Shonda Rhimes is a veteran producer, and she's made a name for herself at ABC over the years. Right now, she has several programs at the network, including Grey?s Anatomy, a show that is still a ratings bringer, and a newer drama, Scandal, which did so well at midseason last year that the show earned a full episode count this time around. Show More Summary
Grey’s Anatomy’s season finale was everything you’d expect from a Grey’s Anatomy season finale, filled with tension, action, heartbreak —
I have to hand it to Shonda Rhimes – the woman knows how to get my attention. Whenever I begin feeling cynical about Grey's Anatomy, that I may not care as much about the upcoming season, Shonda drops a bomb in the finale and leaves me in an emotional funk akin to a post-breakup Ben and Jerry’s binge. Show More Summary
SPOILER ALERT!! People come and go often on Grey’s Anatomy. It’s an inevitable facet of the medical drama genre. But last night’s ninth season finale was particularly traumatizing! It’s all too possible that the former Chief of Seattle Grace Mercy West, Richard Webber, may have been killed following an incident in the hospital’s basement. Let's just say, [...]
Next season will likely only feature a 25-minute time jump and explore the top Gladiator's relationship with the head of B613. read more
[Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Thursday's Season 2 finale of Scandal. Read at your own risk!]
The same week another network had a mother of a reveal, ABC's Scandal shocked viewers with a patriarchal reveal no one saw coming. Show More Summary
Shonda Rhimes did it again. She nearly killed Twitter with the Scandal season finale last night. Scandal hashtags (such as #ScandalABC, #AskScandal, and #Gladiators to name a few) were trending all day on both Twitter and The Chatterati. Show More Summary
Last night’s wild season 2 finale of Scandal featured a number of shocking revelations and a big moment for our
Shonda Rhimes recently promised "Grey's Anatomy" fans that they'd need to "hug a friend" to the weather the storm during Thursday's season finale, and the show's creator was not lying.With a perfect storm outside and no power inside, it was one fright after another in the halls of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Show More Summary
When Scandal premiered, I never imagined that I’d one day tell people that it gives me the same kind of crazy rush that I used to get from 24.There’s a lot less gore, of course; people get killed on Shonda Rhimes’ ABC drama, which ends its second season tonight, and
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The New York Times wrote a great article about the brilliance of Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes. Show More Summary
While race on Rhimes’s shows is omnipresent, it is not often discussed explicitly. This has led to a second-order critique of her shows: that they are colorblind, diverse in a superficial way, with the characters’ races rarely informing their choices or conversations. Rhimes, obviously, disagrees. “When people who aren’t of color create a show and they have one character of …
ABC has renewed Scandal for a third season, a little less than one week before its season 2 finale. Was there really any doubt that the political thriller from Grey’s Anatomy creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes would be coming back for another fast-paced, and likely equally as explosive, season? After all, the show’s rabid — and rapidly growing [...]Show More Summary
My friend Willa Paskin, Salon’s TV critic, has a very interesting profile of Shonda Rhimes, the creator of Scandal, a show in which “America is run by an African-American spin expert, a scheming first lady and a mercenary gay guy who also happens to be in one of the sexiest homosexual marriages on television,” in [...]
[Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Thursday's episode of Grey's Anatomy. Read at your own risk!]
Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes did warn Calzona fans in advance. Several warnings, in fact. So it should not have come...Show More Summary
Ellen Pompeo adjusts her sunglasses as she heads inside a doctor’s office on Wednesday (May 8) in Beverly Hills, Calif. The 42-year-old Grey’s Anatomy actress recently tweeted her thoughts about show creator Shonda Rhimes. “Not sure if @shondarhimes has a middle name but I’m liking the sound of Shonda Torture and Entertain Rhimes” Ellen tweeted. [...]
A worth-your-while New York Times profile of Shonda Rhimes — creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal — is chock-full of awesome. Read more...
Inside the mind behind “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal.”
Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) have established themselves as the go-to couple at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital (formerly Seattle Grace), which is impressive because they have gone through their share of challenges throughout their relationship. Show More Summary
Great little profile of Shonda Rhimes by Meghan Casserly in the May 27 issue of Forbes. The 43-year-old single mother of two is Walt Disney Co’s number one network drama moneymaker, per these rather staggering numbers:
Together, Scandal...Show More Summary