The Shonda Rhimes Thursday Night Takeover
Here’s the trailer for Shonda Rhimes’s latest show, How to Get Away With Murder, starring Viola Davis and looking, already, wonderfully dramatic (“The body stays where it is!” “No, the body is what gets us caught!”). Davis appears to be a perfect candidate for Rhimes’s third twisted sister, and the show cements the showrunner’s (deserved) ABC takeover:
ABC is tweaking its efforts to climb out of fourth place, and Shonda Rhimes is a big part of it. The showrunner, who just inked a new overall deal, is getting a three-drama block on Thursday nights in the network’s most ambitious move of the fall 2014–15 season.
After three stellar seasons at 10 p.m., Scandal is moving to an hour earlier in an effort to launch the new Rhimes drama How to Get Away With Murder. That means that veteran Grey’s Anatomy, still one of ABC’s most dependable series after 10 seasons, is moving to the troubled 8 p.m. slot. ABC has not been able to launch a show there since the heyday of Ugly Betty.