Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

She is best known for creating, writing, and producing several television series, most successfully with the sitcoms 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.

[2] The company produced several situation comedies, most notably the show Designing Women, which reunited Bloodworth-Thomason with Filthy Rich cast members Dixie Carter and Delta Burke.

[4][3] Unfortunately, Emeril was to premiere on September 11, 2001, but was preempted by continuous coverage of the aftermath of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks.

Variety reported in March 2005 that the Thomasons were working on a screen adaptation of the novel, with actors Michelle Pfeiffer, Billy Bob Thornton, and Dwight Yoakam committed to the film despite there being no completed script.

It was one of two film projects that the Thomasons were to produce with Jeff Sagansky, the other being a Bloodworth-Thomason script called Southern Comfort, based on a 2001 documentary of the same name by filmmaker Kate Davis.