#Betsy Beers

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Shondaland Announces First Slate of Netflix Series

Shondaland’s massive empire continues to grow. Netflix has announced the first slate of series being developed by TV titans Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers and their Shondaland team....

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Shonda Rhimes on PGA Diversity Award: “It’s Not Trailblazing to Write the World As It Actually Is”

Shonda Rhimes delivered a tongue-in-cheek speech challenging writers and producers to be more inclusive while receiving the PGA’s Norman Lear Achievement Award at the PGA Awards on Saturday....

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Kerry Washington to Exec-Produce New Shondaland Series About Nannies

Kerry Washington and Katie Lowes are teaming up with their “Scandal” boss Shonda Rhimes, but this time around, they’ll be joining her behind the scenes. The actresses will executive produce an...

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Pilots from Shonda Rhimes and Julie Bowen Tackle Nuns, a Terminal Diagnosis, Mother-in-Laws in Love

Women created just 20% of all the shows during the 2013–2014 TV season. If you’re on the lookout for new series with women creators, you’ll be glad to hear three new women-created and/or...

News, Women Writers

Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers Developing Divorce Comedy for ABC With ‘Trophy Wife’ Creators

Divorced women may be TV’s next big trend. Lifetime has renewed Marti Noxon’s “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce,” starring Lisa Edelstein, while Sarah Jessica Parker will make her...

News, Women Directors

Shonda Rhimes and Dee Rees to Make Black Migration Miniseries ‘The Warmth of Other Suns’ for FX

Shonda Rhimes and Dee Rees will adapt Isabel Wilkerson’s bestselling historical book “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” for FX. Rees will write the...

News, Television

ABC Orders New Pilots From Shondaland and Stephanie Savage

ABC picked up two women-centric pilots on Monday — new dramas from Shondaland and Fake Empire. The Catch is the latest offering from the prolific executive producers of Grey’s Anatomy,...

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Betsy Beers’ Keynote: “I Hope Girls Can Count on Our Shows to Remind Them It’s Okay to Be Strong and Complicated”

Shonda Rhimes’ producing partner Betsy Beers delivered a moving and revealing keynote address at the Marie Claire New Guard luncheon last Thursday. Beers, along with actress Rashida Jones,...

News, Television, Videos, Women Writers

Trailer Watch: Shonda Rhimes’ How To Get Away With Murder

A full trailer has arrived for How To Get Away With Murder right on the heels of ABC’s upfront presentation. Unsurprisingly, it looks very addictive — the legal thriller is co-created and...

Awards, News

Shonda Rhimes “Honored” and “Pissed Off” at DGA Awards

Nary a week goes by at Women and Hollywood when we don’t devote a post to Shonda Rhimes. That’s because the Scandal showrunner is one of the few industry insiders with the courage and the...

Awards, Documentary, News

Sarah Polley, Lucy Walker, Jehane Noujaim are DGA Doc Nominees

Jehane Noujaim’s The Square, Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell, and Lucy Walker’s The Crash Reel are three among the five nonfiction films to receive a Best Documentary nod from the Directors...

News, Television, Women Writers

TV: The Women-Created Network Shows in Contention for Fall 2014

The Hollywood Reporter has published a running list of all the network pilots in contention for the 2014–2015 season. About 40% of them (11 of 26) feature women creators, showrunners, and/or...

Awards, News, Women Writers

Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers to Receive DGA Diversity Award

Sometimes it feels like Women and Hollywood is really just a Shonda Rhimes fan club in disguise, but we can’t help getting excited everytime the Scandal creator is recognized for being the force...

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TV Pilot Roundup for August 22: New Shows from Rashida Jones, Lauren Graham and Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland

Here’s some of the most notable news from this week about TV pilot pickups. Lauren Graham’s adaptation of her YA novel, Someday, Someday, Maybe, has been picked up by The CW. ABC has...

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TV Pilot Roundup for August 16th: New Shows from Shonda Rhimes, Tina Fey and Nahnatchka Khan

Here’s a roundup of some of the most notable pilot news from the last week. Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers’ production company just nabbed a comedy from Cougar Town co-producers Christine...

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