10 Facts About Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, beginning in high school and continuing into college that ran from 1998 to 2003.

Dawson's Creek would become responsible for launching the acting careers of its young lead stars James Van Der Beek, Michelle Williams, Katie Holmes, and Joshua Jackson, who had varying levels of acting experience prior to being cast in the show.

Dawson's Creek generated a large amount of publicity before its debut, with several television critics and consumer watchdog groups expressing concerns about its anticipated "racy" plots and dialogue.

Dawson's Creek was nominated for fourteen awards, including ALMA Awards, Casting Society of America Awards, Golden Satellite Awards, TV Guide Awards, and YoungStar Awards.

The reason the show is considered a semi-spinoff instead of a true spinoff is that the character of Will was not originally created for Dawson's Creek, and was only introduced in Dawson's to set up and establish the premise of Young Americans.

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Curating popular music and breaking artists from the independent and alternative rock genres, Dawson's Creek became impactful on shaping the television music culture of teen and other drama series in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

However, Morissette decided not to have it used as the theme after Dawson's Creek was picked up, prompting Stupin and McCullough to approach different artists for original material to use.

The album Songs from Dawson's Creek was released after the broadcasting of the series' first season in April 1999, and became a major success worldwide.

Popularity and success of Dawson's Creek is credited with paving the way for subsequent teen shows.

Scene of Dawson's Creek crying face became a meme that Van Der Beek has acknowledged.