She is the creator of the television series Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which aired on ABC and The WB from 1996 until 2003 and co-author of the book Lean In.
[3] Tina Brown recruited her to work at Vanity Fair, where she contributed quirky visual features about money and culture.
[5] Other TV writing credits include The Wilton North Report, Coach, Monk, Murphy Brown, Charmed, Newhart, The Critic, NCIS, and many others.
Outside of television, Scovell is a former contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and has written for Vogue, Rolling Stone, Self, Tatler, and The New York Times Magazine.
[6] In 2009, after Letterman admitted to having sexual relationships with his female staffers,[7] she published an essay in Vanity Fair calling his show a "hostile work environment" for women.
Scovell alleged that late-night TV executives excused gender disparities in their writers rooms by claiming that women don't apply for writing jobs.
[9] The Times interviewed comedy writer Merrill Markoe, who mentioned an "odd shift toward more boys' humor in the '90s" that in her view might have kept women from landing late-night jobs.
She was contacted by Molly McNearney, the head writer for the show, and passed along the names of two writers—Bess Kalb and Joelle Boucai—who were hired.
[12] In 2018, Scovell's book[13] Just the Funny Parts: ... And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys' Club was published with a foreword by Sheryl Sandberg.