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National Dance Day and Glee Camp
For better or worse, FOX television has a huge influence over popular culture. To prove that point, summer activities based on a couple of the network’s TV shows look to be a hit with adults and kids alike. Both of these shows are personal fav...more
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Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Fran Drescher
The star of The Nanny (I’m still waiting for her next sitcom) took her focus on health care and cancer (she is a uterine cancer survivor) to Capitol Hill yesterday to get Senators on board of the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010. The bill will eliminate c...more
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Daytime television? Still for chicks?
There used to be a time when the most popular thing to do was to watch soap operas. teens would rush home after school to watch Dark Shadows. Character names topped parents’ lists of potential baby names. Dorm rooms were packed with students waiting to ...more
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2010 female ESPY winners
The 2010 ESPYs took place on July 14 at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, Calif. While not known as super female friendly (e.g. they give trophies to the best MLS player but not the best WPS player), the ESPYs did honor...more
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ChickSpeak hearts Chelsea Handler
She’s hilarious, honest, adorable, and above all else, she’s definitely someone id love to be friends with. She’s the uber talented Chelsea Handler, and chances are she’s soon to be coming to a city near you.
Handler, the hysterical host of her...more
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The Emmy nominations
The Emmy Award nominees came out last week. Here’s a look at how women did:
DRAMA SERIES
“The Good Wife” (CBS) – co-created by Michelle King
COMEDY SERIES
“Nurse Jackie” (Showtime) – created by Liz Brixius and Linda Wallem
“30 Rock”...more
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Cindy Chupack drops out as showrunner of Love Bites
This season was already pretty low on the female showrunner and creators and now there is one less female showrunner as Cindy Chupack has resigned the position off the show she created, Love Bites.
And for a variety of reasons including Becki Newton’...more
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Lifetime orders three cop pilots
I do think Lifetime needs to get back into the real drama business. The shows aside from Drop Dead Diva and Army Wives has not been very stellar or interesting of late. (Army Wives even at times veers into the way too mushy territory)
They’ve order...more
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ChickSpeak remembers Rue McClanahan
A southern belle to the core, Blanche Devereaux lit up television screens around the world for nearly a decade with her beauty, fiery sexuality, and attitude. As one of the four original Golden Girls, Blanche embodied qualities, which were clearly lacking...more
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Mother daughter team create new TV show
Being a formerly fat person myself who struggles with food issues each and every day I was really surprised, happy and cautious to see the new ABC Family TV show Huge.
But I did breathe a sigh of relief when I saw that it was co-created by Winnie Holzman...more
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Hot in Cleveland skewers LA life
Hot in Cleveland was the highest rated show ever on TV Land. The premiere attracted 4.75 million viewers. I watched it and actually thought it was funny. I loved the fact that this was a show about three women friends who support each other. I l...more
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Criminal Minds cuts female cast members
This should be filed in the are you fucking stupid category.
CBS has decided to make the bone headed decision to completely fire one female cast member AJ Cook. who played JJ the agent who handled the press, and cut back the episodes of Paget Brewster ...more
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What the Hell is an Anti-mom?
One Day at a Time
It’s Emmy preview time and the Hollywood Reporter published a piece The Rise of the TV’s ‘Anti-Moms’ about the types of moms on TV today. Not surprisingly they run the gamut from hapless to neurotic to cruel to superhuman. ...more
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The Daily Show gives Olivia Munn a tryout
I don’t know how much I like the fact that we know that the Daily Show is “trying” out a woman — Olivia Munn — to be a correspondent on the show. Based on its abysmal track record, this show should be on a mission to add not just one woman, but...more
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Why I Love Shonda Rhimes
In case you don’t already know this, having Shonda Rhimes be a part of the TV landscape has upped the feminist quotient exponentially. Next season she adds a third show to her roster Off the Map created by Jenna Bans. She is now officially a mogul.
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Fall 2010 TV Season – Shows Created by Women
The fall lineups have been set (including some mid-season shows) so it’s time to see how women creatives have fared.
Here’s what we have been able to find out (research assistance from Stephanie Rosenfeld)
Fox – Five new shows- no female creators
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Jane Lynch talks to Katie Couric
The love is just pouring out of Katie (she acts like a giddy teenager) who you know watches the show with her kids — she knows way too many intimate details to not be a fan.
I love the fact that here is a woman who has 134 entries (that’s 134 differe...more
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Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Kristin Chenoweth
This has nothing to do with how awesome she has been on Glee (cause she has been!) but she took on Newsweek and a massively homophobic piece about whether gay actors could play straight on stage and screen.
She rightly points out that they are actors fir...more
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Could Betty White’s Success Help Older Women Onscreen?
Everyone who watched Saturday Night Live this past weekend knew that something special was happening from the moment Betty White took the stage. She made fun of the Facebook group that pushed for her to host SNL, appeared in every sketch and was so fuck...more
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