Women and TV
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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...
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Big Talk: ABC Sets its Sights on Female Viewers With 2020 Development Slate
With the broadcast network development cycle back in full swing.
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The 2010s were a golden age for TV's female rebels
In 2012, Two and a Half Men co-creator Lee Aronsohn complained to The Hollywood Reporter that “we’re approaching peak vagina...
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Posted Monday 12/02/19 at 10:32PM EST
CBS All Access felt it was "good business" for Star Trek: Discovery to revolve around women of color
"We certainly feel that it's important to reflect the culture on our service," says Julie McNamara, CBS All Access' executive...
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Posted Tuesday 11/19/19 at 4:48PM EST
Study: For the first time, more than half of TV episodes were directed by women or people of color
The Directors Guild of America found that of 4,300 episodes produced in the 2018-19, some 50% were directed by women...
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Posted Thursday 10/17/19 at 3:14AM EDT
One of fall TV's new show trends: Dead women as catalysts
"By my count, of the 15 new broadcast shows that premiered since the Emmys, five gain heat from the funeral...
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Posted Wednesday 10/16/19 at 1:06PM EDT
Why are so many men winning Survivor?
"In terms of winner distribution, the show’s first 25 seasons could not have been any more even, with 13 men...
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Unbelievable is TV's most feminist crime show, avoiding Hollywood's "badass" approach to feminism
The Netflix true-crime miniseries is "the most feminist crime show in recent memory, but one that is not feminist in...
