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    Masters of Sex

    Michelle Ashford, the creator and show-runner of the Showtime series Masters of Sex  talks about her decades in the television business. She's worked for years writing pilots -- and making a living doing so -- but never got a series on the air until this one.

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    By Kim Masters • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Michelle Ashford, the creator and show-runner of the Showtime series Masters of Sex talks about her decades in the television business. She's worked for years writing pilots -- and making a living doing so -- but never got a series on the air until this one. Now approaching the end of Season One but slated for a second season, Ashford talks about how they made a show about sex not necessarily sexy and how she thinks Masters and Johnson were "accidental feminists" and, by extension, so is the show. She reflects on the gender disparity in the TV business and why that is while also saying she doesn't want to be regarded as a "female writer."

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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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      Darby Maloney

      Producer

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      Michelle Ashford

      writer and producer

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