Women Make the Best TV
Female creators and showrunners aren’t just taking more places atop the TV landscape, they’re reinventing the whole medium.
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
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Jennifer Keishin Armstrong spent a decade on staff at Entertainment Weekly. She’s now the TV columnist for BBC Culture and also writes for several other publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Fast Company, Vulture, and Billboard. She’s the author of the New York Times bestseller SEINFELDIA: HOW THE SHOW ABOUT NOTHING CHANGED EVERYTHING and a history of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, MARY AND LOU AND RHODA AND TED. She lives in Manhattan.
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