In today's Tweet Beat, Lisa Ling deals with a big gross thing, Jackie Collins is not into Rising Star and Shonda Rhimes couldn't sleep last night. » 6/27/14 7:30pm 6/27/14 7:30pm

Shonda Rhimes gave a powerful commencement speech at Dartmouth on Sunday, offering some advice to the dreamers of the world. » 6/10/14 12:20pm 6/10/14 12:20pm

In today's Tweet Beat, Pat Sajak is such a jokester, Natalie Maines will have to find a new love and Shonda Rhimes is sweating her commencement speech. » 5/21/14 7:30pm 5/21/14 7:30pm

Producer Shonda Rhimes is back with a new show that tackles the legal profession. » 5/14/14 2:15pm 5/14/14 2:15pm

ABC has picked up two new comedy shows for its 2014-15 lineup, the Asian American Fresh Off The Boat and the Latina-led Cristela. Both shows take a stab at depicting the American dream from two first generation writers of immigrant parents, Cristela Alonzo from Mexico and Nahnatchka Khan, from Iran. Go diversity! » 5/13/14 5:00pm 5/13/14 5:00pm

Black actors are in demand — well, they’re starring in a string of television pilots — and I will praise the Lord for all of it. » 3/07/14 11:20am 3/07/14 11:20am

"I don't judge her at all. I don't judge her a bit. I love her to death." — actor Bellamy Young on Mellie Grant, the formidable First Lady she plays on Scandal. Click here for more of this awesome interview. » 3/06/14 6:30pm 3/06/14 6:30pm

Well, Olivia Pope and her band of merrymakers returned to us last night, and as usual, the episode was twisty-turny, complicated and fast-paced. Let's do a quick review, shall we? » 2/28/14 12:40pm 2/28/14 12:40pm

Although she's got Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice and Scandal under her belt, Shonda Rhimes has yet another TV show up her sleeve, and this one has Viola Davis attached. The premise sounds deliciously wicked. » 2/27/14 4:00pm 2/27/14 4:00pm

The Wrap reports that ABC has ordered a pilot of a show called How To Get Away With Murder from Shonda Rhimes's production company, Shondaland. The pilot, written by Peter Noah (who wrote for The West Wing and penned the episode of Scandal with the awesome sexism speech) Peter Nowalk* is "a law-school legal thriller… » 12/19/13 7:20pm 12/19/13 7:20pm

It was arguably a banner year for black films, with major films like 12 Years a Slave, The Butler, Best Man Holiday, Black Nativity and Kevin Hart's Let Me Explain successfully gracing the box office. But there was something missing from this acclaimed mix — black women. » 12/18/13 12:40pm 12/18/13 12:40pm

This season it's been really hard to pull out an Olivia Pope Moment of the Week. And this week it's even harder to justify an Olivia Pope Moment of the Week because Sally Langston and James Novak stole the show. » 12/06/13 3:10pm 12/06/13 3:10pm

As usual, the last three minutes of this episode were jaw-dropping, tense and insane. But so were the first three minutes. » 11/22/13 1:00pm 11/22/13 1:00pm

Shonda Rhimes, the genius behind such pulpy network hits like Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, and Scandal, is now making the leap from the small screen to the written page. Today, news broke that Rhimes inked a deal to write her memoir with Simon & Schuster. » 11/20/13 3:05pm 11/20/13 3:05pm

Last night on Scandal, Lisa Kudrow — playing a Congresswoman running for President — had a seething monologue about the sexist, gendered, angled way women in politics are covered by the media. » 11/08/13 1:50pm 11/08/13 1:50pm

In a fantastic interview with NPR's Renee Montagne, Shonda Rhimes discussed what's to come on Scandal — but also went back to the beginning of her television legacy. Rhimes said she thinks female characters on television don't have to be likable anymore and reveals that when Grey's Anatomy first started, ABC… » 11/07/13 4:59pm 11/07/13 4:59pm

Once again this week, although Olivia Pope had a great moment or two, she got straight up out-fierced by some of the other folks on Scandal. » 10/11/13 12:50pm 10/11/13 12:50pm