CULTURETECHLENSScandal
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Combined Graph record U-03188 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-1319. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Scandal is an ABC television series created by Shonda Rhimes (Rhimes and Betsy Beers executive producers), produced by ABC Studios; it premiered April 5, 2012 on ABC and stars Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope. (Wave-7: ABC press release reproduced by BlackFilm, https://www.blackfilm.com/read/abc-tv-series-scandal/; second source: NPR, 'How Scandal Changed TV,' identifying Scandal as an ABC drama, naming creator Shonda Rhimes and Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, https://www.krvs.org/2018-04-19/how-scandal-changed-tv)
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Scandal is an ABC television series created by Shonda Rhimes (Rhimes and Betsy Beers executive producers), produced by ABC Studios; it premiered April 5, 2012 on ABC and stars Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope. (Wave-7: ABC press release reproduced by BlackFilm, https://www.blackfilm.com/read/abc-tv-series-scandal/; second source: NPR, 'How Scandal Changed TV,' identifying Scandal as an ABC drama, naming creator Shonda Rhimes and Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, https://www.krvs.org/2018-04-19/how-scandal-changed-tv)
The record
- Year: 2012
- Work type: tv_series
Relationships
- Shonda Rhimes — authored by
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Referenced by
- Harrison Wright — featured in → this record
- Marcus Walker — featured in → this record
- Olivia Pope — featured in → this record
Sources
- https://www.krvs.org/2018-04-19/how-scandal-changed-tv (verification source · master store)
Evidence note (master store)
Scandal is an ABC television series created by Shonda Rhimes (Rhimes and Betsy Beers executive producers), produced by ABC Studios; it premiered April 5, 2012 on ABC and stars Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope. (Wave-7: ABC press release reproduced by BlackFilm, https://www.blackfilm.com/read/abc-tv-series-scandal/; second source: NPR, 'How Scandal Changed TV,' identifying Scandal as an ABC drama, naming creator Shonda Rhimes and Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, https://www.krvs.org/2018-04-19/how-scandal-changed-tv)
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