You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.
From Sharon Gless
Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.
Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.
Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.
Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.
There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.
The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males.
The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.
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