Leila Gerstein is an American television producer

Television producer

The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

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Gerstein has written for television shows, including The O.C.

The O.C.

The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on the Fox television network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 21, 2007, running a total of four seasons...

and Life As We Know It, and written and produced episodes of Eli Stone

Eli Stone

Eli Stone is an American TV series, and also the name of the title character.San Francisco lawyer Eli Stone begins to see things, which leads him to discover a brain aneurysm...

. She was praised for her use of "sharp dialogue" in The O.C. episode "The Metamorphosis". She is the creator of the 2011 medical comedy-drama series Hart of Dixie

Hart of Dixie

Hart of Dixie is an American medical-drama television series, created by Leila Gerstein. On May 17, 2011, The CW officially picked up the series...

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Hart of Dixie

In February 2011, The CW ordered the pilot for Gerstein's Hart of Dixie and on May 17, 2011 officially picked up the series for the 2011-2012 season. The show is about a New York City doctor named Zoe Hart who inherits a medical practice in a small Southern town inhabited by an eclectic and eccentric group of characters. It was penned by Gerstein and is executive produced by Stephanie Savage

Stephanie Savage

Stephanie Savage is a Canadian screenwriter and television producer. Savage is best known for developing The CW's teen drama series, Gossip Girl from the novel series, and being an executive producer of the Fox series The O.C....

, Josh Schwartz

Josh Schwartz

-Film school at USC:In 1995, Schwartz realized his boyhood dream of attending film school to study screen and television writing at the University of Southern California...

 and Len Goldstein through Fake Empire production company.

On February 2, 2011, Jason Ensler

Jason Ensler

Jason Ensler is an American film & television director and producer. He has directed episodes of The West Wing, Chuck, Gossip Girl, Psych, Ed, Scrubs and My Name Is Earl. He directed and produced all six episodes of the critically acclaimed and short lived TV series Andy Barker, P.I....

 was booked to direct the pilot. On February 15, 2011, Rachel Bilson

Rachel Bilson

Rachel Sarah Bilson is an American actress. Bilson grew up in a California show business family, and made her television debut in 2003, subsequently becoming well known for playing Summer Roberts on the prime time drama series The O.C. Bilson made her film debut in the 2006 film The Last Kiss and...

 signed on to play Zoe Hart, the main character.

Hart of Dixie premiered on September 26, 2011.

The O.C.

Gerstein wrote four episodes of the Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 series:

• The Sister Act
• The Day After Tomorrow
• The Metamorphosis
• The Dream Lover

Eli Stone

After the end of The O.C.

The O.C.

The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on the Fox television network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 21, 2007, running a total of four seasons...

, Gerstein wrote for the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 series Eli Stone

Eli Stone

Eli Stone is an American TV series, and also the name of the title character.San Francisco lawyer Eli Stone begins to see things, which leads him to discover a brain aneurysm...

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• One More Try
• I Want Your Sex
• Grace
• Unwritten
• Owner of a Lonely Heart
• Mortal Combat

Gossip Girl

• Southern Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Rufus Getting Married
• The Last Days of Disco Stick
• The Sixteen Year Old Virgin
• Touch of Eva
• Damien Darko
• The Princesses and the Frog

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