CW’s Scripted Death is Writer Hell

• Tony Tellado
• March 7, 2025

In 1998, a then-unknown writer by the name of Greg Berlanti got his first job in television when a friend from college, Julie Plec, hired him to be a staff writer on The WB Network’s Dawson’s Creek. Berlanti, who at the time was struggling to break into the creative community, would famously go on to rise through the ranks and become the teen drama’s showrunner a mere two years later.