A Summer of TV Sports Herstory
If it feels like all you’re seeing on TV is football (NFL or college), remember it was a herstorically busy summer of televised women’s sports. In fact, the sports world will never be the same because of: Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales kissed women soccer players who had just won the 2023 Women’s World Cup. His stunning behavior detracted...
SAG-AFTRA & The WGA: The Virtual Picket Line
SAG-AFTRA and the WGA strike of 2023 holds great implications for the entertainment industry, amid a sea of technological and economic change. Our mission is to connect the dots of TV and feminism to American culture and politics. This massive effort by Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is a...
Before Fran Drescher
Before Fran Drescher (star of TV's The Nanny) made headlines about entertainment industry labor struggles, the future of TV and film seemed solid. No one can dispute the powerful role TV and entertainment plays in today’s world, but is it in jeopardy? Advanced TV Herstory’s organic evolution has certainly been steered by the headlines of the last eight years. SAG-AFTRA and the...
Preparing for Progress
This is the script for our 8th anniversary episode (July 2023) Happy Anniversary, listeners! It was in late June 2015 that I jumped into podcasting – selecting as my topical area the vast HIStory of television that had been little discussed, barely written about or glossed over – that which featured women as the actors, producers, writers or catalysts. These anniversary...
August 2015, When I First Connected the Dots
It was years after I launched Advanced TV Herstory that I arrived at the tagline: Connecting the dots of TV and Feminism to American Culture and Politics. Looking back, I am proud of those episodes and the voice they held in a very different and barren corner of the 2015-2016 podcasting world. I was connecting ideas of what was happening in...
Feminist TV Documentarian, a Title Earned
Feminist TV documentarian is not a title I set out to earn when I started podcasting in 2015. Award-winning TV writer Georgia Jeffries assigned the title spontaneously, during a zoom call . The scores of books read and interviews conducted have led me to threads of untold feminist history. Last year I wrote that I had undertaken writing a book....
A London Podcast Marathon
A London podcast marathon about mental health awareness was not on this year's bingo card. For as often as I am guilty of maligning social media, last week I had an opportunity I once would have thought impossible. I learned on Facebook that a mental health podcast, A Safe Space Between Us, was organizing a 24 hour marathon to highlight Mental...
Books by Lee Grant & Dinah Manoff
I Said Yes to Everything (2014) A book by legendary actor Lee Grant, I Said Yes to Everything, is absolutely worth your time. That is, if you want to get the inside scoop on 50s Hollywood. Grant delivers a fast-paced read with a fun mix of personal and career storytelling. Grant earned her Oscar (best supporting actress) for Shampoo, and her...
Copyright, Trademark and My Work
Copyright and trademark were on my mind before I produced my first episode in June 2015. I explored what I should and shouldn’t do to preserve my own investment in my word and ensure that others wouldn’t find that I had violated theirs. Advanced TV Herstory adheres to Fair Use Copyright standards. We use clips very sparingly and within an educational...