Best Female Showrunners: From Nancy Drew's Noga Landau and Melinda Hsu Taylor to Vampire Academy's Marguerite MacIntyre and Julie Plec

Julie Plec rose through the ranks with Kyle XY and Dawson's Creek before her first break in 2009 to take the reins as showrunner alongside Kevin Williamson. Plec got complete control later when Kevin stepped down later.

Julie Plec rose commented in 2010 about their collaboration that they are pretty codependent and like to make all the decisions jointly, much to their detriment.
Noga Landau and Melinda Hsu Taylor, who worked together on The CW's Nancy Drew and Tom Swift, also made a lasting impression.


The duo talked about their process for adapting Nancy Drew for television before the show's debut.

Who were the women at the helm of some of our favorite TV shows?

• The list includes:
• Noga Landau and Melinda Hsu Taylor
• Julie Plec
• Quinta Brunson
• Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
• Jenny Han
• Tia Napolitano
• Krista Vernoff
• Nkechi Carroll
• Mindy Kaling
• Ava DuVernay
• Natasha Lyonne
• Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle
• Sera Gamble

What are the popular shows run by Women?
Nancy Drew for The CW, The Vampire Diaries, Abbott Elementary, Someone Great, Unpregnant, Thor: Love and Thunder and Do Revenge, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, To All the Boys: Always and Forever, The Summer I Turned Pretty series, Cruel Summer, Grey's Anatomy, Charmed, Law & Order, Private Practice and Shameless, Bones, Rosewood and The Resident, All American and All-American: Homecoming, Never Have I Ever, PS I Still Love You, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Queen Sugar, When They See Us and Colin in Black & White, Orange Is the New Black, Russian Doll, Insecure, Casual, Betas and Crossing Swords, Supernatural.