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
Advanced TV Herstory is just one of nearly a half million active podcasts available to you (so thanks for listening!). Active is defined by having released an episode in the last 90 days. Many discuss TV shows and films, current and ancient – and that’s all they do. Particularly when I first started podcasting, it was fun to present a deep interpretation of...
Before Fran Drescher
No one can dispute the powerful role TV and entertainment plays in today’s world. Advanced TV Herstory’s organic evolution has certainly been steered by the headlines of the last eight years. Like many in May, I monitored the Writers Guild of America (WGA) decision to strike. In mid-July, the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio...
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...
Documentarians!
Last year I wrote that I had undertaken writing a book. Co-author Mary Trevor and I wrestled with the topic’s scope and organization, only to receive the excellent suggestion to write at least the first two sections as law review articles. Mary taught legal writing for decades at a Minnesota law school and comes at it from the notion that...
A London Podcast Marathon
For as often as I am guilty of maligning social media and the companies who run all the platforms, 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 Health Awarness Month. They needed 48 guests...
Book Recs: Lee Grant & Dinah Manoff
I Said Yes to Everything This is a fast-paced read with a fun mix of personal and career storytelling. Oscar and Emmy-winner Lee Grant in mid-life became a documentarian. She directed 45 episodes of Lifetime’s Intimate Portrait (video biographies) series as well as acclaimed documentaries The Willmar 8 and Down and Out in America and many more. Highly recommend. The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold by...
My Work, My Trademark
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 context of history. Sources are cited at the...