Scandal, currently in its sixth season, will end next year after it’s seventh season. The news is expected to be formally announced at ABC’s upcoming upfront presentation. The show recently marked its 100th episode.
In a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, Veep showrunner David Mandel mentions an issue that a lot of TV shows dealing with politics have had to address: a few of their jokes were just a little too on the nose.
On Thursday, Scandal will air its 100th episode. To commemorate this television feat, the cast and show creators sat down for an oral history of the show that had us all drinking red wine out of enormous glasses, eating popcorn for dinner and lusting after $10,00 white trench coats for the past five years.
Scandal has always felt like a (more) outrageous version of actual Washington politics on some level—the show is, after all, based on the real-life D.C. fixer Judy Smith. But like other politically-based TV series, it’s now directly and indirectly feeding off the energy of a bizarre election year that’s since become…
Scandal returned last night and with all the talk of how closely the series has predicted and mirrored reality, we had to expect the worst.
Shonda Rhimes’ unrelenting grip on your Thursday evening is back tonight with the premiere of the 6th season of Scandal and the mid-season return of Grey’s Anatomy and How to Get Away With Murder.
The storylines on Scandal have been strangely prescient, in the weird way that film and TV tend to mirror and predict real-life events because life is just an endless programming loop with only so many ideas to go around. To that end, Kerry Washington and Shonda Rhimes have both commented on Scandal’s eerie likeness…
On January 20th, despite everyone’s best efforts, Donald Trump will be sworn in as president of the United States. On January 19th, the last day we have in this country with Obama as President, Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy and How To Get Away With Murder were set to return with brand-new episodes. Now that date has been…
We’re entering the Scandal universe for its sixth season and things look... just as insane as they’ve always been. Olivia and company won’t officially be back until January 19, but you might as well prepare yourself now.
In early June, the newbie actor Noah Galvin escaped the clutches of his PR team and gave an incendiary interview to Vulture. Galvin is a young gay man, and he had some strong opinions on what constitutes being “out,” the performance of Eric Stonestreet in Modern Family, and Bryan Singer. Those opinions blew up in his…
The fall-out from Russia’s Olympic doping scandal has been coming in bits and pieces, probably because so many governing sports organizations have to test and re-test Russian athletes. The verdict on Olympic swimmers has finally come down, and it’s looking bad for them.
One month ago, executive producer Shonda Rhimes starred in a campaign ad for Hillary Clinton together with Shondaland stars Kerry Washington (Scandal), Ellen Pompeo (Grey’s Anatomy), and Viola Davis (How to Get Away With Murder). Now cast members of Scandal will appear at a Washington D.C. fundraiser for the…
Remember when it came out that former CIA Director David Petraeus was having that extramarital affair with his biographer? And how Jill Kelley supposedly gave him a handjob under the table at the Four Seasons too? Now, she’s writing a book to clear her name (and her hands):
Olivia Pope was shown getting an abortion in last year’s Scandal winter finale. Maybe President Fitz got her pregnant or maybe not. And maybe he’ll find out about it, but Shonda Rhimes’ thinking is: “Does he have to?”
Shondaland will once again remain the most illustrious amalgamation of TV shows in all the land, because all of them have been renewed for another season on ABC.
Greetings, it’s been a minute since we’ve all gathered to willingly and enthusiastically allow Shonda Rhimes to manipulate our feelings and heart rates.
While it wasn’t totally shocking for a Shonda Rhimes show to have an abortion scene, that episode of Scandal last year was a significant moment for primetime TV. Kerry Washington talked about its impact in an interview with WWD this week.
Much of television is written by people who grew up, or at least who have lived the majority of their lives, in a big city—often New York or Los Angeles. For that reason, characters who are culturally not from one of those places are at risk of getting written in broad strokes, becoming caricatures of whatever culture…
Shonda Rhimes is savvy enough to know that merely talking about abortion on TV sets off an explosion of discourse. The abortion storyline is still a nervy move, even today—though it’s becoming less so with shows like Jane the Virgin and Girls having advanced the conversation in recent years. Thursday night’s Scandal…
It’s Scandal time and is there anyone Olivia Pope hasn’t lied to at this point? Looks like we’ll find out tonight. Feel free to throw in your pressing How to Get Away With Murder thoughts here as well!
