Shonda Rhimes

Why Women in Power Positions Matter

While we are stil digesting the bad news from yesterday with the release of statistics on the low amount of women onscreen in films, TV continues to be the bright spot regarding women's representation onscreen. But as the film study showed, having women in leadership behinds the scenes matters to w...

Time Unveils 2013 Most Influential People in World

Time magazine has announced it's 2013 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. And it's full of extremely inspirational women from some of our favorites in entertainment like Jennifer Lawrence, Lena Dunham and Shonda Rhimes to women who have bravely risked everything to change the ...

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 Reid and Janet Mock. 

Answer of the Day: Shonda Rhimes on Why She Has Many Gay Characters on Her Shows

Shonda Rhimes got asked this question from a clearly idiotic viewer and being Shonda Rhimes she took the opportunity to use the question to answer a much larger societal question.

Women Created and Centric TV News Roundup - November 1

With every roundup we do, we get more excited and hopeful for the upcoming crop of future TV shows by and about women. With projects from Jennifer Garner, Shonda Rhimes and Oprah—there is bound to be some interesting and nuanced portrayals of women headed to your TV screen. (We hope)

Shonda Rhimes' 'Scandal' Gets a Full-Season Order From ABC

"Scandal," Shonda Rhimes' cynical and soapily entertaining political drama about crisis management firm owner Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), her team, her involvement in D.C. dealings and, of course, her thwarted relationship wtih her secret ex-boyfriend the President o...

'Awkward Black Girl' Creator Issa Rae Heads to ABC With a New Comedy Series

Inspired to come up with a platform for a kind of character she felt was absent on the screen, Issa Rae launched YouTube series "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl" in February of 2011. With the help of collaborators, Rae writes, directs, produces and stars in the story of J...

Don't Call Her Shirley. Or Hillary. Sigourney Weaver in 'Political Animals'

Politics can be sleazy, but might just be out-sleazed by 'Political Animals,' the melodrama a clef that unimaginatively, nastily leeches off the Clintons. Even the great Sigourney Weaver, in the don’t-call-her-Hillary role, can’t save this tacky, leaden miniseries, whose clu...

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