NEW YORK – Viewers, it’s time to make way for girl power!
Among the two dozen shows premiering this fall on the five major networks, women will be standing tall.
Of course, a debate already rages whether females are liberated or demeaned on certain new shows, namely ABC’s “Pan Am” with all those sleek stewardesses and NBC’s “The Playboy Club” with its satin dolls.
But that’s an argument as old as the term “jiggle TV” harking back to the original “Charlie’s Angels” — which, 35 years later, returns to ABC in an updated but no less jiggly version starring tough-but-tantalizing Annie Ilonzeh, Minka Kelly and Rachael Taylor.
In fact, it’s an argument as old as television itself.
Premiering 60 years ago this fall, “I Love Lucy” became TV’s first enduring scripted series, and it continues to serve as the classic template for sitcoms, despite conflicting views on whether Lucille Ball’s zany housewife was a victim of domestic oppression or — as she schemed to break into show biz or expand her world in some other novel way — a pre-feminist subversive. (Maybe both?)
In any case, it’s ladies first on the vast majority of new shows this fall — an overwhelming display of gender domination and
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