The new series of ABC

ABC has announced which series their viewers can watch next season. Shonda Rhimes is gradually becoming indispensable for ABC, because with ‘Scandal’ and ‘Grey's Anatomy’, she has already had two series on the network and with ‘How To Get Away With Murder’, they can add a third. Hopefully these new series are going to have a longer life because ABC is also called jokingly ‘Always Being Cancelled’. A dubious honor for the network who can use a break and have some success with new shows. ABC also announced that ‘Grey's Anatomy’, ‘Scandal’, ‘Revenge’, ‘Resurrection’, ‘The Middle’, ‘The Goldbergs’ and ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ have been renewed. ‘Mixology’, ‘The Neighbors’, ‘Suburgatory’, ‘Super Fun Night’ and ‘Trophy Wife’ have been cancelled.

‘How To Get Away With Murder’:
A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor, who become entangled in a murder plot that will rock the entire university and change the course of their lives.Cast: Viola Davis, Matt McGorry (‘Orange Is the New Black’), Liza Weil (‘Scandal’, ‘Gilmore Girls’), Aja Naomi King (‘The Black Box’), Charlie Weber (‘90210’), Katie Findlay (‘The Carrie Diaries’), Billy Brown (‘Hostages’), Tom Verica (‘American Dreams’), Jack Falahee, Alfred Enoch, Karla Souza

‘Agent Carter’:
Set in 1946, this drama tells the story of Captain America‘s Peggy Carter, who goes on secret missions for Howard Stark while adjusting to losing the love of her life.Cast: Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, the rest of the cast has yet to be announced.

‘American Crime’:
Set in California’s Central Valley, it centers on a racially charged murder and the subsequent trial, which are examined through the personal lives of the players involved. The case takes on greater meaning in the community, bringing to the forefront America’s hardened views on race, class and gender politics.Cast: Felicity Huffman (‘Desperate Housewives’), Timothy Hutton (‘Leverage’), Benito Martinez (‘Sons of Anarchy’), W. Earl Brown (‘Deadwood’), Penelope Ann Miller (‘Mistresses’), Richard Cabral.

‘Black-ish’:
An upper-middle class black man struggles to raise his children with a sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old-school father and his own assimilated, color-blind kids. Cast: Anthony Anderson (‘Guys With Kids’), Tracee Ellis Ross (‘Girlfriends’), Yara Shahidi (‘Scandal’), recurring star Laurence Fishburne (‘Hannibal’)

‘The Whispers’:
A drama about an alien invasion, in which earth’s enemies possess children’s bodies to take down humanity.Cast: Lily Rabe, Barry Sloane, Milo Ventimiglia, Derek Webster, Brianna Brown, Catalina Denis, Kylie Rogers, Kyle Harrison Breitkopf.

‘Galavant’:
A musical fairy tale that centers on handsome Prince Galavant and his quest for revenge over the king who stole his one true love.Cast: Joshua Sasse (‘Rogue’), Vinnie Jones (‘Elementary’), Karen David, Mallory Jansen, Luke Youngblood (‘Community’), guest star Timothy Omundson (‘Psych’)

‘Forever’:
Dr. Henry Morgan is New York City’s star medical examiner, but what no one knows is Henry studies the dead for a reason: He is immortal. With the help of detective Jo Martinez, the show peels back the layers of Henry’s colorful and long life through their cases.Cast: Ioan Gruffudd (‘Ringer’), Judd Hirsch (‘Damages’,’ Numb3rs’), Alana de la Garza (‘Law & Order’), Joel David Moore (‘Bones’), Barbara Eve Harris, Donnie Keshawarz

‘Selfie’:
A self-obsessed twenty-something woman is more concerned with “likes” than being liked. After suffering a very public and humiliating breakup, she becomes the subject of a viral video and suddenly has more social media “followers” than she ever imagined — but for all the wrong reasons. She enlists the help of a marketing expert at her company to help repair her tarnished image.Cast: Karen Gillan (‘Doctor Who’), John Cho (‘Sleepy Hollow’), David Harewood (‘Homeland’), Tim Peper, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Allyn Rachel.

‘Manhattan Love Story’:
A romantic comedy that “exposes the differences between men and women through the unfiltered thoughts, and often contradictory actions, of a new couple who have just begun dating” Cast: Analeigh Tipton, Jake McDorman, Nicolas Wright, Jade Catta-Preta, Chloe Wepper, Kurt Fuller.

‘Secrets & Lies’
A family man finds the body of a young boy and quickly becomes the prime murder suspect. He has no choice but to try to find the real killer as his marriage, his kids, his reputation, and his sanity are all at stake.Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Natalie Martinez (‘Under The Dome’), Juliette Lewis, KaDee Strickland (‘Private Practice’), Indiana Evans (‘Lifetime’s Blue Lagoon reboot’), recurring players Charles Dutton, Steven Brand (‘Magic City’) and Kate Ashfield (‘Shaun of the Dead’).