Big Ticket Entertainment
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Big Ticket Television, Inc. (a.k.a. Big Ticket Entertainment and Big Ticket Pictures) is a production company that is a unit of CBS Television Studios (formerly CBS Paramount Television), a division of CBS Corporation since the split of Viacom at the end of 2005.
The company was launched in 1994 under the Spelling Entertainment Group, which was acquired by Viacom (which owned Paramount Pictures and, at the time, Paramount Television) in 1999. Big Ticket was created primarily as an outlet for non-drama TV series from Spelling, which was largely known for hit dramas at that time.
Most notably, they produce these daily courtroom shows: Judge Judy (1996-present), Judge Joe Brown (1998-present), and Swift Justice with Jackie Glass (2011-present) (distributed by sister division CBS Television Distribution, formerly CBS Paramount Domestic Television), as well as Brandy's breakout show Moesha in 1996 (the same year Judge Judy came on the air), its spin-off The Parkers in 1999, both are distributed by CTD, and the talk show parody Night Stand with Dick Dietrick in 1995.
Since becoming part of CBS Corporation, Big Ticket has largely become dormant and more of an in-name-only unit, its only shows running being the aforementioned courtroom shows.
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