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The rumors have been swirling for weeks, and now Buzzfeed has confirmed it: Britney Spears is leaving The X Factor. After drawing a $15 million salary for just a few months of work, and a huge amount of speculation over her mental state, she will not be returning for a second season. In a sad way, however, this was a triumph for Britney. More
The 30 Rock series finale airs in just a few weeks, and news just broke that the episode will feature a very special guest star: Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi tells the Washington Post, “I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.” Me, too, girl. More
Meet your new office-attitude inspiration for 2013: 100-year-old Rosa Finnegan. She punches in for work five days a week at a needle and tubing manufacturing company called Vita Needle in Massachusetts, and she loves it. PBS NewsHour posted this brief interview with Finnegan this week, and it’s 100% delightful. More
I’m used to either ignoring, rolling my eyes at, or downright disapproving of all the holiday hubbub around the Victoria’s Secret “Angels.” But here’s an Angel who is speaking frankly and wisely to the impressionable young girls who might want to follow in her path. Model Cameron Russell spoke recently about why you shouldn’t choose a career that is “out of your control”: “Saying you want to be a model when you want to grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up.” More
The Golden Globes will take place on January 13, and let’s be honest: The most exciting thing about them is that they’re going to be hosted by hilarious, inspirational BFFs Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. I would watch those two host an awards ceremony for a regional toilet-paper manufacturing association. That said, nominations were announced this morning, and there were some interesting surprises! More
Rhonda Lee is an experienced TV meteorologist. She is also a black woman with short natural hair. Apparently, this combination is too much for some employers and viewers. Lee told Soledad O’Brien that she’s been denied job interviews because of her hair; one news director told her that her hair “was too aggressive for Sacramento.” Recently, Lee was fired for politely responding to a rude Facebook comment asking her to “wear a wig or grow some more hair.” More
The Hollywood Reporter put out its annual ‘Most Powerful Women in Hollywood’ issue this week. Most of the most powerful women are heads of studios (Anne Sweeney, co-chairman of Disney Media Networks came in at number one) but by the time we were in the 40′s we got to Tina Fey and blockbuster queens Kristen Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep came in at 50. But when a number of these powerful women (and a few men) were asked what it would be like if women really did run Hollywood, their answers were surprising. More
The trailer for the second season of Lena Dunhamn’s Girls has been released and it looks pretty entertaining. There seem to be a lot more boys on this season of Girls. All the guys from last season are back and there are like four new ones, most of whom are love interests for Hannah. More
In the beginning of the fall we wrote about how this was the season of the young female doctor with three new shows centered around physicians. We even posed that female TV doctors were the new female TV lawyers. But it is now November and only one of those three shows has not been canceled. More
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Justin Bieber gave an interview to Oprah Winfrey this weekend about his career and his struggles with the spotlight. “It’s definitely not normal and there’s so many sacrifices that I’ve had to do,” the pop star told the talk-show host on “Oprah’s Next Chapter.” Oprah understands, Justin. She’s feeling the career doldrums herself these days, facing a breast cancer scare, a faltering cable show, and the possibility that she’ll have to shutter her namesake magazine. More
Maine TV anchors Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio had not been happy with their jobs for some time. But no one knew they were planning to quit their jobs live on the air yesterday night. As their ABC show drew to a close, Michaels announced it would be her and her co-anchor’s final night on the job after six years on the air. More
Here’s something weirdly refreshing in a depressing sort of way: A male co-anchor of a morning talk show is being accused by his bosses of acting like a “diva” on the job. Square-jawed Good Morning America co-host Josh Elliott apparently snipes at his coworkers and is desperate for praise. Once upon a time, only a woman would have been anonymously smeared as a “diva” in the press. Progress! More
On the third episode of Start-Ups: Silicon Valley there was a lot of focus on mixing business with pleasure and then just pleasure (in Hermione’s case.) First we see David (after describing a particularly bad bowel movement) try to ask his good friend Sarah for a loan who very smartly turns him down. More
Though we had a record-breaking year for women in the senate, in so many other industries we are seeing women get sidelined. A new Catalyst study of 1,660 MBA grads worldwide found that women are not getting the ‘hot jobs’ aka the ones with large budgets and staffs. And according to another study, art is imitating life or could it be the other way around? Females in prime-time series also face inequity on screen – across eight industries, men are still promoted over women on prime-time television and in movies. More
