All-women sports show debuts with perfect timing
NEW YORK – What perfect timing.
An all-women sports show premieres Tuesday night after weeks of NFL domestic violence cases dominating the headlines. Co-co-ordinating producer Emilie Deutsch has spent a lot of time listening to that male bastion of sports talk radio to prepare for the gig, and she marvels that “I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard someone say, ‘Well, I talked to my wife about this and my wife said this.’”
A core panel of a dozen female commentators will get to speak for themselves on “We Need to Talk,” which airs on cable channel CBS Sports Network. The weekly, hour-long, prime-time show is the first of its kind.
To Deutsch and fellow co-ordinating producer Suzanne Smith, the all-women cast makes it completely different than other sports programs — yet no different at the same time.