Scandal

Joshua Malina (the actor playing David Rosen) would read the script from the last page in fear of being killed off the show. Shonda Rhimes realized this and wrote a special two page script outlining David's death in great detail, to give him a little scare.

For her work on the show Ava DuVernay became the first black woman to direct a TV series starring a black woman that was created by a black woman on one of the Big Three Networks.

The third and sixth seasons of the show were cut short to accommodate Kerry Washington's real life pregnancy.