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Lyrick Studios, formerly The Lyons Group, was an American video production and distribution company based in Allen, Texas best known for their flagship property Barney & Friends. The company was known for producing and distributing television shows, home videos, audio products and children's books and toys.
5 de mai. de 2024 · Lyrick Studios was a home video and television production and distributing company founded in 1988 by Richard C. Leach as The Lyons Group, best known for their production and/or distribution of children's programs like Barney & Friends, The Wiggles, VeggieTales, and Wishbone.
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Beginnings and Formation
The company's origins traces its beginnings to when Barney & Friends became a huge success. Barney & Friends was owned and produced by The Lyons Group, a company that was owned by Richard C. Leach, who previously produced its predecessor, Barney & The Backyard Gang. Both series were created by Sheryl Leach, the daughter-in-law of Richard. In 1994, Richard Leach had begun production on a new series titled Wishbone, which was produced by Big Feats! Entertainment. Because of the emerging video b...
Acquisitions and Expansion
In the late 1990s, Lyrick turned its primary focus on distribution of children's TV shows and films. They acquired the distribution rights for VeggieTales and The Wiggles and also distributed book publishing and video gaming rights for some Humongous Entertainment video game characters like Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, and Pajama Sam. In 1999, Lyrick planned to expand their existing headquarters to add 400,000 square feet. The first phase of the campus was expected to cost $6 million, which consis...
HIT Entertainment acquisition
Leach, who was now in his seventies, was ready to slow down and wanted to resolve ownership of Lyrick, although none of his children wanted to run the company. In 2001, the company was acquired and folded into HIT Entertainment for $275 million, with eventual Lyrick CEO, Robert Lawes, being the driving force of the acquisition. Leach decided that HIT Entertainment was a good fit for Lyrick as he believed the two companies shared the same values about creating quality programs for the preschoo...
Lyrick Publishing
Lyrick Publishing was the publishing arm of Lyrick Studios. They had a publishing division called Big Red Chair.Employing about 80 individuals, the company shut down in 2001 due to the acquisition with HIT Entertainment as the division had been losing money. Books published by the division were transferred to HIT Entertainment and Scholastic, Inc. See Also: Barney Books Published by Lyrick Publishing
The original release and re-release of Barney's Great Adventure on DVD and VHS had been the only times that this logo is still not plastered by a HIT Entertainmentlogo. It remained that way ever si...In November 1998, it was announced that BJ was going to have his own animated spin-off series titled BJ and the Radical Rumblebuttswhich would've been produced by Lyrick Studios and Toronto’s Portf...Discover new TV shows and movies from Lyrick Studios and where you can watch them.
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Lyrick Studios, formerly The Lyons Group, was an American video production and distribution company based in Allen, Texas best known for their flagship property Barney & Friends. The company was known for producing and distributing television shows, home videos, audio products and children's books and toys.
This was the third and final film to be produced by Lyrick Studios before it was acquired by and folded into HIT Entertainment on June 6, 2001. It is also the only theatrical Barney film as all other Barney films were just direct-to-video productions.
