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Itirhnxmil Tiitm-IHnMlrhv Sunday Aril 12 1992 K-5 1 TELEVISION Women join ranks of power brokers 1 Powers That Be" has a female executive producer Charlotte Brown John Forsythe (sitting) Is the star of the NBC sitcom Sunday morning 8:30 the American Film Institute Ms Ledcr says she thinks women are well-suited to directing because they are instinctively nurturing you're a good writer I don't think it matters whether a man or a Ms Brown says may be a bit of a Polyanna but I think right now if got something the networks want they care what you By Jerry Buck dated Pma writer LOS ANGELES Although some contend still a women are rising to power in the television industry not only as writers but as independent producers and directors Some of these female gained prominence as recently as the early 1980s In 1981 Marian Rees a leading producer of the Hallmark Hall of Fame dramas set up what she thinks was the first independent company owned by a woman that took on all the financial risks of production Soon after Marcy Carsey joined forces with Tom Werner in the Car-sey-Wemcr Co to produce such megabits as Cosby and Writer Susan Harris is a part of Witt-Thomas-I (arris which makes "The Golden and Nest" think The Mary Tyler Moore was the beginning of the trend toward women in television particularly in says Charlotte Brown now an executive producer for Powers That I did 'Rhoda' I was told I was the first woman writer-producer of a half-hour Writing is an area always been open to women but it was not always the path toward producing and directing that it was for men Directing is still the toughest job for women to get the last bastion that's the father Ms Brown says do believe there is a boys' says Mimi Ledcr who directed the recent NBC hit movie With a She also directed the pilots for and here I am one of the few women preparing to direct a two-hour pilot Ms Ledcr says I can guarantee you that before my name comes up there are five men directors ahead of me because safe As much success as had still a struggle to get good Throughout television women are finding places of responsibility Linda Bloodworth-Thomason is the creator and executive producer of and and has a $50 million development deal with CBS Diane English is the creator and executive producer of Winifred Hervey Stallworth is executive producer of Prince of Bel-Air" Deborah Pratt is executive producer of Cheri Eichen is executive producer of former network executive Susan Bacrwald is executive producer of the upcoming ministries Doubt" and Esther Shapiro was executive producer of Ms Rees set up her own production company after she says she had reached a at two other companies She is the executive producer of Rose coming this month on NBC and in the past has made such Hall of Fame dramas as Is Never Shell Day" and was blocked and those blocks were very motivating to Ms Rees says been with one company for a long period of time but when I began to have aspirations to reducing there was clearly going to no place for me I went to another organization and the same kind of conflict are fewer women working as directors than men for says Donna Deitch who recently directed an ABC movie about sexual harassment tentatively titled It had a woman writer and producer Ms Ledcr says she is offered jobs because the producers want a point of view But she says feel just as equipped to do a piece about men that's male-oriented directed which was action-adventure and was very exciting to The women interviewed all speak of help from men Ms Ledcr worked closely with John Sacret Young as a supervising producer and director for Ms Brown says she was welcomed as a director at Lacey" by executive producer Barney Rose nzwcig Ms Dcilch is a former documentary-maker still photographer film editor and special-effects consultant who got into directing by raising $1 million for the feature film in 1986 It won a prize at the Sundance Film Festival After that she directed the miniseries of Brewster Ms Ledcr had been script supervisor for Street and got her first opportunity to direct on Law She grew up working on sets with her father independent film maker Paul Ledcr and studied directing with Lee Strasbcrg and at Channel 35 focuses on future PREMIUM CHANNELS 701299 961744 93488 Winding Your Ult 91 Alban Brooks Item) Strewn (TO) (1:52) (CO 294763 itSteewp Eartbflddt 995960 DISN HOui'cill DtfmfcO 126744 229270 959909 HBO 14 22 AdpteroCSO Rated Hays Jute HanwMPG) (1:26) 389947 MAX (605) Tlumdif Ovst 9e Plena 63 31093102 SHOW Finn 'SO IG) 567763 TMC Tho Shrief on tea ICbaocb Marin (PQ 619003 131524 Jue Ona at 6m Gays 65 Joyco Hysnr (PG-13) (1:40) (CO 500102 Depp OWUTV 106034 Picking Up Ida Placas 924893 WglMy ItesaeKM 356102 Capdv Girt 50 2556947 (915) Taanaga The Sacral at Mutant IHnfa Turtles jhaOoiijPG) (CC) 6341386 BorMo 00 790744 13) 828947 VCR Plus Is a band-held VCR accessary that allows us users to automatically record programs by punching In the digits listed by each program In the TV grids The VCR Plus-t-help line providing customer assistance Is (800) 432-1827 DYAN CANNON KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Continued from first page town building was to be renamed the Fox Tower decided to do something different to make a statement and solve our space Richards said But the deal fell through when the developer was unable to secure the financing needed to renovate the space into a TV studio which is more expensive than normal office space developer had the wrong project at the wrong time in the wrong part of said Richards who had already invested time and money in tests to make sure a broadcast signal was possible from downtown Richmond WRLH is reconsidering four other locations including staying where they are and expanding Richards expects a decision to be made this spring The upside to the recent disappointment is that the money that would have gone into adjusting a TV station to a downtown location will be spent on a new transmitter which should improve the station's signal Richards said Meanwhile business as usual which means business with an eye toward the future WRLH has just invested more than $200(NK) in a new remote truck its first so that it can broadcast live from other locations in the city The station recently added a monthly public affairs program and announced a series of specials as part of its new campaign have to have a connection to your Richards said what this project is about another step in increasing our share of the market not in quantity but in RIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH EASTR1DG ROAD AT THREE CHOPT ROAD PRESENTS THE CANTATA CAME SUNDAY APRIL 12 1992 7:00 PM RON LUCK DIRECTOR Snoopy Coma Hama '12 (01(120)811560 614299 TtaSn 857096 Chany 4744367 Edward Sdaaorhanda 90 Juhmy Whom Hyde (PO-13) (1 45) (C0 136541 Futuna 849638 Hannaida 90 Char Wnona Rydar IPOia (1'50) (CO 924367 (1045) I an maW 49645681 RICHARD TONY ROUNDTREE and CURTIS IN 1 Complete TV logs appear every Saturday in The News Leader Green Section LEE 4400 Main Strrct (804)222 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