Women and TV
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Showing 1 - 15 of 193 articles tagged "Women and TV"
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Posted Wednesday 9/22/21 at 1:47PM EDT
ESPN to feature its first all-women MLB broadcast
On Sept.
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Posted Tuesday 9/14/21 at 1:33PM EDT
Study: Streaming shows feature more women in major roles than broadcast series
San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film's study found that women comprised 52%...
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Posted Saturday 9/11/21 at 2:39AM EDT
Clickbait and Nine Perfect Strangers are perpetuating the same old story about sad, lonely women
"Netflix's Clickbait and Hulu's Nine Perfect Strangers don't seem to share a lot on the surface — the former is...
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Why women are the stars of TV's best dramedies
Shows like Good Girls, Insecure, Fleabag, Dead to Me and Russian Doll each tackle serious issues with comedy.
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Posted Saturday 3/20/21 at 3:49AM EDT
Nahnatchka Khan: It's time to rethink the "strong female character"
The Fresh Off the Boat creator and Young Rock co-creator writes in a Rolling Stone essay that "as societal and...
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Posted Saturday 12/19/20 at 6:00AM EST
The Wilds avoided the male gaze by being a series by women, for women and about women
"Not to get too 12 Days of Christmas about it, but on Amazon Prime Video’s The Wilds there are nine...
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Posted Wednesday 12/09/20 at 2:11AM EST
Period blood got the proper TV treatment in 2020 -- not as a shameful secret or punchline -- thanks to PEN15, I May Destroy You and Big Mouth
Sure, shows like Girls, Broad City, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Orange Is the New Black have previously portrayed periods in a...
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Posted Thursday 9/10/20 at 2:48PM EDT
Study: Streaming shows have "substantially more" female protagonists than broadcast and cable
The Study of Women in Television and Film found that 42% of streaming shows were told from the female perspective,...
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Posted Thursday 7/30/20 at 5:59AM EDT
The Morning Show represents Emmy nominations that are a wall of female rage
"Game of Thrones may be absent from the Emmy nominations list, but its themes of female power and rage linger...
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Posted Tuesday 7/07/20 at 4:29PM EDT
New NBC News boss pledges to make his staff 50% female and 50% people of color
NBC Universal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde pledged on Tuesday to create a more diverse staff, but he didn't announce...
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Posted Friday 7/03/20 at 4:09AM EDT
Enough with TV's dependence on white women warriors!
Netflix's Warrior Nun, Amazon's Hanna Season 2 and Netflix's Cursed are all premiering seasons this month with one thing in...
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Posted Friday 7/03/20 at 4:09AM EDT
Meet Faye Emerson, who became network TV's first female late-night host in 1949 -- nearly 40 years before Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers is widely considered the first female late-night host with Fox's The Late Show, premiering in 1986.
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Posted Saturday 5/23/20 at 4:35AM EDT
Normal People has been immensely important in making Peak TV more female-centric
"It adds to the through-line in the past decade of great TV that begins with Lena Dunham’s Girls on HBO...
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Posted Wednesday 3/04/20 at 12:36PM EST
Netflix celebrating International Women's Day with "Because She Watched" special programming
"Because She Watched" will feature shows, documentaries and films curated by 55 women, including Millie Bobby Brown, Lana Condor, Janet...
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High Fidelity and 8 Other TV Shows That Feature Gender-Swapped Roles
On the surface, Hulu’s High Fidelity has a lot in common with both the 1995 Nick Hornby novel that it’s...
