QPTV to present “The View” of Queens

Turn off Barbara Walters, and flip the dial to QPTV Channel 35 for the women of Queens instead.
In their own version of “The View,” four women of the borough will discuss and debate issues - ranging from personal to national - during “Women and Success,” a two-part TV show set to air on consecutive Thursdays June 15 at 8 p.m. and June 22 at 8:30 p.m. Taped in May, the show will be aired for the first time this month.
Featuring Victoria Schneps-Yunis, publisher of The Queens Courier, Claire Shulman, former borough president of Queens, Carol Conslato, an executive at Con Edison, and Nancy Littlefield, the former executive producer of QPTV, the show will take the form of a four-person roundtable.
“We started out with Program One, and we talked a lot about things that were happening in Queens,” Littlefield said. “By the second program, we started to warm up a little bit, and we started talking about personal things.”
Littlefield said that topics ran the gamut from aging parents to family life to teenagers, but a big focus was the issue of working motherhood.
“Trying to raise children and have a career at the same time, that was really a subject that we tapped into,” she said.
All of the four women balanced careers with children, and each brought their own experiences to the table. In addition, the four hosts all play an active role in the borough.
The combination of their personal lives and knowledge of Queens differentiated the program different from the garden-variety talk show, Littlefield said.
“I think that the audience would get something out of it, especially with all the graduations from Queens colleges coming up this month,” she said.
“I really would like to do some more [shows],” Littlefield said, adding that she hasn’t decided whether to keep the same cast of women or invite a different set each time.
“There are so many different talented professional women in Queens,” she said. “I’d have to line them up.”