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Posted Saturday 3/23/19 at 2:41AM EDT
Why does it feel like Love, Death & Robots hates women?
It only takes about half a season to recognize the the David Fincher-produced Netflix adult anthology series offers a "conventional...
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Posted Wednesday 3/20/19 at 5:51AM EDT
Lucy Liu developing an anthology series about real-life women heroes
The Elementary star is producing Unsung Heroes for ABC Studios International.
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Posted Wednesday 3/20/19 at 5:51AM EDT
Study: Female public servants on TV increase public participation
After studying the response to Scandal, Madam Secretary and The Good Wife, two academics argue that "the influence of political...
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Posted Thursday 3/14/19 at 1:42PM EDT
Study: 64% of diverse TV writers have experienced discrimination or harassment on the job
The Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity surveyed TV writers who are female, non-binary, LGBTQ, people of color and/or people...
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Posted Friday 3/08/19 at 1:35PM EST
Desi Lydic to explore gender equality worldwide in a one-hour Daily Show special
Comedy Central released the first trailer for The Daily Show Presents: Desi Lydic: Abroad to coincide with International Women's Day.
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Posted Friday 3/01/19 at 11:32PM EST
Rachel Bloom wants TV sex scenes to be more realistic, especially from the female point of view
The Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star blames sexism for the lack of accurate female sex scene portrayals.
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Posted Thursday 2/28/19 at 3:23AM EST
Network TV is ruled by Dick Wolf and Greg Berlanti, but it desperately needs the next Shonda Rhimes
"When Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix, network TV lost its most popular female voice," says Robert Rorke.
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Posted Sunday 2/17/19 at 5:08PM EST
Awkwafina's new Comedy Central show will have an all-female writers' room
"This is a show about being raised by my grandma and dad in Queens, living at home and finding purpose,"...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
