Barbara Hall’s CBS drama series Madam Secretary features a female Secretary of State. Now the veteran creator has set her sights on a new drama project for CBS about a woman in a position of power, Ms. Mayor.

The project, which has received a put pilot commitment at the broadcast network, hails from former CBS chairman…

Tapping into every Democrat's dream, Michelle King, creator of The Good Fight, said her show is currently working on an episode about the impeachment of the president. Sadly for Dems, the president in the show is fictional.

"We're doing an impeachment episode right now," she said during the “Penning Pennsylvania Avenue…

CBS has put in development drama series Family Business from a duo of CBS veterans. The project hails from one of the most prolific CBS drama creators, Barbara Hall, and long-time CBS executive Glenn Geller, who exited his post as the network’s entertainment president in May to segue to a producing deal with CBS TV…

Barbara Hall, creator/executive producer of Madam Secretary, has signed a new two-year overall deal with the studio behind the sophomore CBS drama series, CBS Television Studios. Under the pact, she will continue as executive producer/showrunner on Madam Secretary while also developing new projects for the studio.

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“I think I would love for it not to be a thing when there are a bunch of women showrunners somewhere,” Power creator Courtney Kemp Agboh told an appreciative crowd at Tuesday night’s creative keynote panel launching the New York Television Festival.

“It…does…not…have…to…be…pointed out all the time,” she added, pausing…

During a loose, hour-long session at the PGA’s Produced By NY conference, TV’s top showrunners, sardonically prodded by moderator Mark Gordon, held onto spoilers and indicated, that, alas, the only way to learn how to be a show runner is to become a show runner.  Unlike this morning’s Produced By panel “The Ms. Factor&#8221…

CBS‘ new drama series Madam Secretary, in which Tea Leoni plays the Secretary of State, came about because of Hillary Clinton and Benghazi, exec producer Lori McCreary told TV critics today at TCA Summer TV Press Tour 2014.

McCreary said she and Morgan Freeman had lunch with CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler…

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