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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shonda Rhimes’s first slate of shows for Netflix includes a look at the migration of African-Americans from the Jim Crow South, romance among wealthy 19th century Londoners and a documentary on Debbie Allen’s reimagining of “The Nutcracker.”
The streaming service on Friday announced eight shows Rhimes and her collaborators at Shondaland are developing.
The show about African-American life will be based on Isabel Wilkerson’s award-winning book “The Warmth of Other Sons,” while the show about London aristocrats is based on Julia Quinn’s best-selling romance novels set in Regency England.
Other projects include a show based on tech investor Ellen Pao’s memoir, a series on California on the eve of the Mexican-American War, and a dark comedy about a troop of teenage girls who survive the apocalypse and want humanity to live by their Sunshine Scouts rules.
Pao in 2015 lost a high-profile sex discrimination lawsuit against Silicon Valley venture-capital firm where she had been a partner. Netflix said Pao’s experiences “presaged the Time’s Up movement.”
Rhimes, the creator of hit shows such as “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal,” signed a multiyear deal to produce Netflix shows last August.
No release dates were announced Friday.
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