Women in (Writing) Pilots, 2012

Deadline's got a decent article about the percentage of women who wrote the pilots that were picked up for the fall 2012 season. Unfortunately, it doesn't go into the percentage of pilots that were ordered to series for 2012. It would be really interesting to compare the two.

Basically, the gist is that ABC, NBC, and the CW are leading the charge (especially the CW) for developing shows written by women. ABC with 36%, NBC with 42%, and the CW with 50% (shabang!). FOX and CBS are apparently doing way worse than last year: 19% for FOX and 24% for CBS. At least we know that FOX picked up two comedies with female showrunners, most importantly Mindy Kaling's! So apparently even though they only picked up a few, they were the best ones. Not good, but not the worse. CBS has no excuses, though. "Super Fun Night" was going to be awesome! Yes, I'm still upset. Oh, well.

I'm glad that for the most part, the trend from last year seems to be continuing, though I wish it was steadily increasing instead of jumping up and down so frequently, but what can you expect? That's TV.