ABC has cancelled Scandal after the upcoming seventh season, but why?
Network chief Channing Dungey offered her take as to why the political thriller will be preparing for the graveyard this time next year rather than running the gauntlet for Season 8.
Talking to reporters, Dungey said the decision to axe Scandal was mutually agreed with series creator Shonda Rhimes, per THR:
“I had conversions with Shonda Rhimes where she has had for a while a sense of how she wanted the story to end. She said, ‘Look, I really feel like season seven 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 have 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.”
For her part, Rhimes said:
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.”
Will you be sad to see the back or Scandal or can the end not come soon enough?
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