Even though ABC announced in May that they picked up a Grey’s Anatomy spinoff, they never gave the show a name. Well after 8 months, it finally has a title and it is…Station 19. They should have spent a little longer to come up with a better one about Seattle’s first responders because this one sucks almost as much as the show that debuts on March 22nd.
You know how Shonda Rhimes likes to kill off her actors, well imagine her pranking you with your character’s death? One of the stars on her shows does not have to imagine that.
Tony Goldwyn was on Jimmy Kimmel Live yesterday and he shared a story from one of the Scandal table reads. The actors on the show do not get their scripts until the table read. While almost all of them read it front to back to find out what happens next, Joshua Malina reads the last page first. This would infuriate the cast. Then one day Shonda Rhimes had a solution to get him to stop. She wrote a last page just for him and it said that they were killing off David Rosen. Taught him a lesson and gave everyone else a hearty laugh.
BTW Goldwyn also revealed that if you character is getting killed off, Rhimes calls you to office and let’s you know ahead of time. Unless you constantly read the last page of the script first.
Taylor Swift has gone from the singer in your wet dreams to the actress in your bad dreams with her new song Look What You Made Me Do. Guess she named her upcoming album Reputation because she is sick of the bad one she gotten over the years. Some of it is other people’s fault, some of it is her own. Once she realizes that, her music won’t be so woe is me and she will go back to her original sound before she was always the victim.
When it comes to the song, it works great for TV promos. Which is why ABC is already using it to promote Shondaland’s TGIT. To see the new commercial, then click here!
ABC made Shonda Rhimes the uber TV producer that she is now, and now they need her more than she needs them. Sadly, they will not have her for much longer because she has left them for a multi-year deal to produce new series and other projects for Netflix. Her shows Grey’s Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder, Scandal (which is ending this season) and the upcoming For the People will continue to air on the alphabet network, all of her new shows will air on Netflix.
This a big hit for ABC, who is having a huge problems in the drama department. Only the Shondaland dramas are doing well for them. What will they do without her? Luckily, they have The Good Doctor, but the rest of their new shows are painfully bad. The Inhumans is the worst pilot of the Fall and Once Upon a Time and Agents of SHIELD needed to end seasons ago. In other words, they are in deep doo doo.
When it comes to Netflix, this is a big get for them since they just lost Rhimes’ former bosses aka Disney. They needed something that would fill that hole and this is a good start.
Poor ABC, they just cannot catch a break these days. And American Idol has not even debuted.
Did you know that Shonda Rhimes has a show about Romeo and Juliet called Still Star-Crossed that was airing Mondays on ABC at 10p? Don’t worry nldeither did anyone else, so that is why it is moving to Saturdays starting on July 8th after 3 low-rated episodes.
Personally, I say if you have never seen it, skip it. Reading Romeo and Juliet in high school is more enjoyable than this show. In other words, you want to drink the poison they were drinking halfway through an episode.
