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

CBS Corporation

CBS Corporation is an American media conglomerate focused on commercial broadcasting, publishing, billboards and television production, with most of its operations in the United States. The President and CEO of the company is Leslie Moonves. Sumner Redstone, owner of National Amusements, is CBS's...

 since the split of Viacom

Viacom

Viacom Inc. , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with interests primarily in, but not limited to, cinema and cable television...

 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

Paramount Pictures

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 and, at the time, Paramount Television

Paramount Television

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) in 1999. Big Ticket was created primarily as an outlet for non-drama

Drama

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 TV series from Spelling, which was largely known for hit dramas at that time.

Most notably, they produce Judge Judy

Judge Judy

Judge Judy is an American court show featuring former family court judge Judith Sheindlin arbitrating over small claims cases in small claims court...

 and Judge Joe Brown's daily courtroom shows (distributed by sister division CBS Television Distribution

CBS Television Distribution

CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

, formerly Paramount Domestic Television

Paramount Domestic Television

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) in 1996 and 1998, as well as Brandy

Brandy Norwood

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's breakout show Moesha

Moesha

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in 1996 (the same year Judge Judy

Judge Judy

Judge Judy is an American court show featuring former family court judge Judith Sheindlin arbitrating over small claims cases in small claims court...

 came on the air), its spin-off The Parkers

The Parkers

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in 1999, both are distributed by CTD, and the talk show

Talk show

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 parody

Parody

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 Night Stand with Dick Dietrick

Night Stand with Dick Dietrick

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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. However, some of Big Ticket's previous shows, even short-lived ones, re-air on TV sometimes. Wolf Lake

Wolf Lake

Wolf Lake is an American television series that originally aired on CBS. Wolf Lake follows a pack of werewolves living in a Seattle suburb. The first 5 episodes aired on CBS, but due to low ratings CBS cancelled it. A total of nine aired episodes and a non-aired pilot were made before the show...

was short-lived but was recently broadcast on Syfy

Syfy

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. The Parkers also continues to air in reruns on BET.