Josh Schwartz
Josh Schwartz
Joshua Ian "Josh" Schwartzis an American screenwriter and television producer. Schwartz is best known for creating and executive producing the Fox teen drama series The O.C. which ran for 4 seasons. Schwartz is also known for developing The CW's series Gossip Girl based on the book series of the same name and for co-creating NBC's action-comedy-spy series, Chuck...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth6 August 1976
CityProvidence, RI
CountryUnited States of America
I had to pull back on a lot of the partying that takes place on the show because the network has asked us to work with them on that.
The support that we have from the network in terms of watching us at an unusual time in the year and playing our episodes three times in a given week until we built an audience... is exceptional.
Summer goes toe-to-toe with her as a sort of symbolic gesture to keep the Marissa flame alive at Harbor.
We just happened to come along at time where there hadn't been a new young adult drama that also could appeal to adults as well in quite some time. We sort of found a little bit of a niche.
There is always drama and there will always be drama, but its the way its presented in my head that makes it so interesting. Everyone gets their time in the middle of the drama.
We are very excited for the opportunity to extend the style ofthe show to our fans,
We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.
This year is senior year and with senior year comes all that sort of angst and anxiety, all that sort of epic teen drama - who am I, where am I going, what's gonna happen to us, ... It's going to call everyone's identity into question and throw the show back on the family.
As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.
this sort of steaming, young Newpsie-in-training socialite who's been toiling in Marissa's shadow all these years.
There's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.
The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do.
Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I'm in a hurry.
She came in and she was just not what you expected in that part,