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. It was founded in 1993 to make TV movies and mini-series under Steve Bell (the former network production president of

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) and producer

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. That same year, they entered the television documentary business through its production subsidiary, Van Ness Films. Many of their programs have and can be seen on networks such as A&E,

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, E!,

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, Lifetime,

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and

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. In 1999, Foxstar became part of the newly formed

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and continued producing documentaries, non-fiction programming and specials. By 2005, Kevin Burns already had several non-fiction programs under his

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shingle. In 2005, Foxstar Productions disbanded, and folded into Fox Television Studios (then Fox 21 Television Studios, later bought by

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, and turned into

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until it folded into

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in 2020).

Filmography

* ''

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'' (1987-2003) * ''

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'' TV movies (1994-1997) * ''Carol Burnett: The Special Years'' (1994) * ''The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen'' (1995) * ''A Hollywood Christmas'' (1996) * ''20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years'' (1997) * ''Hidden Hollywood'' (1997-1999) * ''Monster Mania'' (1997-2000) * ''To the Galaxy and Beyond with Mark Hamill'' (1997) * ''

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'' (1998) * ''Beyond Titanic'' (1998) * ''Celebrity Profile'' (1998-2001) * ''Famous Families'' (1998-1999) * ''Hugh Hefner: American Playboy Revisited'' (1998) * ''Leonardo DiCaprio: A Life in Progress'' (1998) * ''Lost in Space Forever'' (1998) * ''TV Guide Looks at Christmas'' (1998) * ''TV Guide Looks at COPS'' (1998) * ''Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania'' (1999) * ''Hollywood Screen Tests'' (1999) * ''Hollywood's Hot Wheels'' (1999) * ''Backstory'' (2000-2005) * ''Bride of Monster Mania'' (2000) * ''The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood's Scariest Insect'' (2000) * ''Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints'' (2000) * ''Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970)'' (2000) * ''Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years'' (2000) * ''World's Best'' (2000-2002) * ''Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood'' (2001) * ''The Great Escape: A Standing Ovation'' (2001) * ''The Great Escape: Bringing Fact to Fiction'' (2001) * ''The Great Escape: The Flight to Freedom'' (2001) * ''The Great Escape: Preparations for Freedom'' (2001) * ''History vs. Hollywood'' (2001-2002) * ''Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days'' (2001) * ''The Omen Legacy'' (2001) * ''The Alien Saga'' (2002) * ''Biography of a Corpse'' (2002) * ''Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s'' (2002) * ''Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion'' (2002) * ''ShirleyMania'' (2002) * ''Monsterama'' (2003) * ''Sex at 24 Frames Per Second'' (2003) * ''Animal Icons'' (2004-2005) * ''Love Hollywood Style'' (2004) * ''Playboy: 50 Years of Playmates'' (2004)

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Filmography

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