Over the past couple days multiple networks (and Netflix) have been reporting about a slew of women-created and women-focused TV projects that are currently in development. As we reported today, women made 26% of the television shows in the 2011–2012 season. As we go into a new season of television (expect some great coverage from us), let’s hope that these new projects will help up these numbers. And with projects coming from brilliant writers like Sarah Haskins and Leslye Headland, executive producers Jennifer Lopez, Ellen DeGeneres and Renée Zellweger — it’s hard not to be optimistic about the future of women creating TV programming.
- It’s Official: ABC Family Orders Three Pilots (Deadline)
- Malin Akerman In Negotiations To Star In ABC Comedy Pilot ‘Trophy Wife’ (Deadline)
- Comedy From Fake Empire & Writer Shauna Cross Lands At Fox As Put Pilot (Deadline)
- Ellen DeGeneres-Produced Comedy Goes To NBC, CBS Buys Multi-Camera Project (Deadline)
- Will Ferrell, Adam McKay to Produce NBC Comedy With ‘Bachelorette’ Writer (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Renee Zellweger’s Lifetime 1970s Drama Pilot ‘Cinnamon Girl’ Casts Its Leads (Deadline)
- CW Developing ‘Buffy’-Like Supernatural Drama ‘Embrace’ (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Laura Prepon Joins Weeds Creator’s New Netflix Drama Series Orange is the New Black (TV Line)
- ABC Developing Adaptation Of British Comedy ‘Pulling’ From ‘Bad Teacher’ Writers (Deadline)
