Best Women Running TV Shows: From Nancy Drew’s Noga Landau and Melinda Hsu Taylor to Vampire Academy’s Julie Plec and Marguerite MacIntyre

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One of a kind storytelling. Many of Us Weekly‘s favorite TV shows have been brought to life because of the women behind the scenes.Julie Plec worked her way up through Dawson’s Creek and Kyle XY until she got her first opportunity to step up as a showrunner in 2009 alongside Kevin Williamson (who later stepped down, giving Plec full control.)The writing team opened up about dividing their work to initially develop The Vampire Diaries for The CW.“I would say this of our partnership.

Much to our detriment, we are very codependent and we like to make all the decisions together,” Plec told Deadline in 2010. “I always say we should be two people doing two people’s jobs creatively.

Instead, we’re two people doing one person’s job. Instead of having an extra brain, we share a brain right now.”She continued: “But I think that’s going to be true of any first season show when you are really just trying to get a shared sensibility, and one person wouldn’t necessarily know the right look or tone or vibe or attitude right off the bat.

So, the two of us can duke it out, fight it out. And as far as the process goes, we both sign off on everything – we write together, we break story together, we do everything together.”After wrapping up production on the epic vampire series in 2017, Plec continued to expand the bloodsucking genre with Peacock’s Vampire Academy, which debuted in 2022.The series, based on books of the same name by Richelle Mead, reunited the screenwriter and Marguerite MacIntyre on their next writing project.