Sony Pictures Television , which produces syndicated TV game shows "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!", told distributor CBS Studios on Monday that it is taking back global distribution of the programs because of alleged contract violations by CBS.

CBS Media Ventures is fighting to retain distribution rights to the popular game shows. Sony Pictures owns and produces the shows. The contract governing distribution was cemented in the early 1980s.

The latest is this: CBS has been granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Sony after the latter intended to take over distribution for Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune on over 200 markets beginning this Friday (February 7).

All games have winners and losers, but CBS are now calling out Sony Pictures TV for not playing by the rules when it comes to the dispute over the decades old Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune deals. Hours after SPT’s head of Games Shows sent a letter over to CBS informing the

Sony Pictures Television has assumed global distribution functions for TV game shows Wheel of of Fortune and Jeopardy! from CBS.The studio previously ended CBS's distribution rights, after alleging in a lawsuit filed in Ocober thatit breached its agreement by entered into unauthorized licensing deals for the shows which undercut their value then paid themselves commission on them.

CBS has blocked Sony from canceling its lucrative distribution deals for “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune,” while the two sides clash in court over their decades-old contracts. Sony moved on Monday morning to try to take over distribution of the shows to more than 200 stations around the country,

Sony Pictures Television has informed CBS Studios that it will take over full distribution of syndicated game shows "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy" as early as next week as a legal battle between the two studios heats up.

"To turne thy whele and be my frende again, and sende me joy where I am nowe in pain," says the famed 15th century Findern manuscript of Fortune's whims. Verse that may be hitting a little harder than usual over at Sony this morning as the media giant saw the courts put the brakes put

Sony Pictures Television announced it would seize distribution of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune from CBS. The Tiffany Network fired back. In the latest development, a judge has given CBS a temporary restraining order that stops Sony (at least for now) from distributing the game shows,