Kapital Entertainment is an American entertainment company founded by Aaron Kaplan in 2009. Prior to founding Kapital, Kaplan was the worldwide head of scripted television at

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to which he joined in 1991. He exited the company in 2009 after 18 years when WMA was going through the regulatory process to finalize their merger with Endeavor to form WME Entertainment. Kapital has since produced shows for many different networks such as

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, and

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. Some of the companies productions include '' Terra Nova'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Fam'', and ''

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''. Kapital also has two pod deals, one in 2014 with development executive Tracy Katsky via KatCo which produces ''Santa Clarita Diet'' and another in 2016 with former longtime head of comedy at CBS Wendi Trilling to launch TrillTV. Both pods are based at Kapital's offices in West Hollywood. On February 10, 2017, Kapital formed a joint venture with

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and has acquired an ownership stake. CBS will also provide co-financing for Kapital projects and will serve as worldwide distributor. However, Kapital will continue to operate as it had previously as an independent production company which will be completely separate from

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(later CBS Studios) and

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and have no first-look or any other agreements with any of them.

Shows produced

Future productions

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* {{official website, kapitalentertainment.com 2009 establishments in California Entertainment companies based in California Television production companies of the United States Paramount Global subsidiaries Mass media companies established in 2009 Companies based in West Hollywood, California