Fox Television Studios/Summary

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Logo description by Matt Williams, James Stanley Barr, Nicholas Aczel, and D.L. Chandell Logo captures by snelfu, Eric S., and Derrick Anderson Editions by V of Doom and Curiousgeorge60

Background: Fox Television Studios was the network television division of 20th Century Fox Television, Inc., that was formed in 1997 by News Corporation (now "21st Century Fox Inc."). On December 4, 2014, the Fox Television Group merged Fox 21 and Fox Television Studios into the new Fox 21 Television Studios.

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Nickname: "Dark CGI Searchlights"

Logo: We see the standard Fox structure, this time reading "FOX TELEVISION STUDIOS". However, all is not well. The searchlights have turned off, the normally clear sky is gone, and a thunderstorm is brewing overhead. A bolt of lightning crashes down on the tower, thus turning on the searchlights. The News Corp. byline is still intact.

Trivia: The background of this logo is based on the 1994 logo of Fox Lab minus the two electric beams.

Variants: • This logo is seen for a split-second at the beginning of the Foxstar Productions' logo in 2000. • In 2008, the logo was given a more "enhanced" look, with the effects looking more realistic especially the background, but the byline is now in all caps, is in a more cheap-looking Times font. • Sometimes, the logo is bylineless, but has always been bylineless since 2013, due to the News Corp. split. • On Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt and the first four season DVD releases of Soul Food: The Series, a short version is used.

FX/SFX: The stormy sky, the lightning, and the searchlights turning on. This was done by Flip Your Lid Animation.

Music/Sounds: The final 4 notes of the long version of the Fox fanfare, accompanied by sounds of thunder. In some cases, it's the closing theme of the show or none.

Music/Sounds Variants: • On Olive, the Other Reindeer, the 1997 TCFTV logo theme is played. • On the Season 1 DVD of Malcolm in the Middle, the Final Note of the 1997 TCFTV logo theme is played

Availability: Common. First appeared on the 1998 TV movie Gargantua. Currently seen on The Glades on A&E, Burn Notice and White Collar on USA with reruns on Cloo, the short-lived The Good Guys on Fox, Maron on IFC, and the now-canceled Saving Grace on TNT. Can be seen on most comedies that Fox produced like The Hughleys and was also seen on network airings of Malcolm in the Middle. Survives on DVD releases of The Shield. Some shows on Fox Sports Net also used this logo. Some reruns of shows like The Hughleys on TV One and Malcolm in the Middle on IFC and TeenNick have this logo replaced with the 20th Television logo; though the logo would plaster this logo on some episodes of The Hughleys. It was also seen on The Girls Next Door on E!

Scare Factor: Minimal, just a funny send-up of every single Fox logo. However, the thunderstorm can get to some.