Big Ticket Television (also known as "Big Ticket Entertainment" and "Big Ticket Pictures, Inc.") was created by the
Spelling Entertainment Group in 1994 as a low-budget unit that produced half-hour sitcoms and reality shows. Founder Larry Lyttle wanted to name the company Blockbuster Television after Blockbuster, who at the time owned the Spelling group and was owned by
Viacom; however, Viacom vetoed the idea, so Lyttle went with "Big Ticket" instead, after Blockbuster's logo. They produced
Moesha and its spin-off
The Parkers for UPN (now The CW) as well as the daily syndicated court shows
Judge Judy,
Judge Joe Brown and
Hot Bench. When Viacom acquired Spelling in 1999, Big Ticket Television became a label of the
Paramount Television Group. Today, Big Ticket Television is an in-name-only unit of
Paramount Global's
CBS Studios.
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