Shonda Rhimes’ TV takeover has so far been contained to ABC and ABC Family, where Crossroads seems to air at least once a week. That might soon change because the Grey’s Anatomy murderer/creator, her co-producer Betsy Beers, and Pariah director Dee Rees are developing a series for FX based on Isabel Wilkerson’s National Book Award-winning historical study The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, about the millions of African-Americans who fled the south for a better life in the north or west.
Isabel Wilkerson — who in 1994 became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism — tells the story through the lives of Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left Mississippi for Chicago; George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem; and Dr. Robert Pershing Foster, who left Louisiana for Los Angeles in 1953.
Rhimes and Beers will executive produce through their ABC Studios-based Shondaland banner. The drama, which is in development, is a co-production between FX Productions and ABC Studios’ cable-focused arm ABC Signature. (Via)
It’s nice of FX to encourage Rhimes’ troubling addiction.
Show developer paychecks buy so many red cups.
