Shonda Rhimes has set her first project at Netflix: The streaming service and Shondaland have acquired the rights to a magazine article about infamous New York society fraud Anna Delvey, TVLine has confirmed, and Rhimes is attached to pen a series for Netflix based on the scandal.
Will you be adding Shonda’s take on notorious grifter Anna Delvey to your must-binge list?
Rhimes later explained the move by saying that “the constraints of network television tell you what kinds of stories you can tell…
The project is the first in Rhimes’ new multi-year deal with Netflix, which was announced last August, after Rhimes spent more than a decade at ABC creating mega hit dramas like Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal.