The Old Man

Award-winning producer and former network president Warren Littlefield is the founder and president of The Littlefield Company, a prolific production company that has garnered 162 Emmy® nominations and 23 Emmy wins, alongside multiple Peabody Awards, Producers Guild of America Awards, Golden Globes® and more. The Littlefield Company projects he is currently producing are synonymous with the legendary “Must See TV” quality programming he developed as a network president.Along with creator/showrunner Bruce Miller and Elisabeth Moss, he is an executive producer of the seminal drama series The Handmaid’s Tale, for Hulu and MGM. Based on Margaret Atwood’s critically acclaimed novel of the same name, The Handmaid’s Tale was named Best Drama and Program of the Year by the Television Critics Association in its first year and has won 15 of its 76 Emmy Award nominations, two Golden Globe Awards, the AFI TV Program of the Year Award, a Peabody Award, a BAFTA Award and garnered Littlefield his third PGA Award. Season six will go into production shortly.Littlefield is an executive producer of the hit FX television adaptation of the Academy Award®-winning film, Fargo, alongside Noah Hawley and Joel and Ethan Coen. The fifth and most recent installment of the series stars Juno Temple, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Fargo won a Peabody Award, six Emmy Awards out of 70 nominations, and awards and honors including the Golden Globes, AFI, PGA and Critics’ Choice Awards for Best Limited Series.He also executive produces The Old Man for FX and 20th Television alongside fellow executive producer Dan Shotz and showrunner Jonathan E. Steinberg, with star and executive producer Jeff Bridges in his first television role. Based on the Thomas Perry novel of the same name, the series premiered simultaneously on FX and Hulu, to tremendous critical acclaim.Littlefield executive produced the acclaimed limited series 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. The series won a Peabody Award and received 14 Emmy Award nominations, among many other honors.The Littlefield Company is under a multi-year deal with Disney Television for all television development. He is joined by producing partners Ann Johnson, Lisa Harrison, Graham Littlefield and Vivien Mao, along with Patty Mann, Hannah Bond and Jake Collazo.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, including 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 is the architect of NBC’s “Must See TV,” a forerunner of Peak TV and now Prestige TV. In his final year at NBC, he supervised the development of Will &amp; Grace and The West Wing and initiated the development of Law &amp; Order: SVU, which began the prolific industry trend of procedural spin-offs. Littlefield’s stature as network president even saw him cross over into the pop culture universe, with actor Bob Balaban portraying 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 bestselling 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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Littlefield is the founder and president of The Littlefield Company, whose shows have garnered a total of 151 Emmy® nominations.

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