Outerbanks Entertainment is the production company of screenwriter Kevin Williamson, based in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

, USA

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. It currently produces the CW series The Vampire Diaries

The Vampire Diaries

The Vampire Diaries is a young adult vampire horror series of novels written by L. J. Smith. The story centers around Elena Gilbert, a high school girl torn between two vampire brothers. The series was originally a trilogy published in 1991, but pressure from readers led Smith to write a fourth...

. Past credits include Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB Television Network and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. The show is set in the fictional seaside town of Capeside, Massachusetts, and in Boston, Massachusetts, during the later seasons...

(1998-2003). It also produced the series Glory Days

Glory Days (TV series)

Glory Days is an American horror/mystery-based television series broadcast from January to March 2002 on The WB Television Network...

for The WB and Wasteland

Wasteland (TV series)

Wasteland is an American television drama on ABC network created by Kevin Williamson. The show debuted in 1999, a Miramax Films production....

for the ABC network

ABC Network

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. It also served as the production company on Scream 4

Scream 4

Scream 4 is a 2011 American slasher horror film and the fourth installment in the Scream film series. Directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson, writer of Scream and Scream 2, the film stars an ensemble cast which includes David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Emma Roberts,...

. Its name is a reference to Williamson's origins in Oriental, North Carolina

Oriental, North Carolina

Oriental is known as 'The Sailing Capital of North Carolina'.This tiny harbor town is on the Neuse River, the widest river in the USA, leading to the vast sailing waters of Pamlico Sound and on to the Atlantic through North Carolina's barrier islands. The area is easily some of the finest boating...

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