In one of the highest-profile pilot castings this season, Viola Davis (The Help, Doubt) is set as the lead of ABC‘s drama pilot How To Get Away With Murder, from ABC Studios and Shondaland. This marks the first series regular role in a decade for the two-time Oscar-nominated actress. Written by Peter Nowalk, How To Get Away is described as a sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller that centers on ambitious law students and their brilliant and mysterious criminal defense professor (Davis) who become entangled in a murder plot that could rock their entire university and change the course of their lives. Nowalk is executive producing alongside Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers.
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Holy shit, Viola Davis and Shondaland?! Count me in!
ReplyDeleteSomehow, I always supposed that the professor is male.
ReplyDeleteI thought the same, and so I'm fairly and happily surprised that it's not actually a male professor.
ReplyDeleteThis just got way more interesting. The plot itself already caught my attention but with all the recent castings and this one to top it off, I would be shocked if ABC doesn't pick this up to series. I can definitely see Thursday as Shondaland day
ReplyDeleteI thought it too.
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