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\n\tTV write<\/a>r<\/a> Katja Meier<\/a> has revealed that, when she pitched her script concept to manufacturing firms as a part of a scheme for feminine writers aged 40+, she was requested to make her feminine protagonist 20 years youthful.<\/p>\n \n\tMeier instructed The Guardian<\/em> newspaper she pitched her concept to a number of manufacturing firms<\/a> with the backing of the UK arm of the Writers Lab programme, however her preliminary enthusiasm turned to dismay:<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cYou\u2019re thinking, \u2018Oh my God, the script came out of a programme for women over 40, and I\u2019m sitting here being told the only way to get it made is to make my lead woman 35? It was literally heartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMeier says that she tried to argue that her audience of girls aged over 50 would respect the story, however this fell on deaf ears.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIn one pitch somebody told me: \u2018Yeah, we don\u2019t really believe that women over 50 are a valid audience\u2019,\u201d she says with fun. \u201cAnd I was just like, \u2018Are you f***ing kidding me?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tInstead, Meier arrange her personal firm Zenka Films and borrowed cash to fund the filming in March 2024 of her pilot of $hare<\/em> \u2013 the story of a 59-year-old girl who inherits a British-Swiss mining firm.<\/p>\n \n\tThe director instructed The Guardian<\/em> she hopes to lift cash to make the sequence by launching the pilot on impartial streaming service Olyn<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe newspaper experiences that ladies made up 23% of creators of authentic TV sequence in 2023\/24 (figures from the Centre for the Study of Women in Television and Film).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n