Debmar-Mercury
Debmar-Mercury is a television syndication company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lions Gate Entertainment.
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History
Debmar-Mercury was formed from a merger of Debmar Studios and Mercury Entertainment in 2006. On July 12, 2006, Lions Gate Entertainment expanded into television distribution and acquired Debmar-Mercury.[1][2] In November 2006, the company was awarded the syndication rights to Family Feud and industry rumors suggest that the company could also syndicate some classic Goodson-Todman shows.[3] On January 11, 2007, 20th Television picked up ad-sales for Debmar-Mercury series in syndication.[4][5]
The 10-90 Model
Debmar-Mercury is known for pioneering a unique syndication model, known as the "10-90" approach, where the syndicator sells the program to a cable station for a 10-episode test run. If those 10 episodes achieve acceptable ratings, the show would be renewed for an additional 90 episodes. This allows the show to have a profitable life in off-network syndication, in which 100 episodes is considered the desired number for a show to begin entering daily reruns.[6] This unique broadcast syndication model for television was used with the TBS and OWN cable television networks for multiple sitcoms created by the multihyphenate Tyler Perry,[7] and for multiple series with the FX cable television network, featuring the likes of actors Charlie Sheen[8] and Kelsey Grammer and comedians Martin Lawrence, Kevin James[9] and George Lopez.[10] So far, three shows have failed to reach the ratings threshold for a 90-episode order, there are the 2010 Comedy Central comedy Big Lake,[11] which was produced by Funny or Die co-creators, Will Ferrell & Adam McKay.[12] and the 2014 FX sitcoms, Saint George and Partners.
Partial list of series
This is the list of series distributed by Debmar-Mercury. Aside the Lionsgate libraries and the Revolution Studios film library, Debmar-Mercury distributes from the following:
Note: Some shows denoted with an asterisk (*) are distributed in conjunction with 20th Television for ad-sales.
- ALF (1986-1990) (produced by Alien Productions. Debmar-Mercury syndicated the series in 2006)
- South Park (1997–present) (Syndicated the series since 2005)*[13]
- Family Feud (1999–present) (produced by FremantleMedia North America and Feudin' Productions (1999-2010) and by Wanderlust Productions (2010-present). Syndicated the series since 2007)*
- American Chopper (2003-2010)
- Deadliest Catch (2005–present)
- Tyler Perry's House of Payne (produced by Tyler Perry Studios) (2006-2012) on TBS*
- The Wendy Williams Show (2008–present)*
- Trivial Pursuit: America Plays (2008-2009)*
- Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008-2011) (produced by Tyler Perry Studios on TBS) (co-distributed by Turner Television with ad-sales by Disney-ABC Domestic Television)
- Are We There Yet? (2010-2012) on TBS*
- The Jeremy Kyle Show (2011-2013)*
- Anger Management (2012–2014)*
- Celebrity Name Game (2014-present) (produced by FremantleMedia North America, CBS Television Studios, and Entertain the Brutes)*
- Tosh.0 (2009-present) on Comedy Central*
See also
References
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- ↑ Lionsgate Expands Into Television Syndication Business, Acquires Debmar-Mercury
- ↑ Film studio Lionsgate acquires television distributor
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- ↑ "TV News Check" 20th Century TV to handle ad sales of both Debmar-Mercury shows for 2007 season. tvnewscheck.com Retrieved on March 13, 2012
- ↑ Elizabeth Guider "Variety" 'Dead Zone' headed to syndication variety.com January 11, 2007, Retrieved on January 29, 2013
- ↑ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118055951/
- ↑ http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/own-picks-up-tyler-perrys-sitcom-for-better-or-worse-orders-third-season/
- ↑ http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/fx-news-season-10-of-sunny-very-likely-anger-management-to-air-45-eps-a-year/
- ↑ http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/kevin-james-is-working-on-a-10-90-sitcom.html
- ↑ http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/fx-picks-up-new-george-lopez-sitcom-in-1090-deal-with-lionsgatedebmar-mercury/
- ↑ http://variety.com/2012/tv/news/for-debmar-mercury-10-90-math-adds-up-1118051090/
- ↑ http://www.vulture.com/2010/08/so_is_the_new_will_ferrell-pro.html
- ↑ http://www.eonline.com/news/47952/oh-my-god-south-park-syndicated
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