Aug
15
Grey Matter: What Shonda Rhimes' Move to Netflix Means for ABC
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With three shows on the ABC schedule for next season and two more in the works, Shonda Rhimes dramas filled with salacious sex and scintillating scandal have come to epitomize the alphabet network. So as the showrunner ends her 15-year relationship with ABC and decamps for Netflix, the broadcaster — and its advertisers — face with a new urgency to locate its next big hit.
As things stand. ABC’s “TGIT” lineup on Thursday nights might as well be called TGFS: Thank God for Shonda.
Rhimes’ four shows last season — “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal,” “How To Get Away With Murder” and the now-canceled “The Catch” — accounted for 20% of ABC’s primetime scripted gross ratings points and 44% of its drama GRPs.
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