Vanity Fair's all-male late-night spread broke the Internet Well… they kinda should've seen that coming, right? And they kinda could've put Samantha Bee in there before she had to do it herself, right? (Her show isn't on yet, but neither is Trevor Noah's.) And speaking of Noah: his remark about women "being more powerful" than men in comedy right now seems well-intentioned but not exactly, you know, worth a damn, right? Right.
Nina Tassler departed CBS The longtime entertainment division head—who greenlit shows including The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother—is leaving CBS after 18 years with the company. Tassler shepherded CBS's scripted programming to its champion status and has long been considered one of the most powerful women in Hollywood. She hasn't yet announced what she wants to do next.
Another little birdie has Jennifer Lawrence's ear She's not done being the Mockingjay yet, but Lawrence is already circling Red Sparrow, a thriller that would star Lawrence as a Russian intelligence agent trailing an American spy (whom she then falls in love with). It's based on the Jason Matthews bestseller.
Sex and the City debuted on Amazon Prime When you can get Carrie Bradshaw on Amazon and add Showtime onto your Hulu account for easy Affair catch-up, premium services oughta be scared about the future of their cable subscription business. In the meantime: SATC virgins, read this before you watch.
The View pissed off every nurse in America The cohosts poked fun at Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson for her monologue celebrating her career as a nurse—their murmured speculation about why a nurse would have a "doctor's stethoscope" around her neck was particularly poorly received. Viewer protest under the hashtag #NursesUnite surged on Twitter, and Johnson & Johnson swiftly pulled their ads from the show. Joy Behar later apologized for the hullabaloo.
Sienna Miller's gender pay gap story came to light Miller said that she was recently offered the female lead in a Broadway play—but that she turned down the job after learning that the salary producers offered her was less than half of what they'd be paying her male costar.
The latest numbers from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film dropped—and they're irritating One headline: The growth of women in television, both onscreen and off, has stalled, failing to increase the way it did in the '90s and early '00s. Another, more specifically dismal stat: On shows with female creators, half the writers tend to be women. But on shows with male creators, that number falls to 15 percent. Egregious.
