Television
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....
News
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....
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...
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
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 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 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,...
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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...
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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