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…

Hundreds of thousands of people crowded downtown Los Angeles streets on a sunny January morning to hear Hollywood stars like Constance Wu, Natalie Portman, Eva Longoria and Viola Davis issue a call to action: resist Trump. Movements like the Women’s March and Time’s Up energized the electorate and helped send a record…

Get ready to see more of Captain Robert Sullivan around the fire station on the ABC drama Station 19. Boris Kodjoe has been promoted to series regular on the Shondaland series. In the TGIT spirit of Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away With Murder, Station 19 follows a group of heroic firefighters at the…

Netflix has landed the rights to Blake Crouch's upcoming novel Recursion for Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beer's Shondaland and Matt Reeves' 6th & Idaho which they will develop as a feature film as well as a television universe. Recursion will hit book shelves from Crown on June 11, 2019. Recursion marks the first film…

Time’s Up is marking a milestone with the appointment of former WNBA president and Coca-Cola executive Lisa Borders as the organization’s first president and CEO. The group was launched by women in the entertainment industry January 1 and has since expanded to other industries and parts of the world. Borders will be…

Shonda Rhimes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Gabrielle Union-Wade and Dwyane Wade have added their names to the co-producers team for Broadway’s upcoming American Son starring Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale in a story tackling, among other subjects, race and law enforcement. The additional co-producers announced today…

As the Emmy-winning medical drama Grey’s Anatomy prepares to scrub in for their 15th season, ABC has released key art ahead of their Sept. 27 two-hour premiere. The new key art features Ellen Pompeo’s titular Meredith Grey smiling with the backdrop of Seattle’s skyline with the caption “15 seasons of feels.” There…

ABC kicked off the current Marvel Television’ live-action series ramp-up with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which is heading into its sixth season, to air next summer. With Agent Carter and Inhumans gone, there will be no Marvel series on ABC during the 2018-19 broadcast season schedule for the first time since the launch…