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EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Esposito is set for a key role opposite Julia Garner and Anna Chlumsky in Inventing Anna, Netflix's upcoming 10-episode drama limited series from Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes. David Frankel is directing and executive producing two episodes, including the first, of the Shondaland-produced…

Arian Moayed (Succession), Anders Holm (Workaholics), Anna Deavere Smith (For The People), Jeff Perry (Grey’s Anatomy), and Terry Kinney (Billions) have joined the cast of Inventing Anna, Netflix's upcoming 10-episode limited drama series from Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes. They join previously announced Anna…

Refresh for updates… Oprah Winfrey, who co-produced and starred in the 1998 feature adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and was one of Morrison’s most devoted admirers, has added her voice to those mourning the author today. "In the beginning was the Word,” writes Winfrey on Instagram. “Toni Morrison took the word…

The slate of Phyllis Nagy is getting a massive showing of support from some of the biggest names in film and television. More than 300 writers of all levels in the film and TV business, from up-and-comers to superstars, have signed an open letter endorsing Nagy, who is running for president of WGA West, as well as her…

For faux heiress Anna Sorokin, crime may not pay. The scam artist who became a hot Hollywood commodity after she was profiled in a New York Magazine article, How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People by Jessica Pressler, signed a lucrative deal with Netflix for her story. An estimated dozen producers were…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set the cast for Shondaland's Bridgerton. Phoebe Dynevor (Younger, Dickensian) and Regé-Jean Page (For The People, Roots) lead the cast of the eight-episode series, which also includes Jonathan Bailey (W1A, Broadchurch), Golda Rosheuvel (Silent Witness, Lady MacBeth), , Luke Newton (The Lodge, Th…

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Obama isn't running for any office but the former First Lady can sure draw a well heeled crowd that would be the envy of any politician, as was the case last night at Bryan Lourd's place. Just 48 hours after appearing on-stage with Gayle King at this year's Essence Festival in Atlanta, the…

Netflix has opened up vast new possibilities for Shondaland, a panel comprised of company executives and creative collaborators agreed Sunday, but the DNA that informed Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal remains intact. “The underlying principles of what made the Shondaland recipe in the ABC version are going to be alive and…

EXCLUSIVE: Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music star Julie Andrews is the first actor officially cast in Shondaland’s Untitled Bridgerton Project, an hourlong period series for Netflix based on Julia Quinn’s bestselling series of novels. Andrews will voice the pivotal character of Lady Whistledown in eight-episode…

UPDATE: Anna Sorokin, who faked being an heiress and scammed hotels, friends and others out of huge amounts of money and services, told the New York Times in an interview that she’s not sorry. "I'd be lying to you and to everyone else and to myself if I said I was sorry for anything," Sorokin told The New York Times…

ABC’s medical drama Grey’s Anatomy continues to secure its place in TV history with a two-year renewal for seasons 16 and 17. The series’ star, Ellen Pompeo, is set for both seasons, along with the other original cast members. Additionally, ABC has renewed two other Shondaland series, Grey’s Anatomy spinoff Station 19…

Shondaland is expanding its development team, hiring former Paramount executive Annie Laks as SVP Creative Content and promoting Marco Esquivel to Director, Creative Content. Both will report to Alison Eakle, Head of Fiction & Non-Fiction Content. Laks will be responsible for identifying, pursuing and tracking new…