Little Engine Productions

Little Engine Productions is a Los Angeles–based production company started by Gina Matthews in 1998.

History

The origin of Little Engine Productions dates back to 1998 when Matthews, the former head of Tavel Entertaintment's literary and feature department, started Roundtable Entertainment. In 2007, Matthews and co-founder Grant Scharbo rebranded Roundtable Entertainment as Little Engine Productions.
The company's first feature film was 1998's Urban Legend, written by Silvio Horta. Other film producing credits include What Women Want, 13 Going on 30, and Isn’t It Romantic.
The company's first television series, Popular, premiered on The WB in 1999. The teen comedy-drama starred Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope and was co-created by Matthews and Ryan Murphy. The show was named one of the "26 Best Cult TV Shows Ever" by Entertainment Weekly.
The team reunited with Horta in 2001 for SyFy's The Chronicle, and again in 2002 for UPN's Jake 2.0. Signing deals to produce TV shows for Viacom Productions in 2002, 20th Century Fox Television in 2005 and ITV Studios in 2016, the company’s television credits during this period include The Gates, ''Missing, Rush, and Saints & Strangers.
Little Engine ventured into the holiday genre with Hallmark Channel's Holiday Road in 2023 and the limited series Holidazed'' filmed in 2022.