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ABC Signature’s Shutdown Ends 4-Decade Legacy: From ‘Golden Girls’ To ‘Lost’, ‘Black-Ish’ & ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
Disney's long-expected move to fold ABC Signature into 20th Television brings to an end the media conglom's in-house TV studio.
The studio gradually shifted its attention to its own network, supplying it with series such as Once And Again, My Wife And Kids, Alias and 8 Simple Rules, Less Then Perfect and According To Jim, with occasional hits elsewhre, including Scrubs on NBC, which ended up on ABC post-cancellation amd Ghost Whisperer on CBS. The following decade was marked by shows like Revenge, Happy Endings, a big Disney tie-in with the fairytale-themed Once Upon a Time, Shondaland’s Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder, Nashville, as well as the first — and only — Marvel series on ABC so far, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. In 2017, the recent wave of mega overall deals kicked off with Shonda Rhimes’ high-profile departure from her longtime ABC Studios home to Netflix, unleashing a frenzied race for A-list talent that defined the streaming wars in the late 2010s and early 2020s.
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