Millar Gough Ink
Millar Gough Ink Productions, Inc. (stylized as MILLAR GOUGH INK) is an American film and television production company founded by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough. They produced the long-running television programs, as well as co-writing films (ex. the Superman prequel television series Smallville and the Netflix's Tim Burton's Addams Family spin off series Wednesday, which aired on Netflix). A book, Double Exposure, was published by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar in 2019. In 2023, the company made a deal with GWB/JSK Distribution to create the Sega Saturn Logo Bloopers/Smallville special. On December 2023, They made a Christmas special of Smallville, which was co-produced by GWB/JSK Distribution and released by 20th Century Studios and Universal Pictures.
 Logo used from 2015. | |
_logo..jpg){kind=logo} Former logo of Millar Gough Ink, used from October 12, 1999 to November 10, 2011. | |
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| Industry | Television/film production |
| Founded | Unknown year |
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| Headquarters | Unknown state , |
| Parent | Independent |
| Website | www |
History
Production
Millar and Gough began producing the very first television series Bugs (co-production with BBC). The second time, Millar and Gough produced the 1997's Timecop (1997-1998). The third time, they produced the film Double Tap, released in 1997. They written the story from the film Black Jaq, released in 1998. Many films Millar and Gough have produced were either written or produced. In 1999, Millar and Gough created the American short series The Strip, released on October 1999. From October 16, 2001, Millar and Gough created the Superman prequel television series Smallville, based on the book series by Roger Stern. From July 2006, Millar and Gough created the pilot show Aquaman, based on the DC Comics character of the same name. From 2009, Millar and Gough's Millar Gough Ink produced the 2009 American comedy musical film Hannah Montana: The Movie, which marked the first film. In 2011, the production company created the 2011 reboot of Charlie's Angels (based on the classic series of the same name). In 2015, they created the Netflix series Into The Badlands, and they created the MTV series The Shannara Chronicles in 2016. Millar and Gough's Millar Gough Ink sold the series to Netflix and Tim Burton to produce the Addams Family spin off series Wednesday, starting on November 23, 2022. In 2023, Millar and Gough made a deal with GWB/JSK Distribution to create the Sega Saturn Logo Bloopers/Smallville special. On December 2023, they made a Christmas special of Smallville, which was co-produced by GWB/JSK Distribution and released by 20th Century Studios and Universal Pictures.
Logos and jingles
The logos came for the production company which can be found at the end of each program and not on the movies or early 1990s programs themselves. Starting with the 1999 TV series The Strip, Millar and Gough created the very first logo about a black vintage glass bottle filled with scarlet ink with a dark-brown label which covers the bottom-half, containing the company name which is colored in gold and a stacked format, usually in Helvetica Black (with the bottom-half of "INK" in silver), but a split-second later, an unidentified object falls down and breaks it that causes the ink to splatter. In 1999, Millar and Gough created the original bottle breaking sound known as the splattering sound. Later, on October 16, 2001, starting with "Smallville", the production company created the glass breaking sound which had the logo's animation playing slightly slower the first time, which began in late 2001. Later, on February 26, 2002, the music for the 1st logo had the odd piano tune which was the first jingle on the first logo to be played before the bottle breaks. Currently, on September 24, 2002, Millar Gough Ink created a tune where we're all familiar with, using the organ and orchestral tune before the final note with the bottle breaking sound synced was heard. It was officially called a reverberating cartoon ditty. A second and current production logo was created on November 15, 2015, which started with the stacked text "MILLAR GOUGH", to the right is a beaker with a big black water drop in it, and inside the drop is "INK", on a black background. The very rare print logo had the 2015-styled logo where the logo is white and the text is in Impact. Until later, one had the ink bottle for the standard 1st logo and later had the beaker like from the 2015 logo. The current logo reappeared on the 2022 Netflix series Wednesday that made an appearance on November 23, 2022. This was expected to appear on season 2 of Wednesday.
Mark Snow was the only composer to create themes by the company, which may be only used for the former logo.
