#Television
Watch This: Veep Season 2 Trailer
We here at Women and Hollywood are huge fans of the hilarious Julia Louis-Dreyfus and are very excited for the return of Veep, a smart, prickly and very funny look at politics through the eyes of the...
Directors UK and BBC Studying Lack of Women Directors
Directors UK and the BBC are working together to investigate the lack of women directors in television. Talent executive, Jo Hatley, will lead the research working with internal commissioners,...
Trailer Watch: Nurse Jackie – Season Five
Here’s the trailer for season five of Showtime’s Nurse Jackie starring the terrific Edie Falco. This season will be the first without showrunners and creators Liz Brixius and Nancy Wallem...
Veronica Mars Movie Reaches $2 Million Kickstarter Goal
The message today is: never underestimate the power of fandom. After series creator, Rob Thomas, launched the Veronica Mars Kickstarter movie fund on March 13th with a $2 million goal and an...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Mike White – Creator/Writer of Enlightened
Enlightened is hands down the best show that you aren’t watching. It follows Amy Jellicoe (Laura Dern), a former corporate executive who post-nervous breakdown goes to a holistic rehab...
Krysten Ritter, Margo Martindale and Melanie Lynskey Nab New Pilots
Some of our favorite underappreciated actresses have been cast in pilots for the upcoming Fall TV season. The hilarious Krysten Ritter of the dearly departed Apartment 23 has been cast as the lead in...
Oscar Commentary Round Up
With everything surrounding this year’s Oscars there has been a wealth of really great commentary out there. Martha Lauzen for The Wrap gets it spot on in her article: What did the latest...
Interview with Dyllan McGee – Executive Producer of MAKERS: Women Who Make America
Women and Hollywood: What made you come up with the idea for this massive undertaking? Dyllan McGee: As a filmmaker who had covered many historical events and figures (The Kennedys, Lincoln,...
Emily Spivey Signs Deal with 20th Century Fox TV
Emily Spivey has signed a two year overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television. Spivey recently left the NBC sitcom, Up All Night, which she created. The ongoing mess, of Up All Night continues...
Trailer Watch: Nine for IX
This totally made my day. As a big women's sports fan here are NINE short films about women's sports directed by women. Executive producer Robin Roberts (who returned to Good Morning America...
Zooey Deschanel to Launch Production Company and Women Centric TV News Round Up
In television news, New Girl star Zooey Deschanel alongside Hello Giggles co-founder Sophia Rossi have launched their own production company. The pair have signed a two year first look deal...
FX Picks Up The Bridge from Meredith Stiehm
FX has picked up creator Meredith Stiehm’s The Bridge for a thirteen episodes. Production is set to begin in April. The detective drama stars Diane Kruger and Demian Bichir. Marco Ruiz...
Bonnie Hammer and Lauren Zalaznick Take on New Roles at NBC
Bonnie Hammer will be taking on running the full NBCU’s cable portfolio. Hammer, who previously oversaw USA Network, Syfy, E!, G4, Cloo, Chiller, Universal HD, Universal Cable Productions and...
Sundance Interview with Sarah Barnett, General Manager of the Sundance Channel
We got to spend a couple of minutes at Sundance with the woman behind the Sundance Channel, Sarah Barnett. We don't get to talk to executives too often so it was really nice to get her...
Our Favorite Super Bowl Ad Starring Amy Poehler
One of Women and Hollywood's favorite ladies, Amy Poehler, starred in a Best Buy ad during the Super Bowl as an extremely difficult customer, automatically winning our favorite Super Bowl ad of...
Lena Dunham’s Big Week: DGA Win, New Show and Entertainment Weekly Cover Story
Things for Lena Dunham are showing absolutely no signs of slowing down—within the past week, she’s won a DGA, is developing a new show for HBO, is Entertainment Weekly’s cover girl...
Julia Ormond’s First US TV Starring Role in Witches of East End for Lifetime
Julia Ormond has had a varied and interesting career from roles in Legends of the Fall to David Lynch’s Inland Empire. Ormond has also had roles in many TV movies and miniseries and guest...
Surprise! Go Daddy’s Sexist Super Bowl Ad is the Worst Ever
While the Super Bowl is bringing us Beyonce at halftime, another thing it annually brings are the worst of the worst in terms of sexist ads. And GoDaddy.com without fail brings the cream of the crop...
2013 Women-Created TV Pilots
It’s prime pilot season for the networks. After all the news that’s been coming out in the last six months or so about women-created shows, we wanted to see how that’s holding up...
Women-Created, Sitcom Voices Silenced: Apartment 23 and Ben and Kate Pulled From Line Up
This was a sad week in television for me. Two of my favorite sitcoms, Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23 and Ben and Kate were pulled from ABC and Fox’s schedules effective immediately. As...
Toni Collette and Geena Davis to Headline Two TV Pilots
Toni Collette and Geena Davis are coming back to your television screens in two new bad-ass women focused television shows. It’ll be great to have these two extremely talented actresses back on...
Teaser Trailer for HBO Miniseries Parade’s End – Directed by Susanna White
Susanna White, director of HBO's Generation Kill, directed the new HBO miniseries, Parade's End, penned by Tom Stoppard. The series is adapted from a series of 1920s novels by Ford...
Cher to Bring More Glamour to Television Screens with 60s Focused Project
Personal life icon and owner of my favorite Twitter account, Cher, has recently inked a development deal with Logo, an LGBT focused network that has blessed lives with RuPaul’s Drag...
Guest Post: How to Do an Abortion Plotline
When Amy tearfully asked Drew, “Do I look normal?” following her abortion procedure in the latest episode of Parenthood, it spoke to the narratives often pushed by the anti-choice...
Interview with Callie Khouri – Creator of Nashville
Women and Hollywood is a big fan of Nashville (we love Connie Britton) and Callie Khouri. We were excited to get an opportunity to talk with Ms. Khouri as the show returns with a new episode...
Link Roundup: TV Edition- November 2012
There has been a ton of women centric TV news, some of which we haven't had the chance to cover. Here's a round up of some recent women in TV news. Diablo Cody Developing Romantic Comedy...