NEW SERIES CREATED BY AND ABOUT WOMEN IN 2019

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December

The Witcher – Created by Lauren Schmidt (Netflix)
The Gift (Netflix)
Dare Me – Written by Megan Abbott and Gina Fattore (USA)
Twice Upon a Time – Written by Nathalie Leuthreau and Guillaume Nicloux (Netflix)
Truth Be Told – Created by Nichelle Tramble Spellman (Apple TV+)
Reprisal (Hulu)
Three Days of Christmas (Netflix)
Triad Princess (Netflix)
Virgin River – Created by Sue Tenney (Netflix)
The L Word: Generation Q – Created by Marja-Lewis Ryan (Showtime)
Work in Progress – Created by Abby McEnany and Tim Mason (Showtime)
The Gulf – Written by Paula Boock and Donna Malane (Sundance Now)
Home for Christmas – Directed by Anna Gutto and Per-Olav Sørensen (Netflix)

November

Harley Quinn (DC Universe)
Mythomaniac – Created by Anne Berest and Fabrice Gobert (Netflix)
The Accident (Miniseries) – Directed by Sandra Goldbacher (Hulu)
Dino Girl Gauko (Netflix)
Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings (Anthology) (Netflix)
The Feed – Created by Channing Powell (Amazon Prime)
College Behind Bars (Docuseries) – Directed by Lynn Novick (PBS)
Balthazar – Created by Clélia Constantine and Clothilde Jamin (Acorn TV)
Dollface – Created by Jordan Weiss (Hulu)
The Club – Written and Directed by Camila Ibarra (Netflix)
Cheat (Miniseries) – Created by Gaby Hull; Directed by Louise Hooper (Sundance Now)
Back to Life – Created by Daisy Haggard (Showtime)
Dublin Murders – Created by Sarah Phelps (Starz)
All Hail Beth – Created by Misha Calvert (BRIC TV)
The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park (Docuseries) – Directed by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg (AMC and Sundance)
The Morning Show (Apple TV+)
Dickinson – Created by Alena Smith (Apple TV+)
Celeste Barber: Challenge Accepted (Comedy Special) – Written by Celeste Barber (Showtime)
Oprah’s Book Club (Talk Show) (Apple TV+)
Hache – Created by Verónica Fernández (Netflix)
His Dark Materials (HBO)

October

Mrs. Fletcher (HBO)
Brotherhood (Netflix)
Living with Yourself – Directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton (Netflix)
The Yard (Netflix)
Catherine the Great (Miniseries) (HBO)
The Cry (Miniseries) – Written by Jacquelin Perske (Sundance)
Sistas (BET)
Gabby Duran & the Unsittables (Disney Channel)
The Birch – Written by J. Casey Modderno (Facebook Watch)
The Casagrandes (Nickelodeon)
The Promised Life (Acorn TV)
Limetown (Facebook Watch)
The Unlisted – Created by Justine Flynn (Netflix)
Raising Dion – Created by Carol Barbee (Netflix)
Batwoman – Created by Caroline Dries (The CW)
Nancy Drew (The CW)
Almost Family – Developed by Annie Weisman

September

Bless the Harts – Created by Emily Spivey
Team Kaylie – Created by Tracy Bitterolf (Netflix)
All Rise (CBS)
Emergence – Created by Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas (ABC)
Mixed-ish (ABC)
Stumptown (ABC)
Carol’s Second Act – Created by Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins (CBS)
Evil – Created by Michelle King and Robert King (CBS)
Perfect Harmony – Created by Lesley Wake (NBC)
Unbelievable – Created by Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman, and Michael Chabon (Netflix)
Undone – Created by Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg (Amazon Prime)
Marianne (Netflix)
Murder in the Bayou (Docuseries) (Showtime)
A Little Late with Lilly Singh (Talk Show) (NBC)
Taken Down – Written by Jo Spain and Stuart Carolan (Acorn TV)

August

The A-List – Created by Nina Metivier and Dan Berlinka (Netflix)
Carole & Tuesday (Netflix)
On Becoming a God in Central Florida (Showtime)
OWN Spotlight: Black Women OWN the Conversation (Talk Show) (OWN)
This Way Up – Created by Aisling Bea (Hulu)
Green Frontier (Netflix)
Victim Number 8 – Created by Sara Antuña and Marc Cistaré (Netflix)
Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready (Stand-Up Series) – Created by Tiffany Haddish (Netflix)
Happy Jail (Docuseries) – Directed by Michele Josue (Netflix)
Why Women Kill (CBS All Access)
A Black Lady Sketch Show – Created by Robin Thede (HBO)
My Life Is Murder (Acorn TV)

July

Passing: A Family in Black and White (Docuseries) – Created by Robin Cloud (Topic.com)
Four Weddings and a Funeral – Created by Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton (Premieres Hulu)
Another Life (Netflix)
Pandora (The CW)
Pearson (USA)
Family Reunion – Created by Meg DeLoatch (Netflix)
Florida Girls – Created by Laura Chinn (Pop TV)

June

The Chosen One – Written by Carolina Munhóz and Raphael Draccon (Netflix)
The Rook (Starz)
Tokyo Alice (Netflix)
Bolívar – Written by Juana Uribe (Netflix)
Trinkets – Created by Kristen Smith, Amy Andelson, and Emily Meyer (Netflix)
Leila – Created by Urmi Juvekar (Netflix)
Unit 42 – Created by Julie Bertrand, Annie Carels, Charlotte Joulia, and Guy Goossens (Netflix)
Jett (Cinemax)
Los Espookys – Written by Ana Fabrega, Julio Torres, and Fred Armisen (HBO)
Frankie Drake Mysteries – Created by Carol Hay and Michelle Ricci (Ovation)
Euphoria (HBO)
Ambitions (OWN)
Reef Break – Created by Poppy Montgomery and Ken Sanzel (ABC)
Tales of the City – Developed by Lauren Morelli (Netflix)
Straight Forward (Acorn TV)
Arthdal Chronicles – Written by Kim Young-hyun and Park Sang-yeon (Netflix)
American Princess – Created by Jamie Denbo (Lifetime)
NOS4A2 – Created by Jami O’Brien (AMC)

May

When They See Us (Miniseries) – Created and Directed by Ava DuVernay (Netflix)
Swamp Thing (DC Universe)
Killer Ratings (Docuseries) – Created by Dinah Lord and Eamonn Matthews (Netflix)
High Seas – Created by Gema R. Neira and Ramón Campos (Netflix)
What/If (Netflix)
The Hot Zone (Miniseries) (National Geographic)
The InBetween – Created by Moira Kirland (NBC)
One Spring Night – Written by Kim Eun (Netflix)
L.A.’s Finest (Spectrum)
Tuca & Bertie – Created by Lisa Hanawalt (Netflix)
Dead to Me – Created by Liz Feldman (Netflix)
The Spanish Princess (Miniseries) – Directed by Daina Reid, Birgitte Stærmose, Lisa Clarke, and Stephen Woolfenden (Starz)

April

Chambers – Created by Leah Rachel (Netflix)
The Red Line – Created by Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss (CBS)
Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries – Created by Deborah Cox and Fiona Eagger (Acorn TV)
Gentleman Jack – Created and Written by Sally Wainwright; Directed by Sally Wainwright, Sarah Harding, and Jennifer Perrott (HBO)
1969 (Documentary Miniseries) – Directed by Jeanmarie Condon (ABC)
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson – Directed by Alice Mathias and Akiva Schaffer (Netflix)
Bless This Mess – Created by Lake Bell and Elizabeth Meriwether (ABC)
Special – Directed by Anna Dokoza (Netflix)
Persona (Anthology) – Directed by Lee Kyung Mi, Jeon Go Woon, Lim Pil Sung, and Kim Jong Kwan (Netflix)
Quicksand – Written by Camilla Ahlgren, Malin Persson Giolito, Veronica Zacco, and Alex Haridi (Netflix)
Tijuana – Created by Zayre Ferrer and Daniel Posada (Netflix)
Black Summer (Netflix)
In the Dark – Created by Corinne Kingsbury (The CW)

March

Traitors – Created and Written by Bash Doran (Netflix)
Hanna (Amazon Prime)
Osmosis – Created by Audrey Fouché (Netflix)
Mrs. Wilson (Miniseries) – Written by Anna Symon, Alison Wilson, and Tim Cook (PBS)
The Taste of Daisies (Netflix)
Crime Diaries: The Candidate – Directed by Hiromi Kamata and Natalia Beristáin (Netflix)
Delhi Crime (Netflix)
Most Beautiful Thing – Created by Heather Roth and Giuliano Cedroni (Netflix)
Women, War & Peace II (Documentary Film Series) – Directed by Eimhear O’Neill, Julia Bacha, Geeta Gandbhir, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, and Gini Reticker (PBS)
Shrill – Written by Aidy Bryant, Ali Rushfield, and Lindy West (Hulu)
Turn Up Charlie – Written by Victoria Asare-Archer, Georgia Lester, Laura Neal, and Femi Oyeniran (Netflix)
Green Door – Directed by Lingo Hsieh; Written by Lingo Hsieh, Fang-Yun Tsai, Wan-Ting Huang, and Ting-yu Lee (Netflix)
The Fix – Created by Marcia Clark, Elizabeth Craft, and Sarah Fain (ABC)
The Act – Created by Michelle Dean and Nick Antosca (Hulu)
Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists – Created by I. Marlene King (Freeform)
Made in Heaven – Created by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti (Amazon Prime)
The Case Against Adnan Syed (Docuseries) – Directed by Amy Berg (HBO)
Now Apocalypse – Written by Karley Sciortino and Gregg Araki (Starz)
The Widow (Amazon Prime)
The Order – Created by Shelley Eriksen and Dennis Heaton (Netflix)

February

Workin’ Moms – Created by Catherine Reitman and Philip Sternberg (Netflix)
Go! Vive a Tu Manera – Written by Patricia Maldonado (Netflix)
Lorena (Four-Part Docuseries) (Amazon Prime)
Fast Layne (Disney Channel)
Proven Innocent (Fox)
Flack (Pop)
PEN15 – Created by Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, and Sam Zvibleman (Hulu)
Margaret: The Rebel Princess (Two-Part Docuseries) – Directed by Hannah Berryman (PBS)
Boomerang – Created by Lena Waithe and Ben Cory Jones (BET)
Russian Doll – Created by Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler, and Leslye Headland (Netflix)
Siempre Bruja: Always a Witch – Directed by Liliana Bocanegra and Mateo Stivelberg; Written by Isidora Chacon and Ana María Parra (Netflix)
The ABC Murders – Written by Sarah Phelps (Amazon Prime)

January

Black Earth Rising (Netflix)
Four More Shots Please! – Created by Rangita Pritish Nandy (Amazon Prime)
Kingdom – Written by Kim Eun-hee (Netflix)
Sydney to the Max (Disney)
I Am the Night (Miniseries) – Directed by Patty Jenkins, Victoria Mahoney, and Carl Franklin (TNT)
Carmen Sandiego (Netflix)
Butterfly (Hulu)
Justice (Netflix)
The Other Two – Created by Sarah Schneider and Chris Kelly (Comedy Central)
A Discovery of Witches (Sundance Now and Shudder)
Roswell, New Mexico – Developed By Carina Adly Mackenzie (The CW)
The Passage – Created by Liz Heldens (FOX)
Sex Education – Created by Laurie Nunn (Netflix)
Surviving R. Kelly (Docuseries) (Lifetime)
Good Trouble – Created by Joanna Johnson, Peter Paige, and Bradley Bredeweg (Freeform)
Fam – Created by Corinne Kingsbury (CBS)