Showing 1 - 15 of 147 articles tagged "Women and TV"

• Posted Thursday 1/31/19 at 5:48PM EST

  Black Monday creators vow to never show female nudity

  Jordan Cahan and David Caspe said they decided they had to be particular in how they would approach things like...

• Posted Tuesday 1/29/19 at 1:16AM EST

  Mindy Kaling's Late Night movie erases Joan Rivers' history as the first female late-night host

  In the movie that Amazon purchased for $13 million after it receivied rave reviews at Sundance, Emma Thompson plays the...

• Posted Tuesday 1/29/19 at 1:16AM EST

  Women have found only 17% of Survivor's hidden immunity idols

  Two Survivor superfans crunched the numbers and found that out of 98 hidden immunity idols in the history of the...

• Posted Saturday 1/26/19 at 5:56AM EST

  It's the end of an era for female showrunners who changed the TV landscape

  "Seven game-changing female-run shows premiered from 2013 to 2015: Orange Is the New Black, Broad City, Transparent, The Affair, Jane...

• Posted Monday 1/14/19 at 8:28AM EST

  Study: Strong female characters outnumber male lead characters more than two to one

  Research group Ampere Analysis found that of 251 network dramas currently in development or in production, 42% have a strong...

• Posted Thursday 12/13/18 at 8:23PM EST

  Superstore is using comedy to break taboos and stereotypes about sex and women’s bodies

  The NBC comedy has always been one of TV's "most consistently and quietly revolutionary sitcoms" that has "always foregrounded its...

• Posted Friday 11/02/18 at 10:48PM EDT

  The Haunting of Hill House benefitted from having women writers bring nuance and grace to depictions of female trauma

  "Women have a knack for capturing female trauma differently than men do," says Kate Gardner, pointing out that the big...

• Posted Tuesday 10/09/18 at 12:15PM EDT

  BBC America study: Female superheroes can boost the confidence in girls

  BBC America partnered with the Women's Media Center for its "SuperPowering Girls" study that was timed for Jodie Whittaker's Doctor...

• Posted Friday 10/05/18 at 10:26PM EDT

  Amazon viewers are still complaining that the first female NFL broadcast team is "hidden"

  The streaming service had to release a video explaining that to listen to Andrea Kremer and Hannah Storm's Thursday Night...

• Posted Wednesday 9/26/18 at 2:44PM EDT

  IMDbPro to display a special seal for gender-balanced TV shows

  IMDb is partnering on the special seal with ReFrame, a coalition of industry leaders whose mission is to increase the...

• Posted Tuesday 9/25/18 at 1:05PM EDT

  Amazon taps Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer as the first all-female NFL announcing team

  The longtime sports journalists will call the 11 Thursday Night Football games that Amazon is streaming, beginning with Thursday's matchup...

• Posted Tuesday 9/18/18 at 8:17AM EDT

  Power creator: I'd be richer if I was a man

  "I do think I would have more money and power if I was a man in this business," says Courtney...

• Posted Tuesday 9/11/18 at 12:52PM EDT

  Latina TV speaking roles reach a historic high, but speaking roles for women overall declined

  According to the report "Boxed In: Women on Screen and Behind the Scenes in Television" conducted by San Diego State...

• Posted Monday 9/10/18 at 2:00PM EDT

  Netflix execs are silent on a Louis CK comeback, but they address concerns over the lack of black female comedians and too many comedy specials

  The New York Times' comedy critic Jason Zinoman sat down with Lisa Nishimura, Netflix’s vice president of original documentary and...

• Posted Tuesday 8/21/18 at 5:47PM EDT

  Samantha Bee finds Michelle Wolf and Robin Thede cancelations "very disheartening"

  “I’m really, really sad about it,” the Full Frontal host says of BET canceling The Rundown with Robin Thede and...