Shonda Rhimes revealed what her eight Netflix shows will be about

Shondaland's move to Netflix is looking more momentous by the second.
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Shonda Rhimes revealed what her eight Netflix shows will be about
You'd look pleased too if you had eight Netflix shows in the works. Credit: Getty Images for Massachusetts Conference for Women

We finally know what Shonda has in store for fans of her big Netflix deal.

Shonda Rhimes's Shondaland slate of TV, including Scandal, How To Get Away With Murder, Grey's Anatomy, and For The People, have lived on ABC for years. So it was a surprise when she announced in Aug. 2017 that she had signed a 15-year deal to produce shows with Netflix.

One of those Netflix shows, announced in June, and will tell the true story of Anna Delvey, best known as the "Socialite Scammer" who pretended to be a German heiress to con banks and individuals alike into giving her hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The rest of her Netflix slate has been a mystery until now. In a sprawling New York Times profile of Rhimes, published on Friday, are descriptions of all eight projects. She'll at the very least produce them all under her Shondaland banner.

1. One untitled project will be a period series set in the Regency era and will be based on the Bridgerton Family Series of romance novels by Julia Quinn.

2. The second, called A Warmth of Other Sons, is based on a nonfiction book of the same name by Isabella Wilkerson and will detail the mass migration of black Americans from the south to the north and midwest during the Jim Crow era.

3. Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change will be based on a memoir by Ellen Pao, the former Reddit and Kleiner Perkins executive who stepped down from the former amid controversy and filed a gender discrimination suit against the latter.

4. Not much is known about the fourth project, Pico and Sepulveda, except that it takes place in California during the 1840s.

5. Rhimes will pair again with Grey's Anatomy star Debbie Allen for a docuseries called Hot Chocolate Nutcracker about Allen's successful attempt to re-imagine the classic ballet The Nutcracker for the Debbie Allen Dance Company.

6. Sunshine Scouts will be a post apocalyptic show about teen girls who survive the end of the world while at summer camp and must deal with the remains of humanity.

7. The Residence will also be based on a book, this one by Kate Anderson Bower, who writes about the lives of American presidents while they lived in the White House.

All of these are mentioned as being under production by the Shondaland company, but there is no further news as to when they will begin filming or when they'll debut on Netflix.

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Alexis Nedd

Alexis Nedd is a senior entertainment reporter at Mashable. A self-named "fanthropologist," she's a fantasy, sci-fi, and superhero nerd with a penchant for pop cultural analysis. Her work has previously appeared in BuzzFeed, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and Esquire.

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