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ABC Picks Up Another Shonda Rhimes Drama, 'The Catch'

ABC Picks Up Another Shonda Rhimes Show
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Entertainment Editor, The Huffington Post

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Shonda Rhimes arrives at the 2015 Human Rights Campaign Gala Dinner at the JW Marriott LA Live on Saturday, March 14, 2015 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP)

ABC has given Shonda Rhimes yet another vote of confidence by picking up her new show, "The Catch," for the 2015-2016 season. The network ordered a pilot for the show back in January, describing it as a series about a female fraud investigator who's about to get conned by her fiance, but -- surprise! -- she isn't who she seems to be.

"The Catch" comes from Rhimes and Betsy Beers, and the two will executive produce alongside Julie Anne Robinson and Jennifer Schuur, who will write the pilot. Mireille Enos ("The Killing") was cast to star in the show back in March.

Rhimes tweeted a very solid humble brag:

ABC also picked up five other dramas including a biblical saga story, "Of Kings and Prophets," and a story about FBI recruits, "Quantico." The network will also house three new comedies -- a reboot of "The Muppets," Dan Savage's "The Real O’Neals" and Ken Jeong’s "Dr. Ken."

For more on ABC's new shows, head to Vulture.

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Before You Go

Empowering Shonda Rhimes Quotes
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"Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change." -- From Shonda's 2014 Dartmouth College Commencement
(02 of08)
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"I want my daughters to see me and know me as a woman who works. I want that example set for them. I am a better mother for it. The woman I am because I get to run Shondaland, because I get to write all day, because I get to spend my days making things up, that woman is a better person – and a better mother. Because that woman is happy. That woman is fulfilled. That woman is whole." -- From Shonda's 2014 Dartmouth College Commencement
(03 of08)
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“This moment right here, me standing up here all brown with my boobs and my Thursday night of network television full of women of color, competitive women, strong women, women who own their bodies and whose lives revolve around their work instead of their men, women who are big dogs, that could only be happening right now.” -- From Shonda's The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast
(04 of08)
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"I think in telling LGBT stories, I'm telling everyone's story. Love is, in fact, universal, right? … I want my daughters to grow up in a world in which there is more love than hate. I want them to know a world where everyone is free. So that's why I write the stories that I do, because everyone should be free." -- From Shonda's GLAAD acceptance speech
(05 of08)
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“I’m a black woman every day, and I’m not confused about that. I’m not worried about that. I don’t need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don’t feel disempowered as a black woman.” -- From Shonda's NYT profile
(06 of08)
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"Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are." -- Shonda's 2006 O Magazine interview
(07 of08)
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"The best stories are often true… The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries." -- From Shonda's Glamour Women Of The Year speech
(08 of08)
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"Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus." -- From Shonda's 2014 Dartmouth College Commencement
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