British interviewer and author Amanda de Cadenet is gearing up to add another project to her multifaceted resume. Deadline reports that Showtime has ordered a pilot from Cadenet, a half-hour weekly news-magazine currently titled “Now What With Amanda de Cadenet”
Showrunners Inuka Bacote (“Eastsiders”) and Danielle Oexmann (“Vice”) aim to explore “America’s current social, sexual, cultural and political issues, seen through de Cadenet’s sharp, feminist lens.” Exec producers include de Cadenet, Tamyka Smith, and Jane Cha Cutler. Glamour Magazine’s former Editor in Chief Cindi Leive will also consult.
The show’s producers have noted the show’s culturally relevant timing. “With society at a crossroads, and conversations once relegated to a ‘women’s issues’ section now front-page, de Cadenet’s ability to connect with diverse audiences offers a unique opportunity to explore these issues across generations, zip codes and genders.”
de Cadenet underlined this objective. “People are really struggling to navigate the new and ever evolving social paradigms that are currently taking shape,” she said. “I’m excited and ready to explore the nuanced conversations and heated debates that all genders are having, both online and in private to make sense of how the hell we got here, and most importantly; how do we move forward in the most effective way?”
Her previous series, “Undone with @AmandadeCadenet,” also combined social media with her televisual platform. As she shared with us in 2014, “I lead with social… It’s all integrated
with the voices of people who have a voice and want to have a voice and an opinion. I try to make things that are not elitist. There’s enough places in the world where we’re excluded. I do not ever want to be contributing to that. I want to be contributing to opening the doors and gates for women.”
In addition to “Undone,” de Cadenet’s also hosted “The Conversation,” a woman-only interview series on Lifetime and online. She is the author of “It’s Messy: On Boys, Boobs and Badass Women” and “#girlgaze: How Girls See the World.” She is the founder and CEO of Girlgaze, a digital platform that employs Gen Z female photographers and directors.
