ABC announced its renewals, pickups, and cancellations last night, and the sad news is that Trophy Wife will not see a second season. [Weeps softly.] That show was so good! Also axed was the vile Mixology.
On the renewal side of things, ABC asked for more Scandal (duh), Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, Castle, Revenge, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Resurrection, The Goldbergs, The Middle, and Modern Family.
Which brings us to the new shows! ABC has ordered a bunch of new shows, including another drama produced by Shonda Rhimes. The 2014–15 freshman class for ABC will include:
- How to Get Away with Murder, a Shonda Rhimes–produced legal thriller that stars Viola Davis as brilliant law-school professor. She and four of her students become entangled in a murder, of course.
- American Crime, from 12 Years a Slave’s John Ridley. The show is about the ripple effects and racial tensions that stem from a surprising violent crime in Modesto.
- The Whispers, an alien-invasion drama produced by Steven Spielberg. The show, formerly known as The Visitors, stars Lily Rabe and Milo Ventimiglia.
- Marvel’s Agent Carter, a companion of sorts to Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Hayley Atwell continues her Captain America role as Peggy Carter; it’s 1946, and she’s coping with the death of her first love, sexual discrimination in the workplace, and all the secret missions she has to go on.
- Forever, about a medical examiner who has been alive for 200 years. (Expect a Castle-style relationship between him and his new partner.)
- Galavant, a musical fairy-tale show with original songs by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater.
- Black-ish, a single-camera comedy starring Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross as a suburban couple who worry that their children are losing sight of their black cultural identity.
- Manhattan Love Story, a single-camera comedy that “exposes the differences between men and women through the unfiltered thoughts, and often contradictory actions, of a new couple who have just begun dating.â€
This is the bulk of ABC’s schedule, but the network still has not announced the fate of Last Man Standing, Nashville, Suburgatory, or Super Fun Night. Place your bets!