Year Five

Fargo

Warren Littlefield is the founder and president of The Littlefield Company, whose shows have garnered a total 127 Emmy® nominations and 17 Emmy wins, alongside multiple Peabody Awards, PGAs, Golden Globes® and more.Along with creator/showrunner Bruce Miller and Elisabeth Moss, he is an executive producer on The Handmaid’s Tale for Hulu and MGM. Based on Margaret Atwood’s critically acclaimed novel of the same name, in its first year The Handmaid’s Tale won eight Emmy Awards, including “Best Dramatic Series,” and the Television Critics Association named it “Best Drama and Program of the Year.” It also won three Golden Globe Awards, the AFI TV Program of the Year Award, a Peabody Award, a BAFTA Award and garnered Littlefield his third Producers Guild Award.Littlefield also serves as an executive producer on FX’s television adaptation of the Academy Award®-winning film Fargo, alongside Noah Hawley and Joel and Ethan Coen. In its first year, Fargo won a Peabody, multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, AFI, Producers Guild and Critics’ Choice Awards for “Best Limited Series.” In three installments, Fargo has been nominated for 52 Emmys and won six.Littlefield is currently in production on The Old Man for FX and Touchstone Television alongside fellow executive producer Dan Shotz and showrunner Jon Steinberg, with star and executive producer Jeff Bridges in his first TV role. Based on the Thomas Perry novel of the same name, The Old Man is about an ex-CIA agent who, after living a long, full life in hiding, suddenly finds himself the active target of the CIA and various political groups.Additionally, Littlefield serves as an executive producer on Hulu’s series Reprisal, a hyper-kinetic revenge tale following a relentless femme fatale who after being left for dead, leads a vengeful campaign against a bombastic gang of gearheads.Littlefield is also Executive Producer on Dopesick, based on Beth Macy’s New York Times bestseller, with award-winning creator, showrunner and Executive Producer Danny Strong. The limited series for Hulu stars Michael Keaton and chronicles the opioid crisis in America.Rounding out his slate is an Apple and Endeavor Content-produced limited series about Hedy Lamarr, starring and executive produced by Gal Gadot and executive produced and written by Sarah Treem.The Littlefield Company recently signed a multi-year deal with Touchstone Television and 20th Television for all TV development.While at NBC, Littlefield was responsible for developing many of the series that defined quality programming. As head of the comedy department, he developed The Golden Girls, ALF and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In his last four years as president of the entertainment division, Littlefield orchestrated a renaissance at NBC and a return to first place in the ratings race, fueled by a long roster of hit series that he developed. They included: Seinfeld, ER, Friends, Frasier, Mad About You, Just Shoot Me!, 3rd Rock from the Sun, NewsRadio, Homicide: Life on the Street and Law &amp; Order. He was an architect of “Must See TV.” In his final year at NBC, he supervised the development of Will &amp; Grace, Providence and The West Wing. He initiated the development of Law &amp; Order: SVU, which began the industry trend of procedural spin-offs. Actor Bob Balaban portrayed Littlefield in the HBO film The Late Shift as well as a handful of memorable episodes of Seinfeld.In May 2012, Doubleday Books published Littlefield’s New York Times best-selling memoir Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV, which documents his record-breaking years at NBC.

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Founder and president of The Littlefield Company, whose shows have garnered a total 117 Emmy® nominations and 17 Emmy wins.

Warren Littlefield | Executive Producer | Fargo on FX

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