See you on Netflix: An elegy for Shonda Rhimes’ ABC empire

Thursday nights will never be the same.

Shonda Rhimes, the power producer who brought Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder to your TV screens, is parting ways with ABC. In August, Netflix announced that Rhimes had inked a multiyear deal with the streaming service.

Of course, Grey’s will continue to run for as long as ABC can convince Ellen Pompeo to stay on, and Murder still has juice left in it (although Scandal next month wraps its seventh and final season). But with two (apparently) final new ABC shows — legal drama For the People and Grey’s firefighter spinoff Station 19 — Rhimes has finished the TGIT chapter of her career, and it’s a bittersweet farewell to an era of diverse, fast-talking and (Mc)steamy TV. 

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