New Line Television was the television production arm of the film studio of the same name. It was active for about 20 years from 1988 to 2008, when it was folded into Warner Bros. Television.
History The company was founded in 1988 to produce Freddy's Nightmares, a television series based on the studio's Nightmare on Elm Street film series. Following the series's cancellation in 1990, New Line Cinema launched its own television unit a year later.
In 1990, New Line bought a majority stake in Robert Halmi, Inc. Entertainment, a production company specializing in Television films and miniseries. RHI was sold to Hallmark Cards in 1994, shortly after New Line had been acquired by Turner Broadcasting System. New Line once had a television distribution shop, New Line Television Distribution, which was previously affiliated with RHI. On October 21, 1992, New Line and RHI was in negotiations to handle management of RHI catalog product.
On February 15, 1999, producer Trilogy Entertainment Group had signed an exclusive development deal with the studio to produce television projects, mostly for syndication, cable and the networks. On April 28, 2000, it was announced that Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher, a program New Line is planning on to debut for syndication would debut instead on the Sci-Fi Channel, eventually making it into a made-for-TV movie.
Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner on October 10, 1996. On June 16, 2000, New Line Television signed an affiliation production contract with Warner Bros. Television to produce network series for a two-year period. From October 2006, MGM Television began distributing New Line's films and television series.
On February 28, 2008, New Line Cinema was merged with Warner Bros. and hence ceased to exist as a separate entity. In turn, New Line Television was folded into Warner Bros.'s television division.
Warner Bros. Television would later revive the New Line brand in 2016 as a speciality producer for new and upcoming television adaptations based on New Line’s forte.
Television series produced Title Years Network Notes Freddy's Nightmares 1988–1990 Syndication with Stone TelevisionBased on the 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street and its sequels by New Line Cinema Court TV: Inside America's Courts 1993–1997 with Court TV The Mask: Animated Series 1995–1997 CBS with Film Roman, Dark Horse Entertainment and Sunbow EntertainmentBased on the 1994 film The Mask by New Line Cinema Dumb & Dumber 1995 ABC with Hanna-Barbera ProductionsBased on the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber by New Line Cinema Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm 1996 USA Network with Film Roman, Threshold Entertainment and USA StudiosBased on the 1995 film Mortal Kombat by New Line Cinema Mortal Kombat: Konquest 1998–1999 Syndication with Threshold EntertainmentBased on the 1995 film Mortal Kombat by New Line Cinema Breaking News 2002 Bravo with Trilogy Entertainment Group The Twilight Zone 2002–2003 UPN with Spirit Dance Entertainment, Trilogy Entertainment Group and Joshmax Production Services Masterminds 2003–2007 History Television with Red Apple Entertainment Amish in the City 2004 UPN with Stick Figure Productions Kitchen Confidential 2005 Fox with Hemingson Entertainment, Darren Star Productions and 20th Century Fox Television Blade: The Series 2006 Spike with Phantom Four Films and Marvel EntertainmentBased on the 1998 film Blade and its sequels by New Line Cinema The Real Wedding Crashers 2007 NBC with Katalyst Films Friday: The Animated Series MTV2 with Cubevision and MTV AnimationBased on the 1995 film Friday and its sequels by New Line Cinema High School Confidential2008 WE tv with Herizon Productions Family Foreman TV Land Poison Ivy: The Secret SocietyLifetime with Hush Productions Inc. and Insight Film StudiosFilm made for TV
Television distribution series
The Lost World (1999–2002)
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