After college, Littlejohn relocated to
Los Angeles where she worked as a
PA on
Fox's The Last Frontier before securing a job as a writer's assistant to Matt Wickline and John Bowman on
The Show. She then worked on the sitcom
Moesha for a brief stint before Wickline offered her a job writing for a show he was creating for
D.L. Hughley,
ABC's sitcom
The Hughleys. Littlejohn next worked on such shows as
One on One,
Life with Bonnie,
Platinum,
Cedric the Entertainer Presents and
Barbershop. She also lent her talents to an episode of
Half & Half before working as a writer and producer on
Will Smith's All of Us, culminating in Smith flying her out to New York to assist him on rewrites for the big-screen blockbuster
Hitch. During the
2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, Littlejohn found herself unemployed for the first time since the age of 16. She took the time to work on a script she had been writing called
Modern Love. Producer Maggie Malina of VH1, who was working with
Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit in search of the right project, read the script and asked Littlejohn to pitch a show. Littlejohn responded with
VH1's first-ever hour-long scripted series
Single Ladies, which debuted May 30, 2011. Along with the season 3 premiere of
Basketball Wives,
Single Ladies posted the network's highest ratings since October 2009 with its two-hour premiere drawing a 1.2 rating in the key P18-49 demo and 1.8 million total viewers. Combined with its 12am encore,
Single Ladies drew in a total of 2.8 million viewers. She worked as a writer and producer on
American Crime, on
ABC, created by
John Ridley. She has more recently worked on
Lethal Weapon,
Proven Innocent and
Dirty John. She had been developing an
Empire spin-off series, but it was cancelled. ==References==