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Hot Docs 2022 Women Directors: Meet Pauline Beugnies – “The End of Innocence” (“Petites”)
Pauline Beugnies is an author, photographer, and director from Belgium. For 10 years, she has been documenting the emancipation of youth in Egypt in multiple forms: photo exhibitions, 2012 web...
Trailer Watch: Amanda Seyfried Is Elizabeth Holmes in “The Dropout”
“This isn’t just my job. This is who I am. Anybody who doubts my company doubts me,” says Amanda Seyfried in a new trailer for “The Dropout.” The Hulu series sees the...
Trailer Watch: Anna Paquin Manages Celeb Crises in “Flack”
Anna Paquin squared off with — and cozied up to — vampires, werewolves, and shapeshifters on “True Blood,” but U.K. export “Flack” sees the Oscar-winning and...
Sarah Phelps Will Tell Margaret Campbell’s Story in “A Very English Scandal” Season 2
Sarah Phelps has explored fictional murders, betrayals, and mysteries in her five TV adaptations of Agatha Christie’s work. For her next project, she’s setting her sights on a very real...
ABC Releases “Scandal” Web Series Created and Directed by Darby Stanchfield
Prepare to have even more “Scandal” in your life. The Hollywood Reporter writes that ABC surprise-released six webisodes of “Scandal: Gladiator Wanted” on January 19. The web series, an...
Kerry Washington Developing A Series About Female LAPD Cops at ABC
“Scandal” star Kerry Washington is developing a new drama with ABC, the network behind her hit series. Variety reports that the actress is serving as executive producer for “Patrol,” “a...
Watch: Kerry Washington Stands Up Against Domestic Violence
Kerry Washington is speaking out against domestic violence. For the third year, the “Scandal” star has signed on to serve as an ambassador for the Allstate Foundation Purple Purse campaign,...
Shonda Rhimes to Receive PGA’s 2016 Norman Lear Award
Shonda Rhimes has been named the 2016 recipient of the Producers Guild of America’s Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television. Rhimes is, of course, one of the most powerful producers in TV,...
Quote of the Day: Shonda Rhimes: “I Make TV Look Like the World Looks”
“I really hate the word ‘diversity,’” announced Shonda Rhimes at the Human Rights Campaign Gala this past Saturday. The “Scandal” creator and “How to Get Away With Murder” producer...
Kerry Washington Lands Her First Starring Film Role in More Than a Dozen Years
I first saw Kerry Washington in a 2001 indie called Lift, in which the Scandal star played a put-together young woman with a shoplifiting problem. Written and directed by Boston natives DeMane Davis...
Clear Your Thursday Nights for Shonda Rhimes
Sometime during Scandal’s feverish sophomore season, Shonda Rhimes became more than a brand — she became a powerhouse. Sure, she was already a known commodity from the wildly popular...
Quote of the Day: Shonda Rhimes Says No to Nice
Though she couldn’t attend the 39th annual Gracie Awards, Shonda Rhimes shared her sentiments on why Scandal, honored at the gala for Best Drama, is such a game-changing force. Actress Bellamy...
Why Shonda Rhimes’ Upcoming Fall Drama Is Already a Hit
No network was scrutinized more in this month’s Upfronts than ABC, which, for the past three seasons, has ranked dead last among the big four networks for viewers under 50. The female-skewing ABC...
The Double Standards for TV’s Male and Female Politicians
Bad-boy politicians are nothing new in popular culture. Mr. Smith was lamenting the sorry state of our politics and Joe Tynan was getting seduced by a lobbyist long before I was born. And television...
Shonda Rhimes to Publish Memoir About TV Writing and Single Motherhood
If it wasn’t yet clear that Shonda Rhimes is totally a celebrity in her own right, here’s one more sign: the Scandal creator has signed a book deal, a la Tina Fey and Mindy Kaling, that will...
Ava DuVernay on Directing Tonight’s Scandal Episode
Middle of Nowhere director and Women and Hollywood hero Ava DuVernay helmed tonight’s episode of ABC’s Scandal. DuVernay spoke to us (by email) about her own Scandal fandom, Shonda Rhimes’...
Shonda Rhimes to Write Film Script About Female War Correspondents
Shonda Rhimes is returning to movies. She began her career writing Crossroads and Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement before changing our television screens with hit shows Grey’s Anatomy...
Kerry Washington Covers Vanity Fair
Recently, Kerry Washington has been on the cover of some major magazines. In May, she was on the cover of Elle and now she’s on this month’s cover of Vanity Fair. Washington is the first...
Talking Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal on Melissa Harris-Perry
On this last week’s Melissa Harris-Perry show she devoted a whole segment to Shonda Rhimes’ show Scandal. In the segment she is joined by Andrea Plaid, Heather McGee, Joy-Ann...
Kerry Washington Wins Big at NAACP Image Awards
Over the weekend at the NAACP Image Awards, Kerry Washington swept the show. She won three awards. She won for outstanding actress in a drama series for her role as Olivia Pope on Scandal, and also...