TIME Studios
The television and film production division of TIME magazine, which makes documentaries, kids and family programming and scripted projects for streamers and networks.
It launched in early 2020 under Ian Orefice and, by its own November 2021 release, had sold more than 20 projects to streaming services and TV networks, with credits including Jeen-Yuhs (Netflix), Katrina Babies (HBO), Big Vape (Netflix) and Black Gold (Paramount+). TIME said it earned more than $100 million in revenue in its first three years. Orefice left in 2023 to start EverWonder, and Dave O'Connor became president in November 2023, reporting to TIME CEO Jessica Sibley.
In 2026 it partnered with Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup on On This Day... 1776, a weekly short-form animated series about the American Revolution released on TIME's YouTube channel and made with Google DeepMind tools. Coverage describes SAG actors voicing the characters and artists mixing traditional animation with generative AI, and the series drew heavy criticism after its January 2026 trailer and first episode.
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Writers room led by Lucas Sussman · SAG voice performances · artists animating with a mix of traditional and GenAI tools · editing, mixing and colour-grading in conventional workflows — the AI generates imagery, people do the rest.
The AI work it runs
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Singers, personas and films are indexed separately
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