Who:Shonda Rhimes, 44, executive producer
Why: She’s the queen bee mastermind of some of TV’s buzziest hits
Rhimes is TV’s new triple threat, simultaneously producing an entire night of back-to-back ABC series, a modern-day first that marked ABC’s highest-rated night of programming among key young-adult viewers and its most-watched Thursdays in five years. Hospital soap Grey’s Anatomy, still going strong in its tenth season, breathed new life into the sturdy TV genre; red-hot, over-the-top Scandal made Washington crisis management sexy, and Kerry Washington a star; and How to Get Away With Murder is this season’s top-rated new series among those young viewers.
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