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An American television producer who, at 26, became one of the youngest people ever to create and run a network series when Fox's The O.C. debuted in 2003, turning teen soap opera into appointment television. He went on to develop The CW's Gossip Girl and co-create NBC's spy-comedy Chuck, shaping the look and sound of American teen and young-adult drama through the 2000s.