Wonder Woman of the Week: Drew Barrymore

A new horror anthology series that will be entirely written and directed by women is headed to The CW courtesy of Drew Barrymore’s production company, Jill Blotevogel, and CBS TV Studios.

Summer is coming to an end, sorry. But with fall comes changing leaves, cozy sweaters, and, best of all, all things creepy (Halloween, ya know?). So as we get into that spooky fall groove, we’re extra excited to hear that Drew Barrymore and her team at Flower Films will be embracing that scary sensibility with a new horror series written and directed entirely by women.

According to Deadline, Barrymore, along with Flower Films Nancy Juvonen, writer/showrunner Jill Blotevogel, and CBS TV Studios, will frame Black Rose Anthology as a way to explore human fears like paranoia, guilt, insanity and more from a uniquely female perspective. The show will air on The CW, but it’s still unclear when exactly that will happen.

This development is especially exciting considering the fact that, like a lot of areas of the entertainment world, women haven’t historically been given the opportunity to play big-time behind the camera roles in horror. So we’re going to go ahead and take this as a sign that Hollywood is catching up with the fact that women are actually very interested in scarier subject matters like horror and true crime that previously hadn’t been marketed to or created for them. If the success of other projects like the popular My Favorite Murder podcast or Law & Order: SVU haven’t already tipped them off, there’s a huge market for sinister stories told through a female lens.

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We’re excited to see what Barrymore and her creative colleagues come up with and we’re always encouraged when artistic endeavors not only give female writers and producers a chance to contribute to the larger cultural conversation, but female viewers a chance to consume art like the multi-faceted people that we are.