history of television

Bringing Up Baby: My Water Broke! And... Action!

TV post by Katherine Don on October 10, 2011 - 12:25pm; tagged feminism on television, history of television.

Katherine Heigl in labor in Knocked Up

This is a movie. This is television. This is the formula:

Jane is going about her business when her water breaks. The time has come! Ready the troops! Jane calls husband or big sister or mom or best friend. "We’ll meet you at the hospital! Go Go Go!" If husband is present: "Where are the bags?! WE FORGOT TO PACK THE BAGS!"

Adventures in Feministory: Gertrude Berg, screenwriter and television pioneer

DigiBitch post by Kjerstin Johnson on June 22, 2009 - 12:29pm; tagged Adventures in Feministory, female directors, female writers, Feministory, Gertrude Berg, Great Depression, history of television, immigration, Jewish women, Jewish-Americans, popular depictions of immigration, radio, television.

Credited with inventing the family sitcom, a successful, decade-spanning career in television and radio, author of over 10,000 scripts, and a mother on-screen and off, Gertrude Berg is "the most famous woman in America you've never heard of."