Scandal (TV series)

Scandal is an American television series that is produced for the U.S. broadcaster ABC since 2012. The concept of the series developed by Shonda Rhimes, who also serves as producer of the series alongside Betsy Beers. The first broadcast in the United States took place at ABC on April 5, 2012.

  • 2.1 Main Cast
  • 2.2 supporting cast

Action

The political consultant and crisis manager, Olivia Pope is to meet with her team of highly qualified lawyers problems before they grow into scandals and prevent through their intervention that worse damage is done.

Season 1

The first season used to focus the life of Olivia Pope and her team, which consists of the following members:

  • Stephen Finch, a womanizer,
  • Harrison Wright, a smooth and efficient working litigator,
  • Abby Whelan, the company investigator,
  • Huck Finn, a hacker with a CIA past, and
  • Quinn Perkins, a new lawyer, who quickly learns how things work in a team where crisis management is paramount.

Furthermore, the former principal, the President of the United States, Fitzgerald Grant, and his chief of staff, Cyrus Beene are presented, which is also about the relationship between Olivia and her former employer Fitzgerald Grant. In addition, should the secret to Amanda Tanner, a former White House intern, to be elucidated.

Instrumentation and synchronization

The German synchronization is caused by the synchronous company Scala Media GmbH in Berlin. The dialogue director of the first two seasons took Catherine Graefe; the third season Lutz Riedel. The dialogue books come from Grafe, Carsten Bengel village, Robin Kahn Meyer, Oliver Blanck, Carissa Krause (all together Season 1 & 2), and Stefan Sidak ( Season 3 ).

Main cast

Supporting cast

Production

In spring 2011, it was announced that Shonda Rhimes was tasked with developing a new pilot. In February 2011, Kerry Washington has signed on the lead role. The former Lost actor Henry Ian Cusick was in mid-February 2011, the male lead. On 28 February 2011 it was announced that Tony Goldwyn scored the role of President. In May 2011, ABC ordered the series for midseason. In June 2012, it was announced that Henry Ian Cusick no longer part of the main cast, Joshua Malina is instead conveyed by the beginning of the second season in the main cast. In mid-June 2012, then also brought Bellamy Young in the main cast of the second season. Was then announced in June 2013 that Scott Foley was promoted from sidekick to leading man.

Due to the constant ratings of stations ordered in May 2012 for a second season, and in May 2013 a third season.

Broadcast

The first season aired between April 5, 2012 and 17th May 2012. In the target group a target group rating of 2.0 was achieved on average. The broadcast of the second season began on September 27, 2012. The season finale was shown on 16 May 2013. In the same month ABC extended the series for a third season, which can be seen since 3 October 2013.

For Germany, RTL Group has secured the broadcast rights. The corresponding free-TV channel Super RTL sent on 14 October 2013 to January 2, 2014, the first two seasons.

Reception

Entertainment Weekly chose the 22 episode of the second season, revelations (Original Title: White Hat 's Back On), ranked 9 of their top 10 best series episodes of 2013.

DVD releases

  • The first season was released on June 12, 2012
  • The second season was released on September 3, 2013
  • The first season was released on October 7, 2013
  • The second season was released on February 17, 2014
  • The first season was released on December 5, 2013
  • The second season was released on February 20, 2014
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