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For Women Working Behind the Scenes, Is Television Actually Getting Better?

Somebody pinch me, I must be having that Olive Kitteridge dream again: it finally looks like Hollywood has taken note of the hot new "trend" of letting ladies create and direct their own television programs! My word.

By Drew Grant

Amazon’s Second Pilot Season Takeaway: The Good, the Bad and the ‘Cocked’

For the past two years, Amazon has simultaneously released the first episodes of several original series and called it their "Pilot Season." (This year, there were thirteen, released in mid-January). Based on that democratic feedback, Amazon decides which pilots to pick up for a full season of episodes. (Ed note: This is how Transparent happened, and Mozart in the Jungle. It was how Whit Stillman's The Cosmopolitans didn't happen, sadly. Though we hold out hope!)

By Jeremy Tramer

The Funniest Part About ABC’s New Comedy “Selfie” Is Going To Be Its Name

We don’t know about you, but this season’s aimless Girls plot lines and asinine Keeping Up With the Kardashians episodes

By Jordyn Taylor

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