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Carson Entertainment Group (formerly Carson Productions and Carson Productions Group) is a television production company established by Johnny Carson in 1980. [1] [2] The company primarily produced The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1980 to 1992 and Late Night with David Letterman from 1982 to 1993.
Oct 23, 2020 · It’s been nearly 30 years since Johnny Carson stepped off the stage of “The Tonight Show” for the last time and bid farewell to a singularly innovative television career. Now, two museums ...
Aug 12, 2015 · Antenna TV has struck a multi-year deal with Carson Entertainment Group to license hundreds of hours of the NBC late-night institution. Antenna will run episodes that aired from 1972 through...
Oct 23, 2020 · Jamestown, NY – October 23, 2020 – As the country remembers comedy and late–night legend Johnny Carson on his 95th birthday today, the National Comedy Center — the nation’s official cultural institution dedicated to comedy — and the Elkhorn Valley Museum in Johnny Carson’s hometown of Norfolk, Nebraska have announced that the ...
- Overview
- 1st Logo (1981-1992, 2009- )
- 2nd Logo (1988)
Background: Carson Entertainment is the production company of the legendary Tonight Show host Johnny Carson, formed in 1980 to own and produce The Tonight Show. Prior to 1982, it was an in-credit mention at the end of The
Logo: We start out with a brightly-lit city skyline, then the outlined word "CARSON" zooms out from us to a comfortable distance, on a gray background. Three thick light-blue horizontal lines wipe in from right to left, filling the outlined word "CARSON" with blue and at the same time, the word "PRODUCTIONS" wipes in the same direction in sync with the horizontal lines. Sometimes, the copyright stamp is seen below it.
Variant: An in-credit text for Carson Productions was seen on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman: Carson Productions would stop co-producing Late Night in 1992 after Johnny Carson's retirement.
Produced by NBC ENTERTAINMENT (or PRODUCTIONS) in Association with CARSON PRODUCTIONS (the last bit would be used for later episodes of Letterman) and WORLDWIDE PANTS INCORPORATED LATE NIGHT and LATE NIGHT with DAVID LETTERMAN are trademarks of NBC © (YEAR) National Broadcasting Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Later Variant (2009- ): The city background seems to be more animated, the "CARSON" logo is in the Impact font, the background after the logo forms is much darker, and "ENTERTAINMENT" replaces "PRODUCTIONS".
FX/SFX:
•Original Variant: The zoom-out of "CARSON", the wiping in of the horizontal lines and "PRODUCTIONS".
•Later Variant: Same as the original variant, with the city background.
Logo: A full moon rises above a city at night, with black and blue gradient skies and several lights in the city (there are several light lines with the rest all over). Once the moon gets into its place, "CARSON PRODUCTIONS" (in the same style as the previous logo, except "CARSON" is a lighter blue color and "PRODUCTIONS" is in a different font and white) flies from behind the moon and rotates to the right, going towards the screen. As all this happens, the city turns into a dark gray background while the three blue lines ease in. The company name zooms back to its familiar place.
FX/SFX: The moon, the company name flying in and rotating, the background changing.
Music/Sounds: Just the theme to the video.
Availability: This was never used on TV shows: it was only seen on graphic designer Robert Backstrand's 1988 Demo Reel, which can be seen here.
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Carson Entertainment Group controls the licensing rights to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. All of The Tonight Shows recorded between 1962 through 1992 have been cataloged and carefully preserved and are available for a variety of licensing arrangements.
