ABC- becoming the Shonda Rhimes network

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Viola Davis is headlining Shonda Rhimes’
newest drama for ABC, ‘How to Get Away With Murder.’
Peter Nowalk penned the ABC Studios pilot and exec produces with  Betsy Beers and Shonda Rhimes, who created two of the network's biggest hits with "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal," has been greenlighted for a third drama, "How To Get Away With Murder." 

There was no word Friday on when it could appear on the air. Like the other major networks, ABC is announcing its fall schedule next week.

"How to Get Away With Murder" revolves around elite law school students who get caught up in a real-life murder case and is a sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor (Viola Davis) who become entangled in a murder plot that will rock their entire university and change the course of their lives. 

Grey's Anatomy producer Peter Nowalk will write and executive-produce with Rhimes and Betsy Beers' Shondaland. Liza Weil, Billy Brown, Katie Findlay, Matt McGorry, Aja Naomi King, Jack Falahee, Alfred Enoch, Charlie Weber, and Karla Souza will also star in the project.

Rhimes is noted for a fast-moving style with wry humor and frequent forays into high melodrama with lots of action.

ABC has also ordered several other series, including "Black-Ish," an exploration of roots and cultural identity for a successful black professional, played by Anthony Anderson. The show also stars Laurence Fishburne and Tracee Ellis Ross.
ABC has also ordered two new sitcoms. "Manhattan Love Story" plans to tell viewers exactly what the two members of a couple are really, secretly thinking.

"Selfie" is a reimagining of the Liza Doolittle and Professor Higgins story from "My Fair Lady," only this time Liza (Karen Gillan) is a woman with a quarter of a million social media friends who needs help in finding a real one. John Cho plays the professor who agrees to help her.



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