Why Shonda Rhimes Left ABC for Netflix Photo Credit: Shonda Rhimes has been an important writer and producer to ABC Studios. For 15 years, she’s been behind a string of hit shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder to name a few. Her success sealed her career as the primary choice for primetime dramas with explosive plot twists. However, the veteran writer is now ready for more creative challenges. When she announced her decision to move to Netflix, many were left surprised. In an interview with Yahoo Finance, the 47-year-old writer shared that she found Netflix’s streaming service as an opportunity to be more creative. Rhimes is known for her ingenious work on heavy drama plots which actually became her trademark …show more content…
She also feels that audiences know Shondaland, her production company, for creating a particular type of show. Their stories are, after all, targeted towards a specific ABC audience which is very broad and it worked for many of her shows. On the other hand, she’s excited to produce new materials for Netflix. Shodaland fans may find her new direction surprising. Netflix series doesn’t require the story as having a certain structure. Show creators can practically do anything they want to. It’s all about creativity which is quite exciting. She can write in whatever manner she wants to instead of following many constraints. Usually, there are a specific stories you can tell in during different time slots. If it’s streaming, you won’t have to worry about it. Her big move to the popular streaming network is at a very significant time for cable television. A report from eMarketer states that millions of audiences 18 years old and above will shift to streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. They are expected to deviate from traditional cable TV. Rhimes will continue to work on her Shondaland shows including How to Get Away with Murder and Grey’s Anatomy. However, when it comes to new material, it will be exclusive between Shondaland and
Hashtag MeToo. Does that sound familiar? The MeToo movement is one of the most influential movements of our time. According to cbsnews.com a movement that reached over 12 million posts on Facebook in just 24 hours. Most of you know the power of Me Too and some participants in it, such as Ashley Judd, Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cara Delevingne, Lupita Nyong’o, Lindsay Lohan, and many more according to CNN. However, you probably do not know who began this powerful movement. Her name is Tarana Burke. Tarana Burke is a sexual assault survivor herself and began the Me Too Movement in 2006 when she was having trouble with comforting a young girl, who had confided in Burke about her sexual assault experience according to brown.edu.
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Neal Shusterman is a popular novelist that presently lives in California with his wife and four children. Wherever Neal goes, he quickly earns a reputation as a storyteller and compelling speaker. Much of his fiction is administered toward audiences of children and teenagers. Currently Neal is preparing his novel Everlost to be shot as a movie for Universal Studios. Shusterman had this first series published very soon after attending the University of California in Irvine. The novels published consisted of Ship Out of Luck, which is a sequel to his book The Schwa was Here and UnSouled. These are three books that are a part of a series of books called “Unwind.” The hit novel was In the unwind series he started it with the book The Schwa Was Here, for which he won the Boston Globe Award, and the 2008 California Young Reader Medal. Previous to this accomplishment According to Wikipedia Shusterman was still well known for his famous playwrights and scripts for popular tv shows like "Goosebumps" and “Animorphs” series.(1) He also wrote the Disney Channel Original Movie “Pixel Perfect”. Neal's first talent to appear in his life was film directing and writing music and stage plays. While filming and directing these he worked in Los Angeles writing and working as an assistant for Irvin Arthur Associates. Shusterman att...
For this assignment I choose Kylie Jenner. She is constantly in the Public eye and her family is well known around the world also. The Kardashian-Jenner family is always a fascination to the public. The Jenner family and Kardashian family are all connected in some way. The television show “Keeping up with the Kardashian’s” is where a lot of the spotlight comes from.
... be turned into a very successful movie. Then, Crichton created the hit television show ER, which would go on to win numerous awards. Crichton would then reside in Los Angeles, California, were he would end up losing a private cancer battle.
Intro: Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born January 26, 1958 in Metaire Louisiana and has made it her goal to bring nothing but positivity to the world. DeGeneres is best known for her hit program “The Ellen DeGeneres show”. Over the course of her successful career she has made many positive contributions to the world and those around her. Ellen’s main mission in life is to create a positive light on the community through kindness and making others laugh. She is involved in over 45 charities and has invested her time and money in each and every one of them. Ellen DeGeneres is on a mission, through word and deed to make the world a kinder place.
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Three months later she still hadn't found a new job that suited her. About that time she got an idea for a short story about a prehistoric girl. According to Jean, "The 'short story' led me to do some research; the research fired my imagination, and the wealth of material made me decide to write a novel. The first draft turned out to be more than 450,000 words and fell into s ix parts. On rewriting, I realized each of these six parts was a novel in itself. I have used that rough draft as the outline for the series."
Cindy Anstey is a Canadian author that writes mystery, romance, and young adult novels. She started writing from a very young age and combined with her love for art and an over active imagination, she was a writer and illustrator right from grade school. By the time she was twelve she had written her first novel King Nap in the Land of Doze that made quite the impression on her family. She continued to write classics such as Jungle Bungle while she was living in Singapore and Montreal until she moved to Memphis after getting married. Over the years she gravitated towards adult regency romance, paranormal, young adult and mystery fiction. When she moved to Belgium with her husband, she suddenly found herself with so much time on her hands that
Maureen Bridgid Dowd was born in Washington, D.C. on January 14, 1952. She was born to Mike Dowd and Peggy Dowd, she is the youngest of five children. Maureen graduated from Immaculata High School in 1969. She obtained her Degree in English at the Catholic University of America. Maureen Dowd is one of the most well-known columnists in America. During her career obtained many awards(.)
She went on to get a job as a police officer but was let go due to nearsightedness so, Rule began to write freelance for the Seattle Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Cosmopolitan, etc. She became a full-time writer a few years later. Her first true crime book was The Stranger Beside Me and was also her first bestseller. She has many awards from the books she has written, exhibiting how strong of a writer she is. Ann Rule has been given two Anthony awards, a Peabody Award, and three nominations for the Edgar Awards.
...with Breaking Bad. Gilligan admitted while standing alongside his award-winning cast members at the 2013 Emmy Awards that, “You have hopes and dreams, but I never even thought this show would go on the air.” The renowned creator of this hit series brilliantly pieced together a dark world filled with cartel, crime, and crystal meth. Thanks to the flawless acting, the surreal mix of scientific fact paired with creative vision, and the immensely engaging characters, there is no doubt that Breaking Bad stands as the single dominating modern-day television series America has to offer.
She also wrote for more shows like The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear, Oswald, Santa, Baby!, who she did with her friend Peter Bakalian, and she was also a freelancer for Wow! Wow! Wubbzy” (“Suzanne Collins”). In 2003 she released her book Gregor the Overlander.
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