This way whatever happens you can say you’re right!! Too cautious! Unimaginative! Boring! You’re wrong, Supernatural is a likely renewal! Then there are the people who write 10 paragraph angry missives. Among the criticisms there: It’s so unfair! (I...

Ms. Ostroff has a B.S. in Journalism from Florida International University and resides in Los Angeles, where she and her husband, Mark, have raised their four children. Dawn Ostroff is president of Condé Nast Entertainment responsible for the...

These books spoke magnificently well to the possibilities of the network. As far as a producing team, Josh [Schwartz] and Stephanie [Savage] were the only choice. Coming off of "The O.C. ," I've always thought of Josh as the pied piper of this generation.

It seemed to us like Gossip Girl had the potential to be that for The CW. We talked to our studio partners, who got the books to [then-CW entertainment chief] Dawn Ostroff. Peter Roth, Warner Bros. TV President: In 2007, The CW was in its infancy and...

While in development at the old WB network, Cult had even cast its lead - future White Collar star Matthew Bomer - before the project was ultimately scrapped due to, well, the entire WB network being scrapped. So now with CW exec Dawn Ostroff (who made...

And one of the first things the new CW management did when they started making programming decisions? Yup, they dumped Cult. Cut to today, almost exactly six years later. The CW exec who made the call to kill Cult, Dawn Ostroff, has now left the...