Embassy Communications: Difference between revisions

On December 21, 1987, Coke spun-off its entertainment business and sold it to Tri-Star Pictures. Tri-Star Pictures, Inc. was renamed to "Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc." and merging the [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]] and [[TriStar Pictures|Tri-Star Pictures]] theatrical banners. By January 2, 1988, the Embassy Communications logo was phased out and was replaced by the Columbia Pictures Television logo, but the series by Embassy Communications retained the copyright for its series until March 19, 1988 (the last production to use an Embassy copyright was the final season ''Facts of Life'' episode "Big Apple Blues" while others began using the ELP copyright by February 1988), when Embassy Communications was renamed as "ELP Communications", but was under the production banner of Columbia Pictures Television from 1988-1994, and [[Columbia TriStar Television]] from 1994-1997 (both studios however, still produced their series individually). ELP Communications is a joint venture between LEP Holdings and PEP Communications that was formed on December 21, 1987. In 1998, after ''Beakman's World'' was cancelled, [[Sony Pictures Entertainment]] retired Embassy Television. However, Embassy currently remains as an in-name-only unit of [[Sony Pictures Television]].

'''Visuals:''' Same as the 1982 [[Embassy Films Associates|Embassy Pictures]] logo, but with a few differences: the logo is sped up and the bottom text appears underneath the logo rather than fading in. The bottom text is one of the following depending on the series type:

* "'''EMBASSY''' PAY TELEVISION" stacked and aligned to the left. (subscription programs, 1984-December 26, 1987, this variant has "EMBASSY" in the Arial font and "PAY TELEVISION" in the Optima font.)

* On 1982-1985 season episodes of ''The Jeffersons'', the end credits fade to a shot of skyscrapers. Over this image, the "{{Font|Impact|E}}" star logo appears (and the music starts), rolling in over this background. The background soon fades to {{color|blue}}, and "'''EMBASSY''' TELEVISION" appears like normal over this image. This version was in pretty good circulation, as out of 6 late season episodes aired on Nick @ Nite, 4 of them have this logo.

** On the ''The Jeffersons'' episode titled "A New Girl in Town", the Embassy logo appears in {{color|blue}} when animating at first. The skyscraper background from the end-title credits later changes to the {{color|blue}} background and the Embassy logo later turns white.

* Starting on September 15, 1984, there is a registered trademark symbol that appears next to the name. (Embassy was registered on June 26, 1984.) This would last until September 27, 1986.

* From 1983-1988, the first note was cut off. This was sometimes used on S1 of ''227'' and ''Who's the Boss?'', S5 of ''The Facts of Life'', the final season of ''Diff'rent Strokes'', ''E/R'', ''One Day at a Time'', and was also used for Embassy Pay Television.

* It's seen on S1 eps. of ''227'' on DVD, Encore Black, and Sony Crackle.  

* It's retained on S9-11 episodes of ''The Jeffersons'' on Me-TV but doesn't appear on TV One's prints, with the exception of the season 11 episode "Last Dance".