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Dawson's Creek
''Dawson's Creek'' is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, beginning in high school and continuing into college. It aired from January 20, 1998, to May 14, 2003, for six seasons. The series stars James Van Der Beek as Dawson Leery; Katie Holmes as his best friend and love interest, Joey Potter; Joshua Jackson as their friend Pacey Witter; and Michelle Williams as Jen Lindley, a New York City transplant to Capeside. The show was created by Kevin Williamson and premiered on The WB as a mid-season replacement. It was produced by Columbia TriStar Television (renamed Sony Pictures Television before the final season) and was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. Along with '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and '' 7th Heaven'', ''Dawson's Creek'' became one of the flagship shows for The WB and launched its main cast to international stardom. The show placed at No. 90 on ''En ...
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Teen Drama
In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police procedural, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, Drama (film and television)#Teen drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular Setting (narrative), setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of Mood (literature), moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of Conflict (process), conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of Film industry, cinema or television that involve Fiction, fiction ...
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Jann Arden
Jann Arden (born Jann Arden Anne Richards; March 27, 1962) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, author and actress. She is best known for her signature ballads, " Could I Be Your Girl" and " Insensitive", which is her biggest hit to date, as well as other ballads, such as "Cherry Popsicle" and "I Would Die for You". Early life and education Jann Arden was born in Calgary and moved as a child to Springbank, Alberta, where she attended Springbank Community High School. Her father was a construction contractor and her mother was a dental assistant. She is the middle child of three children. Arden grew up in a troubled family dynamic. Her father was an abusive alcoholic. Her brother was convicted of the first-degree murder of 21 year-old Carrie Louise Marshall in Creston, British Columbia, and was incarcerated in Alberta in 1992. After she graduated high school, Arden settled in Vancouver and sang with a series of bar bands. With these bands, she would sing cover songs of Led Zepp ...
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Columbia TriStar Television
Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. (abbreviated as CTT) was an American television production and distribution company, which was active from 1994 until its reincorporation as Sony Pictures Television in 2002. It was the third iteration of what had originated as Columbia Pictures' television studio, Screen Gems. History Columbia TriStar Television was launched on February 21, 1994, from the merger of Columbia Pictures Television and TriStar Television, under the leadership of Jon Feltheimer, who was president of TriStar Television from 1991 to 1994 and of New World Television until 1991. After the merger, Columbia Pictures Television Distribution was renamed Columbia TriStar Television Distribution, although most traces of the former name were not removed in full until the start of the 1995–1996 television season. It officially subsumed Merv Griffin Enterprises on June 4, 1994 and took over the role of production of ''Jeopardy! ''Jeopardy!'' is an American televisi ...
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Single Camera Setup
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode Island to its south, New Hampshire and Vermont to its north, and New York (state), New York to its west. Massachusetts is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, sixth-smallest state by land area. With a 2024 U.S. Census Bureau-estimated population of 7,136,171, its highest estimated count ever, Massachusetts is the most populous state in New England, the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 16th-most-populous in the United States, and the List of states and territories of the United States by population density, third-most densely populated U.S. state, after New Jersey and Rhode Island. Massachusetts was a site of early British colonization of the Americas, English colonization. The Plymouth Colony was founded in 16 ...
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Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer months. The name Cape Cod, coined in 1602 by Bartholomew Gosnold, is the ninth-oldest English place-name in the U.S. As defined by the Cape Cod Commission's enabling legislation, Cape Cod is coextensive with Barnstable County, Massachusetts. It extends from Provincetown, Massachusetts, Provincetown in the northeast to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Woods Hole in the southwest, and is bordered by Plymouth, Massachusetts, Plymouth to the northwest. The Cape is divided into fifteen New England town, towns, several of which are in turn made up of multiple named villages. Cape Cod forms the southern boundary of the Gulf of Maine, which extends north-eastward to Nova Scotia. Since 1914, most of Cape Cod has been separated from the mainland by the Cape Cod Cana ...
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Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington is a port city in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. With a population of 115,451 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, eighth-most populous city in the state. The county seat of New Hanover County, it is the principal city of the Cape Fear (region), Wilmington metropolitan area, which includes New Hanover, Brunswick County, North Carolina, Brunswick, and Pender County, North Carolina, Pender counties. As of 2023, the region had an estimated population of 467,337. Wilmington's residential area lies between the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic Ocean, and the city developed as a commercial port in the colonial era. Toward the end of the 19th century, Wilmington was a majority-black, racially integrated, prosperous cityand the largest in North Carolina. It suffered what became known as the Wilmington massacre in 1898 when white supremacists launched a Coup d'état, coup that overthrew the legit ...
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Greg Prange
Gregory Prange is an American film editor, television director and producer. He did production work on '' One Tree Hill'' and ''Dawson's Creek''. Career Prange has held positions on '' One Tree Hill'', ''Dawson's Creek'', '' Dying to Belong'', '' French Silk'' and various other director and editorial roles. Personal life Greg Prange is the father of Ian Prange whose ex-partner was Hilarie Burton. Both Burton and Prange are heavily connected to the '' One Tree Hill'' TV series. Awards and nominations Prange was nominated for an ALMA Award in 2001 for ''Outstanding Director of a Drama Series''. The nomination was for his directing role in ''Dawson's Creek''. He also received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award The Primetime Emmy Awards, or Primetime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Owned and operated by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), the P ... in 1988 for '' ...
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Tom Kapinos
Tom Kapinos is an American television writer and screenwriter best known for his creation of the Showtime series ''Californication'' and the Fox series ''Lucifer''. Early life Kapinos attended Island Trees School District on Long Island, New York. Career Kapinos moved from New York to California in the mid-1990s, working in Los Angeles for Creative Artists Agency as a staff story analyst. In 1999, Fox 2000 purchased his first sold screenplay, ''The Virgin Mary'', with actress Jennifer Aniston attached to play the title role. The film was never made, but after reading ''The Virgin Mary'' the producers of ''Dawson's Creek'' offered Kapinos a job. After beginning his career in television in 1999 as a writer and eventually executive producer on ''Dawson's Creek'', Kapinos moved on to his own series, ''Californication'', a dramedy Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau dramedy) is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), dr ...
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Greg Berlanti
Gregory Berlanti (born May 24, 1972) is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He is known for his work on the television series ''Dawson's Creek'', ''Brothers & Sisters (2006 TV series), Brothers & Sisters'', ''Everwood'', ''Political Animals (TV miniseries), Political Animals'', ''Riverdale (2017 TV series), Riverdale'', ''Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV series), Chilling Adventures of Sabrina'' and ''You (TV series), You'', in addition to his contributions to DC Comics on film and television productions, including The CW's Arrowverse, as well as ''Titans (2018 TV series), Titans'' and ''Doom Patrol (TV series), Doom Patrol''. In 2000, Berlanti founded the production company Berlanti Productions. In the 2017–18 television season, Berlanti tied Jerry Bruckheimer's 2005–06 record in having 10 different live-action scripted television series airing on various networks and digital platforms and took sole possession of the record, with 14 airing in the 2018–19 tele ...
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Paul Stupin
Paul Stupin is an American film and television executive. Biography After graduating from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Stupin went to Los Angeles to work for NBC in series development. In 1986 he became a vice president for production at Tri-Star Pictures, overseeing such films as ''Steel Magnolias,'' and ''Short Circuit''. From there, he was recruited to the fledgling Fox Network as executive vice president of series programming serving there from 1989 to 1992. Stupin's greatest legacy was bringing a twenty-nine-year-old screenwriter, Darren Star, to producer Aaron Spelling. Star had ideas of a high school drama and Spelling, for the first time since the 1960s, had not one show on the air. The result of their partnership was ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', an immediate hit with the first episode scoring a phenomenal forty share among the 12-17 demographic. Stupin left Fox to become an executive at Reeves Entertainment and then joined Columbia TriStar Television. I ...
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Deborah Joy LeVine
Deborah Joy LeVine is an American television writer and producer who wrote the TV series, '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'', which ran from 1993 to 1997. Filmography * ' (associate producer) (1985) * '' Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story'' (producer) (1986) * '' Equal Justice'' (writer) (1990-1991) (executive story consultant) (1991) * '' Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story'' (writer) (1992) * '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'' (creator, writer, co-executive/executive producer, executive consultant) (1993-1997) * '' Courthouse'' (creator, writer, executive producer) (1995) * '' Early Edition'' (writer, executive producer) (1996-1997) * ''Dawson's Creek ''Dawson's Creek'' is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, beginning in high school and continuing into college. It aired from January 20, 19 ...'' (executive producer) (1998) * '' Any ...
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