There is a great blog post on NPR discussing TV critic Mary McNamara’s Los Angeles Times piece that argues that television offers women better roles than film, making it crazy for an actress like Katherine Heigl to leave TV for movies. McNamara said “Watching Katherine Heigl attempt to inject life into yet another cardboard cut-out of a controlling, manic working woman in “The Ugly Truth,” you have to wonder: For this she wants to leave television? Yes, being a movie star is still a bigger deal in America than a being a television star, and “Grey’s Anatomy” is battle-weary, but surely the chance to portray a woman who looks like she was constructed of a quiz in Glamour circa 1985 is not why she entered her profession.

While I haven’t seen “The Ugly Truth” (nor do I want to) I do hear McNamara’s point. However the NPR piece notes that McNamara is comparing the most interesting women on television to the least interesting women in movies.

What do you think? Do you think female roles on TV are better than those in movies?