Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

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Linda Joyce Bloodworth-Thomason (born April 15, 1947) is an American writer, director, and television producer.

She is best known for creating, writing, and producing several television series, most successfully with the series Designing Women and Evening Shade.

She and her husband, Harry Thomason, are also notable for their friendship with former President Bill Clinton, and the role they played in his election campaigns.

Early life

Bloodworth was born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, the daughter of Ralph and Claudia Bloodworth. She graduated from Poplar Bluff High School. She went on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.

In the early 1970s she moved to Los Angeles, California, where she taught English at Jordan High School, in the south Los Angeles community of Watts.

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Career

After her teaching stint came to an end, Bloodworth went on to work for the Wall Street Journal in advertising. She then became a Los Angeles Daily Journal reporter. She also began working as a freelance writer in television during this time.

Five episodes of M*A*S*H, of which one episode, "Hot Lips and Empty Arms," was nominated for an Emmy Award, as well as scripts for Rhoda, the television version of Paper Moon, and the original pilot for One Day at a Time. Paul Sand, Lovers and Filthy Rich, two short-lived sitcoms, also wrote scripts for Friends and Lovers.

Harry Thomason was born in 1978 and married him in 1983. The pair launched Mozark Productions, named for their respective home states, Missouri, or "MO," and Arkansas, with a nod to the Ozarks area overlapping both states.

Many situation comedies were produced by the company, most notable the show Designing Women, which reunited Bloodworth-Thomason with Filthy Rich cast members Dixie Carter and Delta Burke. Evening Shade, Hearts Afire, Women of the House, (a short-lived Designing Women spin-off starring Burke), and Emeril (a short-lived sitcom starring chef Emeril Lagasse) were all created and produced by the company. Emeril was supposed to premiere on September 11, 2001, but was delayed due to continuing coverage of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Emeril's premiere was postponed by two weeks and was never able to find an audience after the show was only broadcast after only seven episodes were available after November 2001.

In 1994, she was given the Women in Film Lucy Award for her contribution and innovation in her creative works that have changed the perception of women through the medium of television.

In 2018, Bloodworth-Thomason wrote a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, in which she revealed that she had been writing and producing pilots for seven years, delaying her career by refusing every pilot she suggested beginning in 1995.

Liberating Paris was her first book, which was published in 2004. Despite there being no completed script, Variety revealed in March 2005 that the Thomasons were assisting in the production of a screen version of the book, with actors Michelle Pfeiffer, Billy Bob Thornton, and Dwight Yoakam committed to the film. It was one of two film projects that the Thomasons were planning with Jeff Sagansky, with the other being a Bloodworth-Thomason script based on a 2001 documentary by filmmaker Kate Davis. On HBO, a new series named 12 Miles of Bad Road would debut. Gary Cole and Lily Tomlin appeared on the program. The show was cancelled by HBO after six episodes of a planned ten-episode run were shot.

At the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, Bridegroom premiered.

Bloodworth-Thomason wrote a revised book in 2015 that was dedicated to a reworked musical version of First Wives Club.

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