20th Television Animation (formerly Fox Television Animation) is an American animation studio that creates, develops and produces adult animated television series and specials. It began life as the animation operations of Twentieth Century Fox Television. While Fox had the produced the movie spinoff Return to the Planet of the Apes earlier, the genesis of 20th Television Animation was the 1989 premiere of The Simpsons (having been spun off from material that aired on The Tracey Ullman Show). The success of that series enabled Fox to produce companion programs, as well as launch an in-house production unit in 1999 (formerly known as Fox Television Animation). 20th Television Animation did not become a separate production entity until 2020. It is a unit of Disney Television Studios, a subsidiary of Disney Entertainment Television, which is part of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company.
Most of their TV shows are on Fox, owing to a former co-ownership, or Hulu.
List of shows, including animated series produced by this company:
- Bob's Burgers (production company since season 12; with Wilo Productions, animated by Bento Box Entertainment; outsourced to Yeson Entertainment)
- Central Park (season 3 only; with Wilo Productions, Angry Child Productions and Brillstein Entertainment Partners, animated by Bento Box) note
- Duncanville (season 3 only; with Universal Television and Fox Entertainment, animated by Bento Box)
- The Great North (seasons 2-5; with Double Molyneux Sister Sheux, Wilo Productions and Fox Entertainment, animated by Bento Box; outsourced to Yeson)
- Hit-Monkey (season 2 only, animated by Floyd County Productions)
- King of the Hill (revival series onwards; with Deedle-Dee Productions, Judgemental Films/Bandera and 3 Arts Entertainment; also replaced Film Roman for animation production after that studio was shutdown in 2018; outsourced to Yeson)
- Koala Man (with Princess Bento Animation, Cusack Creatures, Justin Roiland's Solo Vanity Card Productions!, Princess Pictures and Bento Box Entertainment)
- Matt Groening's animated series:
- The Simpsons (animation production since season 28; with Gracie Films and animation outsourced to AKOM and Rough Draft Studios; seasons 1-3 animated by Klasky-Csupo and seasons 4-27 and the movie note animated by Film Roman)
- Futurama (Hulu revival onwards; as 30th Century Fox Television/30th Television Animation; with The Curiosity Company; animated by Rough Draft Studios and Digital eMation)
- Seth MacFarlane's animated series:
- Family Guy (production season 2 onwards; with Fuzzy Door Productions, animation outsourced to Digital eMation as of season 6 and fully as of season 10, other studios include Sunwoo & Company, Yeson, Rough Draft, Koko Enterprises and Yearim Productions, first 15 episodes animated by Film Roman)
- American Dad! (with Underdog Productions and Fuzzy Door Productions and animation outsourced to Yearim, pilot episode animated by Film Roman)
- The Cleveland Show (with Persons Unknown Productions, Happy Jack Productions and Fuzzy Door Productions, animation outsourced to Digital eMation, as well as Yearim for select episodes of seasons 3 and 4)
- Solar Opposites (seasons 3-6; with Important Science, animated by Bardel Entertainment and Copernicus Studios)