Scandal

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

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.

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.