SeriesFest Teams With Shondaland To Launch First-Ever Women Directing Mentorship
EXCLUSIVE: SeriesFest, a non-profit supporting the art of episodic storytelling and inspiring work of female creators, is partnering with Shonda Rhimes’ TV empire Shondaland to launch the inaugural...
View Article‘Station 19’: Stacy McKee Exits As Showrunner Of ABC’s ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Spinoff
Stacy McKee, creator of Station 19, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy spinoff, has decided to exit the firefighter-themed drama series as showrunner, Deadline has confirmed. McKee’s deal with ABC Studios had...
View ArticleShondaland Expands Development Team With Key Hire & Promotion
Shondaland is expanding its development team, hiring former Paramount executive Annie Laks as SVP Creative Content and promoting Marco Esquivel to Director, Creative Content. Both will report to Alison...
View Article‘How To Get Away With Murder’ Renewed For Season 6 By ABC
How To Get Away With Murder, starring Viola Davis, will return for a sixth season on ABC. It is one of three Shondaland series to get renewals for next season, along with flagship Grey’s Anatomy and...
View Article‘Station 19’ Renewed For Season 3 By ABC With ‘Grey’s Anatomy’s Krista...
ABC has renewed its firefighter drama Station 19 for a third season with a familial new showrunner. Krista Vernoff, who has helped revitalize Grey’s Anatomy since she rejoined the veteran medial drama...
View ArticleJulie Andrews To Voice Lady Whistledown In Shondaland’s Bridgerton Series For...
EXCLUSIVE: Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music star Julie Andrews is the first actor officially cast in Shondaland’s Untitled Bridgerton Project, an hourlong period series for Netflix based on Julia...
View ArticleShondaland Execs And Creative Collaborators Talk Netflix And New Horizons
Netflix has opened up vast new possibilities for Shondaland, a panel comprised of company executives and creative collaborators agreed Sunday, but the DNA that informed Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal...
View ArticlePhoebe Dynevor & Regé-Jean Page To Headline Shondaland’s ‘Bridgerton’ At...
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set the cast for Shondaland’s Bridgerton. Phoebe Dynevor (Younger, Dickensian) and Regé-Jean Page (For The People, Roots) lead the cast of the eight-episode series, which also...
View ArticleShondaland’s ‘Bridgerton’ Netflix Series Rounds Out Core Cast, Taps Julie...
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has assembled the entire Bridgerton clan in Shondaland’s Netflix series based on Julia Quinn’s bestselling series of novels. Luke Thompson (Dunkirk), Goodbye Christopher Robin star...
View ArticleShondaland Teams With Norman Lear, Steve Martin &‘Shrill’ Creator Lindy West...
Shonda Rhimes is teaming up with Norman Lear, Steve Martin, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before author Jenny Han, Shrill creator Lindy West and songwriter Diane Warren for a Netflix anthology series....
View ArticleShonda Rhimes Teams With iHeartMedia To Launch Shondaland Audio
Shonda Rhimes has conquered television and now she has her eye on the podcast world. The Emmy-nominated superproducer and writer is partnering with iHeartMedia to launch Shondaland Audio. Rhimes is set...
View ArticleAnna Chlumsky & Julia Garner Among 5 Cast In Shonda Rhimes’ Netflix Series...
Anna Chlumsky, six-time Emmy nominee for Veep, and Julia Garner, coming off an Emmy win for Ozark, will lead the cast of Inventing Anna, Netflix’s upcoming 10-episode limited drama series from Grey’s...
View ArticleShonda Rhimes’ Anna Delvey Netflix Series Rounds Out Cast
Arian Moayed (Succession), Anders Holm (Workaholics), Anna Deavere Smith (For The People), Jeff Perry (Grey’s Anatomy), and Terry Kinney (Billions) have joined the cast of Inventing Anna, Netflix’s...
View Article‘How To Get Away With Murder’ To End With Season 6 On ABC
The upcoming 15-episode sixth season of ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder will be its last. Created by Peter Nowalk, How to Get Away with Murder has been an anchor in ABC’s TGIT programming block since...
View ArticleAll 7 Seasons of ‘Scandal’ Head To Hulu After Netflix Run
Hulu has snagged the rights to ABC Studios’ and Shondaland’s critically praised series Scandal. All seven seasons of the hit drama will begin streaming exclusively on Hulu beginning May 20, after ABC...
View ArticleShondaland Expands Development Team With Key Hire & Promotion
Shondaland is expanding its development team, hiring former Paramount executive Annie Laks as SVP Creative Content and promoting Marco Esquivel to Director, Creative Content. Both will report to Alison...
View Article‘How To Get Away With Murder’ To End With Season 6 On ABC
The upcoming 15-episode sixth season of ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder will be its last. Created by Peter Nowalk, How to Get Away with Murder has been an anchor in ABC’s TGIT programming block since...
View ArticleSeriesFest And Shondaland Select Tamika Miller As Winner For Women Directing...
SeriesFest and Shondaland have announced Tamika Miller as the winner of their annual Women Directing Mentorship. The Women Directing Mentorship was first launched in 2018 as a partnership between...
View Article‘Bridgerton’ Creator Chris Van Dusen Signs With Literate For Management
EXCLUSIVE: Writer-producer Chris Van Dusen, creator, showrunner and executive producer of the upcoming Shondaland-Netflix series Bridgerton, has signed with Literate for management. Bridgerton, based...
View ArticleNetflix & Disney+ Pull Back Curtain On Ballet To Bring Representation, Joy Of...
The coronavirus pandemic has shuttered dance studios and dimmed the lights on live productions. But despite beloved holiday dance traditions sitting out or opting for a virtual option this year,...
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