Advanced TV Herstory

About Advanced TV Herstory

Connect the dots of TV and feminism to American culture and politics with host Cynthia Bemis Abrams. Interviews with top names - in front of and behind the scenes - offer insights into TV that has shaped American culture and influenced the world. Check out episodes featuring interviews with women in television like Annie Potts, Margaret Cho and Kim Fields, TV directors, showrunners and writers, as well as academics and authors. Television veteran writers Georgia Jeffries, Victoria Riskin and April Smith are featured in episodes that explain storytelling as a writing craft. These discussions will forever change how you watch TV. Explore issues of race through interviews with academics Robin Means-Coleman and Charlene Regester, and influencer Karly Beaumont. Ever since the #MeToo Movement of 2017-18, Cynthia has highlighted key episodes and events surrounding sexual harassment - fictional and real life. With listeners around the world, Cynthia celebrates the progress of representation in media and captures the stories and insights that make TV a powerful storyteller and mirror of truth. In 2025, Cynthia started revealing more about the book she and a colleague are writing. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter at www.tvherstory.com. Promise, your data will never be sold.

Publisher

Cynthia Bemis Abrams

Category

society & culture · tv & film · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Jun 2015

Latest episode

28 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 245 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Representation with Caroline Heldman

   Host Cynthia Bemis Abrams interviews Caroline Heldman, PhD, exploring how media representation shapes cultural change and inspires career aspirations, offering insights into inclusive storytelling.

2. 

   13 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Linda Kelsey on Lou Grant, MASH & Acting

   Host Cynthia Bemis Abrams interviews actor Linda Kelsey about her iconic roles on "Lou Grant" and "M*A*S*H," exploring representation and the enduring power of television.

3. 

   5 Aug 2026

   Killing Eve: Queering the Thriller

   Host Cynthia Bemis Abrams interviews Dr. Clare Sears about how "Killing Eve" queers the thriller genre, offering groundbreaking queer representation and subverting narrative expectations.

Inside a recent episode

Representation with Caroline Heldman

Published 28 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] What are you seeing in your research and sort of understanding that that's an opportunity for us to be educating around feminism? That's a great question. I started doing media research back in graduate school, right? So two decades ago, looking at how often women versus men were talking about politics as talking heads, commentators on television, and very quickly moved also into the entertainment sector. And I think it's important to note that the reason for the move is because while we think about representation, you know, in terms of number of women in Congress or a woman president, you know, these kind of obvious things. […]

Who has been a guest on Advanced TV Herstory

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Caroline Heldman
• Linda Kelsey
• Clare Sears
• Georgia Jeffries

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

52,981

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

33 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

74

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

85

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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