Desilu Productions (/ˈdÉ›siluË /) was an American television
production company founded and co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz
and Lucille Ball. The company is best known for shows such as I Love
Lucy, The Lucy Show, The Untouchables and Star Trek. Until 1962,
Desilu was the second-largest independent television production
company in the United States, behind MCA's Revue Studios, until MCA
bought Universal Pictures and Desilu became and remained the
number-one independent production company, until being sold in
1968.Ball and Arnaz jointly owned the majority stake in Desilu from
its inception until 1962, when Ball bought out Arnaz and ran the
company by herself for several years. Ball had succeeded in making
Desilu profitable again by 1968, when she sold her shares of Desilu to
Gulf+Western for $17 million (a valued $130 million in 2019).
Gulf+Western then transformed Desilu into the television production
arm of Paramount Pictures, rebranding the company as the original
Paramount Television.Desilu's entire library is owned by ViacomCBS
through two of its subsidiaries. The CBS unit owns all Desilu
properties that were produced and concluded before 1960, which were
sold to CBS by Desilu itself. Its CBS Television Studios unit owns the
rights to everything Desilu produced after 1960 as successor in
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