Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on writer and executive producer Mara Brock Akil. Mara was born in Los Angeles, California, but she was raised primarily in Kansas City, graduating from high school in 1988 and late earning a degree in journalism at Northwestern University. She began her television career in 1994 as a writer for the short-lived …
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The 2012-2013 fall TV season will be back in full swing next week and it’s time to take a look at some of the new faces who will be cropping up in the new shows that will be debuting over the course of the next few weeks as well as welcoming back some familiar faces who are returning to the …
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The Canadian series Bomb Girls, from co-creators Michael MacLennan and Adrienne Mitchell, debuted on ReelzChannel this past Tuesday. The debut episode – “Jumping Tracks” – depicts a story about a group of women who work at a Toronto bomb-making factory during the early years of World War II, showing not only the plight of women during that time period but …
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The final two nights of the week-long Paley Preview Parties finished with FOX and ABC presenting just a few of their new fall offerings earlier this week. FOX had their preview party on Monday and started the night with a moderated panel for the network’s new comedies Ben and Kate as well as The Mindy Project and the medical drama …
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Fans of the A&E drama The Glades can rejoice because the show, which ended on a very interesting cliffhanger earlier this summer, will be back for another season. A&E has given the show a fourth season renewal that will most likely pair the show with newcomer Longmire that was renewed for its sophomore season a few months ago. As fans …
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The 2012-2013 TV season gets its official start in about two weeks, but that doesn’t mean that the major and cable networks aren’t gearing up for the start of the fall season beginning tonight and throughout the next two weeks. In an effort to help our readers decide what new dramas to check out this TV season, I wanted to …
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This past weekend the Paley Center for Media continued with their annual Preview Parties, honoring what the major networks have to provide their viewers this fall. This time around the new shows coming to The CW were on display, starting with the new drama Arrow that is based on the character Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow from the DC Comics …
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Earlier this week I had the opportunity to participate in the Paley Center for Media’s annual Preview Parties honoring the major networks. First up were NBC and CBS. What are these parties you may ask, though? Well, each year the five major networks take time to visit the Paley Center, bringing along with them pilots of some of their new …
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Actress Amanda Schull had her first big break in the cult classic film Center Stage and most recently has appeared in numerous episodes of the ABC Family series Pretty Little Liars. Now, she’ll be taking on a recurring role on the USA Network series Suits when it returns for the rest of its current season this coming January. The Hollywood …
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Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on television writer, producer and series creator Michelle Lovretta. Michelle’s first credited project, written under the name of MA Lovretta, was the screenplay for the 1998 independent film called The Fishing Trip, which chronicled the troubled life of a young college student who confronts an abusive father during a trip home. A …
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