Nei piani alti della politica e del potere, Elizabeth Sloane è la lobbista più ricercata e formidabile di Washington. Conosciuta allo stesso tempo sia per la sua astuzia che per la sua storia costellata di successi, ha sempre fatto tutto il necessario per vincere. Ma quando si scontra con l'avversario più potente di tutta la sua carriera, scopre che la vittoria può essere ottenuta solo ad un prezzo troppo elevato.
Melanie Carmichael, originaria dell'Alabama e stilista di successo nella Grande Mela, è sul punto di sposare Andrew Hennings, lo scapolo più appetito della città. L'unico problema è che è si era già sposata in precedenza con Jake, rude campagnolo più portato all'ubriachezza che al romanticismo, il quale non le ha mai concesso il divorzio. Urge ritornare al paesello per tentare di convincerlo. Ma una volta sul posto Melanie si renderà conto che non è facile rinunciare alle proprie origini. Specie se ci si scopre ancora innamorate del consorte...
Un'ambiziosa segretaria vuole dimostrare di essere migliore, da un punto di vista professionale, della sua capo ufficio: riuscirà anche a soffiarle il fidanzato.
Lauren si reca in Alaska per lavoro. Scoprirà un magico segreto legato alle festività natalizie.
Maya, è una donna di 40 anni alle prese con frustrazioni dovute a sogni mai realizzati. Fino a quando ha la possibilità di dimostrare a Madison Avenue che l'esperienza di strada è preziosa quanto le conoscenze ottenute dai libri, e che non è mai troppo tardi per un secondo atto.
Una casalinga disperata scopre che il bel marito la tradisce con una scrittrice di romanzi rosa di successo. Farà di tutto per rovinarle la vita e riscattare sé stessa e le donne sottovalutate.
Figlia di ricchi professionisti, la 14enne Grace MacLean è vittima a New York di un incidente stradale in cui muore una cara amica, lei perde una gamba e il suo amato purosangue Pilgrim rimane malconcio. Convinta che l'avvenire della figlia sia legato a quello del cavallo, la madre Annie si reca con la figlia in una fattoria del Montana dove vive Tom Booker, celebre per la sua conoscenza dei cavalli.
Kate, brillante pubblicitaria in un'agenzia di New York, non riesce, per motivi a lei incomprensibili, ad avere un avanzamento di carriera. Mentre la madre insiste per vederla sistemata, Kate mette gli occhi sul collega Sam, che però è interessato solo alle donne già impegnate. Mentre Kate cerca una soluzione per soddisfare le esigenze del suo capo e i propri sogni romantici, la sua amica e collega Darcy decide di inventare per lei un fidanzato fittizio, un certo Nick, che Kate ha incontrato una volta sola ad un matrimonio. Kate accetta di stare al gioco e, incredibilmente, in breve tempo ottiene la promozione e l'attenzione da parte di Sam.
Abbandonata dalla madre e cresciuta in un orfanotrofio, Billie Frank conosce nei primi anni '80 il famoso disc-jockey Dice che scopre e mette a frutto le sue doti canore, producendole il primo disco, e s'innamora di lei, ricambiato. Presto il suo successo di cantante li separa. Nonostante il titolo (glitter = scintillio), la storia, vagamente ispirata alla biografia di M. Carey, dà poca luce: la regia non sa accenderla. Discutibile, secondo gli esperti, anche la colonna sonora in cui i rapper ospiti prevalgono sulla bella protagonista.
New York. J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton), è una donna in carriera che lavora per un’importante compagnia. Imprevedibilmente scopre di essere la beneficiaria di un’eredità che non è altro che la piccola Elizabeth, figlia del defunto. L’incompatibilità tra le cure alla bambina e lo stile di vita della protagonista emerge immediatamente.
Naomi Bishop, esperta bancaria di investimenti, lotta per ottenere una promozione nel competitivo sfondo delle società di Wall Street. A capo di una controversa offerta pubblica iniziale dopo la crisi finanziaria globale e il restringimento delle norme di regolamentazione, Naomi si ritroverà a essere minacciata da uno scandalo finanziario e ad affrontare una rete di corruzione.
Tre ritratti di donne in cerca di riscatto. Delia, Greta e Paula stanno per iniziare una nuova vita: la prima è in fuga con i tre figli da un marito violento, la seconda riscopre l'ambizione dopo aver passato anni accanto a un uomo troppo dimesso, la terza in attesa di un figlio da un uomo di colore cerca di aiutare un ragazzo vittima di abusi.
Maggie, trentenne in carriera di New York, torna nella città natale per un funerale e scopre che molte sue vecchie conoscenze sono sparite in circostanze misteriose. Dovrà immergersi nel suo passato per scoprire cosa sta succedendo.
A love story between an accomplished career woman and a younger man... He Fan Xing's company is at risk of being acquired, while her relationship with Yuan Song faces societal pressures due to their age difference. The consecutive blows in her work and love life push her to an emotional quagmire, and it is during this time that Ye Lu Ming enters her life. Being older in age, he is mature, stable and knowledgeable. He becomes He Fan Xing's life coach and the source of conflict between the couple. For He Fan Xing, it's not merely a matter of choosing the man that she loves, but considering the contradictions of adopting the traditional mindset on marriage.
Set in the world of fashion and PR, immature fun-loving mother Edina Monsoon and her best friend Patsy drive Eddie's sensible daughter, Saffron, up the wall with their constant drug abuse and outrageous selfishness. Numerous in-jokes and heavy doses of cruel humour have made this series a cult hit in the UK and abroad.
Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.
The stories of ambitious career women working at the top of the best portal sites in the IT industry. Paved with wins and losses, their road to success takes a new turn when love comes along the way.
Yumi is a 30-year old, ordinary woman who struggles with expressing her feelings. Told from the perspective of the many brain cells in her head, she experiences growth in both her love life, her career, and finds happiness in the small joys of everyday life.
Follow the passionate, volatile and hot-and-bothered-staff at Lisa Vanderpump’s West Hollywood mainstay SUR. Lisa balances her motherly instincts and shrewd business sense to keep control over this wild group of employees as they pursue their dreams and each other while working at her “Sexy, Unique Restaurant.”
Song Si Ning, the HR director of Changcheng Insurance Company, and Li Jun Long, the GM of a startup company, are a married couple, working together in the metropolis. They always have disputes over the education of their daughter Dora. Li Jun Long also wanted to have another child but Si Ning was in the peak of her career. Song Si Ning found herself at the crossroads of life, career- to advance or to retreat? Marriage-to hold on or to let go? In this family game, the couple carefully tasted the bitter and sweet that life throws at them.
Television reporter Sun Yihe, corporate manager Ren Ran, the optimistic Dingding and single mother Xue Kairui are all on the cusp of turning thirty and have reached career bottlenecks. Their love lives don’t go too smoothly either, as all sorts of conflicts and problems start to surface when they begin dating.
Dirt is an American television serial broadcast on the FX network. It premiered on January 2, 2007 and starred Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller, the editor-in-chief of the first-of-its-kind "glossy tabloid" magazine DirtNow, which was previously two separate publications: drrt and Now.
Judge Olivia Lockhart is considered the community's guiding light in the picturesque, coastal town of Cedar Cove, Washington. But like everyone else, Olivia fights the uphill battle of balancing career with family and finding love, all the while doing her best to care for the township she calls home. Based on best-selling author Debbie Macomber’s beloved book series.
Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio. The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell, who also served as executive producer alongside showrunner/head writer Oliver Goldstick. The pilot was directed by Gary Winick.
Almost Perfect is an American situation comedy that aired on the CBS television network from September 17, 1995 until October 30, 1996. The series focused on the professional life of the female executive producer of a television cop show, her witty, zany staff which doubled as her family, and initially, how she balanced her high-powered role with that of her newfound romance with a busy assistant D.A. The series was created by Ken Levine, David Isaacs and Robin Schiff, and produced by Levine & Isaacs Productions and Robin Schiff Productions, in association with Paramount Television. Levine and Isaacs were previously known for their work as writers and producers on the long-running Paramount-produced Cheers, as well as on its Paramount stablemate Wings. Like the latter shows, Almost Perfect featured a tight-knit ensemble aspect between the cast, which in this case was formed by the production staff of the fictional cop show. CBS canceled the series just four episodes into its second season. Six leftover episodes aired on Lifetime in December 1997, followed by reruns of the entire series surfacing on USA Network's weekday morning lineup between 1998 and 2001.
Veronica 'Ronnie' Chase is the 'Queen of Romance.' Founder of a successful lingerie empire, and best-selling author of self-help romance books, Ronnie has it all ... money, success, sex appeal and a philandering husband. How she will find true happiness without jeopardizing her business will be her biggest challenge yet.
Four best friends from college are finding success as modern career women. Wang Mi Na, Yin Ge Li, Weng Mei Yan and Bai Ya Xuan are considered princesses in a tower because of their focus on their work and careers. But as they each face their own challenges of career vs. relationship, must they make a choice or can they have both?
A woman in her 40s returns to work as an intern after seven years of being disconnected from work, and starts to endure and survive in a jungle-like society again.
On Our Own is an American television series broadcast on CBS as part of their 1977-78 schedule. It featured Lynnie Greene as Maria Bonino and Bess Armstrong as Julia Peters, two employees in the Bedford Advertising Agency in New York who also share an apartment. Toni McBain was their boss, while April Baxter and Phil Goldstein were their coworkers. On Our Own was shot at CBS studios in Manhattan and edited at Unitel. The editor was Frank Herold. The show was filmed on location in New York in front of a live audience, which was somewhat unique for a show of its genre during the late 1970s, as most sitcoms were typically taped in Hollywood. The show aired from 9 October 1977 until 27 August 1978.
The life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the twentieth century, to respected business woman and grandmother in the 1980s. From humble beginnings, Emma Harte starts her business with a small shop, but over the next twenty years, she expands her stores and invests in the growing textile industry in Leeds.
Four ambitious and sexy women, who've been best friends since business school, try to balance their glamorous and demanding careers with their complex personal lives in the city that never sleeps. They've created their own "boys club" to protect each other and discuss their ups and downs as they try to have it all. What good is it to break the glass ceiling without girlfriends to share in your success?
Three-year-old Nikola Szlezyngier disappears in unexplained circumstances and her parents Angelika and Dawid are the main suspects. Angelika contacts an old friend Joanna Chylka, a brilliant, cynical and successful lawyer to help. With her new apprentice Kordian, Joanna will try to bring the case to a happy close.
