Showing 1 - 15 of 154 articles tagged "Women and TV"

• 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.

• 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...

• 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...

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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,"...

• 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...