Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on TV producer and writer Elizabeth “Liz” Heldens. Liz got her start in the industry as a writer and an executive producer on a 2000 made-for-TV movie called Damaged Goods before getting a job on the FOX drama Boston Public. She was an executive story editor and co-producer and later a writer ... Read More »

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on television writer and producer Toni Graphia. She is the daughter of a prominent Louisiana judge, who got her start as part of an apprenticeship program through the Writers Guild of America. In her own words she “went from opening fan mail to selling scripts in just a few years”. She is ... Read More »

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Musicians and Composers Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman. Wendy & Lisa are childhood friends who grew up in musical families. Wendy’s father was an in-demand musician and was president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the 1980s. Lisa’s father was also a popular session musician, playing on ... Read More »

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Executive Producer and Writer Gretchen J. Berg. Gretchen was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and she always knew she wanted to be a writer. She met her long-time writing partner Aaron Harberts while attending Northwestern University in Chicago, as they went through a Creative Writing for the Media program that ... Read More »

With the majority of the new shows having debuted (and most of the returning series making their season premieres), I thought it was appropriate to make a report card (of sorts) on the new shows that have caught my attention, those that I have decided to pass on, and the few that will, unfortunately, (more likely than not) end up ... Read More »

As Louise wrote last week, she attended nearly all of the preview parties held at the Paley Center for Media, screening episodes from the major networks prior to their airing on their regular nights. I, too, had the chance to attend three of the five preview parties: those for NBC, CBS and ABC. For NBC’s night, most of the cast ... Read More »