Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series about the
lives of a close-knit group of friends beginning in high school and
continuing into college that ran from 1998 to 2003. The series starred
James Van Der Beek as Dawson Leery, Katie Holmes as his best friend
and love interest Joey Potter, Joshua Jackson as their fellow best
friend Pacey Witter, and Michelle Williams as Jen Lindley, a New York
City transplant to the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts,
where the series was set. The show was created by Kevin Williamson and
debuted on The WB on January 20, 1998. It was produced by Columbia
TriStar Television (renamed Sony Pictures Television before the sixth
and final season) and was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina.The
show placed at No. 90 on Entertainment Weekly's "New TV Classics" list
in 2007. The series ended on May 14, 2003. During the course of the
series, 128 episodes of Dawson's Creek aired over six
seasons.Following the selling of his spec script for Wes
Craven-directed Scream (1996), film assistant Kevin Williamson was
taking several meetings with film and television producers before the
slasher film began production. In what would be his first television
meeting, Williamson met executive Paul Stupin and, when asked if he
had ideas for a television production, Williamson came up with the
idea of a teen series based on his youth growing up near a North
Carolina creek as an aspiring filmmaker who admired director Steven
Spielberg. Stupin liked his idea and asked him to come back the next
day and pitch it to Columbia TriStar Television studios, prompting
Williamson to write a 20-page outline for Dawson's Creek that night.
Williamson pitched the show "as Some Kind of Wonderful, meets Pump Up
the Volume, meets James at 15, meets My So-Called Life, meets Little
House on the Prairie", also taking inspiration from teen drama Beverly
Hills, 90210 as he "wanted it to speak to the teenage audience of the
day".
lives of a close-knit group of friends beginning in high school and
continuing into college that ran from 1998 to 2003. The series starred
James Van Der Beek as Dawson Leery, Katie Holmes as his best friend
and love interest Joey Potter, Joshua Jackson as their fellow best
friend Pacey Witter, and Michelle Williams as Jen Lindley, a New York
City transplant to the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts,
where the series was set. The show was created by Kevin Williamson and
debuted on The WB on January 20, 1998. It was produced by Columbia
TriStar Television (renamed Sony Pictures Television before the sixth
and final season) and was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina.The
show placed at No. 90 on Entertainment Weekly's "New TV Classics" list
in 2007. The series ended on May 14, 2003. During the course of the
series, 128 episodes of Dawson's Creek aired over six
seasons.Following the selling of his spec script for Wes
Craven-directed Scream (1996), film assistant Kevin Williamson was
taking several meetings with film and television producers before the
slasher film began production. In what would be his first television
meeting, Williamson met executive Paul Stupin and, when asked if he
had ideas for a television production, Williamson came up with the
idea of a teen series based on his youth growing up near a North
Carolina creek as an aspiring filmmaker who admired director Steven
Spielberg. Stupin liked his idea and asked him to come back the next
day and pitch it to Columbia TriStar Television studios, prompting
Williamson to write a 20-page outline for Dawson's Creek that night.
Williamson pitched the show "as Some Kind of Wonderful, meets Pump Up
the Volume, meets James at 15, meets My So-Called Life, meets Little
House on the Prairie", also taking inspiration from teen drama Beverly
Hills, 90210 as he "wanted it to speak to the teenage audience of the
day".
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