Television
Thinking About the Ending of Girls
I’ve been on the road so I didn’t have a chance to comment on the finale of Girls. First thing I want to report on is that every single meeting I have had during the run of the show no matter...
Win a Pair of Tickets to the World Premiere of Political Animals Starring Sigourney Weaver
One lucky New Yorker (sorry everyone else) over 21 will have the opportunity to win a pair of tickets to the world premiere screening and party for the new USA mini-series starring Sigourney Weaver...
Girls Season One Ends: Check Out This Interview with Lena Dunham
The first season of Girls came to a close last night. This pop culture tour de force has become the zeitgeist hit of the moment. I am beyond impressed with what they have accomplished. I am on the...
Fasten Your Seatbelts: Political Animals is Coming
Folks it looks like this miniseries will kick some serious ass. Maybe it will be another pop culture force that will help bang the gong for Hillary Clinton in 2016. The miniseries premieres on July...
Two Women Created Shows Go to Series at Showtime
Showtime has ordered 12 episodes of two series and both are created by women. Michelle Ashford (The Pacific) created the drama Masters of Sex which tells the story of Williams Masters and Virginia...
Amy Sherman Palladino Returns to TV Tonight with Bunheads
Tonight is an occasion to rejoice because Amy Sherman Palladino (The Gilmore Girls) has a new show premiering on TV this evening. It’s called Bunheads and stars Broadway vet Sutton Foster as a...
Guest Post: People Cannot Stop Talking About Girls
It’s impossible to read a pop culture blog or check out a review of your favorite TV show without noticing commentary about HBO’s most talked about series this year, Girls. That simple single...
Kristen Stewart Covers Vanity Fair and Tells Off The Voracious, Starving Shit Eaters
Fame is a bitch for Kristen Stewart. She used to be the kind of actress where as she said she could sit on her stoop and smoke pot in her underwear with her boyfriend and dog and nobody would care....
Hollywood Reporter Drama Showrunner Panel — Four White Guys and Two Women of Color
It’s great to see Shonda Rhimes and Veena Sud here. Honestly, I don’t know how they could have done a panel with drama showrunners without including Rhimes since she has three shows on the air....
‘Borgen’ Is Back
I have been a huge fan of Borgen since the moment I started watching it. It has become a huge success and won the BAFTA last weekend for International TV show. Season two starts this Sunday, June 3...
Gender Watch: The Firing of Community’s Dan Harmon
I have been watching with interest all week the press regarding the firing of Dan Harmon the creator and showrunner of Community after three seasons. The whole incident would have passed without a...
Cross Post: Women Writing Pilots — Nice Work if You Can Get It
Last week the networks announced the pilots they are picking up to series from among the ninety or so that were produced this year for ABC, CBS, CW, FOX and NBC. Certainly the relative success that...
Quote of the Day
From Katie Couric during her University of Virginia Commencement address: Some said I lacked gravitas, which I’ve since decided is Latin for testicles… Awesome. Couric helps to send off 6,400...
Kristen Wiig Says Goodbye to SNL After Seven Years
She can now be a full time moviestar. NBC.com Video Widget
New TV Shows Created by Women for 2012–2013
It’s that tme of the year again. When your favorite shows get cancelled, and shows that you have no idea why they exist get renewed again for another year. For renewals, one piece of good news is...
Trailer Watch: Forbidden Voices — Directed by Barbara Miller
An incredibly moving story of three women bloggers fighting to keep telling the truth. As First Lady Michelle Obama says: “courage can actually be contagious.” This film opened in Switzerland...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Julia Bluhm
Maybe it will take an awesome girl to get people to think differently about how absurd and damaging it is that we live in a world dominated by photoshopped pictures. We never get to see anyone real,...
Video Watch: Shit Girls Say About the Show Girls
Produced by Rex (Rachael Mason, Kerry McGuire, Stephanie Bencin). Girls just got renewed for a second season. h/t Laura Shields
Guest Post: The Woman Who Wasn’t There — A True Story
Almost everyone has a 9/11 story. They can describe where they were when the planes hit, when the towers collapsed, the days following. I have one. I was there. I watched the second tower collapse...
There is Hope for the Future: Tavi Gevinson’s TedxTeen Talk
Tavi embraces feminism and is way smarter than most people about pop culture at the rip old age of 15. Her advice- just be Stevie Nicks. Check out her magazine — Rookie for teen girls.
Lena Dunham’s Show Girls — Yes, It Is That Good
For those of you who don’t have HBO this might be a good time to check it out. Not only does the new series Girls by Lena Dunham premiere this weekend, but next week we get Julia Louis Dreyfus in...
Ashley Judd Continues the Conversation on the Misogynistic Media
Here’s what she said: I think it’s the objectification of girls and women and the hypersexualization of our society that invites the criticism. We are anesthetized to it. She wants us all to...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Ashley Judd
I can count on one hand — even one finger — an actress with a show up for renewal (btw you should watch Missing it’s great and Eddard Stark is alive on that show) who spoke back...
Sneak Preview: Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal
Thanks to Shonda Rhimes next week will be a milestone week. It will be the first time in 30 years that a single African American woman will be the lead on a network TV show. (Jada Pinkett Smith was...
Guest Post: Bitch? Please.
I couldn’t sleep the other night so I decided to get into the new ABC series Don’t Trust the B — — in Apartment 23 (It had been pre-released online in advance on its April 11th network...
Marc Cherry Developing TV Show about Four Latina Maids
I’m not so sure about this one. Marc Cherry whose Desperate Housewives is thankfully going off the air this May is now filming a pilot a new ABC show called Devious Maids. One Housewife, Eva...
Trailer Watch: Nurse Jackie — Season Four
Nurse Jackie returns for its fourth season on April 8 at 9pm on Showtime. Edie Falco’s got a new haircut and she’s drug free. The show is created by Liz Bixius and Linda Wallem This is gonna...
Smash Gets Renewed But Creator and Showrunner Theresa Rebeck Departs
With a one-two punch on Thursday afternoon, NBC renewed Smash — the show about creating a musical based on Marilyn Monroe, but also revealed that the creator, main writer, executive producer...
Season Two of The Killing Returns April 1
Mad Men, Game of Thrones and now The Killing all returning within the next two weeks. Awesome. As the tag line says, The Killing is just the beginning. Can’t wait to see what Veena Sud and company...
Nicollette Sheridan Desperate Housewives Lawsuit Ends in a Hung Jury
Nicollette Sheridan’s $5.7 million lawsuit against ABC, Touchtone TV and Marc Cherry ended yesterday with a hung jury. The jury was deadlocked at 8–4 one vote short of giving Sheridan...
The Return of Anjelica Huston
I remember a time when Anjelica Huston was a movie star. From the mid-80s to the mid-90s she was making some really great movies. Prizzi’s Honor, The Dead, The Addams Family, The Grifters and...
Happy International Women’s Day: Watch Saving Face on HBO Tonight
I started today watching the harrowing Academy Award winning documentary Saving Face directed by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. The film tells the story of women in Pakistan who have been...
Poster for VEEP
Gotta love this.
Sigourney Weaver to Channel Hillary Clinton in USA Series Political Animals
Aside from the big news that Sigourney Weaver is coming to a TV near you, the fact that she will be playing a character quite close to Hillary Clinton makes this announcement so exciting. Point A-...
Trailer Watch: Veep Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Bring it on. Series premiere on April 22.
Trailer Watch: Girls
No more teases. This is the real albeit short trailer. It’s Tiny Furniture but with HBO money. Also take note that Tiny Furniture is now available in DVD via the Criterion Collection which by the...
Sexism Watch: NY Times Book Review Calls NY Times Reporter’s Book “Chick Nonfiction”
We hit another dubious milestone this weekend. A book called The Obamas written by veteran NY Times reporter Jodi Kantor was called “chick nonfiction” in a NY Times book review written by...
2012 Oscar Contenders Fail the Bechdel Test
Another brilliant cultural criticism from Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency From her you tube page description: It’s been a few years since I’ve checked in with The Bechdel Test for Women...
Guest Post: Sex, Lies, and Phone-Hacking: British Tabloid Journalism on Trial
Britain has been riveted by the Leveson Inquiry, a legal body set up to investigate illegal information-gathering techniques used by the tabloid press — such as phone-hacking, data...
Trailer Watch: Hemingway and Gellhorn
I seriously have not been this excited about a Nicole Kidman movie in a long time. Based on the voice over it should be named Gellhorn and Hemingway but as is typical with women in history, she seems...
Can Girls Be a Game Changer?
I found this brief behind the scenes one minute and forty two second piece from the upcoming HBO series Girls created by Lena Dunham and after I watched it I could not help but think that this show...
Trailer Watch: Game Change
This movie looks so much better than the book and I really loved the book. Julianne Moore is totally rocking as Sarah Palin. Love it!
A “Smash”ing Premiere
While I might write about Hollywood I live in NY. I really don’t get to see the everyday machinations of the business. I like it that way. It keeps it more mysterious. I was able to get a little...
Video: Shit Liz Lemon Says
Don’t tell me you’ve given up watching 30 Rock. It’s back on the air with two episodes tonight. I love me some Tina Fey. NBC.com Video Widget
First Look at Ashley Judd in Missing
I know this is not the best quality, but this looks like it’s going to be a good and fun show.
Trivializing Rape is Not OK
Here we go again. Another Hollywood star — or in this case former star, 78-year-old Kim Novak took out a full page ad in Variety equating the use of the score for Vertigo in The Artist...
Teaser Trailer: Game Change on HBO
Meryl Streep Will Be on 60 Minutes Tonight
And she is on the cover of the new Newsweek appearing on newstands tomorrow.
Teaser Trailer for HBO Show Girls
This begins the official campaign of I heart Lena Dunham.
I Admit it: I Love Sons of Anarchy
On the occasion of the fourth season finale tonight I am coming out and admitting to my deep affection for the TV show Sons of Anarchy. This might seem a bit off based on what I usually write about,...
Hope Solo Not Dainty Enough for Dancing With the Stars
Hope Solo is a competitive athlete. She’s won Olympic gold. World Cup Silver. The Golden Glove Award at this summer’s Women’s World Cup. She is probably the best female goalkeeper in...