Grub Street Productions

Grub Street Productions
IndustryTelevision production
Founded1989; 35 years ago (1989)
Founders
DefunctMay 13, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-05-13)
FateDissolved
Headquarters
United States

Grub Street Productions[1][2][3][4][5] was an American production company founded in 1989[6] by three writers and producers: David Angell,[1] Peter Casey and David Lee - who met while working on Cheers and left that show to form it. It was affiliated with Paramount Television (now CBS Television Studios).[2]

The company is most notable for creating the television sitcom Frasier, which aired on NBC for eleven seasons from 1993 to 2004, totaling 264 episodes and the recipient and winner of many Emmy awards,[7] and the series Wings, which likewise aired on NBC, running for eight seasons and 172 episodes from 1990 to 1997.[8][9] Additionally, the sitcoms The Pursuit of Happiness and Encore! Encore! were also produced by the company.[3]

  1. ^ a b "David Angell". the Guardian. September 13, 2001.
  2. ^ a b "Grub Street Productions [WorldCat Identities]".
  3. ^ a b Leszczak, Bob (August 31, 2018). Single Season Sitcoms of the 1990s: A Complete Guide. McFarland. ISBN 9781476670775 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ television, paramount. "Film, Video, 2000 to 2099, Paramount Television". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  5. ^ "Major production companies". www.ibiblio.org. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  6. ^ Phenix, Matthew (September 20, 1998). "SIGNOFF; Rising Star As a Tenor With Woes". The New York Times.
  7. ^ CARMAN, JOHN (1999-09-10). "A Mob Mentality Rules Ahead of Sunday's Emmys". SFGATE. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  8. ^ O'Connor, John J. (May 3, 1990). "Review/Television; Brotherly Competition At a Fledgling Airline". The New York Times.
  9. ^ Gitlin, Martin (November 7, 2013). The Greatest Sitcoms of All Time. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810887251 – via Google Books.