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Sex and the City would not be Sex and the City if it premiered today, says creator Darren Star
In honor of Sex and the City launching 20 years ago today, on June 6, 1998, Star was asked how...
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Posted Wednesday 6/06/18 at 6:44PM EDT
Variety apologizes over a TV writers panel that includes 11 men and just one woman
Variety's announcement was met with backlash from showrunners such as Grey's Anatomy's Krista Vernoff and TV stars like Busy Philipps,...
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Miss America drops swimsuit competition: "We are no longer a pageant"
“We are a competition," explained Gretchen Carlson in announcing that Miss America will no longer judge based on physical appearances.
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Posted Thursday 5/31/18 at 9:13PM EDT
Atlanta's only female writer describes her situation as "a really bittersweet thing"
“It’s a bummer,” says Stefani Robinson.
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Posted Wednesday 5/30/18 at 9:55PM EDT
Arrow reveals a Season 7 writing room that's almost entirely female
The CW Arrowverse drama has struggled with inconsistent writing of female characters.
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Posted Tuesday 5/22/18 at 5:47PM EDT
Carol Burnett recalls being told "variety is a man's game" when trying to launch her legendary variety show
Burnett tells Conan O'Brien if it weren't for a CBS contract requiring 30 episodes to be filmed, The Carol Burnett...
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Posted Thursday 5/17/18 at 10:42PM EDT
Tina Fey and Rachel Bloom are changing the way female comics engage with "male gatekeepers"
Fey's recent appearance on David Letterman's My Next Guest Needs No Introduction and Bloom's recent interview conducted by Marc Maron...
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Posted Tuesday 5/15/18 at 10:53PM EDT
Emilia Clarke: I've always had pay equality with my Game of Thrones co-stars
Clarke, speaking at the Cannes Film Festival, said she found Claire Foy's The Crown pay disparity to be "shocking, actually...
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Posted Monday 5/14/18 at 11:28PM EDT
Former Late Night writer: David Letterman's explanation for not hiring women was a "master class in distortion"
Letterman co-created his NBC Late Night show with a woman, his then-girlfriend Merrill Markoe, who served as the original head...
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Posted Sunday 5/13/18 at 2:39PM EDT
Benedict Cumberbatch: I'll turn down any role unless my female co-star has equal pay
“Equal pay and a place at the table are the central tenets of feminism,” says the Patrick Melrose and Sherlock...
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Posted Friday 5/04/18 at 7:23PM EDT
Ava DuVernay says "sue me" in response to men objecting to her all-female Queen Sugar director lineup
DuVernay says there has been backlash by some male directors who feel they were being discriminated against.
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Posted Friday 5/04/18 at 1:53PM EDT
Tina Fey calls out David Letterman's lack of female writers on his late-night shows
On the new episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, Letterman acknowledged the criticism that he lacked females in...
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Posted Tuesday 5/01/18 at 11:02PM EDT
Pauley Perrette: My NCIS character has been an inspiration to "young girls around the world"
“It’s been such an incredible journey that this one little fictional television character has, and it is enormous and overwhelming...
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Posted Wednesday 4/25/18 at 10:49PM EDT
Finally, there are TV shows saying it's okay for women to be single
Jessica Jones, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Posted Wednesday 4/25/18 at 5:39PM EDT
John Dickerson's book on his mom, CBS News pioneering journalist Nancy Dickerson, to be adapted as a Showtime movie
Stephen Colbert and his wife, Evelyn McGee Colbert, are producing the Showtime original movie Hello Nancy based on the CBS...