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Shonda Rhimes is now officially the Empress of Netflix, thanks to the massive success of Bridgerton and a rare look under Netflix's data hood. “We're trying to be more transparent with talent, with the market," Ted Sarandos said Monday, making no bones that the streamer’s info is still is “a big black box…

Just over a week after Tina Tchen resigned as the CEO of Time’s Up, the besieged gender equity group has now seen a vast portion of its board of directors exit — willingly. “Time’s Up is ready for new leadership, and we want to move forcefully toward its new iteration,” said exiting board members Shonda Rhimes, Eva Lon…

EXCLUSIVE: The blast radius from the end of Andrew Cuomo’s reign in the Empire State this week could see another chief executive forced to exit, or at least face a reckoning. “Time’s Up’s at an inflection point,” stated another Hollywood A-lister who has worked closely with the group and its President and CEO Tina Tche…

Shonda Rhimes is sticking with Netflix. The Bridgerton executive producer has extended her partnership with the streamer. The deal, which extends the multi-million dollar deal she signed in 2017, covers Rhimes, her production company Shondaland and her producing partner Betsy Beers. In addition to television, it will…

The first Shondaland project in Shonda Rhimes’ mega-deal with Netflix burst on the scene on Christmas Day 2020, when the Regency-era drama series Bridgerton hit the streaming service. With a story mixing Jane Austen, Gossip Girl and the lush looks of London (and its aristocratic denizens) circa 1813 combined with a…

When costume designer Ellen Mirojnick signed on for Bridgerton, she knew she was up against a challenge, the likes of which she’d never encountered. “It was the biggest thing that I have ever even thought about,” she says, "and it was great fun.” Chris Van Dusen’s Netflix series, based on a series of novels by Julia…

Refresh for updates Hollywood and the Beltway praised the “guilty, guilty, guilty” murder and manslaughter verdicts against former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd today: “Relieved—and emotional in ways I didn't expect,” Oprah said on Instagram. “I cried tears of joy as each verdict was…

In a conversation for Bill Clinton’s iHeart podcast Why Am I Telling You This?, the former president and Shonda Rhimes talked about Regé-Jean Page’s recent departure from Bridgerton, as well as her support of Time’s Up and other organizations. But they also got to talking about the polarized environment that has…

On April 2, Bridgerton fans reacted with dismay when news broke of Regé-Jean Page’s exit from the series—and now, the series’ executive producer Shonda Rhimes has weighed in. In a Vanity Fair piece on Tuesday, she joined fellow executive producer Betsy Beers in conversation, noting that the reaction isn’t one she…

There’s joy in Shondaland today. Longtime producing partners Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers are set to receive the Distinguished Collaborator Award at the Costume Designers Guild Awards on Tuesday. The honor goes to individuals who demonstrate unwavering support of costume design and creative partnerships with costume…

EXCLUSIVE: Exactly two years after Khalilah Joi guest starred in a powerful episode of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, she is returning to the Grey’s universe with a recurring role on spinoff Station 19. On the firefighter drama, Joi will play a new character, Condola Vargas, an accomplished litigator who went to law school…

UPDATED wit GLAAD & Jennifer Aniston statements, 11:35 AM: After scores of A-listers have scorched the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for its lack of a single Black member, the Directors Guild of America and GLAAD has added their considerable collective voice to the call for change. In a posting on the DGA's…