Shonda Rhimes Explains Why She’s Ending “Scandal”

Shonda Rhimes Explains Why She’s Ending “Scandal”

The rumors are true. The plug is being pulled on ABC’s hit show, Scandal. As previously reported, the show – starring Kerry Washington – will end after seven seasons. The show’s executive producer Shonda Rhimes had previously indicated plans to keep the series as a contained story, which is exactly why now is the right time for the show to end. ABC chief Channing Dungey explained her decision.

To be honest, I had conversations with Shonda [Rhimes] where she has had, for a while, a sense of how she wanted the story to end. We sat and we talked and she said, ‘Look, I really feel like season 7 is where I want to wrap up this story because I always prefer to end a show where you’re feeling on top as opposed to letting things fizzle out.’ I do think that audiences, especially fans and Gladiators, who are as loyal to Scandal as they’ve been, are going to want the story to end in the way that Shonda intended to. That was a decision she felt really good about and we support wholeheartedly.

Shonda Rhimes

Shonda released the following statement about her decision:

Deciding how to end a show is easy. Deciding when to finish is quite simple when the end date is years away. But actually going through with it? Actually standing up to say: ‘This is it?’ Not so much. So, next year we are going all out. Leaving nothing on the table. Creating this world in celebration. We are going to handle the end the way we like to handle the important things in our Scandal family: all together, white hats on, gladiators running full speed over a cliff.

Reportedly, they’re still deciding on how many episodes will air for the final season.

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