In addition to its strong season premiere last Thursday, ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder now holds the record for drawing the biggest DVR viewership increase in history, adding 6 million viewers to roughly 14 million from Thursday, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The 6 million is based on Nielsen’s live-plus-3 ratings for premiere […]
People Magazine finds itself right where it should be: in deep doo-doo. Thursday night, as we all know, was the debut of Viola Davis‘ “How To Get Away With Murder” and the return of Kerry Washington‘s “Scandal” on ABC. Obviously this was a history making event on several levels: 1. Shonda Rhimes, a black woman […]
The debut of Shonda Rhimes’ new series “How to Get Away With Murder” drew 14 million viewers to become Thursday night’s most-watched scripted series – beating its lead-in “Scandal” by nearly 2 million. This gives ABC its second consecutive day of ratings bliss following Wednesday’s strong debut for “Black-ish.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC […]
Black women are really getting a chance to shine on network primetime TV this fall! Check the scoreboard…or your local listings. Representation matters, it’s gratifying…
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Let’s just go ahead and make it official. “Thursday” should be renamed “Shonday.” At least it should on ABC, which has handed its entire Thursday prime-time schedule to drama doyenne Shonda Rhimes. Starting this week at 8 p.m. EDT, it’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” with Rhimes the showrunner for this medical melodrama’s […]
If you needed more reason to watch Viola Davis’s new show “How To Get Away With Murder,” ABC has just dropped three new clips. Is…
Academy Award-nominated actress Viola Davis opened up recently to The New York Times about the “mammy-ish roles” she’s been asked to play in Hollywood. Davis…
When it comes to roles for black women in Hollywood, Viola Davis says that there just aren’t that many quality parts for her and her acting sisters to sink into. “I don’t see anyone on TV like me in a role like this … a woman of color, of a certain age and a certain […]
When it comes to steamy scenes, it’s a good thing for Kerry Washington and Viola Davis. With frequent episodes of hot sex between her character Olivia Pope and either Tony Goldwyn’s Fitz or Scott Foley’s Jake, Washington is no stranger to expressing Olivia’s passionate side. And that suits the actress just fine. “It’s freeing to […]
Someone’s made the transition from Netflix’s hit series “Orange Is The New Black” over to Shondaland! Both Laverne Cox and Uzo Aduba have said they’d love to…
