ABC- becoming the Shonda Rhimes network
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 e...