Dawson’s Creek is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends. The show was created by Kevin Williamson and debuted on The WB on January 20, 1998. It 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. The series ended on May 14, 2003. It has been rated as one of the best teen dramas of all time by critics and is considered a cult classic by fans.
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Dawson’s Creek is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends. The show was created by Kevin Williamson and debuted on The WB on January 20, 1998. It 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 Capeside, Massachusetts. The series ended on May 14, 2003. During the course of the series, 128 episodes of Dawson’s Creek aired over six seasons. It placed at No. 90 on Entertainment Weekly’s \”New TV Classics\” list in 2007. It would become responsible for launching the acting careers of its young lead stars James Van der Beek, Michelle Williams, and Katie Holmes, who had varying acting experience prior to being cast in the show. Actors Charlienam, Jesse Tyler Speedman, Scott Grenier, Adrian Ferguson, and Adam Brody also auditioned for the role of Dawson, while Adam Brodner read for the female role of Pacey. The final cast member was Selma Blair, who filmed herself in her mother’s basement with her mother reading Dawson’s lines, with her eyes just stained with loneliness. It was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina and was produced by Columbia TriStar Television and was filmed on location in Boston, Massachusetts, with some scenes filmed in North Carolina.
The last episode of the show aired on May 13, 2003, and was followed by a special episode on May 15, 2004, which was the final episode of The WB’s freshman series, Party of Five. It has been rated as one of the best teen dramas of all time by critics and is considered a cult classic by fans. It is one of only a handful of teen dramas to have been made into a movie or TV series. The other two are The Hills, 90210, and My So-Called Life, meets Little House on the Prairie, which also aired in 1998 and 1999. The WB has not aired a new teen drama since the end of The Hills in 2002. The network has also not aired any new teen dramas since the start of the second season of Party of 5 in 2004. The first two seasons of The CW’s The Vampire Slayer were the last two seasons, which aired in 2005 and 2006. The fourth and final season of the WB’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the third and last season of Buffy, which premiered on January 19, 2007. The sixth and final series of Buffy was the seventh and final episode on January 28, 2007, and aired on January 30, 2008. The seventh and last episode was the last one on January 31, 2008, and it was the first episode of Buffy’s successor series, The Vampire Diaries, which debuted on January 29, 2009. The second and last series of The Vampire diaries was the second and final episodes of Buffy the vampire Slayer, airing on January 27, 2010.
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