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Netflix News: Updates on ‘Kimmy Schmidt,’ ‘Jessica Jones,’ ‘Orange/New Black,’ ‘Grace & Frankie’

Netflix dropped several news bombs over the weekend at the Winter TCAs. Here’s the latest updates on four of our favorite (female-centric, female-created) shows:  "Unbreakable Kimmy...

Features, News

Bedbugs, Blue Energy and Big Boo: “Orange is the New Black” is Back

Slight spoilers ahead for the first four episodes of Season 3. Previously on “OITNB”: Baddie Vee (Lorraine Toussaint) terrorized the population for most of Season 2 before getting bumped off by...

Awards, News, Television

Shonda Rhimes and Jenji Kohan Win Global Women’s Rights Awards

Shonda Rhimes and Jenji Kohan were recognized for “changing the face of media” by the Feminist Majority Foundation at the 10th annual Global Women’s Rights Awards on Monday. Rhimes and Kohan...

News, Television, Videos

Trailer Watch: Laura Prepon’s Back in Prison and a Different Castmember Goes Free in ‘Orange’ Season 3

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Jenji Kohan Sells Salem Pilot to HBO

“Orange is the New Black” creator Jenji Kohan has created another show about female victims, scapegoats, and troublemakers. HBO has given a pilot order to “New World,” a drama set in...

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SAG Award Winners: Viola Davis & Uzo Aduba Make History

While all 20 acting nominees competing for an Oscar thisyear are white — for the first time in nearly 20 years — twowomen of color made history at the SAG Awards last night for their...

Features, News, Women Directors, Women Writers

Spotlight on Women of Color in 2014

Women and Hollywood’s end-of-year coverage includes our “Best Women-Directed Documentaries of 2014 (That We Managed to See),” “Best Women-Directed Films of 2014,” “Best Films About Women...

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Learning from ‘Transparent’ and ‘OITNB’: There’s No Single Right Way to Do Diversity

We often talk about the need for diversity in Hollywood, but we rarely talk about how to do it. This leaves us with the clumsy approach in practice today, as writer Beejoli Shah discovered last...

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Jenji Kohan Talks Equal Pay and Being Told Men Are Funnier

There is an awesome profile in the current issue of The Hollywood Reporter on Jenji Kohan, the creator and showrunner of Orange is the New Black. I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say...

News, Television

TV: Orange is the New Black Renewed for Season 3

A month before the long awaited return of Orange is the New Black for its sophomore season, Netflix went ahead and renewed the groundbreaking series for a third year. That bodes well for the...

Awards, News, Television

Orange is the New Black, Scandal, Borgen Among Peabody Winners

The Peabody Awards have named a record 46 winners this year in their ongoing efforts to recognizing “stories that matter.” Twenty of the awardees (43%) — which range from journalism to...

Awards, News

Women-Centric TV Shows Dominate WGAs

If the so-called Golden Age of Television — a cultural epoch that deconstructed traditional masculinity while reveling in violence and guilt (The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and Mad...

Features

Alysia Reiner Talks About Being a Part of Orange is the New Black

In Orange is the New Black – the new Netflix sensation that takes place in a women’s prison, Alysia Reiner’s character is incredibly callous. She plays Natalie...

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Trailer Watch: Netflix’s Orange is the New Black – Created by Jenji Kohan

Netflix is continuing to add to their growing original programming with Orange is the New Black created by Jenji Kohan (Weeds) and based on Piper Kerman’s memoir. It’s their first female...

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