The New York Times is looking to redress some of its shady, sexist history. The newspaper is teaming up with Paramount Television, Anonymous Content, and 3dot Productions for “Overlooked,” a scripted anthology series about influential women who did not receive an obit in the Times, Deadline reports.
The series will consist of 10 episodes per season, each focusing on the story of notable woman. Women will write and direct every episode of “Overlooked.”
“Since 1851, The New York Times has published tens of thousands of obituaries — from heads of state to opera singers, from inventors to athletes — the vast majority of which have chronicled the lives of men, mostly white ones,” the show’s producers said. “The deaths of many incredible women and people of color were not covered by The Times. That includes Charlotte Brontë, who wrote ‘Jane Eyre’; Emily Warren Roebling, who oversaw construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when her husband fell ill; Madhubala, who transfixed Bollywood; and Ida B. Wells, who campaigned against lynching.”
Anonymous Content’s Joy Gorman Wettels will executive produce alongside Liza Chasin’s 3dot Productions and The New York Times.
The TV series seems to be in its early stages, but the Times’ has already launched an editorial project of the same name. Overlooked went live on March 8, International Women’s Day. Those who have received long overdue obits include feminist poet and revolutionary Qui Jin, photographer Diane Arbus, and trans activist Marsha P. Johnson.