ABC orders full seasons of How To Get Away With Murder and Black-ish
The world has been spared once more from the heat-ray-based wrath of ABC Entertainment Group President/James Bond villain Paul Lee: Because enough puny humans watched the first three episodes of How To Get Away With Murder and Black-ish, ABC has issued full-season orders for both series. By traditional TV metrics like Nielsen ratings (and less-traditional metrics, like the “Number of days since a henchman was capriciously shoved into the shark tank (not that Shark Tank)” chart at ABC HQ), it’s been a very good fall for ABC: HTGAWM and Black-ish are the two highest-rated new series of the season. The premiere episode of the former set new records for DVR viewership, and it’s been helping ABC’s so-called Shondaland Initiative (codename: #TGIT) fight back against Thursday-night telecasts from the NFL, the only organization that could feasibly challenge Lee for world domination.