Questar Entertainment

Questar Entertainment is one of the industry's largest content holders of programming for television, home entertainment, education, web and digital, with over 4,000 titles in its library. Questar has produced more than 100 original programs for PBS, the Discovery Channel, TLC, the Travel Channel, the History Channel (A&E Networks), and PAX-TV Network.[8] Original titles include Touring Civil War Battlefields, The Dark, The Dream Motel, Real Pirates, and Where Jesus Walked.[9] Popular titles distributed by Questar Entertainment include A Cook's Tour (TV series, 2002 - 2003) hosted by Anthony Bourdain;[10] Women of the House (1995) an American sitcom television series and a spin-off of Designing Women;[11] The Tribe (1999 TV series) a science fiction drama series produced by the Cloud 9 Screen Entertainment Group in New Zealand;[12] The Joey Bishop Show (TV series) an American sitcom starring Joey Bishop that originally aired on NBC from September 1961 to January 1964;[13] The New Adventures of Black Beauty (TV series) a television show produced in the early 1990s in New Zealand and Australia;[14] Grannies on Safari (TV series) a travel program originally syndicated in the U.S. in 2006 with hosts Regina S. Fraser and Pat A. Johnson;[15] The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson (TV series) a family adventure series that originally aired on the PAX network in 1998;[16] My Classic Car (TV series) a television show about classic automobiles, hosted by Dennis Gage;[17] and It’s a Miracle (TV series) a television show that aired on PAX TV between 1998 and 2004, initially hosted by Billy Dean and Nia Peeples, then Richard Thomas, and later by Roma Downey.[18]

The Dream Motel (TV series) is an original series produced by Questar Entertainment and Rossetti Productions, with its first season debuting in October 2019. The series is about a motel where the guests have a chance to change their past, present, or their future.[19] The show’s creator, Chip Rossetti, further characterizes the show as “a cross between Touched By An Angel, Quantum Leap and The Twilight Zone.”[20] The series is currently being distributed on Pure Flix, Amazon, TLN, Christian Cinema, FaithNOW and TCT. The second season was scheduled to begin production in April 2020 with some filming happening in and around Southern Illinois, however, production has been delayed due to Covid-19.[21][22]

Cow Lamp Films is the independent features division of Questar Entertainment. Cow Lamp distributes regional and international films for an audience via major streaming platforms and cable television.[23] The company is planning to release some of their films in theaters as well.[24] Titles under the company include Olympia (2018), which stars McKenzie Chinn (NBC’s Chicago Med) and Charles Andrew Gardner (a Steppenwolf actor) and has been hailed as “a refreshing look at the intimacy, nurturing and hard choices inherent to all relationships”;[25] Thieves Quartet (1993) written and directed by Joe Chappelle (The Wire, CSI: Miami); Rendezvous in Chicago (2018) written and directed by Michael Glover Smith;[26] The View From Tall (2016) a coming-of-age film written by Caitlin Parrish and co-directed by Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss;[27] and Ginger (2018) a film written and directed by Melissa and Jimmy Boratyn.[28]

GoTraveler was launched on SVOD and AVOD platforms in 2019, featuring a collection of 200+ hours of world travel programming with travel hosts who have been featured on the Discovery Channel, the Travel Channel, and PBS. The extensive collection includes a look into the history, cultures, and food from around the world. Shows include Anthony Bourdain's A Cook's Tour, America’s National Parks, Travel Thru History, The Silk Road, Festivals of the World, Cuba Today, Rudy Maxa’s World, and Laura McKenzie’s Traveler, among others. GoTraveler was listed on Lifehacker’s "Top 10 YouTube Channels to Inspire You to Get Outside".[29][30][31][32]

Ambience TV, also launched in 2019, looks at travel content in a new light, what The New Yorker calls “Slow TV.” A prime example would be the Yule Log, a wood burning fireplace.[33]

New Dimension Media (NDM) is Questar Entertainment’s longest running division and is recognized as one of the few remaining producers of original K-12 core curriculum video content to schools and public libraries with 44 series and 417 programs produced in the last five years. Every NDM title is correlated to all state, national, and Canadian provincial standards.[34]