Women In Charge Of ‘Single Drunk Female’, ‘Candy’ And ‘Rutherford Falls’ Size Up Progress And Paradoxes In Post-#MeToo Hollywood

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Three women running current TV and streaming series took stock of progress as well as lingering paradoxes in an entertainment industry that is still processing both the #MeToo movement and the economic change wrought by the streaming boom.Asked during the panel at SeriesFest if anything has changed in the years since the industry’s initial reckoning with sexual abuse and assault as well as toxic work environments, Sierra Teller Ornelas, showrunner of Peacock series Rutherford Falls replied, “I don’t think so.” She did go on to say she has observed a “slow kind of incline.” In 2010, she said, even though, “the jokes you could tell the things you could talk about the stuff you could say, you just don’t do that now.”Ornelas was joined by Daisy Gardner, showrunner of Freeform’s Single Drunk Female and Robin Veith, who now runs Candy on Hulu.

Denver’s SeriesFest is marking its in-person return with this year’s eighth annual edition, wrapping up Tuesday.Gardner says her personal observation is that things have improved, but largely because “I have my own show.” Being the boss, though, has brought about certain ironies.

After battling in a male-dominated field, now “I’m old and now I’m the handsy groper harasser, where I’m like, ‘Oh no! I can’t say that.’ Like, like where I’ll just see like some 24-year-old’s face, it will be like, ‘Right, we don’t do that.

We don’t say that. Thank you so much.'” On a less sardonic note, she added, “It’s getting better and there’s an awareness and the cool thing is I think there are people at studios and networks who are making a concerted effort to change and to make structural changes so that people are in leadership positions of power.”Veith, an Emmy-winning writer for Mad Men, said the