20th Century

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (spelled from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation), also known as 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six major American film studios.

Located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills, the studio is a subsidiary of News Corporation, the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch. The company was founded in 1935, as the result of a merger of two entities, Fox Film Corporation founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures. Some of 20th Century Fox's most popular movie franchises include the Star Wars, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Home Alone, Die Hard, Revenge of the Nerds, Alien and Predator series.

Twentieth Century Fox Television, Inc. is the television production division of the 20th Century Fox movie studio, a subsidiary of News Corporation. Twentieth Television is a separate distribution arm overseen by News Corp.'s Fox Television Stations Group, although it uses a variant of the studio logo.

20th Century Fox Television was founded in 1949 as other studios were branching out into television production as well. At that time, the company was known as TCF Television Productions, Inc. until 1955. The logo from 1960 to 1992 seemed to suggest that the division was called 20th Television Fox, but this was untrue. TCFT absorbed the operations of TV production companies Metromedia Producers Corporation in 1986 and MTM Enterprises in 1998, and is the current distributor for most of the shows originally produced by the two companies. Since 1986, TCFT has produced the bulk of series airing on the Fox network, including The Simpsons, M*A*S*H, Married... With Children, COPS, Doogie Howser, M.D., The X-Files, NYPD Blue, King of the Hill, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and 24.