Fake Empire was formed by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Sav­age in 2010. After col­lab­o­rat­ing on The O.C. and Gos­sip Girl, they con­tinue to develop new tele­vi­sion for Warner Bros., and fea­ture films under a deal with Para­mount. While each project is unique, the goal is the same: speak­ing to young audi­ences in a con­tem­po­rary voice.

In 2003, Josh became the youngest per­son in tele­vi­sion his­tory to cre­ate and run a prime­time series when he brought The O.C. to FOX. After serv­ing as Exec­u­tive Pro­ducer for the show’s four sea­son run, Josh went on to co-​​create, with Chris Fedak, the spy-​​comedy-​​romance-​​action series, Chuck. The show is now in its fourth sea­son on NBC, air­ing on Mon­day nights at 8:00 pm.

Stephanie got her start at Drew Barrymore’s Flower Films, and went on to form Won­der­land Sound and Vision with direc­tor McG. While at Flower Films, Stephanie helped develop fea­ture films such as Charlie’s Angels, Never Been Kissed, and Don­nie Darko. Won­der­land was a pro­ducer of Charlie’s Angels: Full Throt­tle, and expanded into tele­vi­sion, devel­op­ing and pro­duc­ing The O.C. with Josh. Stephanie’s first effort in TV writ­ing was one of the The O.C.’s most endur­ing episodes, “The Best Chris­mukkah Ever.” She soon left Won­der­land to focus full-​​time on writ­ing and producing.

After find­ing suc­cess in their first joint ven­ture, Josh and Stephanie co-​​​​developed Gos­sip Girl, based on the book series of the same name, by Cecily Von Ziege­sar. The show is now in its fifth sea­son, and airs on The CW on Mon­days at 8:00 pm. At 9pm on the same chan­nel, view­ers can watch the newest Fake Empire project, Hart of Dixie, star­ring Rachel Bil­son as a big-​​city doc­tor try­ing to fit into the pecu­liar lit­tle town of Blue­bell, Alabama.

Len Gold­stein heads up tele­vi­sion for Fake Empire. After run­ning both the com­edy and drama divi­sions at Warner Bros. and ris­ing to Head of Devel­op­ment, Len tran­si­tioned to the pro­ducer side of things last spring. He shep­herds Fake Empire’s devel­op­ment and will serve as an Exec­u­tive Pro­ducer on future series.

Lis Rowin­ski runs point on Motion Pic­tures, work­ing out of the Fake Empire offices at Para­mount. Lis was for­merly a motion pic­ture lit agent at WME enter­tain­ment, where her focus was on up-​​and-​​coming writ­ers and directors.