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Ilene Chaiken has been a showrunner for TV hits like Fox\u2019s Empire, an executive producer for Hulu\u2019s The Handmaid's Tale, and a writer, producer, and director for Showtime\u2019s The L Word in the mid-2000s. In other words, she\u2019s a boss. 

\u201cI don\u2019t like the word that much,\u201d Chaiken said on Nerdette. \u201cI mean, I like it as in, \u2018Oh, she\u2019s a boss.\u2019 You know, \u2018She\u2019s a badass. She\u2019s a boss.\u2019 But I don\u2019t like the kind of hierarchical aspect of it.\u201d 

Chaiken talked with Nerdette co-hosts Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnsen about the upcoming reboot of The L Word, her recently greenlit pilot project with Fox, and about how she became a boss. She also had some important homework for you: \u201cI want to know who hasn\u2019t seen herself \u2014 and I\u2019ll just make it gendered \u2014 who hasn\u2019t seen herself represented on television, and what would she like to see?\u201d

If you\u2019ve got an answer, tweet them to @NerdettePodcast and @IleneChaiken.