Don't ask Geena Davis about role models. At least, don't ask her about female role models on screen. The Oscar-winning actress turned gender-equality activist wants more women in movies and on television playing scientists, engineers, lawyers, CEOs--all of the jobs that women have in real life--but please, if you do anything, make those characters interesting....
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TV & Video Daily
June 05, 2017
Insider updates on all things video
Working with brands, agencies and data to analyze female roles in ads
By Kristina Monllos
Don't ask Geena Davis about role models. At least, don't ask her about female role models on screen. The Oscar-winning actress turned gender-equality activist wants more women in movies and on television playing scientists, engineers, lawyers, CEOs--all of the jobs that women have in real life--but please, if you do anything, make those characters interesting....
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Her startup, Thrive Global, is capturing the attention of powerful women
By T.L. Stanley
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The Big Bang Theory will help launch two new comedies
By Jason Lynch
From Game of Thrones to The Defenders, television isn’t letting up
By Jason Lynch
Planets align in DDB Berlin spot
By David Gianatasio
DDB Berlin's stunning new ad for Sony Bravia is ultimately a lot more down to earth than it initially appears. Our story begins with a father and son driving across a desolate lunar-type landscape to attend a mysterious gathering in the middle of nowhere. Slowly, majestically, planet Earth peeks above the horizon, its deep, dramatic...
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Motel 6 tops the Radio Mercury Awards again
By Tim Nudd
Winners of the 2017 Radio Mercury Awards were announced Thursday night in New York, and Best of Show went to a familiar and celebrated long-running radio campaign--The Richards Group's work for Motel 6 featuring the musings of Tom Bodett. The Motel 6 campaign has been a fixture of the Radio Mercury Awards for decades, winning...
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It's rebranding with a batch of new shows
By Sami Main
Over the past two years, TV Land has become home to a slew of hit original comedy programs. Early experiments, like The Jim Gaffigan Show and Hot in Cleveland, bridged the gap between the typical syndicated shows viewers of TV Land were used to and the new wave of original programming. "A good comedy is...
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One series visits restaurants in a range of price points
By Sami Main
From taco trucks to ice cream sprinkled with edible gold, the video team at BuzzFeed's Worth It has seen--and eaten--it all. Worth It follows BuzzFeeders as they try three similar foods at three different price points to determine which was their favorite. "I like how involved the audience has become," said Steven Lim, a BuzzFeed...
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'So, what happens to Earth now?'
By Sami Main
As President Donald Trump gathered press and supporters in the Rose Garden this afternoon to announce his decision to remove the United States from the Paris climate accord, The Weather Channel's website shot back with a few choice headlines. The site's homepage looked like a rebuttal of that controversial decision, with headlines like "So, What...
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Must-See TV won't be coming back after all
By Jason Lynch
Must-See TV's return was very short-lived. Just two weeks after NBC announced next season's most aggressive scheduling move--shifting its breakout freshman drama This Is Us from Tuesdays to Thursdays at 9 p.m.--the network has changed its mind, and will continue airing the drama on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. next season. As part of the move,...
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