She writes women who feel real. Her work is shaking up TV.

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  This is in conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm Shemitah Basu.

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  Today, how Sharon Horgan writes women for TV that feel real.

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  Earlier this year,

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  a video of the actress Louisa Harland

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  at an International Women's Day event was shared across the Internet.

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  Dear Men, I want to thank you all for taking care of things for so long.

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  You've done a great job, made some excellent art, properly produced,

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  95% of the movies

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  and TV that influenced me as a young girl in need of influencing.

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  She was reading a 2016 letter written by the actress,

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  writer, director and producer Sharon Horgan entitled Dear Men.

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  Sharon wrote this at the launch of her production company Merman,

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  and in a very Sharon way.

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  It points to the urgent need to change the lack of diversity in the film

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  and TV industries.

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  Just think to yourselves, if you tell the same story over and over,

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  then what do you learn?

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  That 14 Spider man films in five years is a bad idea

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  and yields diminishing box office numbers.

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