CBS Eye Animation Productions

CBS Eye Animation Productions

Company type	Division
Industry	Television animation
Predecessors	Terrytoons
Founded	October 2018; 5 years ago (2018-10)
Headquarters	Television City, Los Angeles, California, US
Key people	Alec Botnick (head of animation)
Parent	CBS Studios
Divisions	Late Night Cartoons, Inc.

CBS Eye Animation Productions is an American animation studio, division of CBS Studios owned by Paramount Global. The studio is closely associated with the Star Trek franchise with its first projects, Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Prodigy. CBS reinstated it as an animation division in late 2018 before its re-merger with Viacom in late 2019.^[1][2]

Background

In the 1950s, CBS began to invest further into television programs, creating many live shows as I Love Lucy and Captain Kangaroo. However, in 1955 CBS purchased Terrytoons from Paul Terry under CBS Films. After the deal's closure in 1956, CBS placed Terrytoons under the management of UPA's Gene Deitch (whom had already secured a contract with CBS). Deitch would soon produce animated Tom Terrific shorts for Captain Kangaroo in 1957. Terrytoons would continue animation under CBS until its closure in 1972 after the corporate spin-off of the original Viacom International.

Despite the change of operations, CBS would continue to air many animated programs such as Terrytoons (which they still owned) and Hanna-Barbera Productions through the 1970s and mid-1980s. Throughout the late 1980s and '90s, they acquired broadcasting rights to multiple series from different studios such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Garfield and Friends (both now owned by parent company Paramount Global), Muppet Babies (now owned by Disney), as well several toy-based shows.

The network would continue with broadcast syndication cartoons from several companies (such as Nelvana) up until the late 1990s. In the 2000s, CBS (now merged with Westinghouse) switched to licensing more educational shows. Viacom had also acquired CBS as it agreed to air Nickelodeon/Nick Jr. on CBS until 2006 (after Viacom & CBS' split).

CBS would later resume airing animated programs by launching Cookie Jar TV until 2013.

History

In late 2018, CBS Studios unveiled CBS Eye Animation Productions to produce animated content for CBS All Access (now Paramount+). Star Trek: Lower Decks would become the first animated television series, followed by Star Trek: Prodigy (a co-production with sister studio Nickelodeon Animation Studio). Initially, the studio would only create shows based on the Star Trek franchise but has invested in other shows such as The Harper House and Showtime's Our Cartoon President, as well as critically acclaimed live-action/animated news program, Tooning Out the News.

On September 29, 2022, the CBS Eye Animation Productions employees formed a union with Animation Guild IATSE Local 839 to publicly submit a letter for voluntary recognition.^{[citation needed]}

Late Night Cartoons, Inc.

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert and his production company, Spartina Productions, founded Late Night Cartoons, Inc., an animation studio that has collaborated with developers of Adobe Character Animator to produces and providing real-time interactive animations for broadcast. Their topical productions range from a live interview with an animated cartoon version of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016 to several animated series including; Showtime's Our Cartoon President, Paramount+/Comedy Central’s Tooning Out the News, and Comedy Central’s Fairview, as well as upcoming series Washingtonia.^{[citation needed]}

List of CBS Eye Animation Studios productions

All productions are co-produced with CBS Studios (formerly CBS Television Studios).

TV series

TV specials

Late Night Cartoons, Inc.

See also

• MTV Animation
• Nickelodeon Animation Studio
• Paramount Animation
• Terrytoons
• List of animation studios owned by Paramount Global

References

• v
• t
• e

Star Trek

• Outline
• Timeline
• Canon
• Lists

Television series
(episodes)

Live-action	The Original Series episodes The Next Generation episodes Deep Space Nine episodes Voyager episodes Enterprise episodes Discovery episodes Picard Strange New Worlds
Animated	The Animated Series Lower Decks Prodigy
Shorts	Short Treks Very Short Treks

Films

The Original Series	The Motion Picture The Wrath of Khan The Search for Spock The Voyage Home The Final Frontier The Undiscovered Country
The Next Generation	Generations First Contact Insurrection Nemesis
Reboot (Kelvin timeline)	Star Trek Into Darkness Beyond
Television films	Section 31

Setting

Characters	A–F G–M N–S T–Z Crossovers
Concepts	Games Kobayashi Maru Law Prime Directive Materials Dilithium Sexuality Stardate
Locations	Class M planet Galactic quadrant Mirror Universe
Cultures and species	Andorian Bajoran Borg Breen Cardassian Dominion Ferengi Rules of Acquisition Gorn Kazon Klingon High Council culture language grammar Maquis Orion Q Romulan Species 8472 United Federation of Planets Starfleet Academy Section 31 Tribble Vidiians Vulcan nerve pinch salute Xindi
Technology	Cloaking device Communicator Deflector shields Holodeck Hypospray Impulse drive Jefferies tube LCARS Medicine Replicator Spacecraft Deep Space Nine Defiant Earth Spacedock Enterprise NX-01 NCC-1701 A D E Klingon starships Shuttlecraft Voyager Transporter Tricorder Uniforms Warp drive Weapons Bat'leth

Production

• List of staff
• Gene Roddenberry
• Norway Corporation
• Composers and music
  • musical theme
• "Where no man has gone before"
• "Beam me up, Scotty"
• Redshirt
• Accolades (film franchise)

Unmade projects

• The God Thing
• Planet of the Titans
• Phase II
• Star Trek 4

Spin-off fiction

• Games
• Comics
• Novels
• Reference books
• Stage
  • A Klingon Christmas Carol
  • Klingon opera

Aftershows

• After Trek
• The Ready Room

Documentaries

• Trekkies
• Mind Meld
• Trekkies 2
• How William Shatner Changed the World
• Beyond the Final Frontier
• The Captains
• Trek Nation
• For the Love of Spock
• What We Left Behind

Cultural influence

• Kirk and Uhura's kiss
• Comparison to Star Wars
• Fandom
  • productions
• Kirk/Spock
• Memory Alpha
• Shakespeare and Star Trek
• The Exhibition
• The Experience
• "The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise" (1976 SNL sketch)
• Free Enterprise (1999 film)
• Galaxy Quest (1999 film)
• "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" (2002 Futurama episode)
• The Orville (2017 television series)
• Please Stand By (2017 film)
• "USS Callister" (2017 Black Mirror episode)

• Category