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Homeland came to a conclusion after eight seasons earlier this year, but director and executive producer Lesli Linka Glatter says Showtime’s Claire Danes-led, action-packed spy drama always found a way to live on the edge right up until the end. “It was always a new experience. You could never kind of lay back and…

Amazon Studios has given an eight-episode straight-to-series order to The Banker's Wife, based on the bestselling novel by Cristina Alger. Meredith Stiehm (Homeland) is writing all eight episodes, with Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland, Now and Then) directing all eight. The project hails from Federation Entertainment (Mar…

Netflix has given an eight-episode order to Pieces of Her, a series based on the 2018 book by best-selling crime author Karin Slaughter, from an all-female creative team of executive producers Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland, Madmen), Charlotte Stoudt (Homeland, House of Cards) and Bruna Papandrea (Big Little…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) is set to star in and executive produce The Banker’s Wife, a high stakes international thriller drama series based on Cristina Alger's book. The project, from Federation Entertainment (Marseille) and producer Sherry Marsh (Pose), also has brought on board top TV…

A grassroots movement among female directors has quickly taken hold, with dozens of female directors taking to Twitter today to post images of themselves on set with the hashtag #FemaleFilmmakerFriday. The list includes Ava DuVernay, who wrote under an image of her on the set of Wrinkle In Time, “We are a small but…

As the deserving spotlight on creative women shines brighter, NBC is officially kicking off its “Female Forward” initiative, announced in August, which will focus on providing emerging female directors with training and the opportunity to direct an in-season episode. NBC President Jennifer Salke leads the charge on…

This past pilot season was a wake-up call for NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke. Out of 13 pilots the network ordered, none were directed by a woman. It was a dismal broadcast pilot season for female directors all around, with only four women total tapped to helm pilots this year and only one getting to…

Lesli Linka Glatter is a rare female director to consistently land drama directing Emmy nominations in a male-dominated field where no woman has won in 23 years. The Homeland executive producer and director, who earned her seventh nomination Thursday for the Showtime staple, touched on the mid-season shift that…

Homeland director Lesli Linka Glatter is set to helm the first two episodes of Dick Wolf’s limited series Law & Order: True Crime — The Menendez Murders for NBC, which is scheduled to begin production this spring in Los Angeles. The series will center on Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted of murdering their…

It is a trend that slowly has been building momentum over the past decade — comedy creators/showrunners also taking over directing and excelling at it. Sex and the City showrunner Michael Patrick King was one of the first to win an Emmy for directing in 2002. Eight years later, Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy won an Emmy…

When Miranda Otto (The Lord of the Rings, The Thin Red Line) took up the role of Allison Carr in Homeland's fifth season, she was to embody one of the most dynamic and powerful female roles on television. Otto's arc as the double agent and genius manipulator felt like what would traditionally be "a man's role," she…

Homeland director Lesli Linka Glatter, whose long roster of credits includes such influential series as Mad Men, Twin Peaks, Gilmore Girls and Freaks and Geeks, will receive the 26th Annual Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal, the organization announced today. The award recognizes American Film Institute alumni “who…