The Carsey-Werner Company

The Carsey-Werner Company is an production and distribution company founded by two former ABC writers Marcy Carsey & Tom Werner. They started their major company in 1981 but started producing shows in 1982. Their first TV show was a failed ABC pilot called Callahan starring Hart Bochner and Jamie Lee Curtis. Their first TV series came to fruition in 1983; it was called Oh Madeline starring another movie actress Madeline Kahn. But their first big hit came a year later in 1984, it was The Cosby Show starring than none other than Bill Cosby. Cosby worked with Carsey-Werner on three other projects, which were Cosby, The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World and a revival of You Bet Your Life. More TV programs followed as years went on including another big hit for the company Roseanne starring Roseanne Barr, 3rd Rock from the Sun and That 70s Show In addition to YBYL, Carsey-Werner also produced a few other game & reality shows, which were a pilot for a version of I've Got a Secret, You Don't Know Jack and The Scholar.

From 1984-2004, Carsey-Werner's key employee who later became a partner was Caryn Snyder-Mandabach. She left in 2004 to start her own company.

From the late 80s to 1997, the Carsey-Werner shows were distributed by Viacom which later became Paramount Domestic Television; but it gotten so big that it decided to go out on its own and be an independent distribution arm.

Since 2006, Carsey-Werner acquired the distribution rights to the library of TV shows produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions.

In addition to being a television producer, Tom Werner is also the current co-owner of the Boston Red Sox.