modern-day Hatfields & McCoys, which went to pilot, and Lost Horizon with M. Night Shyamalan,...
- 8/27/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
David Janollari Entertainment, the production company former MTV head of programming Janollari launched in May in conjunction with a pod deal at Universal TV, has hired Anne-Marie McGintee and Chris Markey as VP of development. The company has already sold a couple of projects to NBC, multi-camera comedy Gifted from writer David Bickel and a romantic comedy from writer Paul Ruehl. McGintee reunites with Janollari — she previously worked as director of development of scripted series at MTV under him. Markey was most recently manager of drama development and current programming at Chernin Entertainment.
- 8/21/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
NBC has added three comedy projects to its slate for next season, untitled half-hours from Harris Wittels & Ali Rushfield and Dan Mazer (Borat) and Gifted from David Bickel (Kickin’ It). The untitled Harris Wittels project, from Universal TV and 3 Arts, is a family comedy about a well-meaning slacker who lives with his parents and is in a constant struggle with his family about how best to raise his younger brother, a multimillionaire high school entrepreneur. Wittels is writing with Rushfield supervising. The two executive produce with 3 Arts’ Dave Becky, Tom Lassally and Josh Lieberman. Wittels, who is under an overall deal at Uni TV, is repped by 3 Arts, CAA and Attorney Jared Levine; Rushfield, who also is writing a put pilot mother-daughter comedy for Fox, is repped at UTA. The Dan Mazer multi-camera project, from 20th TV, Tom Werner’s Good Humor TV and 3 Arts, is described as an adult relationship comedy.
- 8/13/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Avoid that 2:30 feeling with some zero-calorie snacks made of TV news.
"Haven" has been picked up for a second season on Syfy, ending a long string of one-and-done shows starring Eric Balfour. The show, based loosely on the Stephen King story "The Colorado Kid" and also starring Emily Rose and Lucas Bryant, will likely return next summer. [Syfy]
"The View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck is joining "Good Morning America" as a contributor, covering "hot-button family, lifestyle and child-rearing issues" for ABC's morning news show. Her first piece, about kids with tattoos, is set to air Monday (Oct. 11). [ABC News]
The real reasons bandleader Max Weinberg isn't joining Conan O'Brien on Conan's TBS show? Weinberg had open-heart surgery in February, which he's just speaking about now, and didn't want to relocate his family from the East Coast. [Fancast]
"Saturday Night Live's" next prime-time special will be all about the ladies. "The Women of...
"Haven" has been picked up for a second season on Syfy, ending a long string of one-and-done shows starring Eric Balfour. The show, based loosely on the Stephen King story "The Colorado Kid" and also starring Emily Rose and Lucas Bryant, will likely return next summer. [Syfy]
"The View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck is joining "Good Morning America" as a contributor, covering "hot-button family, lifestyle and child-rearing issues" for ABC's morning news show. Her first piece, about kids with tattoos, is set to air Monday (Oct. 11). [ABC News]
The real reasons bandleader Max Weinberg isn't joining Conan O'Brien on Conan's TBS show? Weinberg had open-heart surgery in February, which he's just speaking about now, and didn't want to relocate his family from the East Coast. [Fancast]
"Saturday Night Live's" next prime-time special will be all about the ladies. "The Women of...
- 10/7/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Ben Silverman is back at NBC.
The producer and former NBC co-chair has sold a comedy pitch to his former network.
NBC has picked up Silverman's "Party People," an ensemble comedy script about entertainers who work at children's parties. The project has been described as having the tone of a modern-day "Taxi," only with with the under-employed grown-ups dealing with kids birthdays instead of shuttling passengers.
Silverman is executive producing "Party People" through his Iac-backed company Electus.
David Bickel ("King of Queens") will write and executive produce.
Silverman has been getting back in the producing game lately, having recently teamed with "Modern Family" actress Sofia Vergara to sell a project to ABC based on the Spanish-language series "Aqui No Hay Quien Viva" ("I Hate This Place").
Since leaving NBC last year, Silverman has maintained a credited presence at the network. He carries an executive producer title on NBC's top-rated comedy,...
The producer and former NBC co-chair has sold a comedy pitch to his former network.
NBC has picked up Silverman's "Party People," an ensemble comedy script about entertainers who work at children's parties. The project has been described as having the tone of a modern-day "Taxi," only with with the under-employed grown-ups dealing with kids birthdays instead of shuttling passengers.
Silverman is executive producing "Party People" through his Iac-backed company Electus.
David Bickel ("King of Queens") will write and executive produce.
Silverman has been getting back in the producing game lately, having recently teamed with "Modern Family" actress Sofia Vergara to sell a project to ABC based on the Spanish-language series "Aqui No Hay Quien Viva" ("I Hate This Place").
Since leaving NBC last year, Silverman has maintained a credited presence at the network. He carries an executive producer title on NBC's top-rated comedy,...
- 10/6/2010
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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