STEALING THE SHOWHow Women Are Revolutionizing TelevisionBy Joy PressIllustrated. Rhimes and her producing partner, Betsy Beers, made the video that introduced Clinton at the 2016 Democratic convention. Diane English, who dreamed up the conversation-setting feminist sitcom “Murphy Brown” in the Reaganite 1980s, backed a pro-Clinton super PAC. “What looked like the forward march of progress turned out to be one of history’s grand zigzags,” Press says in her realistically dismayed introduction. Here is a collection of women who have managed to make television on their own terms, embodying proof that it can be done.

Source: New York Times March 19, 2018 21:56 UTC