Fem TV

Tina Charles joins us for Episode 12 to talk about her TV production career, including her time at VH1, TV Guide Network, and most recently, working on Oprah’s Where are they Now? for OWN.

Director and Producer Adrienne Mitchell discusses her career — from her first job on a show considered a Canadian institution, to more recent work on Durham County, Bomb Girls, and Bellevue. She walks us through creating the vision, sound and feel of a TV series from its inception through to the actual filming.

Virginia Rankin is the executive producer on English-language productions for Sphere Media Plus, working on English adaptations of shows like 19-2 and This Life. She has supervised over three hundred hours of broadcast television as both a producer and production executive, including the popular series Flashpoint.

Alex Paxton-Beesley is an actor currently starring as Anna Funk on the CBC drama Pure. You may also remember her from her role on BBC America’s Copper or from roles on Wynona Earp, The Strain, and Warehouse 13.

Caitlynne Medrek started voice acting as a kid, getting her start on the series Dragonball GT. She continues her voice work today, and she can also be seen on the award-winning web series Out with Dad.

Tonya Dodds and Nicole Wright are best known for their web series The Nicole and Tonya Show, and as the award winning hosts of Super Geeked Up. They join Melissa to chat about their careers — Tonya is an actor/producer and Nicole is an actor/producer/director — and to dish on their TV crushes.

Katherine Barrell is best known as Officer Nicole Haught on Syfy’s Wynonna Earp, but she is also a producer and director. She joins Melissa to talk about her career, some of the issues that women face in the industry, and two upcoming roles that she’s excited for the world to see.

Michelle Ricci is writer and executive producer on Murdoch Mysteries (also known as The Artful Detective). She joins Melissa to talk about her path into the industry.

Tamsen McDonough has appeared in a number of TV shows, including Lost Girl and Motive, but she's probably best known as the voice of Lucy, the spaceship on the sci-fi series Killjoys.

Writer and producer Elize Morgan joins Melissa to discuss writing for animated TV series like Mysticons, helping to develop Orphan Black, and producing two web series, Pretty in Geek and The Gate.