Fanning Old Flames (2005)

Maggie, who works for a staid real estate company, is unhappily married to Garth, and has two kids who take her for granted. But when the agency is taken over by Home Truths, a progressive company that tells it exactly like it is, it gives her the confidence to spruce herself up. She even begins wondering about an old flame, Jack, and why he dumped her all those years ago. Should she find him or leave it all in the past?

Getting It! (2003)

Fran quits her long-term job as a regional newspaper reporter to join the team setting up a new TV shopping channel, Getting It! There she befriends a fashion buyer called Stella, who comes home from a late shift to find her husband with another woman. One of Fran's former newspaper colleagues, Des, is out to write negative stories about the channel. But it seems those at the station are making his job all too easy as it becomes known for its on-air disasters. Fran and Stella, who both shaved a few years off their 40-something ages at interview time, get a shot a co-presenting as star presenter Tiffany reels from the discovery she has a stalker. Meanwhile Fran is trying to keep her identity as the newspaper's secret horoscope columnist Madame Chita under wraps and get her husband Bob to finally fix up their fixer-upper house.

Nailing Harry - Jane Blanchard (2002)

Harry Hampton is the boss from hell - he bullies his staff and takes credit for other people's ideas. After he sacks a few more people for no good reason, some of the women at his TV production company - department leader Janet, receptionist Sue, secretary Nina and producer Liz - decide to take matters into their own hands. They start compiling a dossier on Harry's misdeeds and plot his downfall. Meanwhile his alcoholic wife, Val, is out to befriend them. This is a hilarious tale about a group of women determined to end their boss' reign of terror.

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